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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media
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You've made a lot of incorrect assumptions in that long screed.
Guess what?
I'm not trans.
I'm not mentally ill.
I think it's worth thinking about the erasure and maltreatment of trans people.
I'm not going to let you do it without pointing it out.
Fascists start with the most vulnerable members of society, and they tell the rest of society that they can't have relief from their own problems like shortages of food and housing until they leave behind those people.
You're falling into that trap, and it's especially sad since you too are part of a group that they'll say should be left behind. They already consider autistic people as damaged as trans people, it's the dark current underlying the antivax narrative.
It's not only possible to care about trans people, people with disabilities, abortion rights, mail-in voting, homeless people, immigrants, healthcare inequity, poverty, food insecurity, and worker abuse at the same time, it's easy because they all come down to the same essential thing.
Taking away from one of us takes from all of us. To forget that is to forswear your own humanity.
Don't engage, they're someone who assumes they're right because they don't want to be wrong, there's nothing there besides what they want to be, and they've made it clear they don't care much about the issue.
I don't mind engaging. I may not be able to change them, but maybe there's a kid out there feeling a little less alone. Or another person who just needs to be reminded that "evil starts with treatin' people as things."
I've voted against hate and towards body autonomy in every election large or small since 1978, and while it's been 2 steps back for every step forward, that's no reason to give up.
Oh Jesus Christ. Neither of you have read anything I've written, have you?
It's comical.
LITERALLY comical.
My ass has been to about 83 bajillion protests within the last two years, and I can't even MENTION the things I've done to support transgender people. EVERY DAMN DAY I'd stand right next to someone whose kid was transgender, and we talked a lot about was going on with his child and the specific issues she was facing. It was and continues to be one of the things I'm concerned about. And I personally know A HELL of a lot of transgender people. I am very concerned for them.
NEVER in my entire time on this planet have I once advocated throwing transgender people under the bus, reducing any kind of protections or advocacy, or stopping trying to advocate for transgender people.
LITERALLY all I said was that right-wingers who are obsessed with transgender people are mentally ill.
How the hell am I being attacked by people who took it as me saying that non-right-wingers who advocate for transgender people are mentally ill?
IT BOGGLES THE MIND!
OH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
I NEVER SAID TO LEAVE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE BEHIND.
WHEN WILL YOU AND THE OTHER PERSON GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEADS?
I SUPPORT FULLY PROTECTING TRANSGENDER RIGHTS!
I SUPPORT FULL RIGHTS TO TRANSITION INCLUDING CHILDREN HAVING ACCESS TO PUBERTY BLOCKERS!
I SUPPORT GOING TO THE MAT AND FIGHTING FOR TRANSGENDER RIGHTS!
READ WHAT I ACTUALLY WROTE, NOT WHAT YOU WANTED ME TO HAVE WRITTEN!
I AM NOT A LIBERAL AND I DO NOT SUPPORT PEOPLE LIKE HAKEEM JEFFRIES OR CHUCK SCHUMER!
I AM WAY THE HELL LEFT OF THEM!
LITERALLY EVERYTHING I SAID WAS THAT THE RIGHT-WINGERS OBSESSED WITH TRANSGENDER PEOPLE ARE MENTALLY ILL, NOT THAT TRANSGENDER PEOPLE OR THEIR FRIENDS ARE FAMILIES ARE MENTALLY ILL!
FOR GOD'S SAKE, READ WHAT I SAID! YOU THINK YOU'RE ARGUING AGAINST SOMEONE WHO WOULD THROW TRANSGENDER PEOPLE UNDER THE BUS AND I HAVE NO INTENTION OF DOING SO! I AM THE KIND OF PERSON WHO HAS BEEN OUT THERE GOING TO ACTUAL PROTESTS WEEK AFTER WEEK AND GETTING THE WORD OUT AND TRYING TO HELP! I AM FOR GIVING TRANS KIDS PUBERTY BLOCKERS AND LETTING THEM TRANSITION WHENEVER THEY ARE TELLING THEIR PARENTS THEY ARE TRANS. AND I AM FOR PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF KIDS TO TRANSITION IN SCHOOL WITHOUT THEIR PARENTS' NAMES, BECAUSE KIDS ARE HUMAN BEINGS AND ARE NOT THE PROPERTY OF THEIR PARENTS!
I DO NOT SUPPORT REMOVING TRANSGENDER PROTECTIONS FROM ANYONE'S PLATFORM!
I AM PROBABLY A LOT FARTHER LEFT THAN YOU!
READ WHAT I AM SAYING!
READ WHAT I AM SAYING!
READ WHAT I AM SAYING!
READ WHAT I AM SAYING!
READ WHAT I AM SAYING!