I've seen a depressing trend of Democratic politicians embracing anti trans talking points and compromising gender affirming care for young people. This is extremely concerning as states and the federal government are undermining access to care now more than ever. Democrats standing by trans people has far more dire consequences now than ever, yet we're being treated as politically disposable by people who used to campaign on lgbtq issues like Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg.
I can't say I'm surprised. Liberal papers like the New York Times has been uncritically promoting unscientific transphobia for years that claims alternatives exist to gender affirming care. My guess is that people see a person transitioning as an unfortunate thing, desperately wishing there was another way. They ignore the fact that gender affirming care is both the best treatment for dysphoria, and one of the most successful treatments for any mental condition ever discovered.
To put it simply, making gender affirming care harder to obtain for kids will kill many of them. Kids being kept from care by their parents already drives people to suicide, and a slimy politician preventing supportive parents from helping their kids will do the same. Every time I see people claim these guys are our best shot at beating fascism, I die inside. I have no doubt that they'll eventually axe care for all adults like everyone who was originally "worried about fairness in sports" is currently pushing for. The only way they won't is if we make it a costly issue for them.
Not what they mean at all. It's just that social issues are secondary to winning the war.
This means putting it off until Conservatives can no longer stop us.
(Not trans btw, just believe in trans right)
Their strategy is currently losing the war, as well as social issues
My FB feed is still littered with die-hard liberals espousing views we could afford to debate 15, 20 years ago. Pollution and gun rights. Every word they say is heard differently by the other side and they still don't get it. Fascists are taking over the US and they want to figure out how to recycle better.
True, but we're losing it much faster lately.
My problem isn't how fast we're losing, it's that the supposed "opposition" is pretty openly not fighting.
Because the wealthy ones are the ones who actually drive any actual change, regardless of politics or effort. If they want hell on Earth, there will be hell on Earth. And they want hell on Earth.
Thanks. Glad I'm here for you to sacrifice.
Except none of the assholes people have proposed actually have good strategy. None of them are populists, just pro business liberals who are simple downgrades to the Democrats of last year, worse at everything including making up for what lost them 2024.
Oh, I forgot you can't vote anymore. Argument moot I guess.
What a weak mentality from a fitting username. The voters must change to match the party in your mind, not the other way around. To suggest otherwise means I'm an anti voter or green party Russian agent. That's the only possible interpretation for someone unwilling tolerate criticism of their tribe; that I'm an absolute strawman who isn't enlightened enough to polish shoes with my tongue.
You aren't going to get everything you want right away. People could not even handle climate change ffs! We should ensure our survival and dominance first, before implementing literally anything else.
They kept latching onto climate change as if it were some made up bullshit.
Pure idealism simply gets you nowhere. Why do you have to have everything NOW? No one said we will abandon trans rights altogether.
But it does not matter now. It's armed resistance or nothing else.
it's giving Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.