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The comment above said that people need to stop even vocalizing support for our trans friends and and family at a protest because it will (allegedly) alienate people. That is literally the definition of leaving people behind. They are calling for them to be explicitly excluded. My reaction is very justified and my description is accurate.
I get where you’re coming from but your interpretation is way too generous and permissive of that behavior. We didn’t win gay marriage by telling queer people to stay in the closet and hold secret relationships so as to not offend people. People who transition/change their names are being politically hemmed in. They can’t use pronouns, they can’t use preferred names, they’re being removed from discrimination policies, their passports are now entirely in question. We are past the theoretical, this is happening right now and it has to be addressed immediately. A sitting congresswoman isn’t even allowed to use the correct bathroom for her.
No, I will not leave them behind. I will loudly proclaim them to be my friends and I will fight for them every day along with other important issues. The strategy is “we support all marginalized groups.” We don’t leave some behind because we believe it to be politically expedient. Leaving people behind is not a strategy.
Maybe I am being too generous, but from everything I see now people are not generous enough. It's a random person on the internet for crying out loud. Who knows if they're even real. Maybe they are. Maybe they do want to erase trans people. I'll never know. And honestly. Who cares? Their opinion only really matters if they're in your advocacy group.
I guess my point ultimately is Americans (as a whole) don't fucking care about marginalized people. Democracy's security wasn't even in the top 5! So if they can't be arsed to care about the dissolution of a representative government what makes you think you'll get the support you need on a national level?
That's why I love capitalizing on state's rights. We did it in 2004 with same sex marriage in California. It forced every state to recognize the unions. Things were set back with prop 8. Yes. But change comes from the states.
So to me it's a sound strategy - when going for national level attention focus on things that have broad national appeal. God. I crave a DNC leader with some actual fucking vision for a change. Someone that will take the billions in national fundraising money and shove it down to the local level and build activist groups.
But you're also very, very right. Research into understanding how to even help them and how effective it is being mothballed. Scrutinized. Censored. I can't fathom their terror as they're being scapegoated and erased. I guess that's our beliefs diverge. Sectioning fights between local and national stages isn't leaving people behind to me - it's how to support them, but that's why I talk. To think. So, thank you.💖
Look I get that you’re very well meaning and I appreciate that spirit, but I do not understand how you can look at what’s going on and use the word “maybe”
Wasn't gonna reply again, but I want to clarify. By they I meant OP because I wanted to be gender neutral. I have no way of knowing OPs mind.
They (Republicans and others), as I assume you're referring to, want to erase trans people - 100%. I don't extend that assumption to specific people.
I'm loath to commit the ecological fallacy by using population data to infer something about an individual.