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2026-09-11 21:32 UTC
I hate it, but I’m not sure that’s true. A part of me always wonders how much of the Red Team’s anti-LGBT shouting happens because there was a subset of them who are dogmatically hateful of minorities of basically any type, which the Blue Team then used in smear tactics to generate negative partisanship because America is, in theory, supposed to be against discrimination against minorities, but by making the issue more prominent, the Blue Team may have forced the issue to polarize into something for the Red Team either to fully ignore, as they do with other inconveniently ugly elements of their support base, or turn into a central pillar, and they decided to centralize it, turning what was a quiet minority hate, bad but limited in scope, into almost industrial scale hatemongery powered by politically aligned media systems. It seems worryingly plausible that by creating a political codification of trans-ness, it took anti-trans hate from being caused by religious delusions and turned it into a way to ‘be a good American’ for a much larger audience. When you also consider how the Dems don’t really change much of anything when they do ‘stand against’ anything because they seem mostly to do it for the looks rather than real support, I have to wonder if turning trans people into a rallying flag will just lead to more trans people being attacked, legally and illegally.
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There’s a simple answer. Don’t waste precious breath, simply tell the truth, I stand for the rights of trans people like I stand for the rights of every citizen. Trans rights are human rights. Also, this is a distraction, this is not a national panic, there’s not very many of them, they have always been here, they will continue to be here and they’re no more of a threat today, tomorrow, or the next day than they were 100 years ago, so I’m not getting dragged into rage bait, and if they push the issue, asked and answered.
You don’t need to expound expansively on it, and the more you do, the more likely you are to be playing to a niche subset of a niche subset anyway. A simple “That’s a gross way to frame that, and also bait” is usually sufficient. We don’t need to abandon “Trans issues” we just need make it clear, they’re scaring themselves with ghost stories and a handful of spectacularly rare problems, and if they keep whipping themselves into a frenzy, it won’t be long until they’re beating women to death to find out if she has the right parts inside.
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