stupidpol

Sorry it took so long to get back to you I have been working a lot this week.

But here is what I mean by liberals doing too much:

You can believe trans people deserve equal rights while also believing liberals made strategic and rhetorical mistakes especially by collapsing complex medical, legal, and social questions into moral absolutes. That approach didn’t persuade skeptics, it hardened them, and it arguably set the movement back.

Another mistake liberals made was failing to consistently depict trans people as ordinary members of society. Basically, people who want stable relationships, families, careers, and a low-drama life like anyone else.

Media and activist spaces tend to amplify the loudest, most transgressive, or most online voices, which created a distorted public image that doesn’t reflect the majority of trans people.

That skewed portrayal made it easier for opponents to frame trans people as alien or extreme, when in reality most just want to live quietly and be left alone.

Some liberal approaches also struggled because they lacked clear, institutionally workable policy frameworks, which made implementation inconsistent and easy to attack.

This is how I believe that liberals fumbled the whole situation.