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eurh, uh, trying to parse your first sentence a few times and coming up short. help me out:
you need to vote against any transphobic candidate, right?
because if you vote for a republican, even if they claim to be trans-tolerant, you gotta know they're lying?
I <3 my trans brothers sisters mothers and fathers, and would never ask anyone to vote against their values. but also, I see time after time how LGB folk are treated by the GOP and have no doubt they would throw transfolk right onto the same pyres given the opportunity. They openly despise their own pick-me trans person, Caitlyn Jenner. I cannot fathom how someone like Jenner justifies supporting conservatives.
If you don't support a strong democratic party, they may very well go the way of Labor, but I fail to understand how that means you might support an opposing candidate.
I guess there's green party? jill whatsername?
No. I said Democrat for a reason. Stop thinking in terms of a single election. I'm talking about coalitions and power balance within parties. You need to get past "Democrats good, Republicans bad." Both parties are themselves coalitions, coalitions whose fortunes can rise and fall within the party.
Republicans are always going to be evil. But if the Democrats turn against us, now both parties are out to get us. That is the real threat, where trans persecution gains bipartisan support. We're completely and utterly fucked if that happens. I fear a future where transphobia becomes so entrenched in both parties, that advocating for trans rights becomes as politically radioactive as a politican advocating for the rights of pedophiles in today's world. I am willing to lose an individual election to Republicans if it means transphobic Democrats do not gain power within the party.
A transphobic Republican winning means pain for a few years. For me, ensuring that at least one party is not militantly transphobic is a far higher priority than winning a single election. I personally had to flee my home to escape Republican political persecution. I became an internally displaced refugee in my own country because of them. But at least now I live in a blue state with solid protections at the state level. If Democrats turn the way of Republicans, I will have to flee the country entirely.
Again, stop thinking of things just between parties. Parties are not a monolith.
lol, no. did you not see what happened in kansas? if you let them have their way, they'll have you hunted down.
this isn't hyperbole.
wow