Given that they didn't run on trans issues, they're really arguing that it's damaging for trans people to be in the party at all, or associated with it in any way. So oblige them.
Next cycle, when the vote-shaming kicks into gear, I'll calmly explain that I'm not voting for their ghoul because I don't want to harm their electoral chances.
They kinda did run on Trans-Issues, in so far as they asserted "Trump will be worse". Also, when they tried to shoe-horn the LGBTQ flag into the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel. That's what made the Dems Woke. They pinkwashed themselves, which must have been what cost them all those votes between 2020 and 2024.
Next cycle, when the vote-shaming kicks into gear, I'll calmly explain that I'm not voting for their ghoul because I don't want to harm their electoral chances.
The game is always and forever "We owe you nothing, you owe us everything". The vote-shaming is a way of deflecting blame for future shitty policies by insisting Dems (A) only win by catering to conservatives and (B) only lose when they are stabbed in the back by leftists. The path forward is always rightward. Voting for them proves that. Not voting for them proves that.
The only real way to disprove it is to run a candidate that is unapologetically pro-LGBTQ and win. But this becomes an increasingly difficult task in gerrymandered districts and disenfranchised states.
Given that they didn't run on trans issues, they're really arguing that it's damaging for trans people to be in the party at all, or associated with it in any way. So oblige them.
Next cycle, when the vote-shaming kicks into gear, I'll calmly explain that I'm not voting for their ghoul because I don't want to harm their electoral chances.
They kinda did run on Trans-Issues, in so far as they asserted "Trump will be worse". Also, when they tried to shoe-horn the LGBTQ flag into the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel. That's what made the Dems Woke. They pinkwashed themselves, which must have been what cost them all those votes between 2020 and 2024.
The game is always and forever "We owe you nothing, you owe us everything". The vote-shaming is a way of deflecting blame for future shitty policies by insisting Dems (A) only win by catering to conservatives and (B) only lose when they are stabbed in the back by leftists. The path forward is always rightward. Voting for them proves that. Not voting for them proves that.
The only real way to disprove it is to run a candidate that is unapologetically pro-LGBTQ and win. But this becomes an increasingly difficult task in gerrymandered districts and disenfranchised states.