Not an American, so no real stake in this but, could you tell me what the Democrats have done in the past four years to protect trans rights? Since you're all so clearly concerned about them an' all.
Okay, can you be more specific about what they did to minimise damage? Like, did they make trans people a protected class, or relieve the bureaucracy around transitioning, or what?
I guess there's some small comfort that they'll at least pay lip service to trans rights then.
The labour party won an election over here and one of the first things they did was stop access to puberty blockers. During the election I was told by a lot of liberals preaching harm reduction that, as a trans woman, that I had to vote for them 'cos the Tories would be worse.
I'm worried about trans people over on your side of the ocean being in a similar position where the elections are between trans exterminationist and transphobe.
Huge problem imho, is that a lot of these people who rattle on about voting for harm reduction candidates go home after voting on election day and then don't get involved politically until the next election cycle.
In these bourgeois "democracies" political parties are always going to move to court wealthy donors and thus shift right wing. If you lot over in America can't mobilise enough people out in the street to fight for these causes, to grind your country to a screaming halt if needs be, then the Dems will be where labour is soon. Maybe not this election, but check back in with this comment by the midterms.
Not an American, so no real stake in this but, could you tell me what the Democrats have done in the past four years to protect trans rights? Since you're all so clearly concerned about them an' all.
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Okay, can you be more specific about what they did to minimise damage? Like, did they make trans people a protected class, or relieve the bureaucracy around transitioning, or what?
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I guess there's some small comfort that they'll at least pay lip service to trans rights then.
The labour party won an election over here and one of the first things they did was stop access to puberty blockers. During the election I was told by a lot of liberals preaching harm reduction that, as a trans woman, that I had to vote for them 'cos the Tories would be worse.
I'm worried about trans people over on your side of the ocean being in a similar position where the elections are between trans exterminationist and transphobe.
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Huge problem imho, is that a lot of these people who rattle on about voting for harm reduction candidates go home after voting on election day and then don't get involved politically until the next election cycle.
In these bourgeois "democracies" political parties are always going to move to court wealthy donors and thus shift right wing. If you lot over in America can't mobilise enough people out in the street to fight for these causes, to grind your country to a screaming halt if needs be, then the Dems will be where labour is soon. Maybe not this election, but check back in with this comment by the midterms.
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