If you are approaching criticizing a Democrat before the primary this way you are not ready to talk about politics seriously.
The fact Democrats are the only path forward for trans rights is why trans people are freaking out so hard about Newsom’s turn to the right on trans rights. Like, you get those are related, right?
You would have to intentionally try to misrepresent what everyone opposed to Democrats embracing Newsom is saying to come to the conclusion that “Oh he isn’t on board with trans athletes? Piece of shit! Next!” is what anyone is saying. I have certainly been clear the entire time that putting pressure on Newsom to change is the goal.
And no, I’m no going over the existential edge for any fucking thing having to do with sports, period.
For trans rights is what you mean. Trans kids being able to participate on the appropriate team under Title IX isn’t important enough. Just say that instead of pretending it’s about sports. You’re not fooling any trans people.
Do you thinks “sports careers” are the only benefit of sports? Why are you okay with ripping children out of activities with their peers if Republicans decide it’s “controversial”?
Most trans people know how fraught even visiting a gym is, and how important protections for trans people are to even allow us to exercise the way cis people do. I don’t know any trans people that embrace Newsom’s statements or appearance on Charlie Kirk’s shows, and I highly doubt you do either.
even if you can’t compete on the sports team you want
It never, ever stops there. And if you view the participation of trans people in public life as a nice thing that we get as a treat when times are good, then yeah, you are kind of telling us to go fuck ourselves.
It should make you stop and think when LGBT leaders and organizations within California are condemning his statements.
I am far more concerned for your physical safety under another Trump administration.
The fact you don’t connect pushing trans people out of public life with the exact transphobia that endangers us is why you need to listen to us instead of deciding you know best and lecturing us about it.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transgender-people-are-not-feeling
Too fucking hot to go out.
Don’t let any of these fucks ever have a moment of peace in public. Until they right the evil they’ve put in the world, they should dread opening the door each morning and answering the phone.
And Mormonism, The Children of God/The Family, Aleph/Aum Shinrikyo, etc.
The damage he can inflict is in some ways greater: Republicans attacking us keeps allies on alert, ready to resist. But when Democrats begin to adopt the same rhetoric, that resistance dissolves. Transphobia inside the party is not a treatable wound inflicted by the far right—it is a malignancy, slow-moving but devastating, one that threatens to hollow out decades of progress from within. If it spreads unchecked, it could mark the end of so much our community has fought to preserve.
The entire article is excellent (as usual from Erin), but that especially gets to the heart of why so many trans people are immediately pumping the brakes on this shit. And why so many Democratic voters are unwilling to even consider that this is a problem that urgently needs to be fixed, before it gets worse.
I hadn’t heard that, so I guess that’s something. I just hope they know that waving a flag around and not actually addressing or walking anything back doesn’t change the situation.
If you think Newsom might listen you can contact him and put pressure on him to change now. If he can change it shouldn’t be hard to prove it, right?
Cool, not sure what you want me to do with that information. I don’t think it was ever in question whether you or any other liberal who is offended by trans people demanding Newsom drop the transphobia would ultimately support him, or any other candidate with his policies, no matter what.
The question is if other voters will. If you don’t think it will change anything, then criticizing his transphobia won’t matter. If you think it will affect who votes for him, then you better start ringing his phone off the hook about it and you better start quick, because the days of trans people being quiet about it are gone. If you want to be the party of trans rights that means you also have to listen to trans people, not just use us as a decoration.
No.
It is illegal for trans people to use the bathroom corresponding with their gender in 13 states. (Drop down menu to change maps)
It’s illegal to update your gender markers on ID in 3 states.
Over half of states prevent trans youth from even playing in school sports.
In 10 states it’s not considered a hate crime to attack a trans person for being trans.
Conversion “therapy,” proven to be psychologically damaging, is legal in almost half of states, including against youth who can’t say no to it.
It’s legal to discriminate against trans people in housing in almost half of states.
18 states allow employers to fire someone for being transgender.
Yes. Because Trump's transphobia pales in comparison to big bad evil Newsom? Are you for real?
Find a place where I said that. You can’t, because you just made it up. I am a trans person living in America in fear because of how Trump’s transphobia has affected my life. I’m not going to leave the country in the next 3 years unless it’s permanently, because I might lose my passport. My access to medication is in peril. I have spoken about all these things extensively. Demanding that be the subject of a post about Gavin Newsom is ridiculous and derailing from the fact that Newsom’s transphobia is also unacceptable.
This reminds me of when so many left-leaning people were tricked into not voting for Harris because things are terrible in the middle east.
Cool story, irrelevant since I both live in a blue state and voted.
If it’s super important to have trans people not bring up Newsom’s transphobia, there is one and only one way to solve it: put pressure on him now to not abandon us.
Please point out where I have vilified Newsom. Because pointing out his transphobia isn’t it. Asking people to pressure his office to knock the transphobia the fuck off—the very thing you are suggesting I should take into account—isn’t it either.
If you’re saying I’m vilifying other users by asking pointed questions about why they’re so comfortable asking trans voters to vote for someone who is onboard with removing their rights, I don’t accept that as vilification either.
Fair enough. Which democratic candidate did you vote for to lose reproductive healthcare rights? Because if the answer is “nobody” then that’s a disingenuous comparison. ‘Republicans took away our rights, so you have to vote for a Democratic candidate that wants to take away yours’ doesn’t even make sense.
“Wanting to exist as a human being in public” is now virtue signaling, very nice.
If it’s super important for trans people to all vote for whatever candidate Dems put forward, and you also believe Newsom is the likely candidate, then you should call his office and tell him that the transphobia is alienating voters. Because it is.
Which Democratic candidate did you vote for to lose them?
Why do you assume that isn’t also a right I’ve lost?
The conclusion is clearly that trans people need to suck it the fuck up and vote for someone who wants them out of public life. This is effectively shutting up about it.
Why would “you need to change but if you don’t we’ll support you anyway” be a remotely effective message for achieving political change?