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They’re both just the best. I’m a lucky girl.

I’m always telling my kids, “Life didn’t used to be like this! THIS IS NOT NORMAL.”

He and I had a rough relationship when I was younger, but he's just been so accepting of my transition, since the very beginning, that it brought us much closer. I love my dad.

My parents had to change planes in Dubai on their way back from someplace, a few years ago.

They briefly considered spending a day there, but my dad looked up their LGBTQ policies and said no.

“I won’t set foot somewhere Dana would be persecuted,” my mom tells me he said.

You know, among other things, the author of dumbass article in question seems not to know a lot of trans women.

You’re worried too many gay men are “becoming” trans? Dude, I’m a trans woman who’s more or less only into boys, and it feels like there are like five of us.

“My doctor says I have a cold, but I think he’s actually poisoning me. My solution to this is to shoot myself in the kneecap.”

“I believe Dems might eventually screw us over, so I won’t try to stop the Screwing You Over Party from winning.”

It’s sort of incredible. People will believe utterly implausible lies about democrats, and then project goodness onto Donald Trump based on absolutely nothing.

People who voted Trump in 2016 because they thought Hillary would be too careless with information security=people who voted Trump in 2024 because they thought Kamala would start a war in the Mideast

I had to walk people through some of that stuff. “But you like beer!” “Yes, and so does my mom, what’s your point?”

I don’t like girls, as a boy I was very “gay,” and I can tell you that does not actually help you in this area.

Put it to her that way, I want to watch her head blow up

We’ve had to deal with this argument and its sister argument for so long. The idea that we’re tricking all the butch lesbians and femmy gay men into being trans.

No one is being tricked, we will never run out of butch lesbians or femmy gay men, shut up and let people be themselves.

Or gish-gallop me with a bunch of lies about how Harris was a secret transphobe who was going to start a Mideast war blah blah blah

And I’d be like “one, why the hell isn’t that enough, and two, they have a whole lot of policies right here on their web site, and they talk about them in every speech,” and they’d just call me a shitlib or shriek about Gaza.

I’ve had to live with it since they held one at the 2016 convention.

It’s all so stupid. Let people be who they are.

And if someone tells you what they are and you’re like “are you, though?”, do consider shutting the fuck up.

There’s this idea that you can accidentally become trans. That queer people are sort of inherently confused, so if the idea of being trans is eve. In the conversation, some confused gay kids are going to get tricked into it. And for some reason that would be bad.

When I came out as trans, I had to deal with so much “but why don’t you just be an effeminate gay boy, why isn’t that good enough?”

That didn’t make me stop being trans. I can’t imagine why the opposite would make someone start being trans.

They didn’t actually care about that either. Anyone who sincerely cared about the welfare of the Palestinian people would have voted for Harris, since the alternative was way worse for them.

They cared more about their preening moral vanity and looking cool for their cosplay revolutionary friends.

I’ve had a few of them tell me they’ve seen the error of their ways (“I was so young then”), but yeah, most of them either say it was Hillary’s fault for losing, the party’s fault for “stealing” the nom from Bernie, or they say insane shit about how Hillary would also have appointed transphobes.

Such people generally seem to think democracy is a referendum on whether the Democratic Party is “good enough” by an ever-shifting and basically unmeetable standard, and if Dems can’t somehow get there, voters are helpless but to reject them in favor of whatever fascist slop republicans are serving.

Some of you may live to see the first left-of-center court since the Beatles were together. I won’t, probably, since I’ll be in my hundreds.

We had one shot in 2016. Maybe you should have taken that seriously instead of holding fart-ins because you were mad the nominee wasn’t your friend Bernie.

It’s the entire idea of democracy.

If voters are helpless children who can’t be held responsible in the most basic ways, why even have democracy?

Gosh, it would have been nice to have a left of center Supreme Court that wouldn’t do any of this shit to trans kids, but I’m sure your concern about Hillary’s private email server was sincere and much more consequential.

“You can’t blame voters for their choices” is the dumbest argument, and yet it’s weirdly popular on here.

You can ONLY blame voters for how they vote. It’s what democracy is.

And if the public decides that’s fine.

We as a voting public have had multiple opportunities to say “if you’re going to be this way, we won’t reward you with power,” and twice now we’ve done the opposite.

Democracy is only a safeguard against despotism if the voters make it one.

Nothing you can do in the next election will cause capitalism to end. But the outcome will affect you in so many other ways.

Yes. Elections are a choice between two possible futures, not a referendum on whether you approve of every single thing about the democratic candidate.