Not always nice..but always on side of love

except wasn't dems focused on "identity politics"..they avoided basically all that in '24 while praising Liz Cheney and courting possible defecting reps all as GOP do NOT seek "shared goals", but Christian nationalism. centrist dems who don't get sociopathy of GOP are imo collaborators, not fighters

sorry..but this is an INSANE claim as dems did literally everything to avoid "identity" politics to focus on "kitchen table issues/democracy etc" as GOP spent 100s of mill on ads against trans ppl alone (more than ANY other issue)..but it's DEMS who "focus" on identity? centrists need to get F real!

sorry but imo, should be LONG time before we forgive so-called RW "Christians" for being willing to ruin lives by stripping healthcare, then literally take food from families/ppl/KIDS in need to point they'd starve (all to NOT provide healthcare) unless a COURT ordered Trump/GOP to fund it..WTF USA?

not to mention..isn't it actually just GD gross they constantly feel need to always know/refer to others bio sex/genitalia (ntm how is it truly their business) VS go by how they live? truth? I think these bigoted sociopaths will sacrifice ALL, even harm themselves/fam etc, if means trans suffer more

Mace literally did similar to charge (with no proof of injury at all) a trans person over a hand shake everyone around said was normal..all after accosting a CIS woman in restroom accusing her of being trans. GOP today, as a whole, are genuinely insane grifters, opportunistic bigots, and sociopaths.

also, just a thought, but know what would be absolutely GREAT? if dems, instead of only talking about trans issues in terms of "vibes"/how people "feel", but actually bothered to learn the F facts. I am astonished how there is literally NO debunking of the anti-trans LIES GOP spends millions pushing

takes a "double-take" to not..probably because basically every "legacy/mainstream media" outlet like NYT has spewed nonstop bigotry and absolutely provably incorrect dis/misinformation concerning every single aspect of trans issues/lives to point genuinely comparable to historical fascist propaganda

Trump is merely car's emblem, not the engine. Who actually "run" Trump/MAGA will have established fascist-style Christian nationalism by time Trump dies if their plans work out. They can martyr Trump and find even more bigoted sociopaths to take over. Christians ALWAYS used Trump as means to an end.

imo a big prob is facts do NOT support full trans sports bans and Gavin Newsom goes further to support extremes like GAC ban till 25..dems supporting such ignore facts AND sacrifice values/rights/PEOPLE. Simply can't trust G.N. to uphold ANY dem values or facts if personal/political benefit is poss

imo it's huge miscalculation to abandon trans rights. Most centrists/mod/ind etc rank this about lowest voting priority, but dems WILL lose MANY votes from LW base if they sacrifice trans to appease bigots. imo argument should be "if centrists/mod/ind don't want fascism, they'll tolerate trans folk"

imo so twisted and obsessive to always insist on knowing others birth sex and always only refer to it VS how they live..SO weird to constantly need/think it's your business to know/refer to ppls genitalia etc..it's nobody's business, serves no real purpose, and is just gross (no real reason to care)

truly astonishing to me how we still get these questions "what should lw/dems do to counter GOP anti-trans propaganda campaigns" and it NEVER even comes up maybe dems/lw media could actually learn the FACTS and genuinely spend even 5 min actually DEBUNKING lies RW spreads..but nah, too hard I guess?

just imo among biggest best things dems/media can do to fight anti-trans messaging: just learn GD FACTS< which are overwhelmingly on trans side and most folk NEVER hear as LW media/dems don't cover it while RW media/GOP spend 100s of mill spreading *provable LIES. where are the facts? debunking? etc

so iow they absolutely know evidence is this cause harm yet also ignore actual facts concerning trans sports participation does not justify full bans. Glad the lawsuit is being pursued but don't hold much hope in US. h/e, state laws, after skrmetti, might be among last bastion of hope for time being

State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA Nature Human Behaviour - From 2018 to 2022, 48 anti-transgender laws were enacted in the USA across 19 states. This study shows that these anti-transgender laws increased past-year suicide attempts...

wrong factually..not to mention bias to make laws so trans lives get harder to point many flee/go back in closets etc to then brag "trans identity is reducing"..it admits an oppressive/genocidal intent with goal to reduce prevalence of an identity GC/terf/anti-trans just don't like. they enjoy this

Can't forget evangelicals also wanted to separate T to "divide/conquer" to reverse all LGB rights and ultimately would go much further than abortion, they just know that might be easiest next step to wedge the door open just a bit more to ultimately reverse MOST women's rights too..like even to vote

I get that..maybe you are right..but imo it's important ppl understand Cass results were no accident, nor good faith mistake in approach/method, nor did they use established methods to come to genuine conclusions contrary the actually objective studies like AU review. Cass was bigotry from the start

I agree, but also feel it diminishes severity to say Cass was "dog's breakfast-y" or "bad approach" opposed to Australian approach. Cass was purposefully designed political hitjob and manufactured SCANDAL to justify ruining trans lives..not merely some flawed approach. this was institutional bigotry

"what shall we watch guys? also..."don't you dare touch this remote, as you know full-well I get to fully decide! any suggestions, though?"

sadly I think might require actual implementation of organized protest forms similar to "sit-ins" in order to help prove practical absurdity/harm of policies policing gender like restroom bans etc..now as RW/bigots push this it comes time to prove threat to bring back sit-ins (W/ ALLIES) is no bluff

honestly reading back you might be right and I maybe misinterpreted your initial point..I will admit I'm not exactly good at using social media and most often it's people fully opposed to trans rights who end up even responding to my posts. I actually will apologize if I took your points incorrectly

do you think trans folk should be able to do things like use facilities of their lived gender or be forced to always constantly out themselves as society chooses to unnecessarily go by designated sex at birth/biological sex (which most gc/anti-trans etc can't themselves actually define in a binary)?

depends..what's their goal? I know harms certain to come from biological essentialist policies (including cis women as reinforces misogyny/patriarchy) from policy like UK EHRC now push like restroom bans etc..claims of protecting women will be undermined by practicality of what's required to enforce

like? fact is most aspects of society there is ZERO real reason to base around "bio sex" (which I dare you to define) VS how people actually live life. Forcing trans to constantly out themselves seems to be only real goal for much of this while NOT really achieving things like making women safer etc

I'm well aware the differences, the problem is those like you are wanting to force all society be based around an oversimplified version of "biological sex" which you can even actually define which in most aspects of society it's fully irrelevant and serves no purpose but bigotry to do so. so F WHY?

actually was specific well organized massively funded campaign to usurp/morph "woke" from origin of awareness to social injustice into umbrella term (and DEI) for bigots of all kinds to unite under w/o having to openly express or agree w/ others likely unpopular specific bigotry. it's bigots "code"

Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition - PubMed These results suggest that retransitions are infrequent. More commonly, transgender youth who socially transitioned at early ages continued to identify that way. Nonetheless, understanding retransitio...

it's also not 80% who "change their mind", actual number is closer to 2.5% largely because approximately 90% of the 20% who do "change their mind" would never have been actually diagnosed as trans in the first place let alone recommended for meds. These bad faith articles are helping kill kids ATP

no..you can't change chromosomes, but people do change lived sex and have for like 100 F yrs. ppl like you need to ask yourselves why you embrace this twisted obsession all society go by "unchangeable" binary bio sex YOU can't actually define VS how ppl live their life. Serves no purpose but bigotry

sorry..maybe I should have specified a modern "American brand of Christian, emphasis on white, nationalism", which is distinct from Nazism..that's partly why it's inaccurate to label MAGA outright Nazis, but that doesn't change they share similar motives/goals and tactics and push a form of fascism.

can't be surprised..imo one bit to keep in mind is when who spent their lives studying/fighting fascism say USA is repeating history they mean literally and include obscure bits like that..what's happening now follows historical fascist playbooks note for note..just with christian nationalist flavor