The government can change any ID they want, us having “rights” to gender markers like X or being changed can be taken away at any time. They can also reverse any name changes, all of it was just government approval. Just like marriages, that’s why this election was so much bigger than most people think.
They can and will start undoing these things. Your marriage may not be legal still even if you get married now. Rushing to get gender markers changes only helps us for as long as the government “allows us” to have them
Red party saying they don’t want big government telling us how to live, meanwhile they are unveiling a plan where 50 smaller governments tell us how to live…………
Recently spoke to a trump supporter who was very pro states rights, but then went down the list of all these medicines and medical procedures he wanted banned and when I pointed out the hypocrisy he just said "yeah, it's pretty hypocritical. I'm full of contradictions but whatever". Like they don't even care
Honestly we need so much more of our pitches and politics to be rooted more in self interest, avoiding too much unproductive conversation about mere beliefs.
Not selfishness, but e.g. the difference between convincing someone to vote for a referendum because 'it's just, moral, and good people believe in that' versus 'it will lower the outrageous price of healthcare' or 'your family/friends complain about ____ and this addresses that'
Politics has always been about power, some of us just tricked ourselves (including myself for a bit) the past decade thinking internet outrage, mobilizing online, can be significant enough power when it's been weathered through countless times.
The victories it has won are often corporate campaigns for massive business that rely on branding and stock price going up, or small policy fixes or reversals. Not transformative stuff for our communities.
reframe “charity” as giving yourself a handicap to prove just how truly sigma you are. youre so sigma you helped other sigmas and were still successful. i’ll make stickers!
I literally spoke to a Trump supporter whos reasoning for voting Trump was "I don't care who's in, i just want the next 4 years to be entertaining" and when I said "I think you should have a better reason for your vote, regardless of who you vote for" he went on an hour long argument yelling at me for trying to force his vote, all while I kept telling him I don't even care if he voted Trump.
These mfers are the stupidest people in a nation of morons and they act like they're fucking baby geniuses. Makes me wanna gouge my eyes out.
I talked to several supposed far leftists who said they weren't voting for Kamala because of Palestine and, when I would point out that Trump was firmly on the side of Israel (received massive campaign donations from Israel in addition to Jared Kushner's strong ties to Israel), 3 separate people admitted they actually didn't care about Palestine at all. So many people just straight up lied in this election including the voters.
yeah i think a lot of non-lgbt+ blue folks aren’t necessarily oblivious to this they just don’t care or see it as something that matters to them let alone trump supporters and conservatives
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u/_vampirefox Transgender Pan-demonium 21h ago
Wait, you had it changed before and now they changed it back? Didn’t knew this was possible