Trans journalist Erin Reed has published a list of Democratic midterm candidates with anti-trans records, and the question she is forcing is one the party would rather not answer: if trans voters keep rewarding Democrats who harm them, what signal does that send? The calculation is real, the stakes are high, and there is no clean answer.

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[–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Currently in the US trans people in federal prisons are forcibly detransitioned, trans minors can't access necessary healthcare, including the compromise option of puberty blockers, and "trans ideology" was included as one of the "biggest threats to america" in a terms of what the current administration is focusing on in the name of anti-terrorism. Saying that trying to improve that situation is "not high on your priorities" or "a major concern" just because trans people are a small part of the population (especially when discussing an article about the democratic party continuing to shift towards anti-trans language and policy) is, at best, extremely insensitive.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Let’s get the pedophile running our country into prison then we can address that stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    If you're not going to care about my life enough to think it's worth protecting, then I'm not going to extend that same courtesy to you.

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