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Minnesota Senator Peggy Flanagan (quokk.au)
submitted 5 days ago by [A] to c/minnesota
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[–] 11 points 5 days ago* (3 children)

And it's not just a slogan!

It is the literal truth. Nothing, nothing that trans people want is something that isn't already a right for everyone else. Here in the US, we're supposed to all have equal protection under the law. So it isn't just that trans rights are human rights, they're enumerated rights, rights that are part and parcel of the constitution itself. So they should be doubly protected.

Trans rights are human rights, period. Anyone that doesn't get that probably doesn't get the point of human rights in the first place, or (worse) is rejecting the entire concept of human rights.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    They don’t understand the poem by avowed Nazi and warmongering priest Martin Niehmöller. Even that giant piece of murderous garbage finally got it… though he remained an anti semite the remainder of his life.

    If any group is viewed as subhuman or unworthy, everyone is in danger. Even if you don’t have the moral fortitude to CARE about your fellow humans who are already suffering (aka the bare minimum), pure pragmatism should inform you that you’re not so special as to avoid a death camp.

    Trans rights are human rights!

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I tend to bring up Eugene Debs as a counterpoint to the poem

    ...years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

    That, to me, sums up the idea beautifully, and I am very confident that Debs would have been fully behind trans rights, even if I'm not confident he would have necessarily been personally accepting of trans people in his own life. I'm not saying he wouldn't have been, just that I lack confidence in saying that he would.

    And it really does encapsulate the fact that what we allow to happen to any of our fellow human beings is an insult, a harm, to all of us. Even if I didn't feel love for and a profound gratitude that trans people exist, I would still be fully behind trans rights on a practical level. Our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings are too damn vulnerable, and that's what we're supposed to do, help and protect the vulnerable; that's the obligation of the majority to the minority.

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