"Thank God we cancelled the cancel culture... Let's cancel democracy, science, brown people and trans people." - GOP

They would say that this helps the average citizen by preventing it from being okay to be trans in American society which has benefits like:

• Preventing your kids from becoming trans

• Ending boys pretending to be girls so they can rape and spy on your daughters in gender-segregated spaces.

• Stopping “woke” doctors who embrace “trans ideology” from profiting off of coercing your children into expensive and unnecessary medical treatments.

• Removing “woke” teachers from tricking your kids into becoming trans, or giving them the option to be trans.

• Having to deal with trans coworkers and accommodating their workplace rights.

…and so on. These are almost exactly the same prejudiced justifications used in the past against gay rights in America.

In this new round of American-style fascism, our government has been coerced into being taken over by an extreme right-wing contingent of American political life: Christian nationalists, white nationalists, neo-liberal economic extremists (which used to be called plain old conservative economics), conspiracy theorists, and narcissists. These people have an extreme and unbalanced worldview that flows from their political, economic, social, and emotional wants and needs instead of the fundamental human rights of citizens in a democracy.

Beyond the sociopolitical convenience of having a group to scapegoat and channel political action against, there is a genuine conservative hate for those that do not conform to general conceptions of gender and sexuality. To conservatives, you’re either in or out - with us, or against us, and the people that make them feel weird about sex and gender are easy to exclude. That trans people are human and have rights and live under a democratic government with equal protection under the law becomes harder to integrate into conservative thinking than simply hating them and the accompanying societal norms.

It throws his rabid fans a bone and keeps the dopamine flowing. If they are allowed to fully calm down, they might see what they've become.

They already declared "antifa" to be "terrorists" almost a year ago, so (I assume) that status isn't new.

Be the change you want to see in the world (/s)

Very very slowly so their family has to pay premiums and lose the house. That's what awaits most of us.

Yep. It was infuriating to talk to some of the people that should have known better. I'm not talking about the magaferbrainz types; I'm talking about certain so-called leftists I know. Because somethingsomethinggenocide, as if handing things to Donvict would be morally superior.

And of course the bothsides dumbasses that "don't want to talk about politics" are nearly as bad. These are the ones that would say, innocently, "but aren't both of them old?" as if 1) Age had any-fucking-thing to do with any of this shit and 2) Biden was actually still in the race at the point that said something so fantastically stupid.

I am trans. Do not use our name to justify genocide. Trans people are one of the single most pro-Palestinian demographics in the country. And if you're so morally bankrupt that you'll support genocide, you'll throw trans people under the bus when it's politically convenient.

You don't realize what the moral test of genocide represents. It's not just about Palestine. It's a test of someone's moral convictions. Trans people need politicians who actually believe in our rights. We're a demonized minority group, and it's always going to be politically convenient to give in to bigots and compromise our rights away one by one. The exact same centrist Democrats that supported Palestinian genocide are now the ones moving to the right on trans issues.

It was a test of character. A test of whether someone is willing to do the right thing, even if it's politically inconvenient. Any politician that isn't willing to do the morally right but unpopular thing is no ally of trans people.

This is what Harris preferred to denouncing genocide. This was known to be the agenda going in.

It's a shame the Democrat's are unable to field a good candidate.

I am trans. Keep our name off your filthy lips. Do not use our name to justify genocide. Something tells me you don't give a rat's ass about trans rights. You're just using our name to score cheap political points.

The exact same Democrats who supported genocide are the ones now voicing "honest concerns" about right-wing panics like trans women in sports. Kamala never supported trans rights. She promised to simply enforce the law, no matter how discriminatory it might be.

You're talking about the exact same people. It turns out genocide support is a pretty damn good measure of someone's moral compass. If you're willing to literally support genocide, then backing discrimination against a demonized minority group is trivial. If you've already sold your soul to support literal genocide, discrimination against minority groups is minor by comparison. Once someone has already committed murder, theft is an afterthought.

This is a moral issue. If a politician supports genocide, all their other policy positions are irrelevant. Because you know you're dealing with someone that fundamentally lacks a conscience. And if you have no conscience, you'll have no qualms about going back on any promise or using your position to enrich yourself.

The word of a genocide supporter is shit. Hell, lower than shit. At least shit has some value as fertilizer.

Don't you dare use trans people to justify genocide. Trans people are probably the single biggest supporters of Palestinian rights in this country, second only to actual ethnic Palestinians living in the US.