I’ll believe it when I see it.
Translation - “The big donors who own us don’t appear to be interested in opposing trans Americans, so it’s reasonably safe to assume we won’t.”
If you’re trans, never forget that politicians that are backed by big money will sell you out the second that it’s no longer financially viable to support your rights & existence. The interests of the LGBTQ+ community are incompatible with the corporate world & corporate backed political class.
The interests of the lgbtq+ community may not be a priority for companies, and if they think they’ll lose market share by supporting lgbtq+ communities they’ll follow the money. But I don’t think lgbtq+ interests are inherently incompatible with corporate interests. Why would they be? Corporations just want to sell their shit and make money, they’re usually happy to sell to anyone. It’s the fundamentalist religious nuts who are the problem and they have a grip on US politics right now for some reason, mostly through people being quiet and apathetic when they see injustice. It’s good to call out injustices and normalize sanely supporting all minorities.
Unfortunately corporations are quite willing to lose boatloads of money. They will operate at a loss for years to bankrupt rivals, pay out the nose for temp workers and trainings to avoid solidarity for unionization, waste massive amounts of labor on meetings to justify the existence of the upper end of the hierarchy, enforce 40+ hour work schedules that decrease total productivity, lose millions to the malpractice of nepo babies, invest billions into negative sum game campaign funding and advertising, etc.
Corporate leaders want vulnerable minorities to exploit, to the extent they’ve spent billions funding the election of someone who ruined their businesses with tariffs in order to make it happen.
Just like they did in 2016 and 2020 when they said that voters need to “dial back the gender extremism” and “make concessions on things like trans rights to get the moderate Republican vote”?
Just like they stood with women by codifying reproductive rights and the working class by canceling student loans and the vulnerable by enacting universal healthcare and housing and access to food
But seriously though, If you’re planning on sitting around and waiting for Democrats to show up and come to bat for trans folks, you’re going to be waiting a long time.
Talk is cheap and principles are for campaign promises only. When it comes to taking action, politicians follow the sentiments of their constituencies. If we want the law to change, we need to change peoples minds about us.
Yes, it’s an uphill battle. Yes, there are psychotic billionaires willing to throw endless amounts of money into swinging public opinion against us. And yes, we can still do it, but it’s going to take us all getting off our collective asses and talking to people.
SureFirst, they came for the Trans, and I wasn’t one, so I stayed silent.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You know, there are some words I’ve known since I was a schoolboy: “With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.” Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom and warning. The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on, we’re all damaged. I fear that today…
“Those who would trade liberty for security, deserve neither and will lose both” - KMFDM, Shake the Cage, by way of Ben Franklin.
Literally what else distinguishes them from republicans?
Selling red hats with a bastardized Regan campaign slogan on it.
Since at least the 90s nothing much
“…as long as AIPAC says it’s ok.”
They realized that their previous strategy does not work. Now they desperately need the vote of the most desperate constituents.
hmm, must be an election coming up 🤔 quick! break out the empty platitudes!
And I will stand by democrats just as strongly as they have consistently stood by me
200 Democrats who have supported or refused to oppose laws targeting trans Americans
I trust him as far as I trust Trump
