Proposed legislation behind the impending US government shutdown contains provisions that would ban federal funding for transgender adults, as well as youngsters.
Proposed legislation behind the impending US government shutdown contains provisions that would ban federal funding for transgender adults, as well as youngsters.
On the one hand I agree, on the other I’m so angry and tired of either hearing that my issues aren’t important enough to do something about (the line told to Millennials during pretty much every election - presidential and otherwise - from Bush onward outside of Biden and Obama on things like housing prices and student loan debt/price of college) or that as a transgender person, we need to let the Republicans do a little genocide and removal of our rights and freedoms as a treat or else the “moderate Republicans” won’t vote for the Democratic candidate (are the “moderate Republicans” in the room with us right now?). And then we get blamed for the Dems losing one way or another regardless. Either the Millennials didn’t vote hard enough, or our demands of things like affordable housing and protection of minorities’ rights were “too radical and lost the Dems the moderate vote.”
I still voted for Harris because it was either the Dems rein in the fascists to some extent at the federal level or the only safe places being Democrat run states, but the Dems absolutely threw us under the bus as a “worthy sacrifice” to court a mythological voting base that hasn’t existed in decades - if it ever did at all - and I can’t really blame people for being sick and tired of it.
It’s a fair point, or number of points, but the voting for Harris part is all anyone could do in that final situation on Election Day.
I agree. I’m just so frustrated with the poor options that we’re given that I couldn’t help but say something. Especially with the whole sarcastic transphobia remarks I see about the Dems when they are indeed transphobic, or at least more than willing to let trans people die for no reason.