Okay, can you be more specific about what they did to minimise damage? Like, did they make trans people a protected class, or relieve the bureaucracy around transitioning, or what?

[–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't say that at all. I said they voted against bills by Republicans to make things worse. Things like bathroom bills or outlawing transitioning. I don't think what they're doing is enough. I want them to actually make things better, and I try to support people in the primaries who I think are actually willing to fight for those causes, but mainstream Democrats aren't there yet. At least they aren't making things worse though, which is absolutely what will happen if the Republicans gain power.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I guess there's some small comfort that they'll at least pay lip service to trans rights then.

The labour party won an election over here and one of the first things they did was stop access to puberty blockers. During the election I was told by a lot of liberals preaching harm reduction that, as a trans woman, that I had to vote for them 'cos the Tories would be worse.

I'm worried about trans people over on your side of the ocean being in a similar position where the elections are between trans exterminationist and transphobe.

[–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fair. It's not quite that bad here... sort of. Republicans are pretty similar to the Tories on trans rights, but the Democrats are just too cowardly to take a stand. They're not transphobic, they're just really shitty allies. They at least won't make things worse though.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Huge problem imho, is that a lot of these people who rattle on about voting for harm reduction candidates go home after voting on election day and then don't get involved politically until the next election cycle.

In these bourgeois "democracies" political parties are always going to move to court wealthy donors and thus shift right wing. If you lot over in America can't mobilise enough people out in the street to fight for these causes, to grind your country to a screaming halt if needs be, then the Dems will be where labour is soon. Maybe not this election, but check back in with this comment by the midterms.

[–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Oh absolutely. I will be doing everything I can to prevent that, but the possibility of things maybe getting worse if we don't do enough over the next couple years is still better than things definitely getting worse. Which is the choice we have right now.