COMMUNITY/MODS: want this post gone, it’s gone - would remove ASAP.

Please be excellent to each other here. We have to self moderate or I’ll delete without being asked. Assume good intent.

I’m pro human which is why I’d rather have some people in office here in the US than others, and why I’m pro human rights.

Trans rights are human rights.

After reading criticism of the dems, this question resurfaced in my mind. I know we don’t have time machines, I know it’s easy to claim a false equivalency is being drawn. So note this question doesn’t represent reality. It represents a curiosity of a hypothetical.

Trans rights are human rights! Thank you.

PS: I hope neither this post nor its comments represent/produce any content that bad people will use to make arguments to further evil causes. Have I already erred? Yes I’m worried, I’m also curious enough to hit this post button here… gulp

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Imagine you have a time machine that lets you peek into the future, specifically the 2024 election. You can see two possible pathways:

Pathway 1: Democrats go all-in on trans rights.

They champion inclusive policies, fight for trans healthcare, and actively challenge anti-trans legislation. However, this galvanizes the opposition and they lose the election.

Pathway 2: Democrats stay completely silent on trans rights.

They avoid the issue entirely, focusing on other policy areas. This strategy helps them win the election, but trans rights are left in a vulnerable position.

The question is: which pathway would you choose?

Would you prioritize a Democrat win, even if it means sacrificing progress on trans rights? Or would you fight for trans rights, even if it means risking a loss?

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
    2·
    17 days ago

    Democrats are already sacrificing climate targets, asylum seekers, and Palestinians. Yet another sacrifice on the pyre?

    At some point you’re just voting for Republicans.

    • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
      1·
      15 days ago

      Unfortunately I think a good percentage of people on Lemmy, especially in lemmy.world, are quite comfortable with that

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
    1·
    17 days ago

    How does public facing statements make trans people vulnerable? Legislation is the power of legislators.

    Being quiet about an issue during the campaign makes little difference if they are supportive in office.

    Being strategically quiet during a campaign is a good strategy, if only they were smart enough to use it on even more divisive issues, like the genocide.

  • Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    Trans rights are human rights, and how you treat anyone in your society is how you treat everyone. Democrats were scared in the '80s and '90s to support gay people for this exact reason, and instead of losing elections they started winning because people realize gay people are people. They lost elections because they weren’t brave enough to stand with the courage of their convictions, and in my opinion that’s what they deserved.

    • parody@lemmings.worldOP
      01·
      17 days ago

      Interesting. Then I’m guessing you’d accept the time machine showed you the right outcome & would let the dems lose this election, but it would help them for the next/future elections?

  • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
    1·
    17 days ago

    This kind of post just shows why I think politicians are spineless cowards. If winning is everything to anyone, they should stick to investing in a stock market.

  • Elise@beehaw.org
    1·
    16 days ago

    As a Dutch citizen I just want to kick the shit out of this post and all it stands for. Seriously your system is broken. Period.

  • theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Whenever the Republicans have campaigned on anti-trans bullshit they’ve lost. It’s getting more and more common for cis people to have trans people casually exist in their lives, and are therefore less likely to be a raging bigot