Yet theres no political coalition who isn’t ready to throw them under the bus for optics at every given chance. How many times are we gonna see over 70% of Americans agree on something that no lawmakers wish to do. Seems the big three right now are Trans Equality, Medicare 4 All, and Legal Weed. And we’ve had stats on those last two for over a decade. Democracy my ass.
We’re gonna keep seeing it until we dismantle the “2 party” system which thrives on culture war nonsense, while serving the interests of the billionaires and not the working class.
Exactly this. Our ‘representatives’ are anything but and the dissonance we feel when learning about new and existing legislation proves who they are actually representing. Again, it’s not the majority they pretend to represent, just those willing to spend.
In my personal experience. Most people hold liberal beliefs when talking about people they directly know.
The trans person they know is fine. They are fine smoking pot. Their friend’s abortion was warranted. The immigrants they go to church with are lovely people.
If you ask even some of the worst MAGA idiots you know if their gay friend should be allowed to marry, they will agree more than you would expect.
Conservative media has created a barrier that allows them to hate groups in a way many would never do IRL.
Anyone see that video of PEDOnald asking the DoorDash driver about “men in women’s sports”?
I mean…his brain. WTAF. It’s really like he’s just the walking, talking version of Faux “News”.
Nothing about the % of Americans who think trans people should be able to play HS sports on their new gender.
Because that’s like 45%.
Or who think trans youth should have access to gender affirming care, which is similarly low.
And those are the issues that the GOP is hammering, because they know it.
We have to get the spotlight off these issues we got ahead of public perception and there is a cost for that - a whole generation of trans people denied rights (I am less interested in sports than I am gender affirming care, which is hugely important for trans youth).
You can see trans folks realizing this… like 1/2 of the plaintiffs for the sports case that made it to SCOTUS thought the suit should be dropped before it got that far, because they realized it was going to go the wrong way.
It’s time to be more strategic until/if the GOP gets out of power, so we stop kneecapping ourselves.
Where was that 85% during the fucking election?
The cons effectively made it all about “men in women’s sports”, I bet.
And that’s something where things are nearly the exact opposite other way (80% against). So that’s why the conservatives harp on it.
Ah Kamala voters?
Kamala Harris in her new memoir expresses reservations about transgender athletes competing on girls’ sports teams, echoing other national Democrats who have voiced a position long associated with conservatives.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/kamala-harris-book-trans-athletes-00573966
Trans people need a politician who actually cares for them and fights for them, not this lesser evil crap.
