Yeah the way trans rights are negotiated now has been a game for the political class and we’re not players on team lib, we’re the ball. I was planning my name change when my government contorted itself into a pretzel over a new self ID law, i applied for coverage of my bottom surgery when our courts ruled that there’s no actual legal obligation to cover it, i’m used to getting stabbed in the back by libs.
Exactly, that’s why I didn’t intend to push you into a corner of defending what’s going on with pinkwashing or homonationalism or whatever else, that’s not a side you are picking. Rather, it is still important to realize that there are people who are very aware of those same dynamics you have listed and they are utilizing that proactively to conscript people to their ideologies. It is most important to realize this for anyone who is vulnerable for acceptance so that their vulnerability isn’t a mechanism to draft them towards ends unwittingly. It wasn’t long ago that the line in the OP actually worked to a degree and was even adopted as an aesthetic by some circles in wide variety of topics from Middle-east to Ukraine to even electoral politics. One only benefits from concessions given my the establishment if they have leverage against any of those concessions being withdrawn once given. Opposite is true for especially trans people who rely on state to provide them health care, where disempowering is trivial and it is only, at its best, a feel good campaign for some parts of the electorate who have qualms about everything else. I say this as someone who puts primary importance to queer liberation in politics, possibly to a degree that could come off as callous.
Yeah the way trans rights are negotiated now has been a game for the political class and we’re not players on team lib, we’re the ball. I was planning my name change when my government contorted itself into a pretzel over a new self ID law, i applied for coverage of my bottom surgery when our courts ruled that there’s no actual legal obligation to cover it, i’m used to getting stabbed in the back by libs.
Exactly, that’s why I didn’t intend to push you into a corner of defending what’s going on with pinkwashing or homonationalism or whatever else, that’s not a side you are picking. Rather, it is still important to realize that there are people who are very aware of those same dynamics you have listed and they are utilizing that proactively to conscript people to their ideologies. It is most important to realize this for anyone who is vulnerable for acceptance so that their vulnerability isn’t a mechanism to draft them towards ends unwittingly. It wasn’t long ago that the line in the OP actually worked to a degree and was even adopted as an aesthetic by some circles in wide variety of topics from Middle-east to Ukraine to even electoral politics. One only benefits from concessions given my the establishment if they have leverage against any of those concessions being withdrawn once given. Opposite is true for especially trans people who rely on state to provide them health care, where disempowering is trivial and it is only, at its best, a feel good campaign for some parts of the electorate who have qualms about everything else. I say this as someone who puts primary importance to queer liberation in politics, possibly to a degree that could come off as callous.