Trans people being loved and accepted is actually really bad for them. Because a fundamental part of trans liberation is universal healthcare.
Imagine if the vast majority of americans had high opinions of trans people, stories about trans people being unable to transition because of our healthcare system would spread like wildfire. The news would report on it because it would get clicks.
The dems have to say they care about trans folks because they have to pretend to be moral. Secretly they must love that this is a wedge issue where simply not calling for genocide gets them votes.
Their idiology is the status quo, stability without humanity. They will never change any system if they can avoid it.
I despise these ghoulish psycopaths.
No one will be free until all of us are free
Their world is dying and our compassion will outlast it. Their greed is no match for our solidarity, I love you my comrades.
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I get the logic but, everyone is dying for not being able to pay for even a tylenol pill at the hospital and yet the Dems aren't pressured at all to move a finger.
Sorry for debatebroism
That's a fair point. What makes it different is that trans people's issues are inherently systemic. It is hugely fucking obvious that you cannot support trans people without guaranteeing healthcare. Its hard for the libs to make that jump from this person needs help to these systems need to be changed. There is a reason the USA does everything it can to make the disabled invisible. Capitalism's contradictions are most simple and clear in the disabled. It's obvious to us how capitalism relates to genocide, police brutality, but there are more jumps to make in order to get there. But seeing someone who physically can't work forced out of participating in society is genuinely so nakedly psychopathic that even the libs can't stomach it.
It's less that this is the sole reason and more that there are literally no incentives for them to actually fight for trans people. All they care about is the stability of the state, imperialism, and the companies that fund them. Obviously no reason to care about trans people there, but there are companies that stand to lose from trans people actually getting healthcare. Insurance companies don't want to have to foot the bill for a group of people that require expensive medications and procedures. Health insurance would genocide the disabled if they could, by the same logic they don't want to add people who are essentially disabled to their pool of clients.
Also the dems reaaally want the GOP to like them :bat-eyelids: and the GOP doesn't, so the dems pick their battles and wait for things that they actually care about before they risk pissing off their husband. (stability of the state)
They never lifted a finger for LGB, just took credit for what the scotus did during a dem term, so don't see why they would for T.
Americans by and large already have a high opinion of children with cancer and yet America doesn't have universal healthcare. What Americans want doesn't have any effect on what America does
They don't particularly like trans people. Like, Hillary once went mask off and said that caring about trans people is hurting the Dems.
Every time I hear about Uruguay it seems like a fantasy paradise compared to the US. A friend of mine went to a university there and there was a statue of Che Guevara in the front.
Biden didn't even stop abortion from being outlawed.
"But separations of powers!" :maybe-later-kiddo:
The only separation of powers I wanna see these days: :gui-better:
No trans person should ever be discriminated against and lose "access" to transition care!
We had to go around them for the gays to get their rights. It will be the same with Transgenders. It is wholly unnecessary. Dems could do it in a few months, even start with executive orders, and nullify all these hateful state laws, but they see 20+ years of milking and fundraising and fearmongering about Republicans at stake instead of doing anything. It won't be something they give up easy. They don't care because the PMC can simply afford to take care of or move to a place where trans lives matter.
Trans people being loved and accepted is actually really bad for them. Because a fundamental part of trans liberation is universal healthcare.
I mean, that's a fundamental part of all forms of human liberation. But there's no shortage of neoliberal feminism, neoliberal pan-africanism, and neoliberal migrant rights. Democrats are perfectly happy to commoditize transgenderism in the same way they commoditize everything else. We've already seen the edges of it in the celebritization of a select few trans activists and the commercialization of certain surgeries and treatments viewed by the community as necessary to "pass".
This is one of the nasty thornier angles of transgender politics. Because there are definitely some people who are full blown Man-Living-In-A-Woman's-Body case studies, but there are also plenty of people who are entirely gender fluid or non-deterministic. So much of liberal medicalization of transgender treatment is about painting an individual into a particular gendered lane. You get to be a man or a woman. You don't get to be a both or a neither.
And neoliberals absolutely love dictating strict patterns of choice to people. In that sense, a very binary interpretation of transgenderism is just an extension of Market Choice. Liberation is the freedom to pick Male or Female in the same way you're afforded the choice between Coke and Pepsi.
In that sense, telling people they can change their gender from M to F if they hand The Private Gender Assignment Company a check for $50k is totally in line with Democratic dogma.
I think this definitely aligns w also a major confusion most people have and is intentionally insidious when opportunistically manipulated by Dems. Trans liberation always means universal healthcare. The right for any human to have full sovereignty and health over their body that we currently do not have. As far as a political movement with actionable demands, this stands by and large as the biggest and central tenet and demand of trans liberation as an effective political movement.
Most people are confused about what a trans person even is and subsequently don't particularly care about any opposition to trans people's existence. But if universal healthcare can be championed as the demand and desire of trans people at large, unity can be created with even the bulk of the middle masses confused about trans people.
It's difficult concept because it implies that freedom requires a community of eager participation, rather than a freedom afforded in a sterile alienating market.
How do you convey to an American that "freedom" is more synonymous with "family" than "independence"?
