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)