thank you for saying this - it’s definitely quashing much of the enthusiasm I have for yesterday’s results. A historic blue wave coinciding with continued restriction of our rights in states previously thought “safe” makes me think there will not be much resistance to continued jettisoning of trans rights from the Democratic party.
Yeah I want to be happy, and I am for a lot of places, Texas turning blue has the opportunity to reverse so many of their state level anti-trans laws, a bunch of trans candidates won in red state legislatures, and we had a good number of very vocal trans-allies win in the national elections. But its all very soured by the 4 anti-trans ballot measures that seem likely to pass, the election of extremely transphobic dems like turek and kaptur, and vocal transphobes like acton winning the governorship. The gains for trans rights in red states are exciting, but at the same time a lot of blue states had the opposite.
There is an under appreciation for how many Democrat voters are still white Christians, or in lesser numbers Muslims and immigrants who are conservative but recognize the Republicans as an existential threat. Much of the Blue wave is still people who were gullible enough to believe Trump and that mess but have remembered how to read and do math enough to recognize that the Republicans are hurting them personally and the US in general.
thank you for saying this - it’s definitely quashing much of the enthusiasm I have for yesterday’s results. A historic blue wave coinciding with continued restriction of our rights in states previously thought “safe” makes me think there will not be much resistance to continued jettisoning of trans rights from the Democratic party.
Yeah I want to be happy, and I am for a lot of places, Texas turning blue has the opportunity to reverse so many of their state level anti-trans laws, a bunch of trans candidates won in red state legislatures, and we had a good number of very vocal trans-allies win in the national elections. But its all very soured by the 4 anti-trans ballot measures that seem likely to pass, the election of extremely transphobic dems like turek and kaptur, and vocal transphobes like acton winning the governorship. The gains for trans rights in red states are exciting, but at the same time a lot of blue states had the opposite.
There is an under appreciation for how many Democrat voters are still white Christians, or in lesser numbers Muslims and immigrants who are conservative but recognize the Republicans as an existential threat. Much of the Blue wave is still people who were gullible enough to believe Trump and that mess but have remembered how to read and do math enough to recognize that the Republicans are hurting them personally and the US in general.