2026-11-04 21:06 UTC
There's one other thought I had, that I couldn't make fit into Bluesky's 300-character boxes.
I wrote this post, with intentionally provocative language, before the election. I think this frame is still useful. "Wedge strategies". What we saw last night was that Republicans failed to use trans people as a wedge against Democrats. But they *succeeded* in using trans minors as a wedge against trans people in general. (1/3)
I'm gonna try to word this carefully.
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@mcc@mastodon.social 2026-11-04 21:07
We can't, ever, abandon trans children. We can't accept the Democratic Party compromise of "ok, you trans freaks can do whatever it is you're doing, but you can't have childhoods". But we also shouldn't let transphobes claim a bigger win than they actually got. Especially not in our own heads. They did this via a cheat. A trick. They distracted the cishets by talking about "kids" and "sports". They can't go about what they want openly yet, not quite. That's important. (2/3)