Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion.
That’s always how it works: Target a small group to put a crack in the universality of protections. Use that crack to tear down protections for larger groups. Protecting small minority groups helps us all. Abandoning them hurts us all.
This is how fascism works. I agree. We have to realize that although these groups are the immediate target, it’s not really a matter of trans rights, and then women’s rights, and gay rights, and so on. It’s human rights. If these groups lose rights, everyone loses rights. So fighting for them shouldn’t be left to the groups that are immediately in the firing line. Everyone needs to defend their rights.
That’s always how it works: Target a small group to put a crack in the universality of protections. Use that crack to tear down protections for larger groups. Protecting small minority groups helps us all. Abandoning them hurts us all.
This is how fascism works. I agree. We have to realize that although these groups are the immediate target, it’s not really a matter of trans rights, and then women’s rights, and gay rights, and so on. It’s human rights. If these groups lose rights, everyone loses rights. So fighting for them shouldn’t be left to the groups that are immediately in the firing line. Everyone needs to defend their rights.