Stop telling trans people they have to vote for anti-trans Democrats. Stop telling them they’ll be responsible for the fall of democracy unless they do.
I’ve been thinking a lot about something @nome.bsky.social posted to Bluesky on Sept. 15: “I do not understand the folks furious at trans people for responding in anguish when the party that they’ve been told would protect them treats their existence as negotiable,” he wrote. “I do not understand thinking trans folks have political power and responsibility where candidates have none.”
In other words, if you’re mad and want to yell at someone, channel your anger toward the campaigns of anti-trans Democrats. Tell them democracy depends on them not being anti-trans.
No. Or at least not so much that it determines their vote. But Democratic centrists see a 70% issue as a toss up and fail to understand that the passionately anti-trans voters were never going to vote for them in the first place. The guy who just sort of feels weird about trans women almost certainly has other issues that actually matter to them that they will prioritize above it.
We saw the same thing with gay marriage. Democratic centrists wouldn’t support it until it was basically a forgone conclusion.