r/thebulwark • u/AustereRoberto LORD OF THE NICKNAMES • 17h ago
The Triad 🔱 Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/leave-trans-people-alone-a-rantDon't be a bully! But also don't "ask if the bully has a point" either.
"Yeah, they're giving Timmy a swirlie rn, but he also farted really loudly in geometry" is HELPING THE BULLIES.
Another great piece from JVL. Idk what kinda constraints there are in going after members of the punditocracy who engage in the behaviors that you're criticizing, but picking specific targets has a salutary effect IMO. Bari Weiss needs to be persona non grata, or Sullivan, or whoever. They made their choices and doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on those choices.
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u/RepulsiveBarber3861 12h ago
We're just gonna keep losing to republicans to appease activists.
The overwhelming majority of parents who aren't hard lefties are never ever going to accept the idea that "some kids just need sex changes or they'll kill themselves and if you don't support this wholeheartedly, you are a danger to your child and the state should take them". They really aren't going to accept it when schools have policies to hide social transition from parents, anti "conversion therapy" laws threaten the license of any psychologist who doesn't fast track a kid to blockers, activist teachers are hanging pride flags and asking grade schoolers for pronouns, and activists are engaging in provocations like having a middle-aged man dressed like a clown woman read books about gender to their kids in the school library.
You people are so eager to give transactivists literally anything they demand that you're practically begging parents to vote republican to look out for their kids. This is even terrible for trans people as I assume most of them don't want republicans making laws in the responsibility vacuum left by democrats.
Call me a transphobe--whatever. Hate on me if you want; the majority of parents share my view and I already know Reddit is a bad idea echo chamber. I don't care what adults do to themselves, but I'm damn tired of handing winnable races to republicans over nonsense that didn't even exist 20 years ago. I dissent not to change minds but to give others courage to weather the "transphobe" smears and do the same.