I expect democrats to protect trans people about about as much as they protected Roe v Wade
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE WHO GET KILLED IN EVERY GENOCIDE
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE GETTING GENOCIDED IN PALESTINE
STOP THINKING ONLY WESTERN QUEERS MATTER
STOP THINKING ONLY WESTERN QUEERS EXIST
EVERY GENOCIDE KILLS QUEERS
QUEER PEOPLE ARE IN EVERY GROUP EVEN IF YOU DON’T SEE THEM
YES EVEN IN GROUPS OF “THE STRAIGHTS” OR “THE CIS” IT’S CALLED CLOSETING
seriously white queer genocidal takes are really pissing me off. Don’t let our communities be twisted to supporting this vile bloodshed.
If anybody in the US, I pray that you vote blue in local/state elections. National, I really don’t care, they can all be as equally as shitty. However, I am *barely *able to hold custody because I’m trans and in a Republican state. Yeah, America is starting to enter straight Nazi territory. But the Republicans are unapologetic fascists. I don’t particularly care about federal elections, they are jokes. But I could not look my nephew in the eye and tell him I didn’t vote dem to keep him in my home because “republicans are just as evil” while him and I literally have to live the consequences of the local Republicans weighing down on us every day. It’s a minor fight I ultimately have no real weight in, but I’d still rather put all my weight forward for these kids.
Edit: Wanna say I’m not anti anti-electoralism. There were many ways on foreign policy that Trump was objectively better than Biden. On one hand, Trump’s crazy brand of right wing isn’t particularly special. However, within the rest of America it breeds more people who want to be like him. Normal America won’t suffer too much under modern republicans, but we’re seeing trans and queer people not just being discriminated against, but fully targeted within these far right states under Trump era republicans. I’m willing to put myself on the line for anything, I’m willing to put my entire next 10 years on pause to adopt a child who needed me this week. However, I also have an autistic (non-verbal, in life skills classes, the likelihood of him not depending on his parents is very low) 7 year old who can’t have major shifts in his schedule for stability reasons. Maybe it is selfish, but I’m willing to read about stuff that will provide positive change to his life and stop reading after that, and just support him before there’s anything whispering in my ear over it. I’ll keep digging on other things for months, but if it’s going to change the life of someone that I can’t expect to understand the change, I’ll just leave it there and support my little guy. I truly think 99.9 percent of parents would feel the same way.
I’ll explain literally anything that I think they’re able to handle in adult words. My foster son’s mom just got arrested for meth and crossing state lines while out on bond. At BEST, she’s gonna get a year of prison and 3+ years of probation. I explained that to my foster kiddo, just telling him that his Mom is going to be in prison/time out for a long but, but she’ll have to take drug tests very often so she’ll probably be sober for a while when she comes out. He understood that and started smiling and giggling because he knows he loves his mom when she’s not on every drug she can get. I think these two stories properly sum up exactly why I value stability so much. I’d be more than willing to participate in a revolution or even a shitty revolt that went no where. But I would need to be 1000 percent sure that it would provide some stability to the children I care for, who have already seen so much instability within their lives. If it were just me, I would just lean into my beliefs 100 percent and eat the consequences. But as a parent? I’m willing to start trading quite a bit, more than I even should be able to trade, to guarantee his stability. Maybe my decisions are right, maybe they aren’t. But that’s up to my children decide when they grow up to be adults, not me.
