Being able to be open about your identity is very important to trans people. This is an important element of people’s lives, insofar that even in the face of rejection by traditional society we tend to come out and just face the consequences of it - yes, that includes, for many, rejection by their families, housing and food insecurity, and many other things that are, in effect, downstream of the impacts of lack of acceptance. That’s the very reason why it’s so important to us. We make the conscious decision to seek acceptance knowing it is futile and in most cases results in these things. It’s spitting in the face of trans rights movements to try to insinuate that they should simply pretend to be someone else if it means getting food or shelter.
For most of us, that was already an option that we threw out because the cost was too great. To see people argue on our behalf that we should simply take a backseat so we can eat? Fuck that, we’ll figure it out ourselves if that’s supposed to be the cost.
People who don’t eat or have shelter quickly don’t figure anything out.
They die.
Regardless of identity, some things are universal to the human condition.
I’m also not against a politician celebrating LGBTQ culture. Im completely for it.
…As long as their voting record doesn’t stand directly against their interests, and instead align with their claimed advocacy and you probably know problems like homelessness disproportionately effect LGBTQ individuals.
And any person with a home and a bed saying any people without a home and a bed shouldn’t be the priority is kind of a monster first, and their identity second.
It’s clear that you care plenty about this stuff, I don’t think all that was meant as a disparaging thing.
But you shouldn’t paint gay rights movements as being a boondoggle inherently tied to liberal policy. It’s (presumably unintentionally) insulting, and definitely paints the picture that you don’t care, or that you’d rather side with someone that didn’t give a shit about us.
Yes.
Being able to be open about your identity is very important to trans people. This is an important element of people’s lives, insofar that even in the face of rejection by traditional society we tend to come out and just face the consequences of it - yes, that includes, for many, rejection by their families, housing and food insecurity, and many other things that are, in effect, downstream of the impacts of lack of acceptance. That’s the very reason why it’s so important to us. We make the conscious decision to seek acceptance knowing it is futile and in most cases results in these things. It’s spitting in the face of trans rights movements to try to insinuate that they should simply pretend to be someone else if it means getting food or shelter.
For most of us, that was already an option that we threw out because the cost was too great. To see people argue on our behalf that we should simply take a backseat so we can eat? Fuck that, we’ll figure it out ourselves if that’s supposed to be the cost.
People who don’t eat or have shelter quickly don’t figure anything out.
They die.
Regardless of identity, some things are universal to the human condition.
I’m also not against a politician celebrating LGBTQ culture. Im completely for it.
…As long as their voting record doesn’t stand directly against their interests, and instead align with their claimed advocacy and you probably know problems like homelessness disproportionately effect LGBTQ individuals.
And any person with a home and a bed saying any people without a home and a bed shouldn’t be the priority is kind of a monster first, and their identity second.
It’s clear that you care plenty about this stuff, I don’t think all that was meant as a disparaging thing.
But you shouldn’t paint gay rights movements as being a boondoggle inherently tied to liberal policy. It’s (presumably unintentionally) insulting, and definitely paints the picture that you don’t care, or that you’d rather side with someone that didn’t give a shit about us.