In the face of ‘eradication’, one trans activist is preparing to fight – and she’s sick of silence and neglect from her supposed allies. Raquel Willis tells Io Dodds why Republican bathroom bans are everybody’s problem

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Democrats were pretty cool about protecting trans people. But thanks to non-voters and $hill Stein voters (along with tens of millions of “low information” Trumpledorks), Trump has all three branches of government at his disposal.

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Considering Democrats are now complaining that their protection of trans people cost them the election, I wouldn’t say they were all that cool to begin with. They use trans people as a political tool and then toss them aside the second it becomes inconvenient for them to support trans rights. Just look at how the Democrats have “defended” their newest trans colleague.

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Specific people in the Democratic Party have made those complaints. The party has not. Your comment is no different than stereotyping a group for the actions of individuals.

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Has the party as a whole done anything to say otherwise? Silence is a different kind of choice.

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Not really, like their supposed protection of black people their protection of trans people is contingent on how the minority behaves.

That’s not support, that’s blackmail.

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Not really, like their supposed protection of black people their protection of trans people is contingent on how the minority behaves.

“Behaves”?? You mean votes? Yeah it is contingent on how people vote. See gestures to everything

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No, behaves. Liberal darling Tim walz called the national guard on the Floyd protests long before any semblance of violence happened.

If any minority protests a Democrat, they go back to their kkk roots faster than you can say southern strategy.

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Were they, because they were a heck of a lot more anti-trans campaign ads from Democrats then some of y’all want to admit.

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Just hours after Willis’s interview with The Independent, House and Senate negotiators revealed a bipartisan compromise spending bill that would ban military health insurance from covering transition care for children. On Wednesday, 50 House Democrats who previously denounced that provision voted in favor, and key Senate Democrats said they would reluctantly back it too.

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What did they get in return?

It’s politics, they got something, what was it?

It doesn’t say? Huh. I wonder why.

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They got to fund the military.

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The problem with democrats is that they always hold progressive action overhead like a carrot. “Vote for us, we’ll establish trans rights/universal healthcare/codify roe v wade!”.

Then they don’t do it because they want to use it as a fundraising and election platform next go around. If they just did things when they had power people would be more willing to vote for them.

And yes, I know that there are Republicans and independents blocking progressive action. But that doesn’t excuse the DNC from doing what I described above as well as constantly shitting on popular progressive candidates.

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It’s crazy to see a party with a 3:1 fundraising advantage lose in a landslide and then blame the distant fourth place vote getter for the defeat.

Nobody seems to want to talk about how Democrats endorsed a genocide and how that may have shifted their popularity.

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When Kamala Harris was the AG for California she was forced to defend a lawsuit where a trans woman in prison for murder wanted the state to pay for reassignment surgery. I was told that by supporting Harris I was transphobic and I should just admit it.

Here’s what I’ll admit: trans people who didn’t support the Harris ticket as if their life depended on it fucked up.

Seriously, “fuck Democrats”? Okay Dude, I can see you don’t want to be cheered up - c’mon Donny let’s go get us a lane.

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The democrats did this to all of us. When you facilitate genocide for over two years, while calling the people protesting it violent antisemites, you lower voter turnout.

When you get elected by people who need healthcare, housing, and student loan relief, and you end covid protections, you lower voter turnout.

When you get elected by people expecting police reform and freeing the immigrant camps, and you increase deportations and endorse diverting covid funds to police budgets, you lower voter turnout.

When you get elected by promising to protect abortion, and then do fuckall even after the SCOTUS leaks their ruling early, you lower voter turnout.

Nobody except for the democrats had the power to change the outcome of this election. They had to chose between overwhelmingly popular policy and losing, and they chose to lose.

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if you don’t vote, you lose any right to complain about anything. non voters whinging about this can go fuck themselves

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This is a system with predictable effects. Blaming individual voters and assuring the DNC they learned their lesson and will vote next time does not increase voter turnout.

Our only hope within the democratic party is to support progressives and demonstrate that they do not have a conceivable path to victory if they don’t do what the base wants. Every bluemaga who spent 2 years shutting down any criticism helped the DNC maintain the delusion that they could win without doing what the base wants.

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Just wait for the next administration lol

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Voters: Not enough votes for Democrats, letting the people who want to convert trans people and make hormone therapy illegal and God knows what else come to power

Republicans: Hey now that we’re in power, we’re going to convert trans people and make hormone therapy illegal and God knows what else

Voters: You guys really fucked this one up, I can’t trust you

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How could Democrats do this??

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Literally this:

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They never really could. The Democratic party likes to claim issues like same sex marriage and trans rights as if they had anything to do with it. Same sex marriage had to be fought for in the courts during a democrat reign. They used trans rights as a big talking point for 2024 yet made little attempt to safeguard them during the previous 4 years. They ignore their base then take credit for all their accomplishments. They now use lgbt issues as an anchor to avoid promising any meaningful changes. It’s the same thing the Republicans have been doing with abortion. All I’m saying is, Bernie2028.

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It’s gotta be Alexandria Cortez. Bernie is just too old sadly. He’s healthy and fitter than the other candidates who are younger than him, but he’ll never win now. Our chance was 2016 and he got ratfucked.

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Did Democrats use trans rights as a big talking point for 2024?

Biden didn’t. Harris certainly didn’t. Walz gave one supportive sentence during the campaign.

Sherrod Brown and Collin Allred both ceded to bigoted Republican language.

None of these candidates won an election this year.

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