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Tamara ⭐

@sparveria.bsky.social

Aerospace/Software Engineer, Perpetual Student. Opinions are my own and probably wrong.

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Tamara ⭐@sparveria.bsky.social · 4d ago

The blaming of trans people (and other marginalized groups) for the loss of past and future elections feels like nothing but kayfabe to deflect from the notion that "winning" said elections never seems to be the Democratic candidates' primary goal.

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · last wk.

...Assumption #4 has been driving me batshit, yet no one seems to realize it: if you're worried trans ppl might potentially harm your Dem candidate's chances, then YOUR CANDIDATE MADE A BAD DECISION! so why not join us in trying to get them to reverse position? juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

screenshot from linked-to essay that reads: Assumption #4: The elephant in the room that no one is talking about There is a striking disconnect between Talarico, Turek, et al. — who have clearly made a political calculation that abandoning trans rights will help them more than it will hurt them in this election — and the many cisgender liberals I’ve encountered online who are absolutely freaking out over the possibility that trans people’s critiques and protests will ultimately tank said candidates. Both of these things cannot simultaneously be true! If you think your favorite candidate enacted the correct political strategy, then there is no reason to berate trans people for protesting it, as those protests should already be baked into your candidate’s calculations. So why are you berating trans people then? (Unless, of course, you enjoy berating trans people just for the sake of it.) Alternatively, if you think trans people *are* capable of tanking your favorite candidate via our criticisms and protests, doesn’t that imply that your candidate (and their consultants and strategists) totally fucked up in their political calculations here? And if they did fuck up, shouldn’t you be reaching out and complaining to *them* (rather than berating trans people), in the hope that they might reverse their bad decision?
Corinne Green@ket.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧵i'm in twitter jail so bsky gets my NDAA yells. biden will sign the 1st ever federal healthcare ban. the natl party is transphobic to the core. here's the sen vote color coded w/ just bullshit i already had at hand. i screamed this was happening and i am never fucking wrong. 1/15

85-14 vote count on the ndaa with trans funding ban with some color coding on particularly egregious dems