Explains why democrats have recently thrown trans people under the bus.
I don’t get why transgender rights are so damn controversial! I get that some people don’t understand it but you shouldn’t need to understand it to accept it. And when transphobes concerns are addressed and things are explained to them, they usually choose to keep being ignorant. Like I get that on the surface, it seems like trans women would have an advantage in sports. But when it’s explained that they don’t, transphobes just choose to keep believing they do. Transphobes say “facts don’t care about your feelings” but then ignore the facts because they just feel like it’s wrong
Yet theres no political coalition who isn’t ready to throw them under the bus for optics at every given chance. How many times are we gonna see over 70% of Americans agree on something that no lawmakers wish to do. Seems the big three right now are Trans Equality, Medicare 4 All, and Legal Weed. And we’ve had stats on those last two for over a decade. Democracy my ass.
We’re gonna keep seeing it until we dismantle the “2 party” system which thrives on culture war nonsense, while serving the interests of the billionaires and not the working class.
And, to be clear, we achieve that by changing local election laws to use some form of Rank Choice instead of First Past The Post.
The two party system is an organic result of FPTP voting. If we change to Rank Choice, the two party system will crumble.
Exactly this. Our ‘representatives’ are anything but and the dissonance we feel when learning about new and existing legislation proves who they are actually representing. Again, it’s not the majority they pretend to represent, just those willing to spend.
In my personal experience. Most people hold liberal beliefs when talking about people they directly know.
The trans person they know is fine. They are fine smoking pot. Their friend’s abortion was warranted. The immigrants they go to church with are lovely people.
If you ask even some of the worst MAGA idiots you know if their gay friend should be allowed to marry, they will agree more than you would expect.
Conservative media has created a barrier that allows them to hate groups in a way many would never do IRL.
The most frustrating thing for me is people refusing to apply their personal rules to the rest of society and vice versa. There are people who rely on social assistance while politically being against it. And will get abortions themselves whike politically being against it. They just refuse to recognize that if the thing was outlawed it would be outlawed for them too. They expect to be a special exception because their situation is different somehow
Okay, this comes on behalf of the HRC, and they note this is the methodology.
Data collection was conducted from February 20 through February 23, 2026 among a sample of 1,032 respondents. The survey was conducted via web (n=1,002) and telephone (n=30) and administered in English (n=1,005) and Spanish (n=27).
Already a pretty fucked ratio for the medium. The questions also never get specific about what “equality” entails. It’s very general “rights and protections”, “access to healthcare”, employment discrimination", and “discrimination in schools”. Nothing about bathrooms; nothing about gender-affirming care. Basically just “transgender people should be allowed to exist in society”.
I’m sure even people who make fun of transgender people behind their backs in a hushed tone would say that they deserve to be able to go to school.
SSRS is okay enough as pollsters go; I just don’t think this shows much of anything, because 85% of Americans might begrudgingly say trans people deserve to be able to see a doctor, but certainly 85% do not support actual healthcare trans people need. It’s not real equality; it’s at best a strictly egalitarian idea of equality where “well I can’t do it either (by my arbitrary definitions of “not using the opposite-sex bathroom” and “changing my primary sexual characteristics and/or hormones to those of the opposite sex”), so we’re equal,” is equality.
Yeah 80% the demo selection here is not representative of the population as a whole it doesn’t smell like, and I think a lot of people read the terms like equality very differently. Seems like it is possibly a pretty misleading survey.
Anyone see that video of PEDOnald asking the DoorDash driver about “men in women’s sports”?
I mean…his brain. WTAF. It’s really like he’s just the walking, talking version of Faux “News”.
Where was that 85% during the fucking election?
The cons effectively made it all about “men in women’s sports”, I bet.
And that’s something where things are nearly the exact opposite other way (80% against). So that’s why the conservatives harp on it.
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I know it’s now considered verboten to blame the voters, but what politician is going to be able to win on 20% of the vote?
This is exactly why the cons tried to make trans rights just only about things like “men in women’s sports” and then make Democrats defend a position only ~20% of the population supports.
Nothing about the % of Americans who think trans people should be able to play HS sports on their new gender.
Because that’s like 45%.
Or who think trans youth should have access to gender affirming care, which is similarly low.
And those are the issues that the GOP is hammering, because they know it.
We have to get the spotlight off these issues we got ahead of public perception and there is a cost for that - a whole generation of trans people denied rights (I am less interested in sports than I am gender affirming care, which is hugely important for trans youth).
You can see trans folks realizing this… like 1/2 of the plaintiffs for the sports case that made it to SCOTUS thought the suit should be dropped before it got that far, because they realized it was going to go the wrong way.
It’s time to be more strategic until/if the GOP gets out of power, so we stop kneecapping ourselves.
Awesome
Unfortunately they don’t mean what they should by “equality” because they can say that when denying us self expression or basic respect.
