Elijah 🏳️‍⚧️

Elijah 🏳️‍⚧️

@txtransguy.bsky.social

Just another trans Texan who knows we can do better

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Gonna go ahead and pin this to my profile for the rest of the election period Because I think it is very very important that people understand that they are right when it comes to the importance of voting Democrat right now AND trans people who cannot vote for dems who've committed to the

Elijah 🏳️‍⚧️@txtransguy.bsky.social

Look - I voted democrat. I do agree with you in most regards. But there is absolutely no way you would be saying any of this if you actually understood what this kind of shift would mean Because you would be too busy haranging these feckless hypocrits into standing by their principles Not this

People really need to understand something - the anti-trans maga propaganda that some dems have taken up is not & has never been about trans people We are not the primary target We are collateral damage in the goal of destroying trust in science and fact, disregarding our laws, & normalizing hate

THIS is why it is unacceptable to support democrats who are pushing anti-trans propaganda and lies. If THAT becomes normal in BOTH parties, then yes, our democracy will be dead within our generation. Mark my words.

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it feels truly insane that it’s not

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

I had no idea that Bill Corbett was as awesome and cool as childhood-me would have expected him to be Thank you, @billcorbett.bsky.social ♥️♥️♥️

Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

Same, re: watching Obama come out of retirement to campaign for the woman who's committed to abusing trans kids & dems around the country rushing to defend same said woman like their house is on fire while cheering on LITERAL CHILD ABUSE like goddamn sociopaths

Lydia 🥀@lydz.eurosky.social

Every day being trans feels like being in a crowd of people and someone is bullying you. Everyone stands around while you get bullied and when you ask for help they only laugh at you. Your heart sinks because every second more people laugh and you feel everyone is abandoning you.

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The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

erininthemorning.comDon’t Vote For The Worst Anti-Trans DemocratsThe Democratic Party should, and likely will, win big in the midterms. We must not send the worst anti-trans voices to join them.

Imagine posting something like this while running on taking vital healthcare away from trans people in your state

Josh Turek@joshturek4iowa.bsky.social

Like too many Iowans, my sister Ulette is fighting cancer. She’s also fighting her insurance company after they denied a scan to see if the cancer had spread. If you wonder how broken the healthcare system is, she is living proof. Watch one of our campaign’s closing ads:

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There are some people who claim "oh, Dems in blue states will never shift towards enacting anti-trans policy" Meanwhile Colorado is literally enacting a medical detransition protocol for trans youth on medicaid.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Rather than cover the cost of gender affirming care for trans youth under medicaid, Colorado is voluntarily enacting the republican "taper and detransition" policy for youth on medicaid and dropping coverage. WTF.

You know who helped bring holocaust denial back to mainstream politics? Terfs. Joanne "Kills Kids" Rowling. You know what "fringe issue" reasonable people were willing to consider, which ultimately grew into being a full-fledged fascist cult member? Trans rights. It's not a "culture war" -

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

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You know who helped bring holocaust denial back to mainstream politics? Terfs. Joanne "Kills Kids" Rowling. You know what "fringe issue" reasonable people were willing to consider, which ultimately grew into being a full-fledged fascist cult member? Trans rights. It's not a "culture war" -

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

This is THE issue that the far right has used to wedge their way back into power and prominence in American politics. Because it requires a total break from reality, and a comfort with treating people who are different like they're animals Dems who embrace anti-trans nonsense are dooming ALL of us

Gonna go ahead and pin this to my profile for the rest of the election period Because I think it is very very important that people understand that they are right when it comes to the importance of voting Democrat right now AND trans people who cannot vote for dems who've committed to the

Elijah 🏳️‍⚧️@txtransguy.bsky.social

Look - I voted democrat. I do agree with you in most regards. But there is absolutely no way you would be saying any of this if you actually understood what this kind of shift would mean Because you would be too busy haranging these feckless hypocrits into standing by their principles Not this

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So, don't ply trans people with condescending lectures or demeaning insults when they tell you why they're not voting for those democrats Don't assume that criticism or voicing our very justified and real concerns and alarm means that we aren't voting for those democrats GO TALK TO THOSE DEMOCRATS

I will like and support every post, comment, video, etc from any of my trans friends who will not be voting for democrats who've flipped on trans rights They have my full and unequivocal support Please give them yours Then go GIVE THEM A FUCKING REASON TO HAVE FAITH IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.

Gonna go ahead and pin this to my profile for the rest of the election period Because I think it is very very important that people understand that they are right when it comes to the importance of voting Democrat right now AND trans people who cannot vote for dems who've committed to the

Elijah 🏳️‍⚧️@txtransguy.bsky.social

Look - I voted democrat. I do agree with you in most regards. But there is absolutely no way you would be saying any of this if you actually understood what this kind of shift would mean Because you would be too busy haranging these feckless hypocrits into standing by their principles Not this

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that people communicate with each other, the damage that it's done in terms of general trust in expertise, academic research, and just how instrumental it was in manufacturing the hysteria surrounding critical race theory, have been more expansive and subtle in its reach.

It's the gateway to so many other aspects of this authoritarian bullsh*t that we've all been putting up. It rationalizes and reinforces the racist Christian nationalist, anti-intellectual, anti-education, anti-empathy, pro-brutality aspects of fascism. And it does literally nothing else.

Gonna go ahead and pin this to my profile for the rest of the election period Because I think it is very very important that people understand that they are right when it comes to the importance of voting Democrat right now AND trans people who cannot vote for dems who've committed to the

Elijah 🏳️‍⚧️@txtransguy.bsky.social

Look - I voted democrat. I do agree with you in most regards. But there is absolutely no way you would be saying any of this if you actually understood what this kind of shift would mean Because you would be too busy haranging these feckless hypocrits into standing by their principles Not this

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We would get a brief reprieve from the insanity of the maga cult in most ways, but all the while, that cancer would quietly but quickly grow & spread again. Hitting damaged systems, barely hanging on. Hitting any remaining health systems that are left. Removing the body's ability to fight back again

And that's all that this anti-trans movement ever has been: a cancer on society. But the most significant damages that have been done, in my limited opinion, has not really been to trans people Don't misunderstand me - they are destroying our lives But I'm saying that the damage done to the ways

Gonna go ahead and pin this to my profile for the rest of the election period Because I think it is very very important that people understand that they are right when it comes to the importance of voting Democrat right now AND trans people who cannot vote for dems who've committed to the

Elijah 🏳️‍⚧️@txtransguy.bsky.social

Look - I voted democrat. I do agree with you in most regards. But there is absolutely no way you would be saying any of this if you actually understood what this kind of shift would mean Because you would be too busy haranging these feckless hypocrits into standing by their principles Not this

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2 - trans people who are openly critical of dem politicians who've backtracked on trans rights leading-up to and during the election itself are can be but are not necessarily working *against* the democrat party, and holding leaders accountable is *LITERALLY* what democracy is supposed to look like

3 - and lastly, but maybe most importantly, it is vital to understand that capitulating to fascism in *any* form at this time would be something like having a surgeon intentionally extricate only 75% of a viciously malignant cancerous tumor, when removing it all can be done just as easily

Gonna go ahead and pin this to my profile for the rest of the election period Because I think it is very very important that people understand that they are right when it comes to the importance of voting Democrat right now AND trans people who cannot vote for dems who've committed to the

Elijah 🏳️‍⚧️@txtransguy.bsky.social

Look - I voted democrat. I do agree with you in most regards. But there is absolutely no way you would be saying any of this if you actually understood what this kind of shift would mean Because you would be too busy haranging these feckless hypocrits into standing by their principles Not this

continued efforts to eradicate trans people from society are also right These two things can both be true at the same time The inability to process nuance in public discourse is nothing new, but the levels of animosity it now produces - and so quickly - IS a part of the rise of American fascism

1 - this election is not comparable to the 2024 presidential election. Not logistically as an election, not in terms of likely outcomes, and not in terms of ideological belief. Trans people who aren't voting for democrats can be but aren't necessarily the same as those who didn't vote for Harris

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There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

Men who say the things that this milquetoast coward says about trans people usually turn out to be rapists Just a heads-up to any other Iowans that this ghoul decides to use for a photo op Almost definitely a sexual predator of some kind

Josh Turek@joshturek4iowa.bsky.social

Had so much fun meeting Iowans and celebrating America's 250th at America's Harvest Festival in Des Moines!

TENT- the transgender education network of Texas - is a wonderful organization, run by wonderful people who are exceptionally well-educated on trans issues and teaching about those issues I promise you, there is NO way on earth that they would ever do something as stupid as send those mailed flyers

& now that I've taken a closer look at what those flyers contain, it's just such highly skilled manipulation There ARE real educational resources in there that organizations like TENT use & they're all mashed together with insane lies in very deceptive ways Like, smart deceptive. Unusual for maga

I'm kinda glad that the maga cult remains doggedly unaware that, yes, actual leftists do exist, that they hate democrats more than they do, and the centrist democrats hate communists more than anyone in maga ever will (...bc they actually understand what it means, mostly, where maga does not)

If any of them had any idea just how much they have in common with the other Just how much libertarians and anarchists share a deep-seeded faith in the individual's ability to be a good and moral person Just how expansive the dreams are of people still working to fix/create functioning systems

I'm just so tired of watching 'progressives' rush to the defense of a successful adult woman to talk about how horrible it is to exploit the abuse of children for political gain while they just ignore or cheer that same woman when she pledges to maintain maga policies that abuse children

Being trans doesn't mean that they deserve abuse & I can't imagine how they must be processing these events To see just how capable people are of speaking out and taking action against child abuse...but only to defend the adult who had pledged to abuse *them*. I just wish I could hug all of them

You know, it's funny But this is also at least *one* indication that she knows that she's wrong We're not better than her because we have money and power. That's her We're better than she is - and always will be - because we have facts, reality, and medical science on our side. And she knows it

Dr. Catherine Strickson@brigitteempire.bsky.social

Billionaire living in a castle calls minority group she is paying hundreds of thousands of pounds of her own money to legislate out of existence ‘elitist’

Some advice? Live your life in such a way that you *don't* prove your horrible, abusive mother right. Amy Acton IS a liar. And she lies in ways that hurt innocent people to get a gd job. But she just lies about trans people. So that's okay, right? It's okay for those kids to be abused, right?

Xela Hart@xelahart.bsky.social

There is actually something deeply wrong with the way dems keep glazing candidates who've embraced maga bigotry like talarico It's one thing to struggle against the insanity of maga I have no idea how to fight against this stone-cold idiocy and hypocrisy from people who claim they're against maga

Xela Hart@xelahart.bsky.social