Most Americans believe that it’s a “problem” that Republicans are transphobic.
A new YouGov poll asked Americans whether they thought that certain issues were a “problem” for either party. 44% said that transphobia was “a major problem” among Republicans, and another 24% said they thought it was “a minor problem.” Only 32% of respondents said it wasn’t a problem.
Transphobia was the second most likely issue to be labeled a problem by respondents, after “hostility toward immigrants.” “Tolerance of political violence,” “conspiracy thinking,” “white supremacy,” “homophobia,” and “fascism” followed closely behind.
Oddly, 40% of respondents said that “transgender ideology” was “a major problem” for Republicans, and another 20% said it was “a minor problem.” 41% said that they didn’t think it was a problem at all for Republicans.
I think your heart is in the right place but the practice isn’t. People award “stunning and brave” points just for being trans without further effort. Consider Elon’s daughter. She has done exactly nothing but people fawn over Vivian. It’s Caitlyn Jenner all over again except I feel like Bruce Jenner had negative karma that got erased instead of just getting benefit of the doubt.
I’m under no delusions about how difficult it is to be a trans person, I have ~5 friends who are trans and it doesn’t look easy. They are not in any context getting equal treatment though. They either get treated like something less than or something greater than just for the fact of being trans.
Functionally trans people are just people and that’s the whole point: they are a vast–and equivalent–minority being made a token group by everybody.
i live in boston area. you are totally correct, at least where i live… there is this movement and rich white liberal douchebags who want to turn every trans person into a martyr. every community group puts out calls to recruit trans folks because they want to prop them up and brag about how ‘inclusive’ they are, and what greater prize is there than a trans person, the most marginalized! It’s weird and fetishistic. Most of the people pushing this mindset are straight white college-educated people. A lot of trans people have their own groups, doing their own sports leagues, etc, and glad for it. They don’t wnat to be associated with the crazy fetishistic douches who want to fawn over them and ask them what their pronouns are every 5 minutes.
It’s just the new version of ‘i have a gay/black friend’ nonsense that went around a couple of decades ago.
I’ve known enough trans people in my life to know they are just people. I worked in theater and have been activity involved in community groups. Some of them are great, some of them are horrible human beings. Some of them are lovey dovey hippies, others are hate filled violent monsters and sexual predators. But in ignorant rich white liberal person land, trans people aren’t people, they are props to virtue signal to each other and lecture each other about ‘ignorance’.