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Don't US Liberals abandon Transgender people repeatedly? (lemmygrad.ml)
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I had previously been under the impression that in the U.S. the Liberal Democrats keep abandoning trans people. Especially around the 2024 election where they explicitly blamed them for losing the election. Despite the key concern being economic issues.

But It's actually hard for find any evidence for this, I know they haven't accomplished queer goals in the U.S. but I thought there was a more obvious examples of the contradiction for queer people.

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[–] 17 points 5 days ago* (3 children)

They are definitely one of the groups of people most easily cast aside for being “too noisy” and “too political” which makes it “difficult to build coalitions”.

A good chunk of libs are also the on the Radfem spectrum.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I realize that by saying "radfem" you're referring to TERFs but I, as a trans radfem, feel the need to clarify:

    1. TERFs aren't feminists, never mind radical feminists, so calling them either is inaccurate.
    2. Radical Feminism was at its conception trans-inclusive and remains so; TERFism is a fringe ideology and has never dominated radfem spaces at any point in time, anywhere, ever, period despite TERF belief to the contrary.
    3. Liberals are Liberal Feminists at best, and the problem with Liberal Feminism is that it operates on the same flawed vibes-based logic as any other Liberal ideology.
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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Just for a little context, I'm Brazillian and here, TERF doesn't roll off the tongue, so we usually call them Radfems or Rads.

    But we usually mean that, Rads = TERFs, even if it's a misnomer.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago

    I get it. Technically even in English TERF doesn't work because there are actual radical feminists that are trans-exclusive but they're such a fringe minority that barely anyone knows they exist, while the people who get the TERF label are basically synonymous with the "Gender Critical" folks who don't have a shred of feminism in their ideology at all.

    Both vile and transphobic but one is more like a strand of revisionism within radical feminism rather than something entirely different.

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