"Don't trust the liberals, they will betray you!"
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i guess that trans people weren't "abandoned" by liberals if liberals weren't by their side from the start
They 100% abandon us regularly. They don't believe in trans rights, much less trans liberation, and have never fought for either. They use our struggle to exist as an advertisement for whatever election is going on at the time.
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They 'support' trans people in superficial ways and then turn on them the moment they see it as expedient.
I noticed something similar. Mamdani's success in New York was largely attributed to him focusing on economic issues, not cultural ones. I'm not american, so I cannot speak to that, but anecdotally, in my circles alot of people started to adopt that kind of rhetoric pretty openly: Social Justice needs to wait until we get Economic Justice. I feel the key failure is to see both as seperate entities. I agree that focusing economic issues is a winning strategy, but it is not either or. Social Justice is Economic Justice. Alot of my Queer Comerades have been very vocal about this from the start, and now they are told to hold back, because it is no longer opportune to support them vocally. It breaks my heart honestly
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They only ever support trans people with empty words, so when they turn on them it's more subtle. Look at Talarico's "men shouldn't be in women's sports" for a recent example.
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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