Everyone is too busy being angry to click the little gear icon.

“You find something about modern leftism annoying so you must be a trumper now”

No. Congrats on being the first person in this thread to look like a complete ass.

The kind of self awareness you’re showing is something we could all benefit from.

I agree wholeheartedly. I firmly believe that there are a lot of young people suddenly realizing they’re trans, that likely wouldn’t be if not for sophisticated and well funded psychological warfare operations by rival nation states.

This is not a reason to turn our backs on vulnerable trans folks. They deserve the right to be safe and heard. But we also need to address the fact that somehow this tiny minority simply existing has driven national political dialogues right off the fucking rails. And for what? The left and right going to war over this hyper-niche issue does nothing but further endanger trans folks and prevent meaningful discourse on far more relevant topics.

I appreciate this. Thanks. Honestly the other reason I’m not organizing much these days is because I’m busy making my material conditions better. Also being in a union feels like a praxis of its own, with surprisingly less bullshit than other forms of organizing. Who knows, maybe the next four years will see me back in it.

Don’t worry, my ideology is cemented. I’m not a kid experimenting with political thought, Ive been at it for decades. I’m just saying I don’t mesh well with the modern left because gender identity politics have co-opted all of those ideologies to their core. I know exactly what my political ideology is, it just lives in hermitage now.

This is part of why the hard left, or at least the current version of it, has basically lost me. I firmly support the right of trans and queer folks to exist in the same relative peace and safety as everyone else, but in todays lefty political spaces you’re not allowed to disagree with what a trans person says without being transphobic. You can’t criticize a trans person for their shit takes or bad behavior without being transphobic. I even had a years long friendship end because raising the issue of a clear mental health episode involving paranoid delusion unrelated to their transition or transness made me a “dangerous transphobe”. This person had of course been hospitalized for self harm and major mental heath issues prior, and a desire to keep them safe was “transphobic”

Transphobia is bad. Trans exceptionalism is also bad.