Doc Impossible
One thing I guess I want to explain, especially in light of this week's SGW:
Why am I so relentlessly optimistic about the long term for trans rights, lives, and futures, despite how shitty and awful the backlash against us is these days?
It really comes down to demographics and rhetoric. Like, root and stem.
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Doc Impossible
The net of all of this is that the right is facing a reality where identity politics are failing more by the year, and they really don't have anything else in the tank.
Either they win now and fundamentally change the system, or it's game over for them.
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Doc Impossible
As time passes, the people who most oppose queer and trans rights are dying, and now they're dying fast. They're being replaced by people on the opposite end of the political spectrum.
And we have absolutely no reason to believe that trans and queer folks will ever go back into the closet.
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Doc Impossible
There's a myth that people vote more conservatively as they age, and it's bullshit. There's some rightward drift as folks become wealthier, but in general for the last several centuries the median political position on everything has drifted slowly to the left.
And our current economic inequality is only exacerbating the leftwsrd tilt of young voters, who are wildly poorer than prior generations.
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Doc Impossible
Over 20% of Gen Z is queer and out about it, and the numbers are rising every goddamned year.
Stop and think about that. *Twenty fucking percent*. One in five. And good data suggests that better than one in twenty Gen Zers are trans and out. And that group votes almost exclusively on the left.
Absolutely no political ANYTHING wins, long term, by attacking a demographic that votes as a bloc.
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