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   Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 29-Aug-2025 00:09:20 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

   Thanks, all. My answer is Yes.

   Sometimes people present a false dilemma where there's only enough justice and human rights for one group of people, so you have to pick which one gets rights and justice, and which one gets nothing.

   This particular question (trans rights vs. Palestinian survival) was presented by some people during the 2024 US presidential election, when both questions were very much on the line. It's a false dilemma; all people deserve rights and justice.

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     rndeon (rndeon@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 29-Aug-2025 02:38:54 JST rndeon

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     @evan thanks for the explanation. I did not even think of the US election as an example, because here in Ottawa there was some drama just this weekend around the pride parade being stopped and eventually cancelled. In that case, the demand presented was kind of the opposite of what you were worrying about: either everyone expresses solidarity for both things, or no one will be allowed to express solidarity.
     That case has more going on than this short summary, but it is an interesting connection

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 03:29:00 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     Also, I'm sorry that this poll went up on the day of the MN shooting. It has been a hard couple of days of transphobia, and this unrelated poll may have seemed like a weird commentary. It was not; sorry for any confusion.