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Glad Pete is telling us he's willing to throw trans kids under the bus before he makes a run for president in 2028. Fuck him. Liberals aren't your friends.
That is not throwing anybody under the bus. The issue is so overblown, for political noise issues, mainly to influence voters, I guess.
It is an issue, like bathroom use, and I think they are not easy, but they are blips in the challenges trans people face, like Healthcare, etc.
Usual distractions.
How is the bathroom thing not easy?
You're correct that it's actually a non-issue: trans people are a ridiculously small minority, most Americans who don't live in a city have probably never met a trans person, yet the entire nation has been whipped into frenzied "debate" about fairness in sports, bathroom needs, and other very unserious issues.
The answers are also very obvious. No trans person has ever dominated a sport, otherwise you'd have heard about this. The actual problem with hormones in sports is rampant steroid abuse, trans issues distract from that. Likewise, just have unisex private bathrooms. Treating humans like indistinguishable cattle is already a problem.
None of this, however, relates to the issue of Mayor Pete. Politicians don't really "raise issues" from their constituents, not primarily anyway. They raise issues from their donors, and they shape public discourse with what they draw attention to. Buttigieg could support trans people with a word and move on to real issues. He could ignore trans people and call out Republicans for distracting people. He could do so many things, but he chooses to focus on this. It can't be ignored that he's a gay man also. The intent here is to further wedge between LGB and T.
The ruler class has been working overtime on this for years, because breaking the solidarity of LGBTQ+ people destroys an important progressive bloc held together by shared oppression. If you convince male gays that lesbians and trans people are making too much noise and drawing bad attention, you can split them up and push the whole lot of us back into the closets.
These issues aren't isolated concerns that operate as pure distractions. They're various fronts in the class war; you can't ignore a flanking maneuver as a "distraction" while the cavalry runs rampant over you.
Divide and conquer Pete
Well... One percent means most people HAVE met trans people, whether or not they know it.
Oh God, another one
So, as opposed to what? Trump?