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[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1- Voting against trans rights isn't the only type of transphobic behavior and getting people to vote in favor of trans rights won't fully get rid of transphobia.

We need laws to protect people who are trans from trans phobic behaviors and laws. Voting is how you accomplish that.

2- It seems like you're the one that's not understanding, if you focused less on tone policing and more on reading you'd see that their response makes perfect sense to yours, the tone doesn't change or erase that.

I’m not policing. I’m suggesting a strategy to actually accomplish goals. Being aggressive towards people isn’t going to help even if the aggression is justified.

3- Nobody who wasn't transphobic to begin with needs to be convinced to not be it, queer people don't need to perform niceness in order for them to deserve rights and presentability politics is the devil's advocate of bigotry.

This is how I know you didn’t actually read what I wrote, because. I explicitly said that the bigots can’t be turned and that people have every right to be angry over transphobia.