What Democrats Are Getting Wrong About Transgender Rights

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95. I'm not fixated on a problem that doesn't exist, but rights that may exist whether exercised or not

I’ll agree that ignoring it didn’t work. So I’ll ask, if you have no Time Machine and no solution how is your focus anything but trying to get us to be less “extreme” about trans rights. I don’t think of trans rights as something where you only need to worry about what has happened. Legal rights often extend further than regularly exercised. I already said the best way to combat this is to focus on real situations. It’s you that wants a response to a legal hypothetical and a legal response as easy as saying it’s not happening. Also, I am guessing there is at least one transgender immigrant prisoner. They are just not getting tax payer funded surgery. There is no facile response I can think of that isn’t just misdirection. I have said I agree with your messaging going forward with trans issues in general. I disagreed that it would work in the historical context you want it to. I thought we were getting closer to talking directly at each other, but it seems we are back at the start. I do think you are right about a lot of this. I guess we just disagree about the effects of civil rights and the danger of denying even hypothetical ones. Maybe I was just bristling at the notion of “extreme” trans rights as that word is often a shoehorn for pulling back rights, the right wings pendulum swung to far left bs. As if we ever had too many civil rights for marginalized people.