Please listen to the audio as the written part doesn’t fully capture what she said and why she said it. This is also in a post Ali made from friend Janet at her blog which I will link below. Janet is an amazing woman and I enjoy reading her blog. But AOC mentioned what this is about is targeting people who do not fit the people on the right view of who looks like a man to them or who looks like a woman to them.
Also Johnson said this was not a hardship for McBride as she could use all the public bathrooms or I guess they have private bathrooms in their offices? Well why couldn’t Mace also do the same or use her own bathroom rather than making the spectacle and forcing all trans people to be targeted with suspicion from people. She was the only one complaining? Well if he told her that they couldn’t make a big deal of it, Johnson wouldn’t be able to push his Christian cred and Mace wouldn’t be able to carry on for a week on a crusade against someone not harming her in any way. Hard to fund raise off a threat that doesn’t exist unless they can make it seem like one. Hugs.
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Thanks Scottie. I appreciate you bringing attention to this issue. Blessings.
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Hi Janet. Thank you for the blessings. I believe strongly in the rights of marginalized minority groups that harm no one and just want to live their lives openly enjoying the same benefits as everyone else. Trans peoples rights are human rights. All the LGBTQ+ matter and should have equal standing and support from the group. Harm to one is harm to all. I think exposure and education about who gay people are, friends and family members. Your doctor, favorite server, beloved movie / TV person. Once people realized we were not the monsters that the fundamentalist religious people were pushing about us, then attitudes changed dramatically. Remember that Anita Bryant was a fundamentalist Christian fighting against the immorality of homosexuality to save the children.
These people are trying the same tactics against trans people, using the same horrible lies. So we must do what we did then. We must be aggressive and vocal in promoting trans people, showing how trans people are normal people trying to live their lives to the fullest extent possible while enjoying the same rights as everyone else. We must take the narrative back from the hateful bigots. They are succeeding because of how loud they are where they drown out the rest of our voices. We must not allow that. We must be as loud and louder, we must counter their hate with the facts that trans people are our family members, our children, our brothers or sisters, our doctors, our friends, and that they are among us with no issues or problems, except the ones the right wants to cause and make.
That is my goal. I will be that voice because I am safe where many trans people are not and I don’t want them to take the risk. I can, I can be the voice they need … but I will need their help, your help! I am gay and I understand that. I am cis not trans so the entire trans experience I don’t have or fully grasp. So maybe along with being a voice, the best thing I can do to help trans people is to listen to trans people every chance I get. Starting with you. Thank you for helping me understand. Hugs
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