if you care about software freedom, then you must care about the well-being of the software maintainers who have dedicated themselves to the effort.

many of the maintainers solving the hardest problems in FOSS, from graphics, to the new cloud-native paradigm, are either trans, or have friends/family who are trans.

as previously stated, to care about software freedom brings the obligation to care about the well-being of these maintainers.

attacks on the trans community are *also* an attack on a subset of the FOSS community's maintainers.

therefore, to support attacks on the trans community, by spreading alt-right propaganda, by voting Republican, is directly equivalent to supporting attacks on FOSS maintainers.

if you support software freedom, and you support the well-being of the maintainers, the people bringing *you* that software freedom, then you *must* reject these attacks on the trans community.

i was going to write a longer post on my blog, but i don't have the words at the moment.