Mastodawn

About trans rights:

They're a wedge issue. If you think it's okay to deprive trans people of the right to exist in the public sphere then you're saying human rights are conditional and/or can be withdrawn. Which puts you on a slippery slope to no human rights for anyone.

When you trace the roots of the modern anti-trans movement they boil down to some combination of bigotry and billionaire bullshit— the oligarchs think rights are for the rich.

So: trans-rights are human rights. No exceptions.

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Imp Aerial

@cstross Well, personally, I don't think "rights" exist as anything other than a narrative tool that attempts to legitimize the use of state power and in that sense are pure ideology that re-routes liberatory efforts back into a captive mindset. I can certainly understand why one would pursue such protections if they were a truly existing protection for people but at this point I can only see "rights" - trans or otherwise -as a red herring.