One of the core tenets of liberalism is social rights and equality, so a noticeable shift like this is important to document and understand, as to reverse it and to know how to do activism and policy for it going forward.
I also think it’s just a crazy perspective shift that a decade ago Trump himself condemned a trans bathroom bill whereas now they have majority support among all voters.
MontusBatwing2 on
The majority of the electorate doesn’t know what a transgender person *is.*
I don’t think Democrats need to change their positions because I don’t think voters care about trans issues very much. This type of backlash was an inevitable result of the gains trans people made in the prior decades, and we can likely just ride it out.
Somehow_alive on
This turn in public opinion seems to be a genuine case of successful conservative persuasion, seeing as there has opened a clear rift between the public’s attitude towards gay people (staying high) versus trans people (getting more negative). There is no generalized anti-LGBT backsliding or backlash, the issue is far more specific.
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One of the core tenets of liberalism is social rights and equality, so a noticeable shift like this is important to document and understand, as to reverse it and to know how to do activism and policy for it going forward.
I also think it’s just a crazy perspective shift that a decade ago Trump himself condemned a trans bathroom bill whereas now they have majority support among all voters.
The majority of the electorate doesn’t know what a transgender person *is.*
I don’t think Democrats need to change their positions because I don’t think voters care about trans issues very much. This type of backlash was an inevitable result of the gains trans people made in the prior decades, and we can likely just ride it out.
This turn in public opinion seems to be a genuine case of successful conservative persuasion, seeing as there has opened a clear rift between the public’s attitude towards gay people (staying high) versus trans people (getting more negative). There is no generalized anti-LGBT backsliding or backlash, the issue is far more specific.