So the Blue Wave did not impress radical leftist trans folks on tumblr, of course.  Some of the blues that got elected had supported transphobic policies during the election cycle, and multiple transphobic laws were passed in various states.  Big ‘but’ inbound.

Opposing gay marriage helped boost the rethuglicans for a minute early this millennium, then turned against them at a later stage in the discourse.  In the same midterm, like three trans women were elected, including in deeply conservative areas.  Shit can change in a hurry, for good or ill.

One of these doomy tumblr gals going by something like “transfeminist-separatism” was already yelling about how we’re doomed doomed doomed by these results.  It’s a long way out of hell, sure, but that is the wrong takeaway.  Worse, this is pointed at a hope-starved demographic known for high rates of suicide.

What’s the proposal, sister?  Get your girls together to squat in a tenement?  Spend the rest of your life commiserating about how everyone hates you and wants you dead, when you got millions of potential allies outside your door?  Tell lonely vulnerable people that staring into the abyss is the only possible future for them?

That’s the path of mass suicide.  Not gonna help our public image, I gotta say.  That matters to those of us who plan to still be here when shitler isn’t.  Fucking stop it, thanks.

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