If You Joined The GOP But Don’t Hate Queer People...
Historians Will Have A Word For You
Do queer lives matter? If so, why don’t we act like it?
In 2016, sixty-three million people, complacently or enthusiastically or ignorantly, aligned themselves with transphobia.
In 2020, seventy-four million people aligned themselves yet again with the same candidate and political party that spent the last four years making their positions toward women, queer people, and people of color as blinding as a red-colored sky.
What the **** happened?
Almost no one hates trans people, at least not in the way we talk about hate as a hateful impact based on hateful intentions. People take actions that have a harmful and often deadly impact toward trans people, but those actions aren’t usually motivated by hate.
They also aren’t usually motivated by the internalized transphobia everyone struggles to overcome — even trans people.
Baskets of deplorable queer haters
Remember that famous “baskets of deplorables” comment? Often quoted but just-as-often misrepresented, the remark argued that people voting for the GOP weren’t doing so because they supported GOP…
