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Please vote to protect trans people.
Labour have said some pretty transphobic stuff too, but they are more likely to change their tune and be supportive than the tories are.
I'm assuming this means vote against the Tories but please correct me if I'm wrong.
I have no dog in the fight with this topic but I will be voting against the Tories (in part at least) because they have sought to deflect attention from their failure and contempt for the public by using trans issues as a false enemy and decoy, massively wasting political resources and demonising my fellow countrymen/women/people for their own gain. Fuck em.
That is good you’re recognizing the situation as the divide and conquer strategy as it is.
Trans rights are humans rights. If the Tories can continue to strip away at ours they will come for everyone’s eventually.
Also by supporting trans people you’re advocating for increased freedom of personal expression.
For sure; that's why it pisses me off so much. At least with traditional bogeymen like Putin/Covid/inflation/Bin Laden etc it's a plausible 'other'. Trans people are UK citizens and we drink with them at the pub. It's literally an attack on our own cohort, to our own detriment.
Which party in England explicitly supports and protects trans people?
Protect trans people by voting tactically against the Conservative candidate. The Conservatives have completely bought into waging a culture war and trans folk and immigrants are public enemies according to their current ideology. It distracts the voters from 14 years of self-inflicted or worsened-by-policy economic catastrophies. Please don't "both sides" this.
None of them care about trans people either way; it's just one of those things to rile everyone up and make them forget about who's stealing everything.
Who's the To Protect Trans People party, haven't heard of them?