We DEMAND a VP candidate that has been showing gender pronouns on their Twitter account since the 1990s, and we REFUSE to accept any less!
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No
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I would hate for the next VP to be someone who actually learns and grows and becomes a better person.
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Wait, is that really your takeaway?
Iām seriously asking because I know you prefer humor and Iām a fan of it.
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Personally, Iām a huge fan of no-cost gestures and I absolutely detest comparing them to things like ādemonstrable track recordsā and whatnot. So naturally, I am STOKED about checks notes Kamala Harrisā twitter bio.
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I was mostly satirizing @clovis8 and his anti-purity agenda. At the same time, I think we probably donāt want to be criticizing contemporary politicians for jumping into transgender rights issues late in the game. Almost all of society has been very late on this issue.
Nobodyās criticising her for having pronouns in her bio. Weāre criticising people who either are, or wish to pretend to be, credulous enough to mistake that for substantive progress. Remember this:
Nine months later:
Pronoun bios are fine. Justā¦ donāt be a rube, you know?
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Better late than never. If I am honest I had some deplorable views on trans rights 10+ years ago also. I donāt mean I hated trans people or anything but mostly just didnāt get the whole fluid gender concept in my early 20s. I imagine I am not alone on that. I am ashamed of it and have tried to educate myself and be better. If she is supporting trans people past her twitter bio now I think she maybe isnāt the enemy at this point. Whether that is a genuine change of heart or for political gain doesnāt really matter as long as there is actual benefit to the trans community from her actions.
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I just want to believe
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Thanks, this is helpful and I appreciate it.
The analogy that immediately springs to mind for me is Obama holding pretty retrograde views on same sex marriage way after gay marriage way a prominent fixture of mainstream liberal ideology. That seems like a much more egregious choice to sell out justice for short term political expediency. I understand the frustration people have in 2020 with something Harris did in a different time and in a specific context. I suppose it would have been good for Harris to dramatically resign from her AG position in 2010 or something and refuse to defend the transgender policy at the time. This is kind of the problem with picking a prosecutor, they by definition work to enforce the stateās laws as they are on the books at the time.
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Like you want to be sure that it represents an actual change in beliefs, and we should give people the benefit of the doubt. Iād feel more comfortable if she was out here saying āputting trans women in menās jails is wrong,ā but nobody really apologizes for past sins, so we canāt really expect her to either.
Is there any evidence that the transgender surgery and placement in menās vs womenās prisons was state law? My understanding was that both of those decisions were policies that she could have gone either way on.
Our society in general is wrong about how we enforce laws. Almost everyone that grew up in this society has bad beliefs that are hard to break away from.
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In my own personal rankings, her refusal to have the state pay for reassignment surgery/hormones for a trans inmate is pretty low on her list of abuses in office, although I would love to read some discussion from trans voices on that. I think putting a trans woman in a menās prison is much much much worse. And even that is probably pretty low on her list of shitty things sheās done as a prosecutor.
Does a prosecutor actually determine where someone is incarcerated? I assumed this was handled by the stateās Department of Corrections.
The controversy has to do with court cases in which her office wrote legal briefs and appealed a lower court order granting surgery. She has said that she was obligated as AG to support the DOC position.
Honestly no idea how it works in CA, but youāre right I wouldnāt normally think the AG has control over the DOC. I assumed since people connected it to her she must have been involved somehow. If she didnāt have input in the Carmen Guerrero thing then Iāll happily revise my opinion of her upward a notch or two.