@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-10-30 02:35 UTC
The other data problem w/ abandoning trans people is that the issue itself is not important to most people.
And no wonder: People who identify as trans make up less than 1% of the population.
Before they were banned by the NCAA, there were fewer than 10 trans athletes out of more than 510,000.
Gender equality won't impact almost anyone. Cisgender people subconsciously or consciously know this.
https://plus.flux.community/p/standing-up-for-trans-people-isnt
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social 2026-10-30 02:36
Despite knowing all of this, however, some Democrats have gotten spooked on trans issues because they have mistaken correlation for causation. After Glenn Youngkin won the VA governor race in 2021, the fact that he made anti-trans bigotry a key message was wrongly assumed to be causation. The much more likely reason Youngkin won was that he was from the opposing party to the then-president, and those candidates always do much better since people often vote against rather than for parties.