Sure, but if we go by who we’ve met in person, Harris won by a landslide.
“I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.” ~ Pauline Kael
“Gender confusion is a rotten fruit of both contraception and abortion which have also caused marital breakdown, family demise, and the facilitation of sexual deviance.” ~ Meg Kilganon
“The church will need to attend to the needs of those wounded by the very real consequences of crazy ideas like boys can become girls or vice versa. We have much to do! Let’s thank God for our victories along the way and continue to advance His Kingdom!” ~ Meg Kilganon
I say it would be a worthy sacrifice to put contraception and abortion in the hands of the church. (Denomination to be determined after the Christian Nationalist Holy War.).
Or you can be a small-tent Democrat, maintain your purity, and lose to fascism.
/JSwift
And I recall the GOP ads, “Harris is for ‘they/them’, Trump is for YOU” trying to imply she was too PRO-trans (or pro-queer-in-general, really) to the detriment of Real ‘Muricans.
From what I saw in the transfem communities, the general idea is that all this horrible shit was happening to us, while Kamala would stay silent and look the other way.
I remember specifically this meme where someone clearly labeled as trans was ther weapons fire and all bloody in an attempt to protect Kamala and democracy. Unfortunately, this was on Twitter, and Google is not good at finding meme variations in general, let alone on social media.
So it was more a feeling of abandonment. “Put under a bus” in the sense of letting the Republican busses run over them, without even trying to stop them.
That said, there was one specific moment. There was an interview asking her about her position on trans healthcare, in the face of all those restrictive laws being passed. I’ll admit, I’d almost forgotten about it in the face of all the horrible shit I’ve seen since.
Interviewer: Do you believe that transgender Americans should have access to gender affirming care in this country?
Harris: I believe we should follow the law .
The problem is, the context is that several laws against gender affirming care for trans people were being passed or at least proposed at this time in red states. As such, many interpreted her statements as saying she would not intervene to stop them.
As a trans woman and leftist slacktivist, I don’t have time for these petty inferences. There’s too much real hate and aggression we have to face down, it’s all we can do to defend against the very real and dangerous enemies as it is, there’s no time to spend on looking for more trouble than we already have.
Everything I wrote came also came from trans women activists. I don’t see anything they said as petty. You have Donald Trump and Republicans in general enacting that “real hate and aggression” into law. And then his only viable opposition was refusing to do anything about it.
Sure, things would be better under Harris, but she was giving them no reason to think she would do anything to stop the removal of trans healthcare in various states. No reason to think she wouldn’t just let the Republicans win and enact their trans genocide goals. They were having to take it on faith that she was just staying silent for political reasons and would in fact stop that garbage.
And yet, as I said earlier, these people still all voted for Harris, and openly supported telling others to do so. That seems the complete opposite of petty.
This is something I also observed in my own experience, LGBT activists and allies largely stuck with Harris, and did not go around bemoaning they were being abandoned to genocide. Any number of those activists and allies that would have campaigned and/or voted for her but instead sat on their hands out of disillusionment, seems like it would have been statistically non-significant.
OTOH the Repubs did make good use of taking Harris’ and other Establishment Democrats’ lukewarm defensive posture and turning it against them, spinning their vague answers as “proof” of some imagined “extremist radical trans agenda”, creating a bullshit culture-war threat narrative to motivate GOP votes.
But that’s just classic politics, a non-answer is an opening for your opponent to be the one who defines your position. If you must be vague, then don’t say “follow the law”, say “we will defend the maximum respect for human rights and the dignity of each individual and we will oppose any proposal that intends to abridge these for any person anywhere in the nation.” Sure, it will still be spun by the GOP as “they want the government to pay to transition your children without telling you” but that was what they were going to say ANYWAY. But at least though it’s not a commitment to a specific action it’s a statement that you recognize there IS a dignity and rights to defend.
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) is now calling for the forced institutionalization of all transgender people in the United States.
Claiming that there has to be a stop to doctors and pediatricians engaging in gender-affirming care, Jackson went on to argue that trans people face “legitimate psychiatric issues related to the stuff that they’ve been exposed to” before proposing stronger measures to be implemented. And, according to the congressman, that would include institutionalizing the trans community.
“We have to do something about this. We have to treat these people. We have to get them off the streets, and we have to get them off the internet, and we can’t let them communicate with each other,” he insisted.
“I’m all about free speech, but this is a virus, this is a cancer that’s spreading across this country,” Jackson concluded. “That’s going to do great damage to normal, hard-working, law-abiding people.”
Fascists gonna fascist! Fuck this guy! My father is not a danger to society! My sister’s fiancé is not a danger to society!
I am so pissed off.
This is pretty open Nazi rhetoric. Get them off the streets. Don’t allow them to communicate. That’s how it starts.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
I wonder what motivates assholes to make up lies like that.
But but but doesn’t count because they’re not an elected official…oh wait …
If transwomen have an “underlying level of aggression” because of their (possibly former) male parts, then doesn’t that mean that all cismen are even worse, and should also be institutionalized?
Stating the question makes you the enemy.
The lust for power and the fear of the Other.
We’re more violent, do worse in school, commit more crimes, and generally are the cause of nearly all of the world’s suffering. But we can beat women up, so we’re in charge of everything.
Absolutely. You might have heard the (not serious, but interesting) thought experiment that, if we could put all male humans in cryogenic suspension from age 16 to 26, the world would be a much, much safer (and just) place.
Well that obviously wouldn’t work because they wouldn’t age. When you unfroze them they’d still be 16. I don’t think even an induced coma would work, because even though their body would age, they wouldn’t mature any. I say put them on an island somewhere for 10 years. The survivors could be let back into society then. Just a thought experiment of course. 
There was a time when we put them in the army between the ages of 18 and 20. Do you think that might help?
There was a time when we put some of them in the military. The U.S. still mandates that all young men register for the draft, but we’ve never had anything close to mandatory military service.
Serving in the military likely does help a lot of young people mature, but IMO, mandated universal service would introduce other issues.