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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's considered 'left' to support queer and trans rights, and there are a good number of people that seem to have a problem with that whether my queer self is political or not.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Guaranteeing that every individual has the same rights independently of their sex, sexual orientation, race, skin color and so on... Shouldn't be neither left nor right. It just should be. It's just common sense.

There are plenty of another topic for the left vs right to debate. Leave identity politics out of it and just let people live like they want.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Pretending it isn't doesn't make it isn't, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

But like if people keep intentionally misgendering someone, trans people aren't gonna wanna be in that environment. Those people will feel more safe here than reddit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It should be common sense. But it isn't. The Republican party platform in the US 4 years ago consisted of a single point: banning gay marriage. That was their entire party-wide goal for the last presidential election. No policies on taxes or anything else, just removing rights from people they don't like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't consider that a left-right issue. China's government would certainly be classed as leftist, but they engage in LGBTQ oppression. It's been getting better in some ways recently, but they're no friends to LGBTQ people.

I usually put such issues somewhere along the line of socially liberal/progressive to social conservative.