LGBTQ+ asks aren’t really extreme in any way. At the end of the day, it’s access to the same rights, freedoms, opportunities, and comforts that the dominant culture doesn’t just enjoy regularly, but expects.
You don’t have to create entirely new athletic divisions or prison systems (something I saw suggested in another thread) for trans people. You don’t have to wait until society shifts away from identity politics and towards “universalism” or whatever before you do anything. These are just make-believe solutions designed to give the impression that somebody is “thinking about it” without ever having to do anything actionable or think of anything relevant.
These ideas, along with the whole concept of patiently waiting for an equality that comes over time once society deems itself “ready” to grant it, is the kind of privileged speak that only comes from people who don’t have to face any of the problems they’re trying to solve. People who already enjoy the luxuries of being part of the dominant culture. People who complain about diversity hires while never once questioning if they got a job over someone who was discriminated against and who would never fight for that person even if they did. People who get mad about being corrected over pronouns or acronyms but would never, ever hesitate to correct someone if they got their name wrong, gender wrong, or title wrong, and would act grief-stricken if the person they corrected went and got mad about it.
Unfortunately, we live in the real world where we have to play by real rules and fight for those things in the confines of the society we’re in, with small goals that are actually achievable and not “just remake society completely.”
All while, in the real world, people are actively working against those small goals. By doing things like raiding gay clubs, or shooting up drag shows, or protesting outside of libraries, or vandalizing places where Pride events are held (the last two in the faraway land of Alberta).
Like, maybe we could discuss re-making the entire way society functions after we clear the hurdle of “people complaining about pronouns”? Baby steps, maybe? Perhaps people with the big ideas they love discussing ad nauseam could put a fraction of their efforts toward things that actually make a difference in real life today?
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