I mean, obviously people care, but I think there are a lot of comfortable cis-het liberals who aren't as willing to go to the mattresses for their neighbors as they should be.

[–] animist@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

It took them decades just to support gay marriage, going to take them longer to support our trans comrades

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think most people kinda just go with the flow on social issues. Which means they will probably just interact with you like a human being, but not go out of their way to do something special. And honestly....I just wanna be treated as normal, haha. I still wish certain portions of the US were more chill and disinterested in us (cough cough, inland and southern states)

[–] jennifilm@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I think you're right here, and I think that's being taken advantage of by the disinformation peddlers. The anti-trans rhetoric is so loud and so prevalent but in practice is being generated by an extremely vocal minority - but because they make so much noise, there's the notion that their stance is generally accepted. One of the best ways to combat that is for more allies to be more vocal - online, in their day to day lives - it doesn't have to be big, in fact small and consistent probably has a bigger effect!

[–] CynAq@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

This is so frustrating.

I'm a staunch ally even though I'm not lgbtq+ myself and regularly get into arguments with people in my social circles regarding this issue.

The most annoying take people have is "I support everyone's right to live their life as they wish so I won't take a stance either way".

Like... Are you even hearing what you are saying?!