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@Tattie "If we somehow ended transphobia tomorrow, we would find that the community of trans individuals have overnight become substantially more racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, classist, fatphobic, etc etc etc" Indeed, think "Wes Streeting", but trans. The reality is that trans people are going to be mostly on the left, like many other LGBTQIA letters. You get gay MAGA, but not many. Regarding the trans community, the diversity in political outlook doesn't undermine the idea of a community, in my opinion. I think all communities are very diverse but somehow unified about a small set of issues. It might just be that an otherwise random group of people live in the same neighborhood, or they have a fetish for balloons, or they all have dyslexia - but they are still all random people outside of that one issue. The point is that one issue acts as a bridge between different people. There's a shared interest that cuts across the silos. In this case, you are making a qualified, dialectical defence of a trans MAGA person. That kind of generosity within a community is what can lead to a change in people's outlook.