The Vicious Cycle Keeping Trans People Marginalized | TaraElla Clips

This is an excerpt from the article We Need a Normie Trans Rights Discourse by TaraElla.

The best way to argue for liberalism, i.e. for an ordered liberty, against anarchy (including the postmodern kind), is to demonstrate that it works better in practice. This would have to include the accommodation of minorities, so that they have equal opportunity and liberty in practice. Liberalism has won many battles on that front over the years, by advancing women's rights, civil rights and gay rights. The latest battlefront appears to be trans rights. Many trans people feel like the current social order does not treat them fairly, and as a trans woman myself, I think it is fair they feel this way, unfortunately. As a result, a substantial number of trans people have rejected society as it currently exists, and embraced postmodern anarchist ideas. This has made the trans discourse look quite anti-normie in recent years, which has scared away many moderates and liberals who believe in a normie politics. Many people, who previously argued the 'normie' case for gay marriage, have decided that trans issues simply can't fit in a normie politics in the same way, and therefore should be ignored. This attitude has, in turn, 'confirmed' the worst suspicions of many trans people: that normie politics are nothing more than respectability politics, and only the postmodern far-left is their true ally. All this goes round and round in a vicious cycle, serving to marginalize trans people further and further. Moreover, the lack of a mainstream, normie movement for trans acceptance and trans rights has allowed reactionary culture warriors to comfortably target trans people, knowing that they will not get much credible pushback. The lack of a robust liberal response to the anti-trans 'movement' has in turn provided fuel for postmodern anarchists to discredit liberalism, especially in the eyes of Generation Z.