It will be interesting to see how this starts playing out as more and more trans people start to get elected to office. Will this proliferate into conservative areas and will they get elected if...
It will be interesting to see how this starts playing out as more and more trans people start to get elected to office. Will this proliferate into conservative areas and will they get elected if they hold the right beliefs? Will we see additional resistance based on whether the trans person identifies as male, female, or non-binary?
Quite frankly I don't have a good perspective on how the average person thinks about those who are trans, given that I have a large friend group that is trans and tend to associate with people who are rather far left. I also present pretty unquestionably male the vast majority of the time so I'm fairly separated from direct bigotry as I only rarely experience it when I'm dressed extra gay or en femme.
oh almost certainly not, at least not in the immediate term. the republican party at the national level for example has barely any women in congress (21, which will most likely contract in 2020...
Will this proliferate into conservative areas and will they get elected if they hold the right beliefs?
oh almost certainly not, at least not in the immediate term. the republican party at the national level for example has barely any women in congress (21, which will most likely contract in 2020 because of retirements and shuffling) and exactly two black representatives, and those groups are hardly demonized by conservatives in the way trans people are. at the state level they have more representatives who are women or minorities obviously, but even then state party republicans tend to be predominantly white and male and it's an uphill battle for anybody not fitting into both of those categories to win a republican primary or elected office in most places, no matter how conservative they are. trans conservatives probably have no hope in hell, at least not until the conservative movement inevitably loses the culture war on trans people.
It makes me wonder, however, as there may be some non-binary trans people who were AMAB and present as male who happen to hold or at least can hold conservative views which might stand a chance at...
It makes me wonder, however, as there may be some non-binary trans people who were AMAB and present as male who happen to hold or at least can hold conservative views which might stand a chance at getting elected to office.
Certainly we know many conservative white male politicians who have been outed for their sexual proclivities which often involve other men, transgender females, or cross-dressing of some sort who have been re-elected after being outed.
I don't particularly hold high hopes, but it makes me wonder...
It will be interesting to see how this starts playing out as more and more trans people start to get elected to office. Will this proliferate into conservative areas and will they get elected if they hold the right beliefs? Will we see additional resistance based on whether the trans person identifies as male, female, or non-binary?
Quite frankly I don't have a good perspective on how the average person thinks about those who are trans, given that I have a large friend group that is trans and tend to associate with people who are rather far left. I also present pretty unquestionably male the vast majority of the time so I'm fairly separated from direct bigotry as I only rarely experience it when I'm dressed extra gay or en femme.
oh almost certainly not, at least not in the immediate term. the republican party at the national level for example has barely any women in congress (21, which will most likely contract in 2020 because of retirements and shuffling) and exactly two black representatives, and those groups are hardly demonized by conservatives in the way trans people are. at the state level they have more representatives who are women or minorities obviously, but even then state party republicans tend to be predominantly white and male and it's an uphill battle for anybody not fitting into both of those categories to win a republican primary or elected office in most places, no matter how conservative they are. trans conservatives probably have no hope in hell, at least not until the conservative movement inevitably loses the culture war on trans people.
It makes me wonder, however, as there may be some non-binary trans people who were AMAB and present as male who happen to hold or at least can hold conservative views which might stand a chance at getting elected to office.
Certainly we know many conservative white male politicians who have been outed for their sexual proclivities which often involve other men, transgender females, or cross-dressing of some sort who have been re-elected after being outed.
I don't particularly hold high hopes, but it makes me wonder...