When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020, I took a step back and reevaluated where I stood and why I stood there. To my surprise, I found that I agreed with conservatives and libertarians on a number of issues. I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued against biological males competing in women’s sports and being housed in women’s prisons. I did so loudly and publicly, losing many friends along the way. My stance wasn’t rooted in hate or fear but in a commitment to reason and fairness. My loyalty was to the truth, not to political tribes. Maintaining my integrity cost me greatly, but I believed it was worth it.
I worked toward what I believed — and still believe — to be true. I still oppose radical gender ideology and Critical Race Theory in schools. I still believe that biological males shouldn’t compete in women’s sports or be housed in women’s prisons. But I will not stand by while LGBT rights are legislated away.
“I worked toward hurting others. But hurting me? That’s where I draw the line.”
I can think of a hundred issues more pressing to the American public than the existence of same-sex marriage: inflation, the cost of healthcare, national security, the war in Gaza — the list goes on.
And yet:
When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020, I took a step back and reevaluated where I stood and why I stood there. To my surprise, I found that I agreed with conservatives and libertarians on a number of issues. I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued against biological males competing in women’s sports and being housed in women’s prisons. I did so loudly and publicly, losing many friends along the way. My stance wasn’t rooted in hate or fear but in a commitment to reason and fairness.
There’s no such thing as “woke mania.” There’s being aware of the historic systemic racism, and the absurd backlash by the Right when that systemic racism & bigotry is called out.
Childhood gender transitions are very rare, very individualized, heavily monitored and regulated, and ultimately none of your business.
There are no “unlawful DEI mandates.” That’s just the Rights’ fear-mongering when it comes to fixing the systemic racism & bigotry mentioned before.
There is no “excess of critical race theory.” That’s just some elective education focused on understanding the systemic racism & bigotry mentioned before.
There are less than 0.01% of athletes who are transgender, and it is also none of your business. It has no effect on your life.
There are less than 0.001% of prisoners who are transgender, and it is also none of your business. It has no effect on your life.
Your stance is clearly rooted in hate and fear. There is no “reason or fairness” in what you are saying. Your loyalty is not to truth, it’s based on selfishness and cowardice. Parroting right-wing lies and fear tactics. There’s no integrity in your words.
Being a lesbian doesn’t mean you can’t also be a racist and/or bigot. It just also means you’re a hypocrite too.
Pretty much the TERF archetype.
Hypocritical bigots are still bigots first and foremost.
And hypocritical second and secondmost
Collaborator
I always liked Quisling as a term. It means the exact same thing, but is the name of one particular monster who gleefully betrayed his own country to the Nazis, and then ran the country for them.
I’m shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
TEEFs went conservative? Yeah no surprise. Stupid fucking TERFs hiding behind the label of their sexuality
What a fucking tratior
Where’s that cartoon, the one with the MAGAt thanking the gay guy for helping to round up the last of the trans people, and the gay guy says, “You’re welcome! Who are we going after next?” And the MAGAt just stands there smiling at him.
Like, what did she expect was going to happen?! Oh, I see:
Many will say I should have seen this coming — that the right has and always will be against LGBT rights. And maybe there’s some truth to that. But that just wasn’t my experience.
Translation: repression isn’t real unless it’s happening to ME.
Translation: repression isn’t real unless it’s happening to ME.
That’s a really good summary of conservatism.
but that just wasn’t my experience
Lady, you JOINED because they were against LGBT rights? These people are unwell.
Like we fucking told your terf ass they would from the beginning
I still oppose radical gender ideology and Critical Race Theory in schools. I still believe that biological males shouldn’t compete in women’s sports or be housed in women’s prisons. But I will not stand by while LGBT rights are legislated away.
Still a conservative, just slightly more aware of the leopard on her face.
Good proud that selfish people come in every every gender identity and sexual orientation. Happy to take away your rights but how dare you touch my rights.
Hey now, she may be gay but nobody said she couldn’t be a fucking stupid conservative too.
Still a conservative, just slightly more aware of the leopard on her face.
Oh Reid Newton is a conservative. From the last paragraph:
Trump won in 2024 in part due to the left’s overreach. If the right continues down this path, they could meet a similar fate in future elections. As more people come out as LGBT, and as more LGBT people voice concerns with far-left activist orthodoxies, Republicans should be broadening the tent, not excluding these people and pushing them away. Hemorrhaging potential voters to get your druthers isn’t a winning political strategy. The pendulum from hell will just keep swinging back and forth until we all decide we’ve had enough.
Reid Newton is failing to acknowledge that the entire conservative movement has always been rooted intolerance.
They’re pretending the intolerance is reasonable:
My stance wasn’t rooted in hate or fear but in a commitment to reason and fairness.
I think they mean, “I’m scared of not winning when I deserve to win, and I hate people who try to take that from me.”
From my point of view, it is reasonable to affirm one’s gender, it is fair to let everybody play in a game if they follow the rules. But I don’t care who wins, and apparently that is very important to some people.
unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory.
The two subjects that immediately tell me everything I need to know about a person’s politics. If those two things are an issue for you, you just listen to fox talking heads and have never tried to actually understand the issue.
This is where it gets me. What is Critical Race Theory?
You mean History?
unlawful and divisive DEI mandates
You mean like when they replaced hundreds of government jobs with mediocre white guys who don’t even have a degree/experience? How they put the WIFE of a business owner in charge of the Department of Education?
Every supposed “DEI hire” has the education to back it up.
I figured that much out at “childhood gender transitions,” before I even got to the part you quoted. She started the list off with a fictional boogeyman.
(Puberty blockers are literally the opposite of “childhood gender transitions” as the entire point is to stall for time until adulthood.)
Puberty blockers were the compromise, and the right shat all over it. There’s no reason to play ball and not just let younger teens have HRT now
A TERF lesbian may think she has more in common with conservatives than with other queer folk. Conservatives will never think so.
Leopards ate my face
“I have four appendages and a mouth, and leopards have four appendages and a mouth. I thought they’d see me as one of them!”
This article is infuriating, she’s still a conservative after everything she experienced, after realizing conservatives have no principles other than power, and that she was a disposable token to be spent when convenient. And her big conclusion is that conservatives overreaching is leading to their downfall, and not the lack of principles or abject hatred of anyone who isnt cis, het, white, and male.
I opposed childhood gender transitions…
My loyalty was to the truth,
What a dumbfuck.
Cool. Don’t think they’ll care you were a devoted TERF when they come pick you up for the queer camp.