AOC assures trans kids they’re not to blame for anything: “You are fine just the way you are”. She acknowledged that it feels like both parties are blaming trans people for everything.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/aoc-assures-trans-kids-theyre-not-to-blame-for-anything-you-are-fine-just-the-way-you-are/
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This should be completely uncontroversial.
What I really, really, really don’t understand about right-wingers is this conviction they have that other people’s lives are their business. And they’re absolutely sure it’s their business too; there’s no shadow of a doubt that maybe… just maybe… somebody else’s sexuality is none of their concern.
>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) shared a message of solidarity with trans youth during a recent social media Q&A after someone asked if she had anything to say to them amid an onslaught of anti-trans attacks by the GOP.
>“I want to say that I know this time is completely terrifying for so many people, and it feels hard to know where your place is, and especially in politics, where it feels like people in both parties are blaming you for everything that’s happening, I just want you to know that they couldn’t be more wrong,” said Ocasio-Cortez, who is known for her ability to easily connect with constituents and for directly communicating with Americans through social media on a regular basis.
>“You are fine just the way you are,” she said, “and in a time when it’s hard to know who stands with you, I want you to know that I stand with you, and everyone who wants to be mean shouldn’t be mean around me.”
>She added that the party can’t “cower in the face of tough issues ” because “people are looking for strength.”
>“The reason why I think some folks in the Democratic Party have felt like trans issues are hot water, or immigration issues are hot water, is because they haven’t felt confident or the ability to confidently throw a punch on solid ground that is persuasive and uniting people.”
>Calling out GOP malice “aggressively” is what brings people together, she emphasized.
AOC is awesome. I wish more Democrats were like her, Jasmine Crockett, and Talarico.
The *sole* value of conservatism is respect for and obedience to [one’s perception of] traditionally established hierarchy, and hierarchy dictates that those on top (in-groups) are rightfully idolized and receive privileges, credibility, and resources, while those on the bottom (out-groups) are demonized/dehumanized and/or bound by restrictions, scrutiny, and lack of resources.
To them, the second-greatest injustice imaginable is for those [they perceive to be] on the bottom [of social hierarchy] to have access to the rights, credibility, and resources reserved for those on top. The first greatest injustice is for those on top to be bound by the restrictions, scrutiny, and lack of resources reserved for those on the bottom.
[Denying](https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-transgender-republicans-trump-christian-conservatives-election-83becc009d8123d96a75c2e4940ab339) [transgender people](https://www.axios.com/2024/11/21/trump-anti-trans-bathroom-laws-gop) [their existence](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/31/republicans-transgender-kids-issues-00186347) — [when studies show](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005789424000340) [gender affirming](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10290445/) [care is](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37526532/) [health ](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35212746/)[care](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31735692/), [and when](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11045042/) [coupled with](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5061456/) [social acceptance](https://academic.oup.com/jsm/article-abstract/18/11/1933/6955947), [promotes the](https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/news/gender-affirming-care-saves-lives) [well-being of](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1747938X17300386) %5BLGBTQ+%5D(https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/23727322211068021) %5Bpeople%5D(https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/resources/human-rights/archive/lgbtq-inclusive-curriculum-path-better-public-health/), [including](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0190740920311440) %5Bkids%5D(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34553384/) — provide conservatives an underclass [for society] to demonize and dehumanize in order to maintain [their] hierarchy, and every single one of their policies and rhetoric work to do exactly that.
“Know your place” is their mantra.
There is no reason to put blame for anything on the LGBTQ+ community. They’re just people and somehow groups of people have convinced themselves to dehumanize one group or another. All this hate pointed at one group or another because of the way they look is ridiculous.
It’s not just the kids that feel that way.
How Democrats used to sound when they had a fucking spine. I will never forget moderate or centrist Democrats willing to compromise positions of human rights (be it trans folks or immigrants) to try to appeal to the middle. Cowards, and AOC is not one of them.
Shame on Democrats that go and scapegoat a heavily scapegoated group by the right wing. It’s like going in and joining a group of people kicking someone innocent on the floor.
Trans people in general not just kids along with any other scapegoats people can use for a means to an end. Politics are so fucking toxic now with Trump and his minions going scorched earth and people on the left that fall into the trap.
Wish people would just be kind, even if you don’t agree or whatever what’s so hard about being kind…
No trans person has ever harmed me or hated me for being cisgender. Therefore, I see no reason to condemn all trans people. They let me live my life so I’m fine with letting them live theirs.
In any case, if some trans person *did* decide to be an asshole to me because I’m cis, I’d have a problem with them specifically, not all trans people.
That seems pretty simple to me.
Imagine believing that a person’s personal identity or sexual orientation could topple a country. Morons.
Trans people are 1% of the population. One in a hundred people. And yet the Republicans attribute great power to them.
Somehow, the Republicans have come to believe that being trans is a superpower, and are jealous of that power.
they all need to look into a mirror. everyone but the trans community…… that’s the irony of this.
Yeah they didnt do anything, all that’s been happening is them getting thrown under the bus.
It doesn’t “feel”that way. it’s what is happening.
Last I heard the trans community was 1% of the population in the US. Meaning there’s a good chance your racist dad will never meet a trans person.
But that doesn’t matter, as long as there’s someone to blame, and hate, the rich will live their perfect lives.
I love how whenever any of us have the gall to point out that a large number of Dems are really wishy-washy at best regarding their trans allyship, libs come out in droves to cry about how Republicans are worse. Like, wow, y’all treat us better than the literal Neo-Nazis do? What an achievement.
We deserve better, and we should demand better from the people who are supposed to be members of the opposition party.
I wish people would wake up and realize that trans kids are just another wedge issue in a long, long list of wedge issues that the billionaires are using to divide the public.
It’s really unfair to them, just as it is really unfair to every marginalized group that’s been used as a pawn in this stupid game.
The only way to end the game and prevent the next victim is to end billionaire control of the government and media.
Yeah, we should talk about literally anything else, like healthcare.
The amount of times I’ve heard ‘trans terrorists’ is insane. *five*. We’ve had *five* trans shooters. Out of literal thousands of assholes
Yet even in Colorado my piece of shit snake senators have voted for multiple bills that harm trans people, especially kids
It is so easy.
You don’t have to *get it.* You just need to leave them alone and move on with your life.
Won’t vote for anyone who can’t talk like this
The leadership in America is using the most vulnerable and marginalized to take authoritarian control over everyone. It’s amazing how much propaganda works to pit us against each other instead of the billionaire class.
Yeah I mean the dems so far on trans issues are either pretty good or god awful, with many of them seeming to think they can win elections by throwing trans people under the bus. Weirdly doesn’t work though because it stops leftists voting for you and no one from the right votes democrat cuz they think biden was a communist dictator transgender immigrant or whatever.
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