She’s imperfect, of course she is. But she’s FAAARRRR better than the alternative. If you want your candidate to be perfect, go to mars because that’s never going to happen here, especially in our two party system.
BrahesElk on
It’s tiring listening to people want perfect candidates, especially if they don’t advocate for changes in the way elections work. In my state I know people who swear up and down that they won’t vote for Harris because she’s not their ideal candidate on one issue or another but seem surprised when I tell them that ranked choice is presently being looked at.
EH_Operator on
I mean really I’m a one issue voter. I don’t want to government to execute me and others for being trans. There’s one candidate that has openly bragged that he wants to do this, and the other is a human being with a functioning brain.
Except wait— I also don’t want the environment raped or immigrants brutalized or education converted to indoctrination or sexual abuse codified into law or national security sold off to autocrats or the delicate global order upended or wars started out of dick waggling or the entire democratic system destroyed and the world irrevocably made worse. Seems like the choice is pretty fuckin clear
Klutzy-Freedom8261 on
So many leftists are going to fuck us because they want perfect, so they’ll deliver us to hell to have their hissy fit.
never_grow_old on
the GOP candidate is literally airing ads attacking trans people. Republican governors spent last 2 years attacking trans peoole…
‘but i dunno Harris isnt perfect…’ these headlines are how he wins. stop w the BS Vote Blue
Adventurous-Depth984 on
She isn’t perfect on trans issues, meanwhile the opposition would literally exterminate them. Stop pretending it’s even any kind of choice.
Politicsboringagain on
The perfect is the enemy of the just and good.
stingray20201 on
I don’t understand why so many people are willing to let perfect be the enemy of good
ElysiumFallen on
If the choices are between “Candidate backed by a policy group planning to jail people for being trans” and “Candidate who embraces diversity,” there’s really no choice at all.
Don’t let Project 2025 win. It will hurt every single American who isn’t part of the ultra elite.
Xivvx on
Idk what imperfect on trans issues actually means, but Trump and the republican wave that would be necessary for a trump win will not be a friend to the lgbtq community.
The choice isn’t a choice.
mellifluouslover on
What an insane headline. Harris is about as good as it’s gonna get for black trans rights for the time being. It’s not on the forefront of her mind to win the election, but she is miles better than any given Republican for this issue. It’s almost disrespectful and gaslighting to imply any sane black LGBTQ person should consider the other side. “Even if she’s imperfect…” lol. The alternative is having your existence deemed pornographic by the government and being jailed…. or worse.
rubberduckie5678 on
Some people seem to think if they burn it all down, they’ll get Utopia in the end. Maybe they will. More likely, they’ll get a burned out hellscape for decades.
PrinceofSneks on
Since a lot of you are getting bitchy over the *actual* message:
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
CanaDoug420 on
The old imperfect vs vehemently opposed to choice
Pherllerp on
No fucking shit.
Perfect is the enemy of progress and someone like Harris isn’t going to actively harm a harmless minority community. This litmus test bullshit is going to put Trump back in office.
cwk415 on
On literally *every* issue Harris is the better choice.
Unless you’re a billionaire I suppose.
CurrentlyLucid on
Harris may not be everyone’s perfect solution, but she is much closer than trump, unless you are just looking for an authoritarian rapist.
doesanyofthismatter on
No shit she isn’t perfect on every issue – we are human and I can guarantee that whomever is reading this isn’t perfect on every issue either since there is no perfect way to be.
I hate headlines like this as it only creates silly debate and divide. If you’re a black and trans activist that supports Donald Trump, you clearly have issues.
Witty_Tumbleweed_528 on
I totally get why there’s mixed feelings about Harris. She’s made some bad calls before, but compared to Trump, at least we might have a shot at progress with her.
Blarguus on
Trump is running ads saying Harris wants to use tax payers money to give trans prisoners surgery
Which is a pretty blatant “trans people bad” avenue of attack
**Washington, DC** – Today, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) announced its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency. This endorsement comes after President Biden announced on Sunday afternoon that he would end his reelection campaign. A4TE Executive Director Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen released the following statement:
“Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) is proud to announce our endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency. Since taking office as our nation’s first woman of color Vice President, Harris has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to advancing the well-being of the transgender community.
“Throughout her vice presidency, Kamala Harris has collaborated with President Biden to lay a foundation for strong support of transgender Americans. The Biden-Harris administration has been the most pro-equality in our nation’s history, implementing significant measures since their inauguration.
Together, the Biden-Harris administration initiated a series of historic measures, such as:
– Reinforcing federal protections for transgender youth against discrimination.
– Enabling U.S. citizens to choose the gender marker “X” on their passports, expanding access to accurate and affirming identification documents for transgender and non-binary Americans.
– Providing resources for transgender youth and their families through mental health support, training for educators to support transgender and nonbinary students and affirming the positive impact of access to transition-related healthcare for young individuals.
– Enhancing the availability of federal services for transgender people by establishing pathways to retirement savings, streamlining the process for lodging employment discrimination complaints, removing obstacles to obtaining federal student aid, and modernizing the White House Office Visitor Entry System.
– Promoting accuracy and inclusivity in federal data by allocating $10 million in the 2023 Fiscal Year budget for critical research aimed at effectively incorporating inquiries about gender identity and sexual orientation into the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. This data will empower the federal government to more effectively support LGBTQI+ Americans by providing valuable insights into aspects such as employment, education, homeownership, and beyond.
“Vice President Kamala Harris has been a formidable ally for LGBTQI+ equality. Her efforts span decades, beginning with her leadership in San Francisco against hate crimes to her work aiming to abolish the so-called gay and transgender ‘panic defense’ in California. Harris has consistently supported marriage equality and continued her advocacy as Vice President, demonstrating her support for the LGBTQI+ community.
“A Harris Administration would not only uphold but also expand upon the protections for transgender Americans established by the Biden Administration. Her leadership promises to fortify and enhance the efforts to address and meet the needs of transgender people, ensuring continued progress in our nation’s history of civil rights.
“We thank President Biden for his legacy and dedication to our community, as well as his decision to pass the torch to the next generation of leadership. Vice President Harris can build upon the achievements of the Biden-Harris Administration, creating a solid framework for a future where trans people are no less than equal, and that is both more inclusive and filled with hope.”
FlashyPaladin on
Hi, trans person here. Former President Donald Trump and the GOP have an agenda that is actively harming transgender people, including me and my friends. If he wins the election, he and his party will push efforts to ban trans healthcare and eliminate protections.
Harris isn’t “not perfect but acceptable,” she’s the only choice in this election that will make any positive impact on trans lives, and the only choice that will protect us.
LisaFrankRealness on
>“I would rather have a fighting chance with her than have no chance at all with Trump.”
I hope more people will understand this type of pragmatism. We aren’t getting the perfect candidate because they do not exist, but we are getting someone who can be pushed to deliver progressive change.
There are only two VIABLE candidates this election: Harris and Trump. Choose the one who closely aligns with your vision for America. Then consider how well they can be pushed on positions while in office through voter turnout data, activism and protests without threats of imprisonment or deportation.
Pyro1237 on
If you are not voting as a “protest,” then you are functionally a political bystander at best. You are literally “the good man doing nothing.”
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She’s imperfect, of course she is. But she’s FAAARRRR better than the alternative. If you want your candidate to be perfect, go to mars because that’s never going to happen here, especially in our two party system.
It’s tiring listening to people want perfect candidates, especially if they don’t advocate for changes in the way elections work. In my state I know people who swear up and down that they won’t vote for Harris because she’s not their ideal candidate on one issue or another but seem surprised when I tell them that ranked choice is presently being looked at.
I mean really I’m a one issue voter. I don’t want to government to execute me and others for being trans. There’s one candidate that has openly bragged that he wants to do this, and the other is a human being with a functioning brain.
Except wait— I also don’t want the environment raped or immigrants brutalized or education converted to indoctrination or sexual abuse codified into law or national security sold off to autocrats or the delicate global order upended or wars started out of dick waggling or the entire democratic system destroyed and the world irrevocably made worse. Seems like the choice is pretty fuckin clear
So many leftists are going to fuck us because they want perfect, so they’ll deliver us to hell to have their hissy fit.
the GOP candidate is literally airing ads attacking trans people. Republican governors spent last 2 years attacking trans peoole…
‘but i dunno Harris isnt perfect…’ these headlines are how he wins. stop w the BS Vote Blue
She isn’t perfect on trans issues, meanwhile the opposition would literally exterminate them. Stop pretending it’s even any kind of choice.
The perfect is the enemy of the just and good.
I don’t understand why so many people are willing to let perfect be the enemy of good
If the choices are between “Candidate backed by a policy group planning to jail people for being trans” and “Candidate who embraces diversity,” there’s really no choice at all.
Don’t let Project 2025 win. It will hurt every single American who isn’t part of the ultra elite.
Idk what imperfect on trans issues actually means, but Trump and the republican wave that would be necessary for a trump win will not be a friend to the lgbtq community.
The choice isn’t a choice.
What an insane headline. Harris is about as good as it’s gonna get for black trans rights for the time being. It’s not on the forefront of her mind to win the election, but she is miles better than any given Republican for this issue. It’s almost disrespectful and gaslighting to imply any sane black LGBTQ person should consider the other side. “Even if she’s imperfect…” lol. The alternative is having your existence deemed pornographic by the government and being jailed…. or worse.
Some people seem to think if they burn it all down, they’ll get Utopia in the end. Maybe they will. More likely, they’ll get a burned out hellscape for decades.
Since a lot of you are getting bitchy over the *actual* message:
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
Black trans activists say **voting for Harris is crucial** even if she’s imperfect on trans issues.
The old imperfect vs vehemently opposed to choice
No fucking shit.
Perfect is the enemy of progress and someone like Harris isn’t going to actively harm a harmless minority community. This litmus test bullshit is going to put Trump back in office.
On literally *every* issue Harris is the better choice.
Unless you’re a billionaire I suppose.
Harris may not be everyone’s perfect solution, but she is much closer than trump, unless you are just looking for an authoritarian rapist.
No shit she isn’t perfect on every issue – we are human and I can guarantee that whomever is reading this isn’t perfect on every issue either since there is no perfect way to be.
I hate headlines like this as it only creates silly debate and divide. If you’re a black and trans activist that supports Donald Trump, you clearly have issues.
I totally get why there’s mixed feelings about Harris. She’s made some bad calls before, but compared to Trump, at least we might have a shot at progress with her.
Trump is running ads saying Harris wants to use tax payers money to give trans prisoners surgery
Which is a pretty blatant “trans people bad” avenue of attack
Trans won’t be a thing under Trump.
And she’s honestly pretty good on trans issues. She gets understandably dinged for enforcing a CA policy to deny gender affirming healthcare to prisoners, but she then worked to get that policy (successfully) repealed. Here’s what Advocates for Trans Equality [had to say about it](https://transequality.org/news/advocates-trans-equality-endorses-vice-president-kamala-harris-president):
**Washington, DC** – Today, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) announced its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency. This endorsement comes after President Biden announced on Sunday afternoon that he would end his reelection campaign. A4TE Executive Director Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen released the following statement:
“Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) is proud to announce our endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency. Since taking office as our nation’s first woman of color Vice President, Harris has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to advancing the well-being of the transgender community.
“Throughout her vice presidency, Kamala Harris has collaborated with President Biden to lay a foundation for strong support of transgender Americans. The Biden-Harris administration has been the most pro-equality in our nation’s history, implementing significant measures since their inauguration.
Together, the Biden-Harris administration initiated a series of historic measures, such as:
– Reinforcing federal protections for transgender youth against discrimination.
– Enabling U.S. citizens to choose the gender marker “X” on their passports, expanding access to accurate and affirming identification documents for transgender and non-binary Americans.
– Providing resources for transgender youth and their families through mental health support, training for educators to support transgender and nonbinary students and affirming the positive impact of access to transition-related healthcare for young individuals.
– Enhancing the availability of federal services for transgender people by establishing pathways to retirement savings, streamlining the process for lodging employment discrimination complaints, removing obstacles to obtaining federal student aid, and modernizing the White House Office Visitor Entry System.
– Promoting accuracy and inclusivity in federal data by allocating $10 million in the 2023 Fiscal Year budget for critical research aimed at effectively incorporating inquiries about gender identity and sexual orientation into the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. This data will empower the federal government to more effectively support LGBTQI+ Americans by providing valuable insights into aspects such as employment, education, homeownership, and beyond.
“Vice President Kamala Harris has been a formidable ally for LGBTQI+ equality. Her efforts span decades, beginning with her leadership in San Francisco against hate crimes to her work aiming to abolish the so-called gay and transgender ‘panic defense’ in California. Harris has consistently supported marriage equality and continued her advocacy as Vice President, demonstrating her support for the LGBTQI+ community.
“A Harris Administration would not only uphold but also expand upon the protections for transgender Americans established by the Biden Administration. Her leadership promises to fortify and enhance the efforts to address and meet the needs of transgender people, ensuring continued progress in our nation’s history of civil rights.
“We thank President Biden for his legacy and dedication to our community, as well as his decision to pass the torch to the next generation of leadership. Vice President Harris can build upon the achievements of the Biden-Harris Administration, creating a solid framework for a future where trans people are no less than equal, and that is both more inclusive and filled with hope.”
Hi, trans person here. Former President Donald Trump and the GOP have an agenda that is actively harming transgender people, including me and my friends. If he wins the election, he and his party will push efforts to ban trans healthcare and eliminate protections.
Harris isn’t “not perfect but acceptable,” she’s the only choice in this election that will make any positive impact on trans lives, and the only choice that will protect us.
>“I would rather have a fighting chance with her than have no chance at all with Trump.”
I hope more people will understand this type of pragmatism. We aren’t getting the perfect candidate because they do not exist, but we are getting someone who can be pushed to deliver progressive change.
There are only two VIABLE candidates this election: Harris and Trump. Choose the one who closely aligns with your vision for America. Then consider how well they can be pushed on positions while in office through voter turnout data, activism and protests without threats of imprisonment or deportation.
If you are not voting as a “protest,” then you are functionally a political bystander at best. You are literally “the good man doing nothing.”