In commemoration of the upcoming Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), President Joe Biden issued a statement praising trans people’s contributions to society and describing actions his administration has taken to counter transphobic bullying and extremism. Additionally, many members of Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) also issued their own statements affirming that community health depends on supporting trans people too.

“Transgender Americans are part of the fabric of our Nation,” Biden wrote in his statement. “Whether serving their communities or in the military, raising families or running businesses, they help America thrive. They deserve, and are entitled to, the same rights and freedoms as every other American, including the most fundamental freedom to be their true selves.”

    • Grant_MEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      This time the vote is literally for an opportunity to vote again in the future.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
      34·
      8 months ago

      we will only continue to get the “lesser evil” guaranteeing that we will eventually get the greater evil anyways

      How does that follow?

      If you keep voting hard enough for the lesser evil every time, you make things less evil. That’s how democracy works.

      Or are you one of those silly people who never votes in the primaries?

      • eldavi@lemmy.world
        42·
        8 months ago

        here’s your strawman-esque argument with another one: lesser evil and evil work towards the same goal; it’s only difference at the speed at which its executed so voting for the lesser evil means that we’ll get there no matter what.

        • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
          45·
          8 months ago

          Ah, so you’re one of the tinfoil hat Joe Rogan types.

          Voting for the lesser evil brought us expanded healthcare that saved thousands of lives. It brought us legal recognition of gay marriage. It brought us all the social progress that you’re completely ignoring.

          "Both sides"ism brought us the end of abortion protections.

          There is no grand conspiracy to make your life horrible. It’s just one evil party, one good party, and you in the middle refusing to pick because you’re scared of having any agency in your life.