Two lifelong Republicans leave the GOP in support of trans grandchild - LGBTQ Nation
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They voted Republican, until they saw the affect that transphobic GOP policies were having on their daughter and grandson.

I usually avoid politics on this community but thought this article kinda fit

  • elbucho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    5 months ago

    My guess is that they’d rather those grandparents not have been hateful pieces of shit in the first place. But better late than never!

    • zigmus64@lemmy.worldEnglish
      124·
      5 months ago

      Well that’s my point. Maybe I’m too willing to give older folks the benefit of the doubt, but we don’t know anything about these folks besides political affiliation and that they have a trans grandchild.

      I mean, I grew up in a conservative household. In 1997, trans healthcare wasn’t a consideration. It wasn’t an issue in 2007. If it’s not an issue, I guarantee that it wasn’t on most voters mind. The vast majority of the ardent champions for LGBT rights in elected office right now were part of the majority that were against marriage equality at some point of their political career.

      Disparaging people for growing, regardless of the reason, is counterproductive.

      • elbucho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        182·
        5 months ago

        Well that’s the thing: nobody’s disparaging them for growing. It’s great that they finally saw trans people as people. Wonderful for them. But they’re LIFE-LONG Republicans. They sat through Nixon, Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump as president. All the while, their party just got shittier and more full of bigoted people. They watched the rise of right-wing talk radio, with horrendous humans like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck spewing their vitriol in the name of the party, and they remained. They watched the Tea Party hold up signs decrying Obama as a monkey, or a muslim, signs calling for the hanging of Obama, and they remained. They watched Trump try to overthrow democracy as hundreds of terrorists committed violence at his bidding, and they remained.

        Now, they’re finally deciding to leave the party because the bigotry they supported all along suddenly became turned their way. Fuck them. I’m not disparaging them for growing. I’m disparaging them for being pieces of shit.