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I'm a constitution loving leftist. I've never voted red. My brother is trans, and trans rights is particularly important to me.
But again, whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night because it's simply unconscionable to you that someone can advocate for someone's rights that doesn't show up on your "acceptable groups of people" list. It always blows my mind away that people who pretend to be so enlightened think nothing of denying the rights of others when the marginalized groups they pretend to represent know all too well what that feels like.
Other people don't stop having rights simply because you do, and vice versa. All rights must be protected, even the ones you find repugnant, or we all lose rights. It's the foundational cornerstone of our democracy, the constitution, and history.
But I guess we'll just gloss over that because I said "other people also have rights" and you interpret that to be transphobic...somehow.
My brother, born a woman, transitioned. The only one that has called him a woman has been you and if you were standing in front of me I would have already made your face completely flat for it. You have this so incredibly backwards it's actually fucked up to watch. You don't know me. You only know what you've convinced yourself that you know about me which is absolutely nothing.
The one who shows they don't know what human rights are, is you. Human rights are not universal. They change from country to country. Countries literally sit down and vote on what they believe is and is not a human right.
Almost everything that you've said in any of your replies start to finish has been fucked up, a misunderstanding on your behalf, or a complete and total fabrication.
People have a constitutional right to the freedom of expression. If a bigot wants to protest black people in a public place they have every right to do that. That's not me defending their actions that's me literally pointing out that they have the right to do that and you do not have the right to take that right away from them simply because you have disagree with it. I'm so sick and tired of watching little children like yourself run around and act like they're such forward-thinkers and they're so pro-rights while simultaneously not acknowledging that even people you disagree with have rights.
You're not half as good a person as you think you are, you're absolutely not as open-minded as you believe yourself to be and you're probably less than a third as smart as you think you are.