You're only as welcome and loved in the Democrat Party as you are useful. That's the number one thing everyone in the world should understand about the American left. You are never going to be valued for your status as a human being.
I think some people outside the conservative bubble are starting to pick up on that, too. One transgender person, a male who identifies as female, confronted New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) about this very thing. This man pretending asked AOC about the feeling within the trans community that they've been largely abandoned by the party, and AOC did this big waltz around the question, trying to make it sound like the Democrats hadn't, but just roped it into the larger amalgam of "women's issues," even managing to bring up the Cornell Seven case.
I think Asmongold did a great job of breaking this moment down, and I recommend watching his video on it. There is a language warning on this video, so be aware.
The "I'm a girl's girl" response AOC gives is hilarious by itself, but what she's not saying is that the trans person's take is closer to the truth. The Democrat Party has more or less abandoned the transgender movement. It's become a detriment to the body politic as it's fallen out of vogue among the greater populace.
As I wrote last week, the transgender movement, like Black Lives Matter, became far too power-hungry and entitled, and it left a sour taste in the mouths of too many Americans. Too many either began pushing back against it or ignoring it entirely:
The same can be said of the transgender movement. It was so powerful that schools, corporations, and even some churches didn't dare speak ill of it. Even as murder and violence ripped through it, oftentimes claiming the lives of innocent children, the legacy media and mainstream culture pretended it was a moral movement based on inclusion and care. People who were anything short of reverent about the movement found themselves punished in some way, with loss of livelihoods being one of the chief sentences. So powerful was the trans movement that you couldn't even turn on children's television without seeing the influence in some way, shape, or form.
Yet, the second verse was the same as the first. The movement became too entitled. It thought it could control too much of society and dictate how people could conduct themselves, and before long the pushback became so hard that now a transgender cause is lucky to get enough support to buy paperclips for their HQ. Even the LGB seems to reject the T.
But "abandoning" might be too strong a word.
To say that the transgender movement has lost all its value would be wrong. It's more like a stock market. Right now, the stock has fallen, and it has little value. Should the moment arise when transgenderism is more socially acceptable and can be used for cultural leverage, then the stock will rise again.
However, at this moment, transgenderism is more of a hindrance because it attempted to do so many things all at once that it ripped control out of the hands of normal people, including attempting to dictate how parents were allowed to raise their children. It even murdered quite a few children in the process. The cultural control it tried to exert was so all-encompassing that it became annoying to the rest of the population.
And that means the leverage the Democrat Party could use it for disappeared as well. It ran its course. The issue is that transgenderism can't just be discarded like so much trash because doing so would mean backstabbing something it once paraded around as the most important thing in the world in broad daylight. That would send a bad message and would confirm what I said above.
Instead, the move here is quiet neglect. Stop bringing them up so much. Don't bring it up if you can avoid it at all. If it does come up, you do exactly what AOC did. You say they've not been abandoned; they've just been assimilated into the nebulous network of intersectionality.
The funny thing is, "intersectionality" is starting to look like a term used to describe a graveyard where everything either waits to become socially relevant again or dies from neglect. For all I know, transgenderism could come raging back into the limelight, but something tells me that's not going to happen. At least not anytime soon.
