In a tweet, Joe Biden said that the fight for transgender rights is “the civil rights issue of our time,” and there is “no room for compromise.”
“No Compromise on Basic Human Rights”
As polls show Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders are neck and neck ahead of the crucial Iowa Democratic caucuses, the former Vice President has tried to tack towards appeasing the social justice left, who are mostly backing Sanders. In a tweet, Biden wrote that “transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time,” adding, that there is “no room for compromise when it comes to basic human rights.”
Let’s be clear: Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time. There is no room for compromise when it comes to basic human rights.
— Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) January 25, 2020
Surely this would illicit vast amounts of praise from the left, showing just how woke and progressive he is now? Well yes and no.
He did receive some slight praise as expected, but what his tweet really served to do was expose the fracture that is going on right now within the Democrats. “Gender-critical” feminists and members of the LGB community have started to come out against transgenderism, claiming it infringes on their rights and is harmful to their community.
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The feminists note that transgender women are destroying biological females in competitive sports, and making them feel unsafe in bathrooms and changing rooms, while gays and lesbians are arguing that many “transgender” kids are simply gay, and are being pushed into transgenderism by doctors, schools and parents. Many of them informed Biden of this in replies to his tweet.
Unless those humans are female, then it's considered progressive to compromise them.
Look at this video and tell me it's fair to the girls forced to run against these two. To line up and know they have zero chance of winning. This will become more common the longer this goes on. pic.twitter.com/F07JLF7B8J
— No Longer Silent ⚢ (@NickyBlames) January 26, 2020
You're abandoning LGB youth 2 an increasingly aggressive LGB youth eugenics program. 10 years have led 2 a 3,300% increase of dysphoria diagnoses with a recent exploding rate of increase of thousands of LGB youth realizing what adults have done to them & are now de-transitioning.
— Fred Sargeant (@FredSargeant) January 26, 2020
You are throwing women under the bus, Mr. Biden. https://t.co/zBk3zFKM0P
— ??Truthseeker ? (@Women_Exist) January 26, 2020
This is #BigPharma talking. You're going to lose to Trump.
Let's be clear. This is an astroturf movement masquerading as a civil rights movement and already hurting women's sex-based spaces, sports & rights. https://t.co/0MK2CKzLvg
— O.W.L.s ?️? (@LesbianOwl33) January 26, 2020
You just lost my vote. If all the Dems insist on sacrificing women’s and girls’ sex-based protections to transrights activists, they will lose, and they should lose. Whoever protects sex, not “gender identity,” in Title IX has my vote.
— Tara (@Tara_lyn1) January 26, 2020
What about when the "rights" they demand strip away the civil rights of women & girls, Joe?
Don't 14-yr-old girls have the right to not want be forced to change clothes in their school locker rm next to male students w/ penises? What abt THEIR right to body privacy and dignity? pic.twitter.com/CedqzGaAZ3
— ?Tibby ✡️ (@tibby17) January 25, 2020
Don't women get civil rights? You're willing to compromise us?
— Peony Genderfree Campbell (@MeanwhileIPaint) January 26, 2020
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Ironically, many of those who do suppport transgender individuals simply didn’t believe Biden, pointing to his past voting record on gay rights and other LGBT issues, suggesting that this was all simply a ploy to gain votes.
You voted for DOMA. Gaslighter.
— Cam Kasky (@cameron_kasky) January 25, 2020
Hope you saw this Joe. We all know your recordhttps://t.co/zYjXgn2Sh9
— KloboCop ?? اشتهارد (@BadSunAK) January 25, 2020
no one believes you you shriveled bigoted skeleton
— Goth Ms. Frizzle (@spookperson) January 25, 2020
Bernie was on the right side of history on this when you were hanging out with segregationists.
The progressive movement grew on our terms, no compromiseshttps://t.co/UpFhw6tZw2
— KloboCop ?? اشتهارد (@BadSunAK) January 25, 2020
i guess some people take longer to “evolve” than others do ¯_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/CkbhlADqXG
— isi breen (its pronounced ‘izzy’) (@isaiah_kb) January 25, 2020
I would tend to agree. The timing of the announcement is rather suspect, especially as Sanders is starting to pull ahead of Biden in Iowa and national polls. I think he and his team have realised they need to coax some of the social justice left to his side in order to pull ahead. I don’t think Sleepy Joe even knows what transgenderism is!