…Because, the story goes, we need the votes of people who *don’t* want full trans rights. Because THEY have that purity test, and must be catered to.

So trans people and the people who love them should just suck it up and watch their rights taken away. For some mythical voter’s (yep) purity test.

February 26, 2026 - 06:21 UTC

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Seems relevant

bsky.app/profile/skepchick.org/post/3mfpcbp525s24
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I think it's also telling on themselves in another way: if "purity test" means "issue I am not willing to compromise on"... do they NOT have those?
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is there really no issue where they wouldn't give ground to win some more votes? that's terrifying
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Hey Bill, I just wanna thank you for speaking out on this. I’m a massive fan of yours and MST3K, and I often put reruns of the show with old commercials in tact to unplug and “time travel” away from this hellish timeline. It’s so scary trying to live my life when so many don’t want me to. Cheers. 🙏
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Righties don't want rights for everyone. They want privilege. Rules are for "other people."

If they personally dislike a particular kind of person, they want the ability to treat them like garbage or even kill them without consequences. It's been like this for centuries here.

They need to go.
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It'd already be absolutely inexcusable if they rationalized it with polling data, but they don't even have that on their side- bsky.app/profile/danancona.bsky.social/post/3lzbquknm222w
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Thanks for speaking up, Bill. 💜
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I'm so tired of having to keep fighting for my right to exist, Bill.

I also wish I could hit transphobia with a bus. That would make things much easier on me.
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Meant to write transphobes but that works too.
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Isn't it true that we do need the votes of some people who don't want full trans rights?

Isn't that one part of the story true, even if the rest of the story is a false dilemma or pre-surrendering or whatever?
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The thing is that trans rights are only high-salience issues to a few groups:
LGBT people, allies, human rights focused voters, and on the other side, utter bigots.

The middle of the road people and non-extremist Republicans generally have an opinion but that opinion doesn't change how they vote.
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I will never be part of a collective "we" that depends on bigots, but you have at it.
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Change, or things they don’t understand, scares those voters. So they make it sound like they’re too important to ignore, and so marginalized communities have to make concessions to win them over
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and then the fascists just move on to their next group of scapegoats…
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we have to draw the line and say fuck off, we’re all united in this.
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They also have "purity tests" (can't be trans, have to support Israel, can't question the military budget, etc.) but they just lie about them.
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This whole framing of blaming voters for the party's failures is so annoying. It's their job to win elections, if an issue is a dealbreaker for a lot of voters they have to decide whether they need those votes or not. Whining about it is fucking childish.
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I dont get why its a problem for them to just support trans people but not get drawn in.

Some people are trans, a tiny fraction of society. The right wants to demonise and attack a minority of a minority again rather then look at what's important for everyone.

It's not a complex defence.
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Bill I gotta say I've been a fan of yours since I was probably 13 or 14 years old and it fuckin rules that you're still Cool As Hell
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