A search for "cis allies" on Twitter reveals a lot of butthurt:
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One thing that doesn't get talked about enough is the way that the top-down "trans acceptance" push in the USA coincided right with the start of the Trump presidency and the effects this had on "cis allyship."
Thing is, even very moderate liberals
hated Trump. Tens of millions of Americans hated him so much that they were willing to elect a walking corpse just to get him out of office. Whether that hate was justified or not is irrelevant; the point is that a lot of people were willing to enthusiastically support
any culture-war issue that put them on the other side of Trump and Trump supporters. Including troons. I think a lot of troons mistook this proxy war for genuine support. Now many of them are wondering where their allies are and the truth is, most of their allies just didn't give a fuck. They were just swept up in the anti-Trump stuff.
Doesn't this apply to most culture-war issues? Sure, but most
genuinely marginalized groups have long accepted that the general population does not give much of a shit about them, and they are accustomed to taking that into account as they attempt to advance their cause. Troons on the other hand are delusional and overconfident, and their movement has been so well-funded and rapid and successful that they have no experience of pushback. Most TRAs are white middle-class young people who are accustomed to being listened to. They have no concept of actual systemic oppression, so they decided that the performative support was an indicator of reality.
Even now, the biggest trans public figures are not attempting to build an empathetic case about what is happening in Texas; they're just whining and scolding people. They are not going to give an inch or even attempt to look at
why stuff like this is gaining ground, other than 'republican bigot terf transphobes want kids to die!"
Oh well, it is fun to watch I guess.