Oh honestly. Putting the substance aside for the moment, this sentimental slush has never been relentlessly deployed this way for any other subordinated group. No, trans people en masse don’t “deserve” love – nobody does. It’s not true and it’s extremely ick. It’s a dopy change of subject. Campaigning for equal rights is not the same thing as campaigning for love and cuddles and a teddy bear.
If you think about it for one second it becomes obvious – a campaign for human rights can’t afford to attach it to a demand for universal love, because universal love of huge populations is a demand that’s impossible to meet. If the human rights depend on love then they become unobtainable. Rights have nothing to do with love. They are independent of love. They have to be, because they have to apply across the board, without regard to how we feel about the niceness or otherwise of the people at issue. Prisoners have rights. Murderers have rights. Love is not the issue.
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