#but as a queer democrat in the south excuse me if i don't feel like chumming with baby boomers

[laylanatorseventeen]

Well my great grandmother died the day before yesterday and while I'm not, like, happy about it, I didn't know her so I'm not like sad either. But I'm going to the visitation and funeral because I'm expected to and I will be there for my dad, who actually did know and care about her. I only hope we don't have a repeat of what happened when my great uncle died, i.e, me gazing emotionlessly at the corpse of a person I neither knew nor particularly cared about whilst my aunt melodramaticly urges me to "let go" of the grief under which she mistakenly believes I am laboring

[libtard-blazkowicz]

Why liberal? Why no further left? In my experience, libs only care about trans rights as long as they also don't hurt conservative feelings. Liberals make too many excuses to fight for inclemental change because "queer and womens rights aren't popular enough" (libs I know and lots of online libs). Libs compromise with evil too often. As a non-binary person I am even afraid to come out to liberal friends. Leftist friends? Not afraid at all. Now I know you know liberal policies still hurt queer, PoC, and immigrant lives so you must ask yourself if you actually align with liberal policies or if you just call yourself liberal cause it's the opposite (hardly) of conservative.

"Only the far left has the best interests of women and queers in mind" that's a point of view that is held exclusively by college kids in America. Leftist governments in South America are not exactly running circles around liberal America in terms of LGBT rights and women's rights.

Usually when leftists say that liberals in the Democratic party cowtow to Republicans, what they mean is that Democrats don't exercise dictatorial power. America is a country with checks and balances, and a popular electoral system. If you don't want Republicans to be ruling, vote against them. There were people (me included) saying we shouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton because she's not leftist enough. Now Roe v Wade is gone due to Trump winning against her. Biden appointing federal judges is also very important in the prevention of anti trans legislation.

Also for your particular situation, I think I think what you're describing is sort of a double edged sword. While it's good that western leftists are generally aggressively pro LGBT, it often causes LGBTs who are not anarchocommunists to feel excluded. Dogma and forced conformity is a big problem with leftists.

Tolerance of others is often associated with familiarity. I believe it was a pew research poll that showed the most likely people to be accepting of transgender people, are people who themselves know a transgender person in their personal life. It's easy for leftists to be tolerant of queers, because all of them know a queer, and queer liberation is part of their orthodoxy.

It may feel scary at first, but your family won't stop loving you. They might be unfamiliar with nonbinary identities or even trans people in general, but they'll understand with time.