#please do not vote 3rd party in this election

[sapphoslibrary]

the amount of gen z “leftists” who lack even basic education on the american political system is genuinely astounding and terrifying

[gotta-bail-my-quails]

PENNSYLVANIA PULL THROUGH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE IM GONNA FUCKING CRY

[bioswear]

Idk hot take for a Saturday morning, but maybe people shouldn’t be SO quick to switch to a mentality of: “well I’m not voting at all” about American politics in regards to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict/genocide just bc America has had its dick in those affairs LONG BEFORE fucking Biden Presidecy and people are seemingly just NOW feeling publically vocally outraged about it bc it’s in the forefront news (as you should be), but maybe also let’s use our fucking brains for a moment if you are American:

we should, and can easily, also still focus on that which is in our own backyard, if you don’t vote fucking blue, because green/third parties are not actually viable in the deeply established two party system we have had for CENTURIES, we get fucking DeSantis or some other horrible Fascist Republican and then America is going to have its own genocide against LGBTQ+ people, fascism goes up, continued attacks against drag/immigrants/etc.

You also know damn well that any Republican, If one were president, would be doing the same fucking thing of providing aid to Israel, so I guess personally I’m just confused as to why everyone is surprised biden is doing the same.

You can and should support a free Palestine, and hold contempt for Israel and condemn their actions, AND also know that voting blue is Americas literal only chancE RIGHT CURRENTLY NOW this upcoming year, to remain somewhat of a democracy instead of a ChristoFascist regime, especially with Biden being one of the ONLY blue candidates like�� our hands are TIED

Like YEAH it’s gonna fucking suck to vote for Biden but like you also gotta fucking Buck up sometimes and do things you don’t particularly WANT to do. It’s called duality and compromising in life and sometimes it’s fucking unavoidable.

But idk what the fuck do I know 🤪 I’m just a girl who thinks maybe you shouldn’t just fucking give up one of your only recognized rights in America just because some actions you can’t control from a crusty old moderate blue white man in a country whose affairs are more complicated than your messiest situationship is upsetting (rightfully so, I might add) you

[feddy-34]

THANK YOU.

@murphydjones you have been literally the only person i have seen on this website point this out. if you do not vote for candidates in primaries they will not count you among their voter base. and so they will not try to get your vote by passing policies you agree with. if you don't support a candidate why would they put effort into tailoring their efforts towards what you want? this is basic politics.

i'm not saying you have to vote for biden in the primaries. you can do whatever the fuck you want. but i would like you to consider 2 things:

how will biden and his team view this? do you think his policies will become more oriented towards helping palestine or less?

many of the 3rd party candidates suck for various reasons beyond the fact that they will never get elected. do you really want to support pro-russian politicians?

“You have to finish the problem”

is what former president Donald Trump said when asked about Israel's current offensive in Gaza.

this is for all the so-called "leftists" who keep burying their head in the sand and claiming that they are somehow unable to vote for biden because of his policies towards israel.

this is your alternative.

are these good options? no. welcome to elections. you may choose between ceasefires and brokered deals or gaza being flattened to the ground. good luck.

[fairuzfan]

I never claimed Biden's policies never hurt anyone, but it is unfair to blame Biden for Covid when Covid began under the Trump administration and it was Trump's actions that led to its severity and damage. Biden at least attempted to mitigate Covid during the first year of his administration, but by then the damage was already extensive and the politicized culture around it made it impossible for Americans to cooperate and regulations to have any real affect. But blaming Biden for Covid is like blaming Hoover for the Great Depression.

Don't get me wrong, I hate Biden too. But no matter how awful our 2024 presidential choices are, they are our only possible choices for president. Our voting systems are messed up. 3rd party votes only work against us and lots of people also just opt out of voting, which is about as equally affective. The electoral college was founded on literal racism and slavery and is still imposed to this day. But that's the system we have to work with. It's rigged. It's awful. I KNOW.

And like I said voting is not the end all of political action, and reading some of these comments, I can understand your anger. For most elections, yes, a vote IS an endorsement and support for a politician. But presidential elections just don't work that same way. When you vote 3rd party, you might as well just handed over your right to vote to your representative. And I guarantee you your representative is either going to vote for Trump or Biden.

The presidential election is NOT the only election on the ballot. And all other elections in the US make it possible for 3rd party candidates to win. I will vote 3rd party wherever possible locally, and I encourage you to do so too.

Still, reading through all these comments, I have yet to hear an actual solution to this problem that is achievable by November. Our choices are Biden or Trump. That's it. I hate it too, but if you have any better, feasible ideas, please let me hear it.

Except it is an endorsement. Biden literally thinks "they'll get over it" (it being the genocide of palestinians) by the time election comes. He thinks that we will vote for him anyways so he'll do whatever he wants. That's literally an endorsement. The reason the Vote Uncommitted campaign is gaining traction is to threaten Biden into doing something. If he doesn't feel threatened, then he assumes we are going to vote for him no matter what. So that means it's an endorsement.

If Biden doesn't listen to us, that's on him for losing the election. Not on the people who want him to do something else. And I don't want trump to win. I don't. But I will never vote for a person who so brazenly killed my friends and family, lied to my face, and was so unbelievably arrogant in that he thinks he can do whatever the fuck he wants. Feel free to vote for Biden. Just don't say it's for anyone else.

[exquisite-peculiarity]

Ok USA! We are voting this year, aren't we??

I'm also asking what people who can't vote in the US election would do, if they could.

The first 'US' options are for us residents who are able to vote.

The 'US Can't Vote' options for any resident of a US territory who can't vote for any legal reason- age, legal status, a territory that isn't allowed to vote, etc.

The 'Non US' section is for all non-United States tumblr users

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[iizzeee]

Guys, I am begging you. Please please please please please PLEASE do NOT vote 3rd party, or not vote at all.

I get it. I really do. Biden’s handling of Israel has been, not gonna mince words, dogshit. Abominable. Unspeakably bad.

But we cannot afford to protest like this.

We don’t need Biden as president. We do need to keep Trump out of office. And to those who respond “well, I don’t want just the lesser of two evils,” please, for the love of god, grow the fuck up.

For one, why wouldn’t you want the lesser of two evils. It is, by definition, LESS EVIL.

“Why can’t we just have no evil, why isn’t that an option.” I really wish it was. Just as much as you. But it’s not. These are our cards, and we have to play our hand to the best of our ability.

Which brings us to two.

Trump is more evil. Like, so much more evil. We’re comparing apples and oranges here guys.

I understand that a lot of you might doubt that. The largest demographic of people advocating for third party or non-votes are in the 18-26 range. New voters, with one or no elections under their belt.

So they don’t remember.

Most of us (I myself fall under this age range) don’t remember 2016. The election, that is. They don’t remember how so many people protested Hillary vs Trump by going 3rd party or writing in joke votes, because they saw the two as equally bad. And Trump won.

Half of us don’t remember the Trump presidency. We’ve heard he was a weird, bad, bigoted president, but don’t fully grasp the scope of how bad.

So off the top of my head, here are some highlights of real things Donald Trump did while he held office.

- threw toilet paper at hurricane victims like he was trying to shoot a 3-pointer

- fired the man investigating him for election fraud

- called African countries “shitholes”

- appointed members of the Supreme Court who would go on to overturn roe v wade

- stole classified documents from the white house to hide at his resort

- tried to instate a Muslim Ban

- incited a insurrection to try and keep himself in office, and maybe hang his VP if there was time

- looked directly at an eclipse. Like no glasses, full on.

- fueled covid conspiracies. Also told people to “drink bleach” to fight the virus

- withdrew us from the Paris Climate Accord

- cofefe. Remember that? What a fun, normal thing for the president to tweet at 2am.

- employed literal white supremacists

- called Nazi’s “very fine people”

- got endorsed by the KKK, and refused to condemn David Duke

And that’s just what I can remember right now.

So if you’re angry at Biden about Palestine, please please please do not think for a fucking second Trump would be better. He would almost certainly actively be worse. He would give Netanyahu the green light. If you think Biden has used a loose leash, at least it’s some kind of leash. Trump would be all in. Full chips, flying to the Middle East to send in the bombs himself.

If you’re still hesitant, consider this last plea.

Things are bad. These shouldn’t be the only two choice we have, but they are. You can’t look at the menu, which is offering either bland soup someone spit in or actual rat poison and go “could I have some steak”.

You can order the soup and live to write a one-star review on Yelp, maybe call health inspections on the restaurant or contact the owners and say “you guys know your menu has only two options and they’re both dogshit. If you don’t add more, you’ll be unemployed soon.”

Or you can order rat poison and die.

If we elect Donald Trump in the fall, we will be eating rat poison. He has repeatedly said himself to be in favor of a dictatorship. He quotes Hitler. If he is put in office, the change we all want and so critically need will not be fucking POSSIBLE. Because with Biden, it’ll be hard, and tedious, and long, and exhausting, but at least it will be goddamn possible.

So, come November, please don’t order the rat poison.

Please just eat your shitty ass soup so we can live to get really angry about it.

Please.

[saltwaffle]

i would bet my last penny that within the next 72 hours, word is going to break about something terrible that Harris has allegedly done in the past. maybe political, maybe personal. and i would bet my second to last penny that it will be something unfavorable to the american leftists.

we already saw it happen before with her positions on criminal justice when she worked as a prosecutor, which were brought up a lot when she ran for VP in 2020. chances are it will come up again.

but no matter what it is, think critically about who wants you to not vote democrat.

whether you like it or not, the U.S. election is happening. no amount of wishful thinking will replace the two-party system with a different, better one. (no, not even voting 3rd party — please look at the current polls and tell me with a straight face that 15%, even a generous 20% is a winning majority.) in short, they’re gonna do everything within their power to manipulate folks who are “on the fence” about candidates or even voting in general, and that includes digging up dirt that may or may not even be true.

check your facts. think about who would want to weaken the progressive vote. also, remember your favorite leftists that convinced you not to vote in 2016? they were russian psyops.

[violetwolfraven]

Can everyone trying to point fingers at the 3rd party voters or the people who didn’t vote or whatever *insert minority here* who voted wrong please shut the fuck up?

Assigning blame is not important. That is not what matters right now. That is a waste of time. Harris lost the election. It happened. We’re heading into another four years with a rapist for a president and honestly? I don’t think any amount of appealing or asking for a recount is going to change it. We’re headed into another Trump presidency. What matters is being prepared.

Are you checking in on your queer and trans friends? Have you made sure your friends who live in cities where there are likely to be riots or racist vigilante behavior are safe? Are you checking in on the women in your life? Do you know where to get contraception? Have you checked on your Muslim friends? Do you know your neighbors? Are they okay? Is there anyone in your life who struggles with addiction and might have fallen off the wagon because of this?

Do you know who your local mutual aid groups are? Do you know what environmental advocacy groups are in your area or what they’re currently working on? Who in your community is most likely to get hurt in the next few months? Who is most likely to help them? Is there anything you can do to help? Can you donate money? Resources? Time?

I’m sorry. I’m being a little harsh here. I know assigning blame is a coping strategy. But it’s not useful for anything beyond self-soothing and I’m so fucking tired of watching white liberals on this website act like we’re on a sinking ship and the only thing we can do now is point fingers until we all drown. We aren’t drowning. Not yet and not in the future if we put in the effort to build as many lifeboats as we can now. Wallowing in hopelessness doesn’t accomplish anything? Neither does wallowing in anger.

I appreciate that you are scared. I’m scared too. Our rights and our loved ones’ rights are about to be under attack. But I choose to channel my fear into as much action as I can. We have 2 months to make the most of, and then a limitless future to keep working under worse conditions. I for one choose not to waste time trying to decide whose fault it is that things are about to get worse.

[beardedinfluencerdestiny]

Please read the whole thing!!!!

Let's be very clear we need to stop blaming 3rd party, indigenous and more groups. They didnt have much affect on the votes with 3rd parties accounting for 0.04%. To start off, These are why Kamala wasnt electes

1. The democratic party were very problematic aiding in a war and genocide.

2. Kamala is a woman and biracial

3. importantly 87 million didn't vote most of which were in the democratic party as well as trump supporter actively having a reason to vote after they felt "wronged". As well as indigenous and brown people feeling betrayed for what the administration have done but not wanting to vote for Trump and i understand that america is basically a 2 party country but it still had a big impact. Trump didn't even have much of an increase but Kamala had a significant decrease.

4. Kamala didnt explain her policies enough to people instead driving of a fear of trump

5.However the main problem is the rise in extremism in the West that allowed trump into presidency and created a cult like facist regime,which will most likely continue.

Back to the people who chose not to vote: it was because they either did not care, didnt have a driving motivation to vote or felt failed democratic party's actions because they preached for equality but when it came to support indigenous communities, kamala being a cop or the explotation of the environment they failed severly. Or people where in a comfortable position of priveledge which is the main problem.

Moral we need to stop the conviction against 3rd parties and smaller indigenous communities

So how do we change this:

4 year plan: disclaimer i am british so if you have any advice send it on the plan. And this is rushed so i will put a full plan in detail out later but it will take a while

We start by promoting 3rd parties in our communities.We start with smaller sections of communities. Vote 3rd party or democratic party in smaller sections.

We focus on promoting the youth through education and tiktok to vote and why it is resourceful in change.

We send petions and protest to elected official or chosen officials on manditory things we need.

If you dont want to get pregnant get the implant now.

If you need medicare try by all means to move out of the country or to a blue state.

Disabled, poc or immigrants move to blue states. Your more likely to get help.

We need to have community discussion to start funds or community charities.

Promote to the youth. Socail media is powerful.

Make an organised voting system ensuring palestinian supporters, congo and sudan supporters to put stress on democrats whilst advocating for their vote in a 2 party system.

Simultaneosly promote 3rd parties as we start to over 8-12 years put them up as viable candidates BUT explain that it isnt vaible for 2026.

Read the democratic plan and explain it because that was their biggesf failure and explain the harmful rhetoric in far right administrations, that will be easy over 4 years. We need to prevent the youth from extremism.

I will edit and go into more detail adding an 8-12 year plan to keep a government that is beneficial for us and the world as a whole but, if you cant tell i have been rushjng

[mtg-talk]

It’s Election Day here in the United States, and there’s several hours left of the polls being open. If you can vote, please go vote! I already voted for Harris, and I would encourage everyone to do so. She’s not perfect, nowhere near perfect. But if Trump, Vance, Elon Musk and Project 2025 get anywhere near our government, that’s truly going to be the end.

And remember, a vote for 3rd party is a vote for Trump.

Stay safe, everyone.

[sapphism-and-nihilism]

Political PSA: Please Vote

Hey y'all, if you're a US citizen+are of legal age to do so: Please vote tomorrow-and please don't throw your vote/vote 3rd party because the numbers are not backing more than the two horses we've gotten stuck with in this current race-and I know, I get it, she is not the best candidate, but she is literally all we've got right now; IDK if any of you remember what it was like in 2016 during the first Trump presidency, But I, as a queer, non-white woman constantly terrified of being deported-or worse-Sure Fucking Do-and the fucker's promised to make things 1000 times worse should he win, too-not to scare any of y'all, but, this election is literally life and death for marginalized folks like us-we can live through a Kamala presidency-we can't live through a Trump one-many of us didn't during the first one-many many more won't during this one, I know it's a harsh reality to swallow, but the truth of the matter is that the Right is not pulling their punches this time around, their end-goal is in fact to wipe us out-and to create a dictatorship under Trump's ruling should he win-so however you can get there; by car, by uber, by bike, by foot, by ride-share, by public transit-please, get to your nearest polling place, and take part in preventing a political disaster the likes of which we've only gotten a small taste of once before

-✌️

[stellarhangout]

please please please vote for Biden if you can and you're an American. we have a system where only the D or R nominee can win. if you vote 3rd party instead of Biden, you are subtracting a vote from Biden, which in our broken system could heavily impact the election.

i know, biden isn't an amazing president. and i wish we had someone better. but we cannot afford to have someone who will enact a nationwide policy of discrimination against LGBTQ+ people. nobody would be safe, even in democratic states.

if you for some reason don't care about those rights, and you instead only care about Gaza, think about what trump has said he'll do vs. what biden has done. biden has given some support to netanyahu, but trump will give his full support to netanyahu in his genocide. biden has given aid to gaza, trump will give zero.

you know how the supreme court overturned abortion and has done plenty of other shitty things? if trump wasn't ever president, there would've been liberal justices who would've protected americans. we will likely have an even more conservative court if trump is elected.

this is an election which will have huge consequences. it is imperative that every american who is able to votes for biden.

also, vote downballot! even in a red state or a blue state, there are swing districts that could go either way! if we can stop republicans from having full control of congress, that severely limits trump's opportunities to do stuff (he'd still be able to do a lot, though)

[mokeonn]

Fuck it, I'm swinging at the hornets' nest.

I need someone to explain to me what the use of voting in the presidential election is. Since America is a republic and not a democracy, the popular vote doesn't actually determine who wins, the electoral college does. The representatives of each state have the final say over who they vote for regardless of what their citizens say.

And I understand that in a swing state, voting would be more likely to have an impact on what your state representative chooses, but let's face it, some states are set in stone. California's representatives are going to vote blue. Texas' representatives are going to vote red. Even if a significant portion of their voters say otherwise, they're very specifically "red states" and "blue states", and that's not going to change.

So my questions are all related to these facts. We do not have a democracy, we have a replublic, our individual vote does not have the power to decide who is president. We have seen MULTIPLE times that the popular vote can lose. Most notable, in 2016 when Hillary Clinton won the popular vote and lost the election overall because Trump got 304 votes over Hillary's 227.

In fact, there's literally a term FOR representatives who claim they will vote for one party and then actually vote another or abstain instead (faithless votes)

Really, I want to know, why does voting for president matter? Why does it matter if I "vote blue no matter who"? In the end it seems to me completely out of my hands, especially since I am currently living in a non-swing state.

Now, I want to make it clear to anyone reading, yes. Voting in general matters. Since we live in a republic, it's up to us to decide who represents us and our local governments from a state level down to a city/town level. My question is not related to the usefulness of voting in America in general, it is just related to the usefulness of voting for the president.

Every day I am CONSTANTLY bombarded with the sentiment that I MUST vote in this election and that I MUST vote for a specific candidate (online it's vote blue and offline it's people telling me vote red.)

But ever since 2016 when I looked into and learned about the electoral college, I've had a very difficult time understanding what the impact of voting in the presidential election means. One moment I have it explained to me that by definition my vote doesn't matter when it comes to deciding the president, and every time I look into how the electoral college works it seems to feed into that idea, but everyone around me is acting like if I don't vote or decide to vote based on my beliefs rather than a 2 party system (aka voting 3rd party), then I am suddenly basically giving a vote to the other guy (which doesn't sound correct at all???)

So yeah, I have a million more questions when it comes to things like 3rd parties, but right now I want to focus on this. I have yet to receive an answer that helps me understand why voting for president in a republic matters. So far the answer I have been receiving from research is "it doesn't", but everyone around me has been screaming from the rooftops that it does and saying otherwise would make me a bad person.

Also please take this whole thing in the best faith possible, I am not saying this to sealion or be obtuse I'm just genuinely confused because the attitude around me is not matching the information in front of me. It's very confusing to me.

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Also if you're an American who is rightfully disillusioned with the two-party system and perpetual "lesser of two evils" cycle, I would highly encourage you to get involved in movements for Ranked Choice Voting.

While not perfect, and I would personally prefer a complete overhaul to introduce a parliamentary system with a form of proportional representation, Ranked Choice is a bit more realistically achievable within the current framework that exists in the United States.

With the a first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system like the US currently has, third parties are always going have an incredibly small chance of success, barring major disruption or the internal collapse of one of the two main parties. The fact is that it is always going to be difficult, if not outright impossible, for a third party to pull enough voters from one of the existing main parties to actually win.

Because of this, it is difficult to convince people to support third parties because they will fear splitting the vote of their voting bloc, leading to the party they want least to win.

Ranked Choice Voting helps eliminate or mitigate some of these problems by allowing voters to rank the candidates in order of preference. If there are 4 candidates, the voter assigns them each a number in order of preference, 1-4.

The counting method then usually promoted in the US for single-member districts is the instant run-off method. In this case the votes would be counted and if no candidate won over 50% of 1st preference votes the candidate with the lowest number of votes would be eliminated. The 2nd preference votes from the eliminated candidate are then redistributed to the remaining candidates. This continues until someone wins over 50% of the vote.

This way, people can safely vote for third parties without worrying about splitting the vote, because the system takes into account their preferences.

Here's a sample scenario:

There is an election and 4 candidates run for election in a particular district and their vote percentages are as follows:

Candidate 1 for the Republican Party: 30%

Candidate 2 for the Democratic Party: 25%

Candidate 3 for the Libertarian Party: 21%

Candidate 4 for the Green Party: 24%

Using the existing FPTP system, the Republican Party candidate wins, even though 70% of voters did not vote for them.

But with Ranked Choice Voting, the Libertarian candidate is eliminated and their votes redistributed. Let's say that most of them put The Republicans as their 2nd preference (12 points) but 6 points go to The Green Party and 3 to the Democrats:

Candidate 1 for the Republican Party: 42%

Candidate 2 for the Democratic Party: 28%

Candidate 4 for the Green Party: 30%

Since still no one has over 50% of the vote, the Democratic Party Candidate is eliminated and their votes redistributed. Let's say those voters overwhelmingly voted for the Green Party Candidate as their 2nd preference, or their 3rd (in the case where their 2nd preference was the Libertarian Party Candidate, who has been eliminated).

The new vote totals are thus as follows:

Candidate 1 for the Republican Party: 44%

Candidate 4 for the Green Party: 56%

This time, the Green Party Candidate wins because the system accounted for the preferences of the voters, the majority of whom did not want the Republican Candidate to win.

TLDR: Pushing for Ranked Choice Voting is something tangible you can do to slightly improve the shitshow that is American Politics and I would strongly encourage everyone to educate themselves on it and to push for it in all elections that you can. There are some active Ranked Choice Voting campaigns out there, but even educating the people you know on Ranked Choice Voting and how it is a better representation of the desires of the electorate is a good start.

Disclaimer: This post is not intended as a lecture on why you should or should not vote for a third party candidate in the upcoming election. Please do NOT try to start arguments on my post about whether or not it is morally acceptable to vote for third parties. That's not the point of this post, this post is intended to inform people about Ranked Choice Voting and how First-Past-The-Post is a terrible system that screws over the American people.

[verfego]

The UK government has put in place an emergency ban of puberty blockers to any person under the age of 18 while under the conservative government. A recent statement by the new Labour Secretary of Health Wes Streeting indicates transphobic intentions and views; regretting saying that "trans women are women" and has displayed intent to extend the current emergency ban of puberty blockers to minors past September 3rd 2024, and enforce the ban permanently.

People under the age of 18 cannot legally receive puberty blockers under private healthcare services and if they want to receive puberty blockers from public healthcare (the NHS) they will need to do so in a clinical trial environment. The NHS notoriously takes a VERY long time to get things done due to understaffing and underpaid workers, meaning that almost all trans minors are going to be unable to access puberty blockers for extended periods of time, and they will do so under clinical conditions and nowhere else.

This is an attempt to eradicate trans youth.

A recent post on presidential candidate and convicted felon Donald Trump's website explains how he will, on Day One of being re-elected for president 2024:

- Ban all forms of HRT for any and all ages in the USA

- Pass a law allowing all "victims of child sexual mutilation" to sue doctors who have provided gender affirming care to trans people.

- Push an act of congress to make sure the only legally recognised genders in every state of the United States of America are male and female, and these are to be assigned at birth.

This is an attempt to eradicate trans people en masse.

This is an attempt to eradicate trans people from the US population entirely.

This is an attempt to make America as it was years ago before trans people were allowed to live publicly and freely.

I cannot imagine what the entire trans population of the US is feeling at these statements, especially under the conditions that Biden is running for president under. Biden is unfit for a state position, and should not be allowed to run for president. Biden is not likely to be elected president at all, as the recent presidential debates showed his mental decline and removed faith from the Liberal party he is the face of.

I urge almost all people who are trans to try and find safety in countries outside of the UK and US respectively, as both countries' governments have shown time and time again who they stand for and what agendas they will try and act upon - regardless of political alignment and personal politics. They will do what they can for power and for control, regardless of the toll it takes on the people of the countries they seek to "protect."

The changes the UK are making are devastating to not only trans youths, but to young people experiencing symptoms of early onset puberty that puts their health at risk. This does not just damage trans people, but others as well.

The changes Trump seeks to enforce in the US will cause countless deaths of trans people on a nationwide scale. These changes are catastrophic, and the effect that they would have upon the entire trans population of America would be devastating.

Please. Do everything that you can to stop this attack on our lives, our happiness, and our community. Do everything you can to prevent the trans healthcare crises that both the UK and US are imminently facing, because the changes will take years to revert and will have lasting effects on our rights and health for years to come.

Send letters and emails to your local representatives and any relevant government authorities, residents of the USA if you are legally allowed to, please do not stay quiet or neutral on this. If you are of the legal age to when the presidential election comes around; VOTE. Vote for anybody but Trump, ensure that you vote against Trump to save lives. DO NOT VOTE FOR TRUMP.

I hate that this is happening anywhere but two of the largest countries in the world with some of the most diverse populations of trans people are regressing at a rapid rate. Save trans lives and do your part, because this is the start of an attempt to eradicate us from the world, starting from the young people of our communities in the UK, and aiming to remove any hope of basic gender affirming care in the US.

Trust me when I say, this will not end here if these laws are allowed to pass through in any capacity. After they take away any hope for gender affirming care in the USA, they will begin criminalising trans lives entirely. If the UK is allowed to ban puberty blockers to "save childrens' lives" we will follow the US swiftly, and our lives will be in jeopardy just as the trans community of America's is right now.

Do not stay apolitical, do not let them kill us, do not give up.

I send love and appreciation to all trans people, and I believe that we can get through with this. We cannot give up and let them remove us from the world. Trans Lives Matter.