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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guess what? You don't have to rank what you care about most. Both are important issues. [/quote]
The analysis of it is more complicated than that. Yes, they're both important issues. But there it's undeniable that the media likes to focus on controversial issues rather than than root causes.

When celebrities and corporations are boycotting North Carolina because of the bathroom issue, why aren't they also mentioning the deplorable revocation of worker's rights? We know that the biggest risk factors of harm for transgender people are homelessness and unemployment/underemployment that often results in turning to prostitution for survival, which staggeringly multiplies the risk for harm.

So why the sole focus on the bathroom issue (which again, I'm not saying is unimportant) and not the issues that affect day-to-day [i]survival[/i]? Because the bathroom issue is controversial, trendy, and a cheap way to declare your progressiveness (or on the opposite side, conservatism) without actually supporting root change.[/quote]

Sometimes in political movements, you have to go for the low-hanging fruit. Focusing on the bathroom laws and how ridiculous they are is a way to get people educated on the mistreatment of transgender people generally, and to build support for overturning an absurd law. Once you've got people educated and engaged, it's easier to then direct that momentum toward changes that might be more challenging to convince people on, like employment, where many people still grate against the idea of telling business owners who they have to hire (which I realize isn't really what we're talking about here, but that's how opponents of transgender rights portray it).[/quote]

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