Senate candidates who supported trans people, like Tammy Baldwin, won.

Senate Democratic candidates who threw trans people under the bus, including Sherrod Brown and Colin Allred, lost.

The copyright lobby that pretend to be news publishers are going to try to tell you that Democrats lost because they didn't hate trans people enough, but the evidence shows the opposite.

Remember that in 2004, Republicans ran a single-issue campaign of opposing gay marriage. When they won, the copyright companies told us it was because Democrats needed to hate gay people more. But 11 years later, a Republican Supreme Court justice cast the deciding vote for gay marriage, and 16 years later, two Republican Supreme Court justices voted for employment nondiscrimination. Republican politicians were afraid to talk about gay people.

In 20 years Republicans will tell us that of course they've always supported the rights of trans kids to get health care and play sportsball, it's just those pesky asexual people they're concerned about.

In the short term, things are bad, and many of us will die. But in the long-term we will win.

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