We say Trans Rights are Human Rights.
Because it's true. They are.
Transgender people are humans.
Squashing trans rights is denying humans of their human rights.
Cis people are also human and should care about this because
it is morally correct to care about other people and
if one group's rights can be stripped away, anyone's can.
But if there's one thing that I've learnt from the argument over the ECHR, it's this:
Conservatives think they're above humans.
I know that sounds hyperbolic, but it's the most succinct way I could put it. The type of conservative that supports Reform/Farage or their counterparts elsewhere, do not think that human rights apply to them.
I'm pretty sure that, in their minds, it works something like this. White people created civilization and are better than everyone else. Bleeding heart liberals invented human rights because they wanted to give the unwashed barbarians a leg up. That was dangerous because it gives them power. So the common sense position is to stop trying to help them, thus we don't need human rights at all.
That, in a nutshell, seems to be the thrust of conservative thought regarding the ECHR. Naturally there will be some similar house of cards when pointing out that trans rights are human rights.
How we prick this sense of exceptionalism I do not know, but it's a serious problem. These people who think they're above the need for human rights, because they're white or cishet or whatever, they vote. They vote against everyone's best interest, excepting the few rich arseholes whose lies they believe.
I wish I had some idea of how to make them see that they are not exempt. But that is a scary reality for anyone to face.
