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This is a terrible take. Given the high rate of suicide among trans individuals who have no social or medical support, this is a public health issue and not just a race to the "money fountain". Should we also cut funding for all mental health causes because the Flint water crisis isn't yet taken care of? Not every trans individual is even asking for or wants to transition surgically. And when they do, most are paying out if their own pocket. And even those that get any public funding represent a literal drop in the ocean. Are you also mad at women who get attention and funding for breast reconstruction surgery after cancer?
By your logic no other social issue should be dealt with or funded if we don't solve world hunger first. It's not marginalised communities that are standing between people in need and resources, and it's frankly not constructive to be mad at those marginalised communities for getting the attention they do. Better to use that energy to go after those who hoard resources and have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
It's not that no other social issue deserves attention, it's that the lgbtqia+ social issue is not as important as its media footprint would suggest. Give me ONE native American icon that has one tenth the visibility of Ezra Miller or Caitlin Jenner. The entire nation has heard of fucking Lizzo but not one person on the street can name a single Indian reservation or native actor. It's fucking infuriating when you people live on stolen land and don't even think about who you killed to take it and continue to oppress to keep it.
LGBTQIA are getting a lot more screen time because a small group of powerful people decided we're a good scapegoat to distract everyone else (including you) from the real reason the issues you so vehemently abhor are even happening in the first place. Maybe you should direct your ire at them, it's a hell of a lot more constructive.
Also what's this about "you people"? I'm not American. In fact I come from a former colony of a European country that's still getting royally fucked over decades after independence, and the majority of the population lives in abject poverty. Don't lecture me about who's getting enough attention. Most of the people in your country have barely even heard of the place I'm from, let alone give even an iota of a shit about the plight of the people there. And you don't hear me ranting that native americans are getting more "attention" and "resources" compared to my people who are dying of rampant AIDs, violent conflict, and fucking disease and starvation. We all deserve equality and justice - focus your efforts on tearing down the causes, not other groups fighting for themselves against the same fucking oppressors.
Imagine having the independence to fuck up your own country as you like lmao you're talking about comparing a genocide to intermittent cultural oppression like they're even remotely similar. I'm sorry the Europeons came to your country and made things worse for your people. Mine never left and have only recently agreed to stop sending us to mandatory death camps dressed up as houses of God. Do your people still have concentration camps? Mine are called reservations.
If you think a lot of African countries are truly independent and not still being fucked every day by the same imperialists that put them in that situation in the first place, you have a lot to learn. Your people aren't the only ones who suffered from genocide and literal slavery courtesy the same breed of colonialists you talk about. Again if you have an issue with the status quo take it up with your oppressors rather than shitting on other oppressed peoples. And while you've turned this into an oppression dick measuring contest you, have yet to tell me how the lack of attention to your cause is specifically the LGBT community's fault as you've alluded to time and again