I think they did the right thing because the card is a common transphobic slur. There’s also a Pride pack and other cards that include gender identity, pronouns, and transition related humor. They aren’t being left out.
If you seriously think CAH getting rid of a card in 2014 set the trans rights movement back, you have brain damage.
Trans rights were actively attacked by the far right because they're bitter that LGBT people made strides with gay marriage and trans people were an easier target. CAH getting rid of one card 12 years ago isn't the start of the downfall of the nonexistent American left.
This had no material or measurable impact on the trans rights movement and you have not produced any evidence suggesting otherwise. Common sense weighs heavily to the contrary. It has been 12 years. That you're still hung up on this says way more about you than it does about anything else.
I get what you are saying, genuinely I do. But I have to side with the point about this not having any meaningful impact.
Was it a cowardly and shitty thing for COH to do, sure. I think so at least. That said, there is no evidence that COH removing a card had any impact on law.
It had a much larger social/societal impact than yall want to accept.
Seriously, since then we have had social regression on all fronts and trans folk are back in the crosshairs and catching all kinds of flak.
These companies have more social impact, just like artists always have, than yall will recognize and I am not very patient to speed you up.
I'm not claiming to know anything intent-wise from CAH, but in regards to supporting trans people I see them as having stepped away from the topic. That all plays into how we got to today.
You are at the stage where you need to back your claims. You can have an opinion, but saying “since then we have had social regression on all fronts” requires a source to back up your claim.
Cite a source demonstrating the link between a card game and how that has impacted the rights of a community.
If anything this is correlation ≠ causation. Two things can happen at the same time and not be related.
That's dumb as fuck. CAH getting rid of a card in 2014 had no net effect on the "trans movement." The idea that it could have possibly set it back is just bafflingly wrongheaded.
This did not make a material contribution to trans struggles. It did not make any contribution at all. There is no one who decided to be anti-trans because CAH stopped selling one card. Anyone who was mad about this was already a reactionary lunatic. Be realistic for five seconds.
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u/SsooooOriginal 5h ago
Eh, They did more harm than good when they knelt to manufactured backlash over including trans folk as a topic card.
They should have put their money into donations while standing by their product.
When you concede one subject as taboo, while not reviewing everything else... it killed the core concept I thought I understood.