Transgender Woman Smacks Down All of the ‘I Vote Republican, but I’m Socially Liberal’ Bunk in Epic Tweetstorm

‘You Are Complicit’

Charlotte Clymer is an Army Veteran, a writer who works for the Human Rights Campaign, and she happens to also be a transgender woman. In an epic tweetstorm that’s going viral, Clymer details a conversation she says she had at a party, with a man who claims to be “socially liberal” yet votes for Republicans.

It’s pretty clear it did not go well for him.

Clymer says on Twitter, “If you support a party that is anti-LGBTQ and anti-woman and xenophobic and white supremacist because you think your taxes are too high, you are not ‘socially liberal.'”

That’s just one in a series of 16 tweets.

“You are complicit,” Clymer says in another tweet. “You are voting for my oppression.”

The best thing you can do is read them all, and share them.

They’re going viral, by the way. The first one has been retweeted nearly 6000 times, and liked over 18,000 times. Among those retweeting it are Sarah Silverman.

Take a look.

Last night, I was at a Christmas party, and this nice gentleman struck up a conversation with me. Asked what I do. I told him. He said he works in the Trump administration. He then says: “I vote Republican, but I’m socially liberal.” Let’s discuss this for a second.

— Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) December 16, 2018

But this gentleman put to me that a) he’s a Republican, b) works in the administration, and c) regrettably votes for the GOP, BUT… wants me to know that he’s on my side.

That is a summary of the first 90 seconds of our conversation.

— Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) December 16, 2018

So, I’m just going to put this out there to other folks who feel guilty about supporting the Republican Party but call themselves “socially liberal”. Because you folks really need to hear this.

— Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) December 16, 2018

If you support a party led by a coward who defends kidnapping children away from their parents and locking them in oversized dog kennels, you are not “socially liberal”.

— Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) December 16, 2018

If you love watching “Queer Eye” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race”, but you support a party that says trans people should be banned from the military and LGBTQ children should suffer the abuse of “conversion therapy”, you are not “socially liberal”.

— Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) December 16, 2018

If you need three dozen women to come forward about their encounters of sexual harassment, assault, and rape by an elected official–let alone a “president”–before you’ll consider that even one woman is telling the truth, you are not “socially liberal”.

— Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) December 16, 2018

And if you’re like the gentleman last night who copped out with “Well, I’m actually a libertarian” because that is somehow meant to encapsulate sympathy for my plight without bearing responsibility for complicity in the machinations that create it, you are an enormous asshole.

— Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) December 16, 2018

And to engage in this weird request-for-absolution/pseudo-therapy with a stranger (whom the GOP is oppressing) at a party–where if I get angry, I’ll come across as making a scene but if I say nothing, I’ll hate myself for it later–is beyond shitty.

— Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) December 16, 2018

“I’m Republican, but I don’t support Trump.”

Stop saying this. Everything is on fire, and if you vote for the Republican Party, you are voting for violent hatred and discrimination. You are complicit. You are supporting white supremacy. You are voting for my oppression. /thread

— Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) December 16, 2018

Image by Marc Nozell via Flickr and a CC license