In the continuing race to see who can throw transgender people under the bus most quickly, South Carolina Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Annie Andrews has released a new direct-to-camera campaign ad in which she states that she does not support trans athletes playing in sports that affirm their gender identity.
Blue no matter who! Otherwise you’re a Nazi!
Unless, you know. The blue person is a Nazis.
Why is it centrist dems only adhere to “blue no matter who” when it’s other centrists dipshits who want to shit on our rights?
The right to be trans or cis or nonbinary, the right to be masculine or feminine or whatever mix you want to be is a fundamental right. And its absolutely justified to ask for representation that recognizes that.
In fact… not demanding that kind of recognition is the kind of thing Nazis go for.
I mean… she’s probably still a better option than the conservacunt opponent. But I agree that there have to be better candidates and she should be immediately replaced.
Every political ad I’ve heard this year has been about how <dem> wants to allow dangerous transes into your daughters bathroom and to push all the women out of their sports. I’m so fucking sick of it. Even if trans people were a problem (they’re not) there’s so few of them that we would have far bigger issues to focus on anyway. I doubt most of the people hyperventilating over this shit have ever even met a trans person.
Even if trans people were a problem (they’re not) there’s so few of them that we would have far bigger issues to focus on anyway.
This is what is so insane to me, the trans “issue” (there is no issue, just treat them like people) is a nothibgburger.
There are sooooooo many more important issues, cost of living, healthcare, general safety, climate change, Russia, China and more, before ever comming close to speaking on trans policy.
And when it does come to speaking on trans policy, I would suggest not calling ut that, just make it a part of the general policy, people need healthcare, give it to them, a healthy people is a productive and happy people, some needs more/different care, others needs less, both benefits here.
I am no super mega awesome trans friend, but I don’t see why I should hate some random people when they have done nothibg to me.
There is enough shit going on in the world, we don’t need more hate.
She’s a biological waste of space and a dumb cunt
Apparently the Democratic Party just decides their policy based on whatever republicans say it is. Fucking losers
Such an obvious layup: If they do this disgusting shit to this cis woman, who’s next? Do you want your daughters driven out of sports by genital exams? Personal privacy! Freedom!
Instead: hits self in head with hammer
SUPPORTING Trans people is a WINNING issue? Quick! THROW Trans people UNDER the Bus!
-LITERALLY Democrats!
They can’t hide their hatred
Supporting trans people is a winning issue for Democrats but it’s not for conservative Republicans.
This election specifically Democrats are hopeful they’d get votes from a large portion of traditionally Republican voters so they are pushing a bit on Trans to please Republicans but not too much that they lose their Democrat voters
This election specifically Democrats are hopeful they’d get votes from a large portion of traditionally Republican voters so they are pushing a bit on Trans to please Republicans but not too much that they lose their Democrat voters
But at the end of the day it doesn’t matter. It’s what they do on all of the “controversial issues” since the dawn of time. Biden and Obama both ramped up deportations and poured more into the border than anyone before them. What did it get them… all republican voters still believe they had “open borders”.
This election specifically Democrats are hopeful they’d get votes from a large portion of traditionally Republican voters
That’s not just this election. That’s been every election in my memory. They cling to this strategy, even though it keeps failing.
Surely this time they’ll want a watered down version of the thing they keep going harder on!
Schumer bangs on about having an imaginary Republican couple in his head dictating his every action. If that isn’t a big fuck you to the people who vote democrat I don’t know what is.
‘Pushing a bit’
What a way to phrase it.
Appealing to no one, you say? Can’t see how this strategy could fail yet again!
Trump dubbed Andrews “Annie Trannie” in a social media post Monday and said she favored “Transgender for Everyone.” He also shared a commercial attacking her on transgender issues.
In a direct-to-camera ad, Andrews retorted, “I want you to hear me loud and clear: I don’t support biological men playing women’s sports and I don’t support and haven’t ever performed gender surgery for minors.” As she speaks, text reading “No men in women’s sports” and “No gender surgeries for minors” appears next to her.
With Republicans running the state house and senate, has two republican US senators and six of the seven house delegates are republicans this may be a stance you need to take to have a chance in South Carolina.
Trump’s most successful ad during the campaign was against trans and he won the election.
Democrats are only 30% of voters. Trump wants that other 70% to vote for him.
Sure, he could be pro universal healthcare instead (he’d get almost all of that 70% if he was), but he’d lose a lot of “donations”. Trans is an easy issue for him without any cost.
Damn. The next month is going to be a shit show.
I hope she loses her election.
The alternative is sadly a Republican, which is even worse.
These people need to make their hate known before the midterms so they can be kicked out, now trans people are stuck waiting through 4 years of transphobic hate before they can try anything.
No. Her winning is worse than the Republican winning, at least for trans people. This is an infection in the Democratic Party, and every TERF Democrat that wins spreads the infection even more.
Just imagine telling a black person they had to vote for someone that supports segregated drinking fountains, all in the name of "the greater good.’
One side is literally commiting genocide against us.
The other side is slowly leaning towards it.
Yes it’s bad to let that leaning towards look like a winning strategy to be replicated, but that is something we can potentially fight at the next midterms. We cannot fight it however if we are all gone.
Good sweet baby Jesus on a Pogo stick sipping on a monster energy! When one candidate wants segregated fountains and the other wants a return to slavery, it isn’t rocket science!
Are you black? Do you know how black people voted in these times? Or are you parading black people around as your morality puppet, imagining for yourself “how it probably went”?
Her winning is worse than the Republican winning
Absolutely unhinged take.
It isn’t and they already explained exactly why. Her winning further erodes the only semblance of trans support in our government.
How have Democratic voters still not learned that constantly “lesser of two evil”-ing the party to the right is a long term self-destruction?
Voting Democrat: long term self-destruction.
Voting Republican: immediate self-destruction. This is not better. This is worse.
You don’t have to say that a Democrat winning is “worse” than a Republican winning in order to criticize the Democrats.
Once again, read the comment you originally responded to. This specific Democrat is running on a platform that has no place in the Democratic Party. If we allow it, we are worse in the long run than a Republican winning this seat.
You should read Letter From a Birmingham Jail and try to understand which part is about you.
Also you realize those aren’t the only two choices right?
now trans people are stuck waiting through 4 years of transphobic hate
This election is to fill the vacancy left by Lindsay Graham (rot in piss), in case anybody was wondering like me why it wasn’t six.
The alternative is sadly a Republican, which is even worse.
Harm reduction is when a liberal kills you politely.
now trans people are stuck waiting through 4 years of transphobic hate
The difference I’ve seen between cis-activists and trans-activists is that Trans people are done waiting.
I see more direct action in an LGBTQ aligned street corner than a No Kings parade.
Trans people will keep being trans. They’ll keep helping each other transition. Fuck the law. Fuck the cops. And fuck any liberal fascist politician who tries to stop them.
murc’s law lol
It’s absolutely bizarre how easily Trump can just lead these assholes around by the nose.
It started when he was more popular than them because nobody likes moderate Republicans and the party was kind of in the dumpster. It’s persistent because he gained a strangle holder and can threaten the primary anyone. What the Republican Party even looks like after Trump dies of old age I have no clue. It’s been the Trump party for years they have to reinvent themselves
Some days I think. Do I just need to run for a political seat. I mean. For fucks sake.
Can we just get someone normal with baseline ethics ?
I don’t want to go into politics.
It looks boring as hell and you have to listen to complaints all day and threats from corporate brats calling your office.
And the smear campaigns.
But I mean. Someone needs to do the job right.
Maybe someone who doesn’t want to do it is the right person.
Idk.
Sometimes I just think about that.
I don’t have any past b.s to be brought up. All my old nudie pics are from peak years. So even if someone shared those it would probably help me get elected not hurt me.
Idk. Sometimes I think maybe I should just try. My whole angle would be.
“I don’t want this job. But y’all keep fuckin it up. So here we are.”
Or
“Move aside. I’ll fix it myself, fuckwits”.
I have a cynical sense of humor. Some people might relate but Id probably piss a lot of people off.
I’ve been trying to tell all my friends how they need to run for local offices. Hell, half of those small positions aren’t even opposed.
easy wins. Cushy state job.
Sit there and make it hard for people to get away with b.s. slow down the fascist. And help the progressives.
You can do that at any level of government if you play your cards right.
The article points out she used to not be transphobic, electing “good” Democrats only does so much when the whole party is controlled opposition
Democrat solidarity everyone.
Am I out of date on definitions already? Doesn’t “biological male” refer to “biological sex,” which while not synonymous with sex at birth is much more closely connected to it than gender?
Biological male is a transphobic dog whistle. And a binary application of biological sex itself isn’t good either, sex is complicated.
What do you call a biological male that’s not “a dog whistle”?
Amab, if you have to. Better to just not though
I think a better question is why do you need to specify that?
What if you’re a doctor?
Are you a doctor? In what capacity for my healthcare does that matter? On the very rare chance it is medically relevant I will let you know that I am a trans woman.
Check this shit out. Sex and gender are not cut-and-dry, they’re words we came up with. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981
The NCAA, the WNBA, etc. are private organizations. There aren’t any state or federal government-operated sports associations that I know of. Democrats fighting in deep red states like this should just turn the limited government argument on their opponents.
“I stepped in some shit, clean that off, too.”
