You would think after Sinema, Manchin, Fetterman, fucking etc they’d learn, but no.
Sure, maybe this person will win and help flip the
Senatehouse but how long until they start climbing up the next Mich McConnell’s ass looking for bribes?And when this doesn’t win them any votes they’ll turn around and blame trans people anyway because fuck it why not? Have they called Liz Cheney for a fucking photo op yet?
I would love to subject these disgusting pigs to just 10% of the dehumanizing bullshit they put trans people through.
Goddamn how are the Democrats so bad at politics? FFS, even if the national party is cool with looking the other way on anti-trans politicians, at least don’t fund it. And especially don’t fund it openly under the banner of the whole party. Is it too much to ask for them to have a little shame? In a world of dark money they just decide to plaster the DCCC on it.
Can’t say I ever trusted the DCCC to be a good shepherd of money, but I did kind of assume they’d use it poorly in ways that made the party look like it stood for nothing rather than proactively standing for transphobia.
Good lord how much more overt does this have to get before people stop saying the Dems “are making simple mistakes” or “don’t know what we want”?!
Oh wait, I know how deep the denial goes, I’ve been watching magats swim in it for years.
They’re controlled opposition, establishment that is.
They’re not bad at politics, you’re just bad at reading their intentions.
What’s more alarming for transgender people, however, is that the DCCC is behind the ad. Whereas a candidate’s political ad is the candidate’s choice, an ad paid for by the DCCC is the Democratic Party’s choice. That makes this ad the first known instance of the party itself choosing anti-transgender messaging to win an election, a notable development for those watching for signs that explicitly anti-transgender positions, once rare in the Democratic Party, might be gaining steam across the party as a whole.
This escalation comes as more and more evidence emerges that anti-transgender ads are ineffective, suggesting that embracing anti-transgender messaging is a policy choice rather than a political calculation designed to win an election.
I hope she loses and makes clear exactly how morally bankrupt they are.
Remember this whenever any defends how Democratic Party Chooses to do politics
Yeah, because an anti-trans ad is so much worse than anti-trans laws, anti-women laws, anti-non-white laws, child rape, and a complete and total fleecing of the entire country.
Remember this whenever a psyop propaganda spewing chode tries to reduce the one party not trying to lead us into fascism down to a singe issue in order to inspire you to chose fascism by staying home.
You mean anti-trans laws like these shitty centrists voted for to get passed?
https://www.them.us/story/eight-democrats-house-dont-say-trans-bill
or
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5085485-cuellar-gonzalez-transgender-athletes-bill/
or
With shitty centrists that run anti-trans ads and then vote in anti-lgbtq laws, who needs Republicans.
You can argue until you’re blue in the face that they’re the best Democrats can do in a Red state, and I’ll even give you an inch on that one, but that’s still not an excuse for a shitty person with such pathetic morals that they can’t stand up for human rights and Democrats, including Talarico who I think is still a decent candidate despite his own massive betrayal of the trans community, should and need to do much better.
You’re so beyond hope.
You are not an ally. Today it’s an ad, tomorrow it’s a law, and you’ll defend it as “not as bad” until you’re so far right you’re pushing for imprisonment because it’s not as bad as execution.
Democrats pull left leaning people right, that’s their primary function.
LMAO…
Oh its not them who are beyond hope…
Ok. So what is your suggestion for defeating republicans and trying to take back our democracy as quickly as necessary to prevent us from losing it forever?
Get your ass in there and vote in every god damn primary for the progressive, stop donating and volunteering for any centrist, stop donating to any Democratic group that supports centrist and instead donate to progressive only-groups, donate and volunteer for the progressive running in the Democratic primary, be better than Tom Morello and if you’re in a nice safe, Democratic stronghold, organize and do a small but significant mass protest vote.
Just spit balling ideas that I’ve been doing for a decade and a half, minus the last one, now that you can actually do to actually defeat republicans with people who will actually push back against them.
I’m already doing all that. I thought you were advocating the doomer both sides bad don’t vote bullshit.
I don’t want to defeat republicans, I want to defeat both.
Yeah. And I’m the one that’s beyond hope…. LMAO!
Cool. Me too. What’s your plan? What are you doing that we can also do and help?
Well, we are trying to organize around independent candidates that actually support our values, while you scream at us “DO YOU WANT TRUMP? THAT’S HOW YOU GET TRUMP” and insist on voting for Democrats, even when their candidate is not even viable.
You are supporting genocides, militarized police, the US jail system, US imperialism, etc, while calling yourself an ally and telling us to sacrifice our values and our bodies to protect you from Trump.
You throw us under the bus and blame us for not supporting your flavor of evil.
Hey guess what? I’m doing that, too. But when the election comes and I have a choice between more or less evil I will still go for damage control.
Don’t let perfect get in the way of good. Purists of all strains are fucking cancer.
You are supporting genocides, militarized police, the US jail system, US imperialism, etc, while calling yourself an ally and telling us to sacrifice our values and our bodies to protect you from Trump.
Fuck you I’m not and fuck you for thr accusation.
The article incorrectly makes the jump from “cannot compete in the girl competition” to “are banned from competing”, without further explanation
What the fuck are you talking about. Forcing trans girls to play with boys in single gender sports is a ban.
Categories aren’t divided by gender but by physiology. You might have to let go of the connection between the two which you might have been taught as a child
Again, what the fuck are you talking about. Banning trans girls from girl sports teams is banning them from sports, because ‘just play on the boy’s team’ is a non-starter for most everyone. This is like saying gay people could get married when gay marriage was illegal because they could marry someone of the opposite sex: technically true and fucking irrelevant.
Trans girls belong on girls’ teams. You don’t even know that there is a physiological difference between these kids other than their genitals; you ever heard of puberty blockers? Hormone replacement therapy? Those influence your strength and stamina way more than what shape your genitals are.
They’re just trying to call trans girls “biological boys” in a roundabout way because they know actually saying it is disgraceful and embarrassing. They’re an idiot, basically.
It isn’t ‘the boy’s team’. That’s what you were taught as a child. As you seem to understand that dividing into these categories has something to do with physiology, why would you say that trans girls have to *automatically *go with the physiological girls and not the physiological boys?
This a very “Frictionless spherical cow on an infinite plane” response. Categories in sports are, in fact, divided by gender. Just because you think they shouldn’t be is irrelevant to the facts at hand.
In a world where we did not divide sports by gender, and where division was necessary did so only by meaningful physiological criteria like weight, it is true that trans men and women would often end up playing alongside cis people of the opposite gender. But then it’s also true they would end up playing alongside cis people of the same gender, and cis people of opposite genders would end up in the same categories too. That is, obviously, the ideal outcome, but you can’t just act as if it’s the reality we have in order to dismiss legitimate concerns about how these policies impact real people here and now.
You’re either trying to adopt progressive sounding language to justify a harmful transphobic policy, or you are genuinely ignorant of the real harms that you are defending in your misguided attempt to be more-progressive-than-thou.
You’re forgetting about muscle-to-weight-ratio and muscle distribution, amongst others. I’m happy that you acknowledge that dividing by physiology is ‘the ideal outcome’. But then you just wipe everythingfrom the whiteboard and replace it with “make trans (women) happy”.
I, too, want to see trans women happy. But that doesn’t mean it automatically invalidates every other argument.
It’s not a question of forgetting or remembering those things, I simply didn’t go into them because none of them are relevant when the reality today is that we still divide sports teams by gender, not by any physiological characteristics. As long as dividing by gender is the rule, trans women belong on women’s teams and anything else is denying an essential part of their identity, end of story.
But the fact that you’re only interested in talking about those characteristics - very obviously in the mistaken belief that any of them can be used to subdivide “men” and “women” in such a way that all of the trans women get stuck with the cis men and vice versa - makes it entirely clear that your faux progressive language is a sham to poorly mask your deep seated transphobia. You don’t actually understand the science of sex and gender - if you did you wouldn’t be making these arguments - you’ve just cherry picked a few pieces of it that you think will support your bigotry.
