The impact of Turek’s proposal would be profoundly harmful for transgender people.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/54506028

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/politics/p/1270828/iowa-dem-josh-turek-releases-anti-trans-ad-calling-for-a-federal-funding-ban-on-trans-care

On Saturday, Oct. 24, Josh Turek, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Iowa, released a new ad targeting transgender people—perhaps the worst anti-transgender ad of the entire election cycle to come from a Democrat. The ad begins with Turek talking about his disability and the importance of not discriminating, before immediately turning to adopt discriminatory policies toward transgender people. One such policy is a sports ban, a position sadly becoming increasingly common among high-profile Democrats in competitive races, and one that alone would have made this yet another newsworthy anti-trans ad. But Turek then goes further, advocating for a new policy: a proposal to ban federally funded gender-affirming care in the United States, one that would impact a substantial number of transgender people and make their care difficult to impossible to receive.

  • SippyCup@lemmy.world
    43·
    2 days ago

    If you’re in a car, and you have a fork ahead of you. The right path takes you directly off a cliff, and the left path circles around a tree before taking you off the same cliff, are you really going to stay in the car?

    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Is it a fast car and how close is the other side?

      Like what if instead if dying in a fiery crash I just landed a sick jump?

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        2 days ago

        So “aim for the cliff and put the pedal to the metal”? Is that your outlook?

        That’s kinda like “aim for the bushes,” innit?

    • edible_funk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      2 days ago

      Are you leaving the country? Because that’s the only way to get out of the car. Everything else leads to one of two possibilities, regardless of your feelings about it. And one is less bad. That’s the facts

      • SippyCup@lemmy.world
        52·
        2 days ago

        No. One is bad now, the other is just as bad but delayed by a cycle.

        And no, leaving the country is not the only option. It’s the only option they want you to consider, but it’s not the only option.

            • edible_funk@lemmy.worldEnglish
              15·
              2 days ago

              Vote in the fuckin primaries you asshats. But you don’t fuckin vote. Goddamn tankies on this shit platform.

              • SippyCup@lemmy.world
                51·
                2 days ago

                I have voted in every election I have been eligible to vote in for the last 24 years. Including multiple primaries, caucuses, and every general, midterm, and special election.

                The fuck are you smoking?

                  • SippyCup@lemmy.world
                    11·
                    1 day ago

                    Explain how voting for policy that would have been at home on a Republican ticket 2 years ago isn’t just giving Republicans exactly what they want?

                    It’s fucking ugly to demand that anyone vote for their own oppressors. Would ask a black person to vote for a Jim Crow candidate just because the other guy was a known Klansman? We are a cycle or two away from elected officials pushing for votes on legislation to chemically castrate trans people, and you’re saying voting for oppression is OK as long as the oppressor’s got the right color pin on.

                    If a politician makes it far enough along in the process to the point where we’re only discovering he’s a bigot the week before the election, my guy, the Republicans have already won. They either get the gal they want, or a guy who won’t stand in their way.

                    To be extremely clear, we’re specifically taking about Josh Turek verses Ashley Hinson, who’s platform pages might as well be copy pasted from one another. The only difference being that Hinson actually shows up to vote sometimes.