Sitting in that chair, playing someone who understands discrimination and fairness because you can’t walk or please a woman, and using the way other people perceive you to say:

“Really it’s the trans women who are oppressing the cis women. The trans women are oppressing all of us with skyrocketing insurance rates, and by making us look at them.”

Is disgusting, cowardly, and shows us that Josh Turek’s biggest disability, is the fetid rot of a person he is.

Imagine trans rights being the thing you chose to chicken out of in an attempt to get undecided voters.

What a piece of shit

Paraphrasing from elsewhere…

Here are some thoughtful questions I’d like to see the US Senate-hopeful from Iowa, Josh Turek, receive during this campaign season:

• Would he shake the hand of a person who is HIV-positive? Would he use the same toilet after them?

• What does he think about gay couples adopting children?

• What does he think about public schools employing homosexual men as teachers?

These are all bad faith questions, loyalty tests, that were once lobbed at politicians. Their effectiveness relied on the inaccurate and undeniably cruel presumptions that gay people are inherently unclean or unfit to care for children.

For a while this worked. Fearful of abandonment by a prejudiced constituency, would-be leaders hemmed and hawed and furrowed their brows at these kinds of questions. At best, they would find strategic ways to dodge them. At worst, they would give in to laziness, play along with those cruel presumptions and pander to a popular false narrative.

Eventually all of those narrative were found to be false, cynically constructed to prey upon fears against those who can not help but look and act different than the majority. It took the bravery of millions of people, risking their livelihoods and relationships, sharing their inner lives and living their truths to shatter those falsehoods. It took a lot more than a single child’s insight to prove that emperor was wearing no clothes.

And here we go again. Another time, another false narrative: segregating transgender girls is fair and right.

This may feel like it makes sense, just as it may feel risky to use the same toilet seat as a person with a life-impacting sexually transmitted infection. But in both cases, two important facts cut them down to size: a) they’re both completely false, and b) the scenarios presented aren’t happening often enough for any of it to matter in the first place. They’re veiled attempts to codify prejudice into law, plain and simple.

Please instruct Senate-hopeful Turek that his party is not the one that does that.

The depressing thing i fear is that polling on trans rights must be bad enough that some dems feel this is a position that benefits them. Newsom seems to think it benefits him, slimy amoral scumbag that he is.

The dems don’t want to accept any responsiblity for the perception that they’re not meaningfully different from fascists, but they also want to throw trans people to the wolves when they’re already one of the most murdered groups in society.

Just Iowa things.

We’re not getting our passports back in 2028

Check yourself before you Turek yourself. 🖕

But Gender Affirming Care is already way too hard to get and pay for.

I’m curious how our federal government currently funds trans specific medical treatments.

@floofloof If you run as Republican lite, voters will choose the real thing.