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.
I am so sick of this trans focus. They are a small part of the population that does zero harm, just leave them the fuck alone. They are not the source of even one of our very real fucking problem. Any politician that mentions them should be immediately forced to resign and be barred from any leadership position for life.
Men that want to harass women don’t need to transition to do that. Wtf is the logic here? Men can already enter women’s bathrooms. There’s no force field and stops people to going in?
Also, do we think assaulters and rapists would want to transition? They’re probably too transphobic to start.
It sounds plausible enough for the portion of the American public who seem to be incapable of critical thought to blindly follow it. It’s a ‘gotcha’ for imbeciles.
Yes, let us again focus on stupid culture wars.
/s
That’ll win it for sure!
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.
Conservatives don’t have answers to help with any real problems, but they know the left will pull out the purity tests and turn into a circular firing squad over this and destroy themselves whole the bigots and fascists laugh all the way to the election booth.
It’s all a distraction, and follows the recipe of ur-fascism: there has to be an enemy that is easily identifiable, easily targetable, and yet somehow poses insurmountable danger…
Just saw a quote from Vance about it… one of the two issues he mentioned…
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
That’s not just this election. That’s been every election in my memory. They cling to this strategy, even though it keeps failing.
Clinton rode third way into office and the party hasn’t been able to move on since then.
It never works, buuuuut maybe this time will be the exception. -Dems
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.
Surely this time they’ll want a watered down version of the thing they keep going harder on!
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”.
Appealing to no one, you say? Can’t see how this strategy could fail yet again!
‘Pushing a bit’
What a way to phrase it.
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.
No one that cares about this is going to be convinced by this remark. It gains nothing. The only response that could possibly convince them is to reject the premise. Stay on message.
‘I don’t respond to immature internet bullies. No one cares about what they have to say. People are struggling and need Washington to listen to them for once instead of pushing made up culture wars. That’s why in this race. I’m running to ensure that Washington spends less time and money bombing children overseas and more time and money helping Americans here at home. Food prices are too high. Home prices are too high. Healthcare prices can’t even be defined until after a bill arrives. The American people are tired and want real change, not a continuation of what got us here’
so it would be cool if they said “i don’t support people assigned male at birth playing womens’ sports”?
what else should be considered apart from the language being used?
No idea what point you are trying to make but what would be cool is if a bunch of hatemongers didn’t get to invent new “problems” as an excuse to hate others. We shouldn’t be talking about this. People like sports but that doesn’t make them important enough for any politician to ever talk about. If I had it my way, if you’re mad about trans people playing sports then you’re too stupid to vote and would lose that right for displaying such idiocy.
I genuinely don’t see why anyone cares if trans women play sports. How many trans women athletes could there even be?
The idiot you replied to probably couldn’t name a female athlete, let alone a trans one.
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.
We already know you’re a transphobe and a conservative, so we can cut the shit where you pretend to have moderate views that you absolutely do not have.
You’re an independophobe, and everyone can tell at a glance what your political positions are on anything. Laughable cookie-cutter politics.
You can continue thinking that the 70% of voters that don’t agree with you are all right wing, but there are 40% of independents that prove you to be wrong indisputably. We’re not all right wing, if we were you’d never, ever win any election ever.
We just don’t agree with you. Simpleton level math.
(pew research, 30% of voters are Democrat, and 30% are Republican, and 40% are Independent. We don’t agree with you, and you can’t make us agree with you. Greens, Libertarians, Independents, Socialists, et al)
Is this a copypasta? The whole “I’m too unique to talk politics with you” schtick is not new. And I’m actually basing what I said on something vs just rambling generically.
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
Damn. The next month is going to be a shit show.
For maga maybe. The maga trash already tried this strategy multiple times last year and in special elections and it failed every time.
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, I’m unconvinced. I think I’d rather have Nazis be blatant Nazis than liberals pretend they aren’t Nazis while enabling Nazis.
Edit: vote blue no matter who doesn’t fucking work. It has never worked. Just look at literally any time a leftist is running, and how the establishment is works to counter them at every turn. Vote blue no matter who has only ever been applied in one direction. I don’t think democratic voters should continue to reward failure and betrayal.
That’s dumb, but vote with spite, that’ll show em!
She’s going to lose and be remembered as a coward, which is what transphobe apologists deserve.
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
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.
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.
Then you have to get funding and all that bullshit which is notoriously hard.
I don’t know, man. It’s fucking exhausting though.
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.
People like you live in a fairy tale, and they always will. That a mythical third party will come along and win with no work towards it, perfectly aligned to court a majority of voters. “No, the Democratic party cannot be reformed. Do not vote in the primary or participate in caucuses. Only a third party I won’t name nor will I give any instructions on finding will solve our problems.”
It’s, frankly, horseshit. You are the same as a fucking doomsayer saying the end is nigh, using numberology to prove it’ll happen next Thursday.
You people want to have a third party in a voting system strictly opposed to third parties. How the fuck do you plan to get those third parties elected with 5% of the vote?
Don’t get me wrong. It’s great for feeling morally superior! If you never have to make a hard choice in your life, you can pretend any problem isn’t your fucking responsibility, not your fucking fault.
Anyway, this guy is either an accelerationist or an operative designed to get you to be apathetic towards voting. Just fucking vote, and do basic fucking math to realize there is no national third party that will save you. If you hate the Democratic party, join your local party and berate the shit out of them to change. That’ll do more than this shit plan of voting third party ever will.
murc’s law lol
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.
There are two jobs voters have in this election:
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Get the existing fascists out of power.
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Prevent the Democrats from also falling to fascism.
You cannot focus on just one. If you’re focusing on just one, you are failing as a voter.
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Her winning is worse than the Republican winning
Absolutely unhinged take.
Only unhinged if you’re so brain rotted you can’t think past a single election.
Not at all. In fact, thinking beyond a single election is exactly why I think the Republican is worse.
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.
You have electoral myopia.
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?
They are the only two choices right now. No one else is on the ballot, the Senator will be Andrews or Lindsay Graham’s sister.
The time to make other choices was the primary. Andrews’ two opponents each raised barely 1/100th of the campaign support, and Andrews won that primary 62:30:8. Continuously re-running primaries and making best the enemy of better is how we keep getting worst.
Also you realize those aren’t the only two choices right?
Yes, and that fact is irrelevant to the statement “Her winning is worse than the Republican winning”
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”?
Edit: so you are running around screeching at people not to speak for trans people if they’re not trans. But black folks? What? They are beneath care and you can speak for them?
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.
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.
The other person on the ballot is Lindsay Graham’s sister though. Also during the dem primaries there were two other candidates who were pro universal healthcare and the dem voters picked this bitch by a landslide. It’s South Carolina don’t expect much from blue voters there.
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.
the time to be picky is the primaries or the local caucus, not the general where you’re usually looking at two viable (has a shot to win) candidates; and not voting for ‘your side’ regardless of the ‘player’ is essentially giving a vote to the ‘other side’, because they mostly do vote in goose-step unison.
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.
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.
Here’s a primer for journalists. It explains that the problem with biological sex is that it is ambiguous and could mean one of several things that may not align.
What do you call a biological male that’s not “a dog whistle”?
I think a better question is why do you need to specify that?
Not OP and I get your point but I think if people are generally trying to figure out the correct words for things, esp when those things could upset someone, we should try to be a bit less dismissive. If someone uses the wrong word for a thing in my field (and it is a case where it actually matters) I try to gently correct them. OP seems sincere here, people are curious, and both of those are things to be encouraged I think. That said, I can understand how when you’re having these interactions every day it can be exhausting.
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.
Amab, if you have to. Better to just not though
“Dude.”
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
“I stepped in some shit, clean that off, too.”
