not to defend him saying this but he elaborated in another interview that his position basically the trans equivalent of the Democrats who say "I'm personally pro life but don't want to ban abortion" and doesn't want to criminalize trans healthcare, which I guess is better than the alternative?? 😭
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Like I think the former have a good shot at not voting for the anti-trans stuff.
The later will probably vote for any anti-trans bill or provision that ever reaches them and may even try to get their own going.
It's worth noting though because I think the former can be called in and worked with now that they see how toothless the ads actually are.
we clearly have a messaging and education problem and it doesn't help imo when even pro-trans campaigns like the WA one not even mentioning trans people in their strategies, when we should be loudly and proudly defending ourselves if we want to actually win people over on the issue
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I talked about this on my election night stream.
I think the Dems that were bad on this stuff fall in two camps.
1) The scared: They don't hate trans people, but they were scared of ads and made shit statements. Hamilton, Talarico, Colom, etc.
2) The "Fuck trannies": Peltola, Turek, Kaptur, etc.