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Essie's avatar

In what has been an incredibly bleak time, this column today gave me some hope, so thank you.

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Tammye (she/they)'s avatar

Love you! This one might be one you like as well. Pretty long but kind towards us. https://jacobin.com/2024/11/transgender-rights-politics-democrats

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Edmond Hatfield's avatar

"I have two little girls, I don't want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I'm supposed to be afraid to say that,"

I think this is his quote. I think this is insulting, if he don’t want his daughters playing with transgender girls, call it that but don’t call them men or males. That is the language of terfs, bigots and transphobia. They seem to think that the trans community dose not know biology. They know biology and they know who they are. Mr Moulon, quit stoking fear and destroying girls lives. Strive for common ground not fear and hate.

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Larry Erickson's avatar

"I'm supposed to be afraid to say that"

Ah yes, said with just an elegant soupçon of "looka me, how brave I am!"

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Tammye (she/they)'s avatar

Thank you.

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Brooklyn Ricky's avatar

Attacking protected individual liberty, freedom, and equality of peaceful minority groups is not the answer. If we acquiesce, or give in on defending human rights for one group; then where does it end?

Scapegoating LGBTQ, and Trans people in particular is not the end, it’s the beginning of a nightmare for all people. Trans people find themselves in this horror right now, today.

And if you’re not Trans, ask yourself: after they find the final solution for one group of us; the authoritarian bureaucracy they build will be asking who’s next?

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Stephan Trump RESISTS in NJ's avatar

EXACTLY

If Donald succeeds in invalidating the Constitution, will we have civil war? With blue state governors fight the Feds on mass deportation?! Federal troops breaking and entering into citizen’s houses and kidnapping one or more humans that fit the description of the week. I have protection. My house is a safe place. My BrainBody searches for peace and protection for all. So.. Helper auADHD OCD* BrainBody Problem Solving meat machine is always ON.

*several other learning impairments

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Brooklyn Ricky's avatar

The blue state in which I live has come out publicly very strongly determined to protect individual liberty, freedom, body autonomy, and justice for all people…

ALL PEOPLE, no exceptions.

But since it’s been brought it up, I’ll say… If I’m gonna be drafted into a civil war effort, as a cook; 💯sure bet: my uniform is gonna be 🗽Yankee Blue🇺🇸

Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

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Stephan Trump RESISTS in NJ's avatar

🥳 and yes! 🤬 work faster grinding gears of justice. Ruth would have had his head on a platter already. She would have stopped Donald John in 2016 if she could. I know it. Ruth’s mind was brilliant. Much faster and smarter than Donald’s. Her words would have eviscerated him under direct questioning. 💀

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Becca's avatar

Heartening to read that not everyone is gonna throw us under the bus immediately. Thanks as always for you work, Erin

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Sandra's avatar

Democrats will NEVER win elections by trying to be more like Republicans. They must adhere to their progressive values, and even more importantly, articulate why those values are better for all of America, and for people and families. They can do it. Witness the success of Andy Beshear, Roy Cooper, and others that have done so in red districts or states.

The inventive by Rep. Moulton and a few others is disheartening and disgusting, and Democrats should distance themselves from that by every means possible.

Part of the reason why we are in this situation is that Democrats let the GOP set the agenda on trans kids and everything else, and didn’t offer much of a counterpoint of any sort. These anti-trans bans (athletic and especially medical) are causing great pain and cruelty across the country. Did we hear anything about that over the airwaves? No, the GOP was too busy being allowed to control the agenda. This must change.

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GhostoftheWhiteRose's avatar

Totally agree!

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Talia Perkins's avatar

I would prefer the rebukes contain the medical, biological facts which deny Moultan et al -- but I'll take what I can get.

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Stephan Trump RESISTS in NJ's avatar

You and me both!! 🤬🤬🤬

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Adam Tatum's avatar

Steve Schmidt of the warning with Steve Schmidt did this just the other day. He said supporting the Transgender community equates to supporting “wokeness” among other things that lost us the election. It’s obscene.

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Stephan Trump RESISTS in NJ's avatar

I hope we survive this detour, too. 😭 I was traumatized, again, on Nov 5. Donald has forever been an adversary. MY Trump family is educated; we are the Antithesis Trump branch. 🤬 Although, I claim Mary and Barron. 🤣 Go figure. Mary the older sibling I would have loved to have. Barron a nephew only 3 years older than my third child. They have a similar appearance, too. Love and support from me. 💕💕💕

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Dee E Dressler's avatar

Where are my Tina and my Amy from Minnesota. I'm a bit disappointed. I'm waiting ladies...

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Bryson's avatar

I have to admit that I am scared to death right now. My existence is at risk. I am not talking my happiness or my ease of making it through the day. My right to exist is now on the table. WTF?!?! How is my existence a harm to someone. We have people like Donald Trump who has been convicted of numerous felonies including rape of a woman, but my existence is dangerous? I am constantly screaming into the wind at this time. Just had to get that off my chest. Thank you.

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Larry Erickson's avatar

It's good to see some rapid pushback against the trimmers* who are dipping their toe n the waters to see how far they can distance themselves from trans rights without political cost (or better yet, with political praise).

I did want to add, however, that this sort of "maybe we've gone too far" tut-tutting is part of an overall effort by the hierarchy of the Democratic Party, the I suppose you could call it legacy party, to find someone, some force, to blame for the losses in the election that do not involve looking at the campaign itself, looking at the idea that maybe it was the party apparatus that screwed up. It's hard to find any analysis that does not praise the Harris-Walz campaign with terms like "great job" and "no mistakes" while dismissing critiques out of hand as unproductive or even destructive finger-pointing.

Same as it ever was: After 2016, the same "blame anybody else" game got played. There, the blamed included third party voters, sexism, Russia, James Comey, millennials, and Bernie Sanders - but not, oh no of course not, the party or the Clinton campaign.

It was intended then and is again now to smack down the influence of the actually progressive wing of the party by reasserting the control of the institutional party apparatus. In the long run, it will fail.

So carry it on.

*For those who don't know of it, "trimmer" (referring to trimming the sails of a ship) was a term used in labor struggles to refer to those whose support for worker rights shrank as soon as things got tough.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

It's not much consolation, but it's more than nothing, especially with all the other dipshits out there on the so-called left trying to shove us into the bus lane.

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hartley's avatar

Thank you. This was the news I needed to hear.

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