Rep. McBride joined Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Johnson in a speech against a felony national trans youth healthcare ban expected to be heard in Congress today.
I'm trans, I have legitimate criticisms of Sarah McBride to this point, and this doesn't invalidate them. But today, we are in step against this threat. If you don't have anything to offer here other than support, I invite you to shut the hell up and call your representative.
Great. Now. When is she going to walk back (all. the. way.) her pick me accommodationist, we wanted too much, this persecution is all these "trans activists'" fault horseshit?
When will she unapologetically use the ladies room publicly in the Capitol and in front of Johnson's nose?
When will she also represent even the transgender people of her own district?
Representative Sarah McBride just made my day. What a speech, no notes, no teleprompter and just her heart and convictions. As an ally I watched that video twice. So many talking points we can borrow when engaged in conversations, writing to our legislators or to use as motivation not to give up. I realize my comments are only based on what she said today as most of the time I am not in agreement.
It’s more than an obsession with transgender human beings. These disgusting groomers and pedophiles are consumed with lust for their genitals. Seriously. Next thing you know they will issue required transgender clothing with some sort of symbol so they know who is who. Hmmm…that sounds familiar…
Oh, we're still HAVING elections. Even Saudi Arabia and North Korea HAVE elections. The Republicans are just going to do everything they can to make ours equally meaningless.
I’ve said this before. Standing against the attacks on transgender Americans is not Sarah McBrides sole burden AND it is ok if she is not the perfect representative. She should be surrounded by other Cisgender representatives. I encourage every transgender person to run for office so that we can have strong representation. I believe it is unfair to demand perfect and not recognize good. Yes! Not excellent! There is a LOT of room for improvement for McBride but compare to Caitlin Jenner.
There's a disappointingly large number of socially conservative trans women out there. Blair White, Caitlyn Jenner, etc. I'm still glad that she's doing this now.
Sarah McBride has been capitulating in this issue since she got to Congress. I agree with statements here criticizing her. She hasn’t been a leader for our community. She’s been a politician, even supporting candidates who voted to take away trans healthcare. SMH. Now at the 11th hour she has something to say. And we’re suppose to honor that? AOC has been stronger than her. She is nothing to me. Not interested in Sarah McBride at all.
We need to get on this immediately, if you’re in Washington State start calling and writing these traitors to hopefully we can keep them from throwing us to the wolves again.
Just called Jared Golden's office -- they actually pick up the phone! He serves the red part of northern Maine. But I reminded them that if he voted in favor of those bills, it would definitely haunt him in the southern part of the state, where I live, if he ever hoped to run for statewide office. I think the guy's got a heart, so fingers crossed.
I especially loved Sarah's conclusion to the speech, where she reminded everyone that all of us trans adults were once trans CHILDREN. And then she brought us into her life, talking about how she grew up in pain and fear, and how it wasn't until age 21 that she came out and moved forward on the path to healing with her transition.
This hit me hard - it actually mirrors my own timeline (except that once she came out she moved forward a lot more quickly than I did, heh!). That was a powerful speech - thank you so much Mrs. McBride!
These Republican m f..Kers are unbelievable. I just don’t understand what these politicians have against the transgender community do they think that doing this is going make them disappear. The only thing they will accomplish is creating more psychological problems possibly leading to suicides. All they want is to live healthy productive lives like anyone else. I sincerely hope that these politicians take a very hard look at the damage these bills will do if passed. I also hope that we remember all politicians that vote for these bills when it comes time for us to vote
What they have against us is that we break their rigidly defined social binary norms that they were brainwashed into believing and that they want to enforce through the strength of law. Fascists do not believe in grey areas and reduce EVERYTHING to black and white. And that is because their totally simplistic minds cannot handle nuances and the mere existence of trans people shatters their extremely narrow thought process.
Plus there is the obvious religious angle, in that they believe "God does not make trans people" because their "God" is made in their own highly bigoted and narrow minded image. In fact my own religious father railed against me for "defying God's will" when I transitioned, even though I told him that I do not believe in his God and I am an atheist. Well that only made him more angry and I had to cut him out of my life because I will not abide religious bigotry that is founded in ignorance, thank you very much.
These religious zealots will never be satisfied they will go from one thing to another. What makes me pissed is that they do not follow their own tenants.
Everything Brianna said *and* they know they will get the votes they need to stay in power, even though they may not subscribe to any of the culture war BS and have only contempt for their constituents who take it all as dogma. Money and power, that is all they care about.
I called my Congressman's office (Jim McGovern, D-MA) and his aide reassured me that Jim has been outspoken against these bills. He is a good guy as politicians go.
The reality is that this bill impacts 0.2% of the population as the 1% number includes adults, who are not impacted by these bills. The reason why they are obsessed with trans kids is because this is a small population that is misunderstood. The legal precedent, however, could be used to allow the government to also ban abortion.
If they can eradicate Trans kiddos they will have proven genocide is possible and have a process for moving forward. It won't stop with Trans children.
Trans rights and abortion rights can not be separated if either is to survive. They are opposed by the same people for the same reasons. The issues are joined at the groin. Bodily autonomy. Reproductive freedom: what you can and can not do with, and based on, your reproductive capacity.
I'm trans, I have legitimate criticisms of Sarah McBride to this point, and this doesn't invalidate them. But today, we are in step against this threat. If you don't have anything to offer here other than support, I invite you to shut the hell up and call your representative.
Great. Now. When is she going to walk back (all. the. way.) her pick me accommodationist, we wanted too much, this persecution is all these "trans activists'" fault horseshit?
When will she unapologetically use the ladies room publicly in the Capitol and in front of Johnson's nose?
When will she also represent even the transgender people of her own district?
I called 8 congresspeople yesterday in 30 mins I spoke to 5 humans and left 3 messages it was actually satisfying
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v35JBz-H-ndzl6jUyGGX9a0N0LsZCM26/view?usp=drivesdk
Representative Sarah McBride just made my day. What a speech, no notes, no teleprompter and just her heart and convictions. As an ally I watched that video twice. So many talking points we can borrow when engaged in conversations, writing to our legislators or to use as motivation not to give up. I realize my comments are only based on what she said today as most of the time I am not in agreement.
It’s more than an obsession with transgender human beings. These disgusting groomers and pedophiles are consumed with lust for their genitals. Seriously. Next thing you know they will issue required transgender clothing with some sort of symbol so they know who is who. Hmmm…that sounds familiar…
I think that's coming as a component of the GOP messaging plan for the midterms, if we're still having them.
Oh, we're still HAVING elections. Even Saudi Arabia and North Korea HAVE elections. The Republicans are just going to do everything they can to make ours equally meaningless.
I’ve said this before. Standing against the attacks on transgender Americans is not Sarah McBrides sole burden AND it is ok if she is not the perfect representative. She should be surrounded by other Cisgender representatives. I encourage every transgender person to run for office so that we can have strong representation. I believe it is unfair to demand perfect and not recognize good. Yes! Not excellent! There is a LOT of room for improvement for McBride but compare to Caitlin Jenner.
Agree. And I give her credit for not wasting time and energy getting into a pissing match with diabolical mean girl Nancy Mace.
Too little too late
Glad we have her speaking against this. I wish conservatives would just move on.
Unless I missed her saying otherwise, until recently McBride had also said the social conservatives have some kind of good point.
There's a disappointingly large number of socially conservative trans women out there. Blair White, Caitlyn Jenner, etc. I'm still glad that she's doing this now.
"I'm still glad that she's doing this now."
To be sure.
"There's a disappointingly large number of socially conservative trans women out there"
Delusionally. When they look up they don't see bus they see blue sky.
Sarah McBride has been capitulating in this issue since she got to Congress. I agree with statements here criticizing her. She hasn’t been a leader for our community. She’s been a politician, even supporting candidates who voted to take away trans healthcare. SMH. Now at the 11th hour she has something to say. And we’re suppose to honor that? AOC has been stronger than her. She is nothing to me. Not interested in Sarah McBride at all.
We need to get on this immediately, if you’re in Washington State start calling and writing these traitors to hopefully we can keep them from throwing us to the wolves again.
Glad McBride is speaking out. You would think the Republicans had learned a lesson from the Virginia governor's race. But bigots tend to be dimwits.
Just called Jared Golden's office -- they actually pick up the phone! He serves the red part of northern Maine. But I reminded them that if he voted in favor of those bills, it would definitely haunt him in the southern part of the state, where I live, if he ever hoped to run for statewide office. I think the guy's got a heart, so fingers crossed.
I especially loved Sarah's conclusion to the speech, where she reminded everyone that all of us trans adults were once trans CHILDREN. And then she brought us into her life, talking about how she grew up in pain and fear, and how it wasn't until age 21 that she came out and moved forward on the path to healing with her transition.
This hit me hard - it actually mirrors my own timeline (except that once she came out she moved forward a lot more quickly than I did, heh!). That was a powerful speech - thank you so much Mrs. McBride!
I, too, thought that was particularly impactful.
These Republican m f..Kers are unbelievable. I just don’t understand what these politicians have against the transgender community do they think that doing this is going make them disappear. The only thing they will accomplish is creating more psychological problems possibly leading to suicides. All they want is to live healthy productive lives like anyone else. I sincerely hope that these politicians take a very hard look at the damage these bills will do if passed. I also hope that we remember all politicians that vote for these bills when it comes time for us to vote
What they have against us is that we break their rigidly defined social binary norms that they were brainwashed into believing and that they want to enforce through the strength of law. Fascists do not believe in grey areas and reduce EVERYTHING to black and white. And that is because their totally simplistic minds cannot handle nuances and the mere existence of trans people shatters their extremely narrow thought process.
Plus there is the obvious religious angle, in that they believe "God does not make trans people" because their "God" is made in their own highly bigoted and narrow minded image. In fact my own religious father railed against me for "defying God's will" when I transitioned, even though I told him that I do not believe in his God and I am an atheist. Well that only made him more angry and I had to cut him out of my life because I will not abide religious bigotry that is founded in ignorance, thank you very much.
These religious zealots will never be satisfied they will go from one thing to another. What makes me pissed is that they do not follow their own tenants.
Everything Brianna said *and* they know they will get the votes they need to stay in power, even though they may not subscribe to any of the culture war BS and have only contempt for their constituents who take it all as dogma. Money and power, that is all they care about.
And this was a helpful chart and who I called: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sqo4LQrg7kvTQUc-2NRTdA_pTGcz07p8Z2PqqLlJpig/edit?usp=drivesdk
I called my Congressman's office (Jim McGovern, D-MA) and his aide reassured me that Jim has been outspoken against these bills. He is a good guy as politicians go.
The reality is that this bill impacts 0.2% of the population as the 1% number includes adults, who are not impacted by these bills. The reason why they are obsessed with trans kids is because this is a small population that is misunderstood. The legal precedent, however, could be used to allow the government to also ban abortion.
If they can eradicate Trans kiddos they will have proven genocide is possible and have a process for moving forward. It won't stop with Trans children.
Trans rights and abortion rights can not be separated if either is to survive. They are opposed by the same people for the same reasons. The issues are joined at the groin. Bodily autonomy. Reproductive freedom: what you can and can not do with, and based on, your reproductive capacity.