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Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. (lemmy.nz)

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Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet.

Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well.

Horrific.

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[-] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 10 points 5 days ago

Why do you expect so little from your Democratic candidates? Ohio and Iowa are unsafe for trans people under either party now.

In Iowa, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand, Senate candidate Josh Turek and congressional candidates Lindsay James and Sarah Trone Garriott have all distanced themselves from progressive positions on transgender issues.

“I ⁠oppose letting men in women's locker rooms and voted to let parents, not politicians, make decisions for their kids,” Trone Garriott said in a recent ad.

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Gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand told Politico last month that "girls' sports are for girls." And his approach may be working, with polls, opens new tab showing him favored to become the first Democrat to win the governor's race since 2006.

At a recent town hall he said “I tend to agree” with Republicans that transgender women and girls should be barred from female sports teams.

“Coward!” a man in the room shouted in protest.

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Republican Derek Merrin, running to represent the 9th congressional district, released a September 10 ad saying that Democratic incumbent Marcy Kaptur had “voted to let biological men compete against girls in their sports.”

Kaptur, who faces an uphill race in her recently redrawn district, countered a week later with an ad saying she had “voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools because parents know what’s best for their kids … and boys should not play in girls’ sports.”

Reuters

If this is what bipartisan democratic outcomes look like, if this is what you uphold as democracy, then I guess you can count me out. There is zero reason to take up the Republican position on this issue unless you are doing it for the love of the game.

The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. ~Julius Nyerere

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -5 points 5 days ago

What you are doing is distracting from my point. It's not an unfair expectation to expect people to be realistic and pragmatic. That's just called being remotely reasonable

[-] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Sorry, is highlighting the Democrats transphobia disttracting? Oh right, the Democrats can never fail the voters, but the voters always fail the Democrats. The reason Democrats are running transphobes is because of this notion of "pragmatism". This pragmatism is what allows for Republicans to run as Democrats. Liberals are so worried about the DSA taking root in the party that they won't even bother seeing the fox slip into the hen house.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -5 points 5 days ago

You're pretending not to get it. I'm out.

[-] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You want people to vote for the "lesser evil" instead of the transphobes at Republican Inc. And that lesser evil is... checks notes The transphobes at Democrats Inc. Seems like a false choice to me. Especially when the person were talking about is in support of a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care.

You want them to vote for the same "Democrat" who is a former registered Republican and voted for George W. Bush. Who explicitly campaigns on his willingness to work with Republicans and even with President Trump. Who calls himself a "common-sense moderate" and "common-sense prairie populist". · The same "Democrat" that has represented a Republican-leaning district in Iowa since 2022. Who is described as "one of Iowa’s most bipartisan" legislators. And in one of his campaign ads reportedly highlights that he has "700 votes" working with Republicans.

Yeah, I guess I don't fucking get it.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago

Just so you know, I'm not engaging with the pretense that we can protest vote our way anywhere. That's clearly never worked before and there's no indication it ever would.

[-] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 4 points 4 days ago

And what you are advocating for has lead us to this exact slate of candidates. You assume I'm suggesting a protest vote. I'm simply pointing out a contradiction that you seem to not recognize.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 4 days ago

If that were true I think you would've pointed it out in the post and in your first response, and nothing would've been there to criticize. Instead you write novels about how I want Democrats to be worse. You know it's a lie, but you kept it up. That tells us something.

[-] RedWizard@news.abolish.capital 4 points 4 days ago

So you're saying that it is not true that voting for a lesser evil doesn't result in the slate of candidates that we're seeing in front of us?

Why are some of these Democrats adopting this anti-transposition when previously they didn't have to? When Josh Turek got his seat in 2022, he did not have to run on anti-trans issues in order to do so. In fact, he even voted against a bathroom bill in 2023 that would restricted trans people from using bathrooms of their identified gender.

Now he wants to pull funding from the federal level for Gender-affirming care. It sure seems like our lesser evil is moving to the right, along with their opposition.

But why would they do that? Couldn't there be an economic argument to be made, Instead of having to rely on this capitulation to the invented issues of the right wing conservative party? And if so, why are the Democrats not adopting it?