Trans journalist Erin Reed has published a list of Democratic midterm candidates with anti-trans records, and the question she is forcing is one the party would rather not answer: if trans voters keep rewarding Democrats who harm them, what signal does that send? The calculation is real, the stakes are high, and there is no clean answer.

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      1 month ago

      I am a trans person and I understand my business better than you. You can vote blue no matter who all you want. I’m a leftist bitch.

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        You clearly don’t understand how math works though. You can do what you want, but a non vote is the second most anti trans decision you can make in the general.

        On one hand, you have a candidate that is anti trans in sports and on the other you have someone that wants to block hormone therapy, and child care, and wants to send trans people to mental institutions. You decision supports the latter.

        Like I said, you must really hate trans people.

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          On one hand, you have a candidate that is anti trans in sports and on the other you have someone that wants to block hormone therapy, and child care, and wants to send trans people to mental institutions.

          For some Republicans, sending them to mental institutions would be the milder end of what they want to do. Letting the 7MM and Project 2025 go buck-wild with this country will not spell good things, that is for sure.

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            29 days ago

            Their identified gender has nothing to do with my comment on their lack of understanding math. The reality of how FPtP voting doesn’t care about gender.

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              29 days ago

              You’ve already been told by trans people why you’re wrong. You just think you know better than us. “Math” is no cure for your ignorant hubris.

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                29 days ago

                Again, the math doesn’t care if you’re trans or not. I understand the emotional belief that not voting is somehow justified, but it’s flawed in reality. If you can’t wrap your head around how in the general election, one of two people is going to win, and one is clearly worse than the other, then yea, I do know better than you.

                It’s ignorance to believe that math and reality care about your feelings.

                Like I said, the person (and this extends to you) can do whatever they want, but at the end of the day, a protest non vote supports the worse candidate in FPtP. It’s factually provable math.

                If you think I’m just blowing smoke or being ignorant or whatever, tell me, would you rather have trans people excluded from sports or would you rather have them denied medical coverage and forced into mental institutions? There is no third option, you have to live one of those realities. Tell me how that’s ignorant hubris instead of just making emotionally charged bullshit statements.