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and lets not forget the fact that weve had candidates running on the democrat ballot where people are voting blue no matter who, like ones who have actual nazi symbol tattoos, sexual assault allegations. its not about not voting for lesser evil, its about having standards

Your point is invalid until the election. I'm super-glad we've gotten alot more progressive, dem socialist candidates in our primaries, I'm also glad many of them won their primaries! In the General, it's all about blocking every single Republican.

Your literal job is to write about trans issues and dems are being anti-trans. What is wrong with people?

Its pretty sad. They think becoming republican is the only way to beat a republican. Which is a degree of stupidity i simply cannot endorse.

line between winning a seat for us and failure. They can not afford to give the GOP ammunition to use against them and we can not afford for them to lose. Again, one issue voters kill our party. Don't be a one issue voter. Women have been fighting for our rights since 1920. We lost some to the GOP.

Almost all Democrats are idiots, which makes them only marginally better than Republicans as a party.

Define "anti-trans." Is it openly exhorting hatred and violence against trans people, marginalizing them via legislation? Or is it not putting them before all else? The latter would seem a prioritizing more than marginalizing.

Vichy democrats who enable fascism are not okay. Democrats who openly support a genocide are not okay. I will never vote for them. My vote is shockingly easy to get. And yet the Democratic party doesn't seem to want it. :(

Ok, so how are you going to be working with these people?

We have ‘Dem’ Congress critters voting lockstep with MAGA, aka republicans who ran with a D tag. Not being discerning just makes us dupes.

Depends who you are. If you're not personally in the crosshairs of one, sure, it's temporarily better for YOU, but not for their targets. In the medium term, electing an awful Dem is providing Trump an ally (or at least a stooge) in the Dem party. A Fetterman can do more harm than a Hawley or a Mace

That’s the problem, often times they arent willing to listen or talk to LGBTQ+ orgs. If they lose that’s 100% on them, eventually they will learn it’s a losing strategy or just die out.

Do you people genuinely have fun watching us trans people suffer just so you can go "keep voting for the hydraulic press pushing you down sweetie. It'll stop once enough of you are crushed ;3" or something?

our lives are being destroyed. they are KILLING US. and all you have to say is "don't be afraid"?

People are doing that. But when they do, the transphobic Dems freeze trans people out of that process. Take the debacle with Amy Acton after her transphobic statements. She set a meeting with LGBT groups, didn't show up, then her staff kicked the trans members of those groups out of the meeting.

As someone who has done that on multiple occasions, they don’t listen, they hide in their offices and send some uninterested stand in to smile and nod. Only ONCE have I ever actually seen a legislator do a face-to-face, for a cause she already HEAVILY supported. Wasn’t even in my borough!

Everyone is free to be as ugly as they want if they don’t ask me to pay for it. Socialize emergency healthcare; free the drug market. Free insulin for diabetics; let trans people buy their own hormones.

Thank you for writing about them because i feel like we live in a world where its very easy to overlook things like this.

Here in Norway, I have three staunchly trans supportive political parties that won't go down with a fight for my rights (even as a resident who isn't a citizen yet), even the Høyre ("Right" conservative) party doesn't go throwing trans people under the bus. Democrats are in sad shape...

I’m quite sure there are enough anti trans Republicans to fill your days between now and Election Day writing about, and, if elected, they will do measurably more harm then anti trans Dems. Just sayin’ the obvious. Learn from history or be doomed to repeat it

I'm grateful for your work

@democrats.org deserve to be called out for supporting anti-trans candidates. THIS IS NOT THE WAY. 🤬

When they're up against an R and not other Ds, they should. There's a time to lean on them and a time not - the General election, just the few weeks, is that one time 'not'. Because one is not just trying to make us uncomfortable, they're making everything worse. I don't have that much privilege

We need to have fewer of these articles, because we need to have fewer of these snakes. I look forward to the day they have been expunged. Until then, please keep up the good work.

How dare you…cover the news. The hell Erin. …please note that I’m kidding; people should know what candidates are saying even if it throws their “vote blue no matter who” plans into array

And yet they expect our vote, anyway.

Bigotry from the Right is a given; those are hearts that refuse to be fixed. The Democratic party can be changed for the better. It really isn't complicated.

Maybe the reason the right have stuck onto trans issues is because it's likely to cause voters to abstain because anti trans sentiment is growing among Democrats like these. Last election iirc the issue of Palestine was also echoed and may have had voters abstain so the right stays in power. Imo

They need to be called out.

We will take it over and make it ours, that's the American way.

Nah, we are gonna steal the Democratic Party, just like the Tea Party and later MAGA stole the GOP. Then we are going to use it to end the two-party system.

Any individualism will scare the xenophobes,they are herd animals and we must husband them gently... don't stampede the herd like politicians...?

Those were very rare cases. Meanwhile we have Dems like Acton who has been spreading lots of anti-trans propaganda and silenced the Ohio LGBTQ Caucus when they tried calling her out on it. People like her don’t even pretend to care, and even that didn’t prevent her from being attacked by Reps.

I want transphobic Democrats to lose though.

What anti-trans laws have Democrats passed?

Hate is rising very very quickly. What you're doing is extremely important. You do so much great work. I know we're all tired but even that one time someone was brave enough to say something is very helpful.

Geezus. Such a non issue created by republicans and Democrats are falling for it....Democrats need to stop being Charlie Brown and be more Lucy🙏🤓🤓

They deserve every word and more; you're too kind.

Stop being anti-trans dems to be written about. It's pretty easy.

The problem is t you writing about anti-trans dems, the problem is with anti-trans dems doing anti-trans things that deserve writing about.

Thank you for doing this soul sucking work, Erin. Honestly, I'd prefer the out loud hate to the backstab.

i've seen publications that take trump's words out of context to make it seem like we're all getting thrown in camps literally tomorrow get called fearmongering less than you do for accurately reporting democrats' transphobia and holding what allies we do have accountable, it's super annoying 😞

the only way to have less of these articles is for less of these bozos to be relevant thanks for keeping an eye out

Liberals really hate it when you hold them accountable

It's wild how fast the Overton Window shifts.

If the Republicans weren't full fascists they would be your run of mill European right wing party.

They are all the shitty dems and It will be nice to see all them gone.

We need to elect better dems. As a vet I have a visceral understanding that blue falcons are more dangerous than the enemy who states they are on the other team.

They are definitely out there. I've had to deal with some of them myself--at a severe cost to my career for being part of the trans community.