To election day continues, and in some locations the voting has started.
For my sake and all the other trans people stop this percussion of us! Vote Blue and vote “Yes” on Connecticut ballot question, don’t buy into the Republican “Big Lie.”
That is all we are a diversion from the issues… “Oh look at those transgender people!” don’t look at the illegal searches of non-profits, the crumbling electric grid, the pollution from the abandoned oil wells.Texas senate candidates Senator Ted Cruz (R) and Congressman Colin Allred (D) answered questions about transgender rights at a debate in Dallas Tuesday night, a first in any high-profile debate of the 2024 election season.
Ahead of the debate, GLAAD documented the LGBTQ records of Cruz and Allred, here.
Rep. Allred was asked about Senator Cruz’s recent political ads attacking transgender participants in sports and saying the congressman refuses “to protect the integrity of women and girls sports.”
“Let’s be very clear about what’s happening in this campaign. You don’t have to be an NFL linebacker to recognize a Hail Mary when you see one. This is a desperate, last-second attempt to distract you because he can’t defend his own record,” Allred said. “Listen, I’m a dad, I’m a Christian, of course, I don’t support the ridiculous things that he’s talking about.”
“He wants you thinking about kids in bathrooms so you’re not thinking about women in hospitals, because it’s indefensible. We have Texas women being turned away from hospitals, bleeding out in their cars, in waiting rooms,” the congressman continued. “All of a sudden the protector of women and girls is going to be Sen. Cruz? Who thinks it’s perfectly reasonable that a girl raped by a relative, a victim of incest, should be forced to carry that child to term and give birth to it. You’re going to set yourself up as the protector of women and girls? It’s laughable.”
We are the boogieman to scare voters to vote Republican!Legal experts dismiss attempt to link Missouri abortion amendment to transgender health care
Outraised and outspent, critics of Amendment 3 push claim it will legalize sex change surgeries for minors
Missouri Independent
By: Anna Spoerre
October 16, 2024Sean Johnson woke up last Monday planning to vote in November for Donald Trump and to legalize abortion in Missouri.
But the 48-year-old Independence resident changed his tune about Amendment 3 — which seeks to overturn Missouri’s abortion ban — after speaking to Eric Holder, a volunteer with the Knights of Columbus and member of St. Mary’s Parish in Independence.
Holder was canvassing the neighborhood hoping to drum up opposition to the proposal. He was a couple hours into his mission when he reached Johnson’s door, and by then had decided to hone his pitch to focus exclusively on a message that seemed to be resonating: that Amendment 3 would somehow also legalize sex change operations for minors.
“Abortion I’d vote for. That’s a woman’s right. Let her do that,” said Johnson, standing beneath a confederate flag outside his suburban Kansas City home. “But all this other stuff, gender reassignment, I don’t believe in that.”
Amendment 3, if passed by a simple majority of voters, would grant all Missourians “the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters relating to reproductive health care, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion care, miscarriage care and respectful birthing conditions.”
He is playing on the fears of people who are different, he is driving a wedge down the middle of this country.In campaign’s final weeks, Trump airs anti-transgender ads during football games
Los Angeles Times
By Noah Bierman
October 13, 2024Trump has pushed the Republican Party further into exploiting the country’s racial, gender and sexual divisions.
A Trump campaign official said the ads are playing in battleground states and across the nation during college and pro football games.
Anyone who watches football has probably seen one of the most arresting ads of the campaign season in recent weeks, showing images of Vice President Kamala Harris superimposed with transgender members of the Biden administration and a scene lifted from the television show “Orange Is the New Black” of inmates in prison jumpsuits.
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A Trump campaign official said the ads are playing in battleground states and across the nation during college and pro football games, making them among the most circulated ads this campaign cycle.
“There is nothing subtle about this ad,” said Tali Mendelberg, author of “The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality.”
Why? Because he is transphobic and he thinks that by demonizing us will get him votes. He doesn’t care about us we are just political pawns to him. A tool to use and then discard after use.Former President Donald Trump's campaign and his allies have spent tens of millions of dollars on political ads focusing on transgender rights issues in the weeks leading up to the election.
The Trump campaign has spent more than $19 million on two television ads that have aired nearly 55,000 times since Oct. 1, according to data from AdImpact. Make America Great Again Inc., the leading super political action committee supporting Trump, has spent more than $1.1 million during the same time period on a similar ad that has aired more than 6,000 times.
The campaign's ads are playing in all battleground states and airing during NFL and college football games, a Trump campaign official said.
For my sake and all the other trans people stop this percussion of us! Vote Blue and vote “Yes” on Connecticut ballot question, don’t buy into the Republican “Big Lie.”
