We Are The Focus…

As the 2020 election season starts in earnest we are in the spotlight of the Republicans, they believe we are the wedge issue to get them votes.

A Conservative Push to Make Trans Kids and School Sports the Next Battleground in the Culture War
The Kentucky governor’s race has turned into a kind of testing ground to see how transgender issues could rally support for President Trump.The New York TimesBy Jeremy W. PetersNovember 3, 2019

ARLINGTON, Va. — From the 12th floor of a glass office tower in the Washington suburbs, a campaign to sway the governor’s race in Kentucky on Tuesday is being waged with an alarmist claim that has little to do with the race itself: If Democrats have their way, soon boys will be able to compete against girls in school sports.

This scenario, presented in a pair of ads that are appearing on computer screens and smartphones across Kentucky, is the work of a little-known group funded by anonymous donors called the American Principles Project, which in recent years has focused on fighting more familiar clashes in the culture wars over same-sex marriage and abortion rights.

The group is limiting its work to Kentucky for now, but strategists say it has bigger ambitions. It is effectively running a pilot program for the 2020 election that will help it determine how it could use the debate over transgender rights to rally conservative voters in support of President Trump.

We seen this before but with bathrooms, remember that horrible YouTube video of a grubby man following a little girl into the bathroom? Well look forward to them doing the same with sports.

And I feel that Connecticut will be the focus of their hateful ads, I foresee the Republicans introducing bills attacking us on sports to gain votes.

The results could inform what type of campaigns social conservatives run in the future — and answer whether the delicate and deeply personal questions around gender identity are the next major wedge issue in American politics or, as recent experience suggests, something that most voters and politicians would rather not see politicized.

Look at what the Republicans are doing in Texas to trans children…

More than 2,000 people sign letter opposing Ted Cruz on Dallas transgender custody case
The Human Rights Campaign’s letter calls the Texas Republican’s comments on the child’s gender transition ‘harmful and medically unfounded.’The Dallas Morning NewsBy María MéndezNovember 1, 2019

AUSTIN — More than 2,000 parents and advocates say they oppose Sen. Ted Cruz’s comments calling a Dallas mother’s support for her child’s gender transition "abuse,” according to a letter from the Human Rights Campaign to the Texas Republican.

The letter states that Cruz’s remarks in response to the custody case of a Dallas 7-year-old who is a transgender girl, her mother says, are “harmful and medically unfounded.” It was posted earlier this week and signed by 2,014 people across the U.S., including at least 276 Texans as of Thursday evening. The letter was to be available to sign until Friday afternoon, said Nick Morrow, deputy communications director for the HRC.

“Your comments accusing parents of transgender and non-binary children of ‘child abuse’ betrays your office, your responsibilities and all sense of decency,” the letter states.

Cruz shared a story on Twitter alleging that the 7-year-old’s custody case could hinge on the child getting puberty blockers, calling it “horrifying and tragic.”

Down in Georgia a Republican legislator has introduced a bill that make it a crime for a child to transition! And I wouldn’t be surprised to see more states jump on the anti-trans children bandwagon and increase the penalties in an “one-upmanship.”

We need to work to counter the attacks that we know will be coming now, not when they introduce the bills or run the ads. We need to know what defense works best. We countered them in Massachusetts we can do it again.

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Three ways to counter them is to get out the vote!

Call your legislators!

And the third way is to tell our stories in the main stream news!

I have a transgender child in Texas. I know gender affirming parenting can save a child's life.Politicians in my state are cruelly using a custody case to promote discrimination against transgender people and perhaps criminalize their loving parents.NBC NewsBy Jo Ivester, author and LGBTQ advocateNovember 1, 2019

My son, Jeremy, is transgender. He is also an uncle, a barista, a babysitter, a friend and a neighbor.

What my son Jeremy is not is “Satan's spawn” or "evidence of Satan's plan," as Texas Assistant Attorney General Jeff Mateer, the assistant attorney general in my home state of Texas, has described transgender children.[…]It seems that whenever the Texas legislature meets — which it does every other spring — some of our politicians actively try to make life harder for transgender people. In 2017, some Texas politicians tried (and failed) to deny my son and other people like him the use of the correct bathrooms for their genders. In 2019, they tried (and failed) to pass legislation that would have allowed every professional in the state to hide behind a phony religious freedom to discriminate against my son.

Now it looks like, in 2021, they are planning to attack parents who are taking medically advised steps to affirm their children’s gender.

Telling our stories are is huge, but it also exposes them to personal attacks by the haters so it is not for everyone.

Please take a stand. Let your elected officials know that you support laws that make it illegal to discriminate against transgender people or their loving parents. Let your school administrators know that you expect them to respect and protect transgender students. And if somebody says that being transgender isn’t a real thing, tell them, “I know of a mom with a transgender son. And he is very real. He is brave. He is a person.”

But what you can do without “outing” yourself is to write “letters-to-the-editor” you can always say a “friend” or “neighbor” is trans. One of the rules we need is that no negative letter goes unchallenged. Here is a link that can help you write a “letter-to-the-editor.”

Tomorrow is election day… VOTE!