A Hatchet Job?

Now here is A new idea… Trans women are women.

There are people who think that this is a choice, that one day we said “You know what I want to do today… be a woman. They are locked into the 1950s notion that sex is just two chromosomes.

A Democrat down in Missouri says,

'Treat trans women as who they are — women:' Dem Senate candidates declare support for transgender rights
Springfield News-Leader
By Andrew Sullender
July 18, 2022


Amid increased political scrutiny on transgender individuals, the three leading Missouri Democratic candidates for Senate have declared support for trans rights — even as a clip circulates online that candidate Trudy Busch Valentine says was taken out of context.

At a Wednesday town hall hosted by the Chesterfield Township Democrats, Busch Valentine was asked whether she believes trans women are women.

"I'm going to say a woman is a woman. You can't say — I've heard this too from the Republicans. You cannot say that a woman can bear a child. I cannot bear a child anymore. A woman is a woman," Busch Valentine said — referencing a recent viral exchange between Senator Josh Hawley and an abortion-rights advocate in which he stated no men can become pregnant, including transgender men.

"But in this transgender thing, that's a different issue and that's an issue that people have to come to on their own," she continued.

"They need the guidance of parents. They need doctors intervention. I don't think anything should be done until they're adults that lasts forever. But I think if they begin things like estrogen or testosterone and they can stop those things so people can get a second look at things."

She has been labeled a TREF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) by some but they only heard the first part and not the part about guidance and doctors. What she said about parents, doctors, and not until they are adults that is basically what the Standard of Care says and puberty blockers give them that time to decide.

But Sarandon's clip cuts out the beginning and end of Busch Valentine's response. In a statement to the News-Leader, Busch Valentine campaign manager Alex Witt called Sarandon's video "deceptively edited to leave a false impression."

The article went on to say what Ms. Valentine said,

But Sarandon's clip cuts out the beginning and end of Busch Valentine's response. In a statement to the News-Leader, Busch Valentine campaign manager Alex Witt called Sarandon's video "deceptively edited to leave a false impression."

"Trudy was responding to a question about Senator Josh Hawley's attack this week on trans women. Trudy believes that we must treat trans women as who they are — women," Witt told the News-Leader.

"Trudy made clear that she believes that every person, regardless of their gender or any other factor, deserves to be safe and treated with dignity and respect. As a nurse, Trudy understands the difficult decisions many people make when it comes to medical care. The last thing they need is disingenuous politicians like Josh Hawley denying them their basic human rights."

I believe that this editing does a disservice to our community and make enemies out of allies. I don't understand why she edited it that way? What were her motives?

The article want on to said that,

According to Witt, Busch Valentine will be a "steadfast champion for LGBTQ equality and justice" in the U.S. Senate and will cosponsor the Equality Act, federal legislation banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

We need all the allies that we can get!

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