Gavin Newsom knows the popular image of him is of a smooth talker with slicked-back hair, the wealthy liberal who co-owns a vineyard.
He knows, regarding the presidential ambitions he’s hardly hiding, that the biggest question he would face out of the gate is whether he could sell Americans on wanting California to represent their future rather than seeing it as the place where the wackiest liberal dreams go to run wild.
The redistricting fight that Newsom and the state legislature are launching Monday could, he and his inner circle believe, give him all the rebuttals he needs.
He’s not a progressive at all, he wants to throw my people (trans folx) under the bus as hard as republicunts do
What’s the point of folx? Folks was already non gendered.
Trans Linux (or Unix) users, duh
Yeah, that’s a hard no. Truly stupid.
I want to know the reasoning before I say it is stupid. It definitely seems that way.
Folks is perfectly fine, neutral and inclusive. Even “Latinx” can be excused due to the masculine/feminine language tribute.
Maybe, even probably. But without hearing their reasoning I don’t know what they’re trying to accomplish. Maybe it’s something else entirely that we haven’t considered.
Irrelevant. Stupid, period.
They probably don’t want to be confused with the trans folk nation. All the non binary believers will suffer.
No such thing as non binary. That’s not even dismissing LGBT+. Homo sapiens simply cannot be non binary. They should research a better term.
Read one article about the standard gender-affirming surgeries we perform on babies and report back to me if you still agree with your assertion.
I think he’s left-of-center leaning, but postures in a way that is throwing trans people under the bus to win votes from bigots that may lean left, center, or right. Do I think he personally would push for any trans sports ban? Not really, but he is playing it up to win over the voters that for some reason are treating trans people in sports as a hardline issue they are against.
It’s one of several reasons I wouldn’t want him specifically to win the 2028 primary; since I would like to believe our country still has enough kind people that we don’t need to step on each other for us to all get ahead.
If he wants to appeal to fascists it’s gonna end the same way it has before. He’s gonna lose because why would fascists vote for the fascist-lite when a full fledged fascist is right there. All he does in the end is make it more acceptable to strip my people of rights.
Maybe something on the level or worse than the pandemic happens and he can get in on that. But he still did major harm to my people, harm that cannot be undone fully for decades if not longer.
Either way he is playing with a dangerous ideology that will get trans people killed. Maybe not state sponsored but remember what happened with Nex Benedict, when this toxic hateful ideology becomes normalized it encourages violence.