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If you have 220 seats in the house, you need 218 votes to pass something, and you can only get 214 votes, then your party doesn't support that thing. They especially don't support it if they aren't willing to take action against those 6 and to prevent others like them from winning party nominations.

Even looking down from Canada it's pretty obvious that isn't true. To the point where it's predictable that trans people announcing that they will abstain from elections with anti trans candidates will not have ANY of the desired impact. And we will see the Dems actually retaliate in response.

US trans people are going to be the next Dearborn Muslims in party rhetoric. Hopefully I'm wrong but if there was actual support for trans people, these candidates would get a phone call from national with talking points and a reprimand.

But the lack of any kind of response except for "effing trans going to cost us the election" really says everything that needs to be said.

I think three things can be true at once—the Democratic Party is pro-LGBTQ including on transgender rights (legally and culturally) but the "sports" issue breaks everyone's brains + they have been feckless to stop the regression of trans rights at the state level nationwide over the past five years.

Ran out of characters, but I think the statistics from the previous linked post show that, even if the "sports" issue is a Dem's only qualm, it *never* ends up "just being sports," which is why it's so dangerous to concede even this point.

There are a lot of states that Dems don't control. The ones that they do aren't really regressing / are progressing.

Oh I 100% agree but having lived in STL I have learned that "foot stomping"—or, as John Lewis called it, "good trouble"—*is* a political strategy and often necessary to keep up spirits and not come off as "feckless" when your party is disenfranchised.

This is four different maps of partisan control over state government. The Democratic controlled states protect trans people.

Oh I 100% agree but I think core motivators/depressors who affect turnout, discourse, and sentiment still see the party-level timidity on speaking out fociverously and unequivocally in defense of trans lives as a kind of capitulation.

Part of why it's dumb for individual candidates to be heretics on it. The transphobes rightly won't believe them and the base hates it. But so many posters use "Democratic Party" as a synecdoche for "people I don't like" so 😅😭

“Why don’t the democrats ” and it’s something a lot of democrats are doing lmao

My recent fav is the "can you believe the Democrats started" and it's something the independent running against the democratic candidate in the NYC mayoral race did

It is even arguably the most pro-trans rights major political party in the entire world.

What other major political party even comes close?

PSOE maybe

Enough for their voters sure, but have you considered the opinions of a cabal of mentally unwell serial posters who would never in a millions years vote for a Democratic politician? Exactly.

Still crashing out?

Have we ever interacted before now?

This looks like "crashing out" to you?

you’re getting a little too comfortable with the feeling of the mask slipping

@supertwaddle.bsky.social heads up RE this guy you’re following

No I’m far left and unless pro trans isn’t carved in the DNCs candidates forehead I will smugly sit out the election and hope the republicans win like we did in 2024

Are you being sarcastic?

If it wasn't for the use of the word "smugly" it would honestly be impossible to tell.

One of two parties will control American state power. Your choices are a Democratic Party that is very good on trans issues or a Republican Party that wants trans people closeted or dead.