Cassi D. Sunset

Hannah Barnes once published a paper in the British Medical Journal with some fake scandal about trans kids and then the next day published an "exclusive" in the BBC saying that the "BMJ found a big scandal". Her source was her own report but she never disclosed that she also wrote the BMJ paper.

Trans folks speaking out against the anti-trans triangulation of certain Dem politicians aren't "helping" the GOP. If those Dems loose it will be no ones fault but their own. You don't get to tell a community that you don't need them, and then blame them for not showing up for you.

You all have seen Erin and I fiercely clash over tactics over the years, but this piece makes a wholly reasonable ask that I also endorse. The four in the header image especially suck shit.

this is a perfectly reasonable list, imo these four are all monumentally awful on trans issues and this is a more than fair place to draw the line, especially given how the elections currently look - three of them are in the house, where dems will romp regardless, and iowa can do better than turek

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

So, I'm being dragged for saying the incremental change idea involves fighting Democrats who want to drag their feet on giving trans people back the rights we've lost over the past 6 years... ...by Democrats who favor an incremental change approach to restoring trans people's rights.

"Trans people are a tiny group with no power" This isn't true, and I hope my trans readers can internalize this. You are more powerful than you think. Trans and gender expansive people are 2.34% of the US population in the latest survey. That is more than enough to swing a race.

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

I will never vote for an anti-transgender Democrat like Josh Turek and you should not either. I'll probably be writing my case to abstain from a handful of races like his on Monday. Josh Turek is showing the exact slippery slope I've called out, in real time.

There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

There was a time I thought Jesse Singal was, like me, an honest journalist who came at trans coverage from a cis-centric perspective that sometimes led to outsized concerns about rare or nonexistent problems, but was also really trying to get to the truth of things. But that was 8 years ago.

every now & then someone on the anti-trans side will get cold feet about how openly ugly it's all getting—they want to keep the image of a nice, sensible centrist but it's never enough for them to get off the train

On the same week the DCCC released its first anti-transgender ad, popular Democratic politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not mince words. When asked about anti-trans Democrats, she called them "shameful," "wrong," and decried them for "scaring so easily." Subscribe to support our journalism.

What’s going on in the United Kingdom right now is unspeakable. And it’s Labour, the ostensibly left of center party that is doing it. Horrific.

Absurd outcomes happen when the ideological claim that changing sex is impossible makes contact with the biological reality that every single aspect of sex that could be visible to an observer is in fact changeable.

We still don't talk about the way medically transitioning trans boys and transmasc nonbinary kids are the primary focus of the moral panic over trans kids.

...not every "Dems cave on trans issues" case is the same, but this one is pretty simple. so for the record, I WILL *NEVER* VOTE for anyone who refers to me as a "biological man" because that's an non-scientific anti-trans term explicitly designed to take away trans rights! bsky.app/profile/erin...

Sherrod Brown's new response to an anti-trans ad is remarkably different from many other dems. Instead of accepting bigotry towards trans people, he pivots and links his Republican opponent to the Epstein files. It is notably different from his earlier ads. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Democrats will never learn.

SC Dem Senate nominee Annie Andrews released an ad calling trans women "biological men." She embraces sports and surgery bans for youth. Her campaign even says she won't work to overturn the HRT/blocker trans youth ban. She once argued against capitulation. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Arienne Childrey resigns as Vice Chair of the Ohio Democratic Pride Caucus. The state party has censored all attempts to criticize Amy Acton and Marcy Kaptur for their anti-trans votes and/or statements.

The nyt, which has been heavily invested in spreading transphobic propaganda for the past four years, predictably tries to turn the political landscape inside out today, emphasizing anti-trans views, while minimising the positions of those who have taken winning and principled stances

Starting to get sense of what today's 20,000 word hit piece on Erin Reed is really about

if your articles are being shared positively by Jesse Singal, you're probably not actually doing the work in support of trans people as much as you think you are! (this is about the new The Needle hit piece about Erin Reed)

"We fed her writing into an LLM and it said it was AI" Yeah, fuck off. Not only is this shit hypocritical, it's ghoulish that you spent all that effort basically reading tea leaves on her reporting & putting her work under a microscope to try and find a trans woman to pillory for your own gain.

This is hilarious! Ken Paxton just released this hidden camera footage from a James Talarico campaign stop thinking he really had something. All he did was put at ease the contingent of people who thought Talarico was starting to lean into Anti-Trans messaging. Thanks Ken!!!

In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb

Texas Dem. Candidate for Senate clarified his comments regarding trans sports from last week in a sit-down interview yesterday with The Texas Tribune, stating his position has not changed and he does not support a trans athlete ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The Congressional Equality Caucus has released the following statement in response to our story indicating they will not back candidates who "scapegoat transgender people." Kaptur does not appear as of this morning on their endorsed list. Several who took the same vote as her still do, sadly.

This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!

Has anyone else noticed there are fewer prominent trans writers around than there used to be? assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

America is free only when the media is competitive, independent, and accountable to the people. apnews.com/article/warn...

Not by Facebook but I can tell you that the caucus social media accounts may be accessed by the caucus and the Ohio Democratic Party ... and the caucus didn't delete it.

The Ohio Democratic Party is repeatedly deleting criticism of Marcy Kaptur, who has released an ad calling transgender people an “ideology” that should be banned in schools. Still think Dems can’t become Labour?

FYI: After the Pride Caucus reshared the Lucas County Dems post the reshare was deleted ... but not by the Lucas Dems or Pride Caucus. I'll let the reader come to their own conclusions about who deleted it.

for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:

Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...

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