Trans journalist Erin Reed has published a list of Democratic midterm candidates with anti-trans records, and the question she is forcing is one the party would rather not answer: if trans voters keep rewarding Democrats who harm them, what signal does that send? The calculation is real, the stakes are high, and there is no clean answer.

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[–] 5 points 4 days ago (17 children)

You do realize that Talarico is running for US Senate, right? Whether or not he gets elected has almost nothing to do with how Texas treats its trans residents. He has no say in TX politics as he is leaving the TX legislature in attempt to make it to the Senate.

And OP is saying that he will face consequences for choosing to change his position on the trans question after the primaries. Maybe he'll lose, and that will tell the DNC and other candidates not to use trans people as a scapegoat (which is a fascist tactic). But whether he wins or loses has no bearing on how Texas treats trans people.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (12 children)

    If you think a dem losing to a republican is going to send them a message about trans rights.... you are totally wrong.

    Republicans are going out of their way to hurt Trans people, do not let them win by voting 3rd party in close races!

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    send them a message

    I've been hearing that kind of thing for decades - I remember single issuer voters voting Libertarian or Republican or whatever because the Democrats were "just as bad" on things like marijuana legalization, prison reform, etc.

    There is effectively no message sent and nothing received when people sit out, throw their vote away on an absurd third party, or vote Republican.

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