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Democratic candidate for the senate, Josh Turek, releases an anti-trans campaign ad referring to trans women as "males competing in females' sports." (video.twimg.com)

submitted 1 week ago by skunk@lemmy.zip to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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This got removed from politics because "Video links are not allowed" apparently? Pretty weird considering that most politicians say stuff on video nowadays and not really writing articles anymore since the invention of the radio pretty much lol. Hope it's a better fit here, this is the kind of stuff people should be aware of.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/73859928

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/13118934

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.

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[–] skunk@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And if the anti-trans dem wins the message to all dems in the US will be "you can end a 18 year-long losing streak by throwing trans people under the bus"

[–] wagesj45@fedia.io 1 points 6 days ago

I don't think that's what would happen. If democrats win, and their seats become safer, they are pulled left by primary challenges. We observed this with Republicans over the last 3 decades. They never won by pretending to be moderate with the rest of the party deciding to go even more moderate; they learned they could go further right once they were established.