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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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[–] schnapsman@feddit.org 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The number of people suddenly pretending to care about women's sports is incredible. The number of people who don't realise that placing these types of requirements would necessitate a system for checking and verifying that would be.. horrifying, is incredible.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"We need you to pee in this cup. No, I mean we need to see you do it. No, I mean we need to see if you have a penis or not."