I was pleasantly surprised that Missouri voted to strike down the ban on abortion AND conversion therapy. I don’t want to chug hopium quite yet, but I do think this is somewhat different than the last “blue wave”. The question is if enough of them will be able to resist the corporate money, because the progressive sentiment IS THERE at the voter level.
They need progressive voters telling them that we expect results, we expect them to act like Mamdani. They need letters, protests, rallies, demonstrations. And we need mutual aid, we need to do things for ourselves.
Progressives ARE doing all these things, and it’s working! Look at how much money AIPAC, Musk, et al. spent on Texas, or the anti-billionaire tax laws in California, and they’re still going through. We need to STAY ON IT though.
What we need are people to stay on the Dems asses when gas prices do go down and their creature comforts come back. And honestly, we need to stay hopeful and realistic. El-Sayed even right now is talking about how staying positive in the face of all the garbage he faced got him elected in his speech, same with Zohran Mamdani when he won, and when people are saying he isn’t doing enough. Leftist politics can get really doom and gloom online, but we ARE making progress.
The other 4 anti-trans ballot measures in Arizona, Colorado, and Washington all passed though :/. The Arizona one also includes a bathroom ban for all schools including colleges and private schools. As nice as the wave of progressives and pro-trans candidates winning is nice I feel like its soured by those measures and people like turek also winning his election.
Yeah I’m reading about these right now, it’s so fucking disappointing. But Obama won in 2008 and California passed Prop 8 (gay marriage ban) on the same ballot, and it was ultimately struck down. A lot of these measures are easier to challenge and strike down under Democratic admin than Republican, especially at the state level. Colorado already has rumblings about challenging this in court if it’s enacted into law, I’m not sure about Arizona and Washington.
I know it’s very gloomy for a lot of trans people at the moment because it seems like these are getting swept under the rug, but I organize with my community and I promise there are a lot of people who have eyes on this and know that the fight is not done just because of the blue bukkake, it’s only the beginning.
I’m not gonna refute that, but I’m also not gonna deny that having this weight lifted off our trans brothers and sisters shoulders means we can deal with the torrent of other shit coming our way together. Republicans tie rancid proposals and laws together like this all the time, progressives should also play this game. If the libs don’t want to progress, we force them to.
Trans rights were not at the forefront of why people voted against the Republicans, I doubt it was even a tertiary concern. Aside from Abdul El-Sayed and Peggy Flanagan , I can’t think of any notable pro-trans (not including of a handful of trans people themselves in minor positions) reps who were elected?
And look at the exit poll results, 53% still want to take our rights away, combined with 22% who think all the loses trans people have suffered so far are about the right amount.
What I wanted was a firm rejection of transphobia, what was given was a soft acceptance.
Multiple state propositions passed or are likely to pass with wide margins banning trans girls from sports, from bathrooms, enshrining sex at birth, etc. And all the transphobic Democrats who called us slurs, want trans girls out of sports, or said they worked with Republicans to vote laws against us won.
A handful of trans people got elected for some “minor” seats, but it’s not enough to offset the loses.
I was pleasantly surprised that Missouri voted to strike down the ban on abortion AND conversion therapy. I don’t want to chug hopium quite yet, but I do think this is somewhat different than the last “blue wave”. The question is if enough of them will be able to resist the corporate money, because the progressive sentiment IS THERE at the voter level.
They need progressive voters telling them that we expect results, we expect them to act like Mamdani. They need letters, protests, rallies, demonstrations. And we need mutual aid, we need to do things for ourselves.
Progressives ARE doing all these things, and it’s working! Look at how much money AIPAC, Musk, et al. spent on Texas, or the anti-billionaire tax laws in California, and they’re still going through. We need to STAY ON IT though.
What we need are people to stay on the Dems asses when gas prices do go down and their creature comforts come back. And honestly, we need to stay hopeful and realistic. El-Sayed even right now is talking about how staying positive in the face of all the garbage he faced got him elected in his speech, same with Zohran Mamdani when he won, and when people are saying he isn’t doing enough. Leftist politics can get really doom and gloom online, but we ARE making progress.
The other 4 anti-trans ballot measures in Arizona, Colorado, and Washington all passed though :/. The Arizona one also includes a bathroom ban for all schools including colleges and private schools. As nice as the wave of progressives and pro-trans candidates winning is nice I feel like its soured by those measures and people like turek also winning his election.
Yeah I’m reading about these right now, it’s so fucking disappointing. But Obama won in 2008 and California passed Prop 8 (gay marriage ban) on the same ballot, and it was ultimately struck down. A lot of these measures are easier to challenge and strike down under Democratic admin than Republican, especially at the state level. Colorado already has rumblings about challenging this in court if it’s enacted into law, I’m not sure about Arizona and Washington.
I know it’s very gloomy for a lot of trans people at the moment because it seems like these are getting swept under the rug, but I organize with my community and I promise there are a lot of people who have eyes on this and know that the fight is not done just because of the blue bukkake, it’s only the beginning.
The only reason they voted against harming trans people was because abortion was tied into the proposal.
I’m not gonna refute that, but I’m also not gonna deny that having this weight lifted off our trans brothers and sisters shoulders means we can deal with the torrent of other shit coming our way together. Republicans tie rancid proposals and laws together like this all the time, progressives should also play this game. If the libs don’t want to progress, we force them to.
Still, wins are wins
And loses are loses.
Transphobia won yesterday.
But… People still voted against harming trans people? And plenty of pro trans representatives were elected?
Like yeah some transphobes did too but like what more do you want
Trans rights were not at the forefront of why people voted against the Republicans, I doubt it was even a tertiary concern. Aside from Abdul El-Sayed and Peggy Flanagan , I can’t think of any notable pro-trans (not including of a handful of trans people themselves in minor positions) reps who were elected?
And look at the exit poll results, 53% still want to take our rights away, combined with 22% who think all the loses trans people have suffered so far are about the right amount.
What I wanted was a firm rejection of transphobia, what was given was a soft acceptance.
Fuck the dems, but don’t fuck Allison Montgomery, she’s pretty cool
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/allison-montgomery-wins-race-become-151509662.html
How so?
Multiple state propositions passed or are likely to pass with wide margins banning trans girls from sports, from bathrooms, enshrining sex at birth, etc. And all the transphobic Democrats who called us slurs, want trans girls out of sports, or said they worked with Republicans to vote laws against us won.
A handful of trans people got elected for some “minor” seats, but it’s not enough to offset the loses.
great. do you have a libleft utopia that you’ve created somewhere?