cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/54506028
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/politics/p/1270828/iowa-dem-josh-turek-releases-anti-trans-ad-calling-for-a-federal-funding-ban-on-trans-care
On Saturday, Oct. 24, Josh Turek, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Iowa, released a new ad targeting transgender people—perhaps the worst anti-transgender ad of the entire election cycle to come from a Democrat. The ad begins with Turek talking about his disability and the importance of not discriminating, before immediately turning to adopt discriminatory policies toward transgender people. One such policy is a sports ban, a position sadly becoming increasingly common among high-profile Democrats in competitive races, and one that alone would have made this yet another newsworthy anti-trans ad. But Turek then goes further, advocating for a new policy: a proposal to ban federally funded gender-affirming care in the United States, one that would impact a substantial number of transgender people and make their care difficult to impossible to receive.
A candidate that wants to take your rights away compared to another candidate that wants to take your rights away is what I’m seeing here and those two candidates, on this issue, there is no difference and that’s what we’re talking about here with this particularly shitty centrist Democrat.
We can talk about those “few spoilers” and how shitty they are but that’s a different thread and conversation.
Okay but how many comments here are pointing to the democrats as a party and saying “see, we knew you were all the same as republicans”?
Call out turek for being an out-of-touch bigot, sure. He brought it on himself.
But when has making sweeping generalizations based on a few examples ever been the thing a rational and balanced person concludes?