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Patti Glenn's avatar

I love this plan. Also, we need to take away their term “pro-life” and call it something else…”pro-control”? “Pro-fetus”? IDK

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Polar Girl's avatar

As long as people like yourself see the lives of transgender people as a "misdirection" or other distraction that needs to be avoided at all costs, MAGA will just keep doubling down on it knowing they "own the libs" on this.

The Christian Right wanted to publicly avoid the issue like you do until recently because publicly advocating for genocide is normally quite the costly losing agenda. That is only true though if opponents see it that way and go on full offense rather than the defensive (read: losing) avoidance strategy that you and the Democrats keep deploying.

How can you go on offense? Call the MAGA people out as the real transgender predators by bringing up the prison practice of v-coding and the fact that conservatives view transgender porn more frequently than the left.

Transgender porn viewing by county map:

https://lawsuit.org/general-law/republicans-have-an-obsession-with-transgender-pornography/

V-coding is the practice of assigning trans women placed in men's prisons to cells with aggressive cisgender male cellmates as both a reward and a means of placation for said cellmates, so as to maintain social control and to, as one inmate described it, "keep the violence rate down".[120] Trans women used in this manner are often raped daily; and this process has been described as so common that it is effectively "a central part of a trans woman's sentence".[121]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_people_in_prison

Calling MAGA out for using transgender women as chattal sex slaves to make their more violent transgender porn fantasies into a real world practice that they often port to cisgender women might be a start on offense? The anti-abortion movement combined with cutting off government benefits for a sexually abused women to be independent of her abuser is another example of the MAGA sex slave agenda that their male voters believe they are entitled to from the government.

I am by no means a political person let alone a strategist so I apologize for not having a more coherent and detailed offensive attack plan on the transgender issue. I just know that some kind of offense is absolutely necessary because avoidance is a defensive strategy and playing defense means you are losing. If MAGA wins on the transgender issue which they are certain to do if defense is the only response then they will be emboldened to attack even more aggressively on other issues until they win on everything. This cannot be allowed to happen. For that reason, I am imploring you to think about devising offensive tactics and strategy for the transgender issue.

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