LGBTQXYZ establishment is raging, lots of drama, screaming, and refusing to face reality about trans issues.
On the other hand the Gays for Trump feel very triumphal. I think it would do good for people to realize that we need to deal with the future, and also need to try to pull the Gay community together.
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First, Local Drama in the Dallas Fort Worth Area.
People were publicaly declaring their grief and all sorts of carrying on over the Trump election. I am concerned what the future will be, and hopefully my fears will be proved totally wrong.
The thing is that if the future is as bad as they think it is, rather than parading around our grief and having a lot of drama, we should perhaps be doing something.
The Internet Archive came up the day after the election, and it took all day to catch up saving stuff to it, but I made sure I at least did something. Our neighborhood decided perhaps we need a know procedure to alert the neighborhood and I pubished it. Then I thought it might be useful to other neighborhoods and I sent it out in the Dallas Gay Liberation newsletter and shared it on local groups. It had a link to an earlier post on physical safty.
Others pointed out to check you will that it had your spouses name specifically and you did power of attorney documents in case Gay marriages were invalidated. The issue isn’t whether something will or will not happen, the issue is being prepared for what might happen. Also, some people weren’t just sitting around and lamenting, they were doing something. If you think things are going to be bad, you need to be doing something, not whining.
I decided to use the following image with a fainting couch in my Dallas Gay Liberation post about getting it together and understanding we can’t be tied up with emotional drama. I am told that is toxic masculinity. Just so everyone knows I am one of the Bad Gays. (Click on the image.)
The LGBTQXYZ are in a melt down screaming fit over any thought that their stances on trans contributed to the defeat of Harris.
CNN pulled this segment from their channel on YouTube. They have the show, but the specific segment where Jay Michaelson is screaming while Shermichael Singleton is trying to point out that boys in the girls’ lockerroom and in women’s sports impacted Harris negatively is missing.
Jay Michaelson is totally delulu and in denial and typical of the LGBTQXYZ leadership. What it communicates to the Democratic establishment is that there is no reasoning with the LGBTQXYZ establishment. Not to mention it is faily obvious that the CNN moderator is targeting Singleton. The conservatives are running with this all over social media. They could not have chosen anything better to paint the LGBTQXYZ leadership as intolerant zealots.
So these are sources which have the video.
Shermichael Singleton loved Jay Michaelson blowing up and had the video on his X account.
https://x.com/MrShermichael/status/1855229485076897821
Fox News ran with it as a news item. You can’t invent propaganda this good.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6364459949112
Salon article, with no video, "I’m not going to listen to that": CNN panel explodes over transphobic explanation of Trump win.”
Two Democrats in the U.S. House suggested that trans ideology was a factor in Harris’ defeat and the LGBTQXYZ threw a fit.
The Hill, 11/7/2024, “2 Democrats speak out against transgender athletes after Trump win.”
These two congressional members, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass) shifted their position from supporting transwomen MtF in sports to being opposed. Disaster and possible future political annihalation seems to get people thinking.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4979665-democrats-transgender-athletes/
This article, NBC News, Nov. 8, 2024, “Some Democrats blame party’s position on transgender rights in part for Harris’ loss,” discusses what Suozzi and Moulton had to say.
“The Democrats have to stop pandering to the far left,” Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., told The New York Times on Wednesday. “I don’t want to discriminate against anybody, but I don’t think biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports.”
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., shared a similar view, telling the Times on Thursday: “Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face. I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”
Another article in the Independent News about this.
There has been a strong reaction to this.
Moulton’s aid quit. I don’t think he realizes that had ended his career.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4981767-moulton-aide-resigns-transgender-athletes/
In Texas, the Texas Chair Gilberto Hinojosa, pointed out that trans issues sunk the Democrats, he was attacked by our local Dallas Stonewall Club, apologized and resigned.
The outrage. Stonewall Democrats condemn him.
Articles on his apology.
He resigned also, for the devastating defeats the Democrats faced in Texas.
Non-LGBT media has been lecturing Democrats on trans issues after the election, Time, Nov. 8, 2024, ”Democrats Are Playing the Blame Game. Leave Trans Kids Out Of It.” Evidently holding people accountable is some type of “blame game.” In other articles it was called, “finger pointing.”
https://time.com/7174459/democrats-trans-moulton-mcbride/
MSNBC, “Democrats would get nothing for throwing trans Americans under the bus.” With the substitle, “In the hunt for a scapegoat, some are arguing that there's been too much focus from Democrats on transgender rights. There's no evidence backing that up.”
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/democrats-transgender-rights-harris-election-rcna179148
Variety, Nov. 9, 2024, “Harper Steele Doesn’t ‘Give a F—‘ About Politicians and Pundits Blaming Kamala Harris Loss on Democrats’ Support of Transgender Rights: ‘We’re Not Here to Be the Sacrifice’,”
The issue is whether the Democrats are going to be sacrificed for a narrow ideological agenda.
The LGBTQXYZ media and establishment was in a predictable outrage over any thought that trans extremism contributed to the defeat of the Democrats.
Them, Nov. 8, 2024, “These Democratic Lawmakers Are Already Blaming Trans People for Trump’s Win.” They are upset with Seth Moulton and Tom Suozzi. Again there is a denial that trans issues might have been a contributing factor. They also go after U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Despite reams of data indicating that voters likely rejected Harris in large part due to the sluggish U.S. economy, both legislators already appeared convinced this week that trans athletic inclusion — an issue that President Biden reportedly tried to downplay for the election by backing down in his Title IX rules changes — was the real source of the Harris campaign’s woes. Even Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told the Times on Thursday that Democrats need to stop being “a party of identity politics,” though he did not specifically mention trans people in his statement.
https://www.them.us/story/tom-suozzi-seth-moulton-new-york-times-trans-people-blame-election-2024
The Advocate, Nov.7, 2024, “No, 'Morning Joe,' trans people didn’t get Trump elected.”
https://www.advocate.com/election/msnbc-joe-scarborough-trump-transgender
This trans columnist for Xtra denies that trans issues brought down the Democrats.
The Human Rights Campaign was in total denial. This is a press release, “New Post Election Poll: Equality Voters Overwhelmingly Backed Harris-Walz ticket; Anti-Trans Attack Ads Proved Ineffective with Broad Swath of Voters.”
Pink News, Nov. 8, 2024, “Two Democrats accused of playing ‘blame game’ after launching attacks on trans athletes.”
However, the Democrats must be already thinking about how to free themselves from the trans extremism.
This was an article in The Atlantic, the establishment’s journal of what Democrats should think. The Atlantic, Nov. 10, 2024, “The Democrats Need an Honest Conversation on Gender Identity.” Let me translated this, “The Democrats are going to lose elections with an agenda defined by trans activists (lunatics) screaming to drown everyone else out.”
The article is behind a paywall, but the title and the part you can read makes it clear what the Democrats are thinking.
One of the mysteries of this election is how the Democrats approached polling day with a set of policies on gender identity that they were neither proud to champion—nor prepared to disown.
Although most Americans agree that transgender people should not face discrimination in housing and employment, there is nowhere near the same level of support for allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports—which is why Donald Trump kept bringing up the issue. His campaign also barraged swing-state voters and sports fans with ads reminding them that Kamala Harris had previously supported taxpayer-funded gender-reassignment surgery for prisoners. The commercials were effective: The New York Times reported that Future Forward, a pro-Harris super PAC, found that one ad “shifted the race 2.7 percentage points in Mr. Trump’s favor after viewers watched it.” The Harris campaign mostly avoided the subject.
Conservatives are gleeful over the Democrats being attached to trans extremism.
National Review, Nov. 10, 2024, “Trans Moralism Is Killing the Democrats.”
The article has a picture of Jay Michaelson arguing with Shemichael Singleton. It is mostly behind a paywall, but the intro basically states their position.
The progressive answer to the humiliating rebuke that the Left suffered last week is still, “You can’t say that.”
The side that has believed it can bully its way to victory on cultural issues by policing the debate in its favor continues to act as if that’s so, even after getting soundly beaten last Tuesday.
The Left’s game has been to insist that everyone adopt its tendentious vocabulary, to call opponents bigots, and to use moral blackmail — and the threat of punishment — to keep any left-of-center doubters in line.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/trans-moralism-is-killing-the-democrats/
Article about Joe Scarorough discussing trans issues and the Democrats.
Summary
Parents aren’t going to want a boy’s dick swinging in the girls’ lockerroom. Rant and rave all you want they aren’t going to tolerate it.
People can visually see the quite obvious impact of men competing in women’s sports.
With the issue of rape, anyone with sense can see that rapists might claim to be trans to gain entry.
If the Democrats want to terminate themselves they can continue with this trans ideology.
Some of the rage I think is because a smug self-righteous group who were arrogant and thought they were morally superior and entitled to to lecture everyone with condescension, suddenly got dethroned, when they thought they were going to rule.
The Democrats aren’t going to be fed into the woodchoppers of history and they will be dumping the extreme elements of trans ideology, but it is going to be with a loud noisy fight.
The origins of this out-of-control ideology will be examined also. Banning puberty blockers and surgery for minors will reduce the cash flow to the trans industry.
However, the whole Gender Studies field which has supplanted Woman’s Studies and the field fo Queer Studies which pushed Lesbians and Gays out will be seen as the source of the disaster. The LGBTQXYZ press will also been seen as a problem.
The Democrats will realize that they can have the support of everyday Gays and Lesbians without trans extremism. Even most of the trans vote without having men competing in women’s sports or in girls’ lockerrooms.
The LGBTQXYZ establishment have crashed themselves when they crashed the Democrats.
Never let a disaster go to waste. Now is the time for Lesbians and Gays to be restored.
While I can’t confidentaly say this issue was a statistically significant factor contributing to the red wave and sweeping loss, (polling data would have to tell that story), I think it folly to ignore that it is A factor.
In pivotal elections- like this one- every factor should be explored, analyzed, and solved for. Otherwise, the losses will keep coming.
In many ways, Democrats overlooked the impact that “discomfort” played in household voter decisions. In order for it not to happen again, some uncomfortable discussions must be had and defining decisions will need to be made on who this party is going to be, what it’s about, who it will be for, and how it will show that. Otherwise, the future will remain red.