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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.
Horrific.
So you're saying that it is not true that voting for a lesser evil doesn't result in the slate of candidates that we're seeing in front of us?
Why are some of these Democrats adopting this anti-transposition when previously they didn't have to? When Josh Turek got his seat in 2022, he did not have to run on anti-trans issues in order to do so. In fact, he even voted against a bathroom bill in 2023 that would restricted trans people from using bathrooms of their identified gender.
Now he wants to pull funding from the federal level for Gender-affirming care. It sure seems like our lesser evil is moving to the right, along with their opposition.
But why would they do that? Couldn't there be an economic argument to be made, Instead of having to rely on this capitulation to the invented issues of the right wing conservative party? And if so, why are the Democrats not adopting it?