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The Democrats Need an Honest Conversation on Gender Identity
The Atlantic ^ | 11/10/24 | Helen Lewis

Posted on 11/10/2024 10:21:39 PM PST by DallasBiff

The party went into an election with policies it couldn’t defend—or even explain.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: democrats; transgender; xyxx
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To: DallasBiff

Dems have no ability at introspection.

They will not learn from their losses.


21 posted on 11/11/2024 2:29:57 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: DallasBiff

An honest conversation on gender identity... Think about that. That in itself is pure insanity to even be thinking about.

Male / female anything else is pure BS.


22 posted on 11/11/2024 3:17:35 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: DallasBiff

It’s about “science” and nobody has explained how an XX chromosome
changes to XY by the power of thought.


23 posted on 11/11/2024 3:33:49 AM PST by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Liz

I never understood campaigning for votes from the minority OF a minority.


24 posted on 11/11/2024 4:51:15 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: SMARTY

It can be argued that the Afro Heritage minority mimority made a very significant contribution to the President Trump win.

Growth of the Afro Heritage minority minority is death to the left wing plague


25 posted on 11/11/2024 4:55:28 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: FreedomForce

“The Democrats have had an honest conversation among themselves and have agreed to the nutty idea that a person’s gender is whatever the person says it is.”

I don’t care what you call yourself. However, you are either XX or XY. You can be XY and call yourself a Shetland pony. I don’t care. Nor do I need to acknowledge this or go to jail because if that is the precedent, then not acknowledging that I am not a Shetland pony then that person should go to jail.


26 posted on 11/11/2024 5:16:22 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Drill Baby Drill!)
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To: DallasBiff

Pretty sure a sentence that contains the words “Democrats” and “honest” constitutes a contradiction in terms.


27 posted on 11/11/2024 6:54:11 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Nervous Tick

The Atlantic represents an objective analysis from all points of view...

From hardcore Stalinists to “moderate” Trotskyites.

Lol.


28 posted on 11/11/2024 6:56:44 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: DallasBiff

The Atlantic reminds me of that old Woody Allen joke:

What happens when you merge “Dissent” (old lefty rag) with “Commentary” (old lefty rag).

You get....

Dysentery!


29 posted on 11/11/2024 6:59:50 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: DallasBiff
Although most Americans agree that transgender people should not face discrimination in housing and employment...

Source?

30 posted on 11/11/2024 7:59:50 AM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Landlords should be able to determine who they want or don’t want in the buildings they own.....same with employers.


31 posted on 11/11/2024 8:02:25 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: DallasBiff

Transgenderism is a sure sign of self destruct it’s mind that is at issue not the body.

There’s always a cheer leaders for some stupid thing aka media.


32 posted on 11/11/2024 8:17:07 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: DallasBiff

Four years ago the Gay community said “Dump the Tranny thing”


33 posted on 11/11/2024 8:41:56 AM PST by Zathras
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To: caww
Totally agree. And employers should be able to hire whom they want in an "at will" state, but the Will of The People has been out the question regarding Freedom of Association since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Seventy years is about entough time for a compulsory social adjustment. That's how long the USSR lasted.
34 posted on 11/11/2024 8:48:41 AM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

.......Seventy years is about enough time for a compulsory social adjustment.......

Unfortunatly with a perpetual “victim” mindset - now demanding reperations ( mostly women)....it doesn’ look like that social ajustment is going to happen for black women. Too easy to quit school, get pregnant, go on welfare, have a live in man as their lifefstyle.


35 posted on 11/11/2024 9:20:37 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: DallasBiff
There is no such thing as "gender identity".

Humans are mammals.

Mammals have two sexes.

The sex of the Zygote is determined at the fusion (conception).

The sex of mammals is immutable.

This is all biological reality and not subject to your fee-fees.

Learn to deal with it.

36 posted on 11/11/2024 9:26:43 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

bttt


37 posted on 11/11/2024 9:27:18 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: DallasBiff
Demorats have an HONEST conversation ?


38 posted on 11/11/2024 9:57:59 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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