I'm not sure why it's a dirty little secret that Dems are the cohort that harbors most of the trans kids. This issue has become a class marker and the divisions within the country are largely based on class and geography. What this means practically is that Dems are stuck until they face up to the parents of trans children that prevent looking at where the science is taking us. And when I say face up I don't mean to excommunicate them. I want us to be compassionate toward people who were caught up in something that now threatens to overwhelm them. How to combine that compassion with the reckoning that must take place is the real task at hand.
Great post. Have restacked multiple times with excerpts.
Unfortunately, I think the hot stove phenomenon is relevant here: some people -- many, apparently -- need to touch the proverbial hot stove and get burned. That's the only way they'll ever learn.
As an example, to be blunt, "trans allies" and those they love -- their daughters, wives, sisters, mothers, friends -- need to be threatened by a man-faux-woman in a women's restroom, locker room, or other single-sex space before they get it through their heads what's at stake. Not my fault; theirs.
Well said ,and you can add to that their far too soft approach to crimes ,even serious ones ,which has caused a huge increase in violence ,sexual assaults ,theft ( especially shoplifting) and endangered the safety of the law abiding public x
Follow the money too — hundreds of millions have been poured into LGBTQIA2S+ nonprofits and Democratic coffers from uber rich trans supporters like the Pritzker family. The Democrats owe them and do not want to stop the gravy train.
On this issue it absolutely does matter. Gender ideology is solely the project of the Left. As for the possibility that a critical mass of Democratic leaders will at some point in the future possess BOTH the intelligence and courage to admit reality and risk excommunication in doing so? I imagine anything is possible, but when I squint I see my senator, Tim Kaine. When it comes to Trans Toddlers, Kaine is on his own personal Jesuit mission, striding the Moral Arc of the Universe. The rest, the ones who aren't obvious fools like Kaine, are all pathetic cowards. Beyond that, I believe that gender ideology is simply too foundational to the greater Leftist project: the deconstruction of all social norms and the dissolution of traditional and natural relationships.
Yes it is foundational to the side they call the "left", but in fact, it is foundational to the whole group. There is only one agenda, a complete takeover, and both "sides" are in on it. One creates the problem and then the other, gives the solution. But in reality, they both have the same goal. Left/right is a divide and conquer mechanism, it keeps us from joining together against them.
“So how can the democratic party walk back their support of gender ideology?”
The answer is simple and straightforward. They cannot. It isn’t just celebs. In any left-wing political gathering or event larger than 10 people, there is a very very high chance that someone in the room has transed their kid. That person is more motivated to block change than the other 9 people are motivated to change. It’s existential for that one person.
The Joyce effect: No progress will be made if progress requires that parents admit that they failed their child. I was involved in left-wing politics. Generally speaking, the left has lost the ability to critically analyse our own ideas.
Thank you, That_guy. I still consider myself a liberal -- in the classic sense, the true sense, which too many on the left don't understand and have abandoned.
And I agree that, as you say, "generally speaking, the left has lost the ability to critically analyze our own ideas." The "trans" psychosis makes this abundantly clear.
I won't stop fighting, but I despair at the ILliberal ideas and actions of my supposed tribe.
Thank you so much. For those saying democrats and republicans are the same, they are ignoring that one is now a part of nazis destroying the US and environment, while the other is a mixture of many people but who want to keep health care, food stamps and basic survival issues continuing.
That is why I vote Democrat, though I am a Lesbian who has been fighting the trans cult from the very beginning, and in print in 1973.
We never agreed to have heterosexual men ("T" in "LGBTQIA etc.") made part of our community when they have been perving on us from the beginning. The trans cult is inherently Lesbian-hating and female-hating, and a lucrative form of conversion "therapy" aimed at eliminating Lesbians and Gay men.
I so hope the well-meaning Democrats will finally realize that this issue is why they lost and not confuse supporting Lesbians and Gay men with supporting our enemy, the trans cult.
I was raised in the 1960s and 70s by women's libbers.
Why on earth would I suddenly throw my sisters under the bus now, just because the Democratic Party that women built--that *I* helped build--has unthinkably sold out to the conscienceless billionaires behind the gender-stereotype ideology cult? (Republican billionaire & past-Trumpster James Pritzker, I'm talking about you.)
Democrats and Republicans are just 2 wings of the same corrupt bird. My son actually called it the "cult of politics" in a song he created. The end is near. The majority of them need to go. They are compromised by big money and bad people who got them into bad/compromising positions and then blackmailed them to do what is absolutely evil (and treasonous in many instances). Hold onto your hats because this situation goes way deeper than we can most likely imagine, and it's all about to be exposed!
I agree that both political parties are beholden to big money, which has been the case for decades if not forever, but only one political party is in thrall to the psychosis of "trans".
The other political party thinks it's ok to try to overthrow the government. So we really are between a rock and a hard place.
It’s not only the Democrats. You can also include the Australian and UK Greens who are purging members who defend biological sex.
I'm not sure why it's a dirty little secret that Dems are the cohort that harbors most of the trans kids. This issue has become a class marker and the divisions within the country are largely based on class and geography. What this means practically is that Dems are stuck until they face up to the parents of trans children that prevent looking at where the science is taking us. And when I say face up I don't mean to excommunicate them. I want us to be compassionate toward people who were caught up in something that now threatens to overwhelm them. How to combine that compassion with the reckoning that must take place is the real task at hand.
We saw it the other night at the Address.
Talk about lemmings being played.
It needs a whole new raft of smart dems to come through. Because that was embarrassing.
Even I could see it coming from a mile off.
And the sitting down through it all, just made them look petty, immature and dumb as rocks.
As dumb as those fucking idiots that say they wouldn’t treat someone in surgery, because they happen to be Jewish.
That level of thick is embarrassing.
And now we're going to lose so much more because of this. It's absolutely crazy-making.
I hope you are right...
And now we have this bit of idiocy:
Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison says having males in girls’ sports ‘doesn’t harm anyone’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/8/keith-ellison-males-girls-sports-doesnt-harm-anyone/
WTF is wrong with these people??
And the Dems wonder why they keep losing. HELLO??!
Great post. Have restacked multiple times with excerpts.
Unfortunately, I think the hot stove phenomenon is relevant here: some people -- many, apparently -- need to touch the proverbial hot stove and get burned. That's the only way they'll ever learn.
As an example, to be blunt, "trans allies" and those they love -- their daughters, wives, sisters, mothers, friends -- need to be threatened by a man-faux-woman in a women's restroom, locker room, or other single-sex space before they get it through their heads what's at stake. Not my fault; theirs.
The activists have taken over the party. It’s that simple.
The ‘24 election wasn’t enough, they need another drubbing in the midterms to learn their lesson.
Well said ,and you can add to that their far too soft approach to crimes ,even serious ones ,which has caused a huge increase in violence ,sexual assaults ,theft ( especially shoplifting) and endangered the safety of the law abiding public x
Follow the money too — hundreds of millions have been poured into LGBTQIA2S+ nonprofits and Democratic coffers from uber rich trans supporters like the Pritzker family. The Democrats owe them and do not want to stop the gravy train.
Left, right, it matters not. Good cop, bad cop. People need to wake up, they hate all of us.
On this issue it absolutely does matter. Gender ideology is solely the project of the Left. As for the possibility that a critical mass of Democratic leaders will at some point in the future possess BOTH the intelligence and courage to admit reality and risk excommunication in doing so? I imagine anything is possible, but when I squint I see my senator, Tim Kaine. When it comes to Trans Toddlers, Kaine is on his own personal Jesuit mission, striding the Moral Arc of the Universe. The rest, the ones who aren't obvious fools like Kaine, are all pathetic cowards. Beyond that, I believe that gender ideology is simply too foundational to the greater Leftist project: the deconstruction of all social norms and the dissolution of traditional and natural relationships.
Yes it is foundational to the side they call the "left", but in fact, it is foundational to the whole group. There is only one agenda, a complete takeover, and both "sides" are in on it. One creates the problem and then the other, gives the solution. But in reality, they both have the same goal. Left/right is a divide and conquer mechanism, it keeps us from joining together against them.
“So how can the democratic party walk back their support of gender ideology?”
The answer is simple and straightforward. They cannot. It isn’t just celebs. In any left-wing political gathering or event larger than 10 people, there is a very very high chance that someone in the room has transed their kid. That person is more motivated to block change than the other 9 people are motivated to change. It’s existential for that one person.
The Joyce effect: No progress will be made if progress requires that parents admit that they failed their child. I was involved in left-wing politics. Generally speaking, the left has lost the ability to critically analyse our own ideas.
Thank you, That_guy. I still consider myself a liberal -- in the classic sense, the true sense, which too many on the left don't understand and have abandoned.
And I agree that, as you say, "generally speaking, the left has lost the ability to critically analyze our own ideas." The "trans" psychosis makes this abundantly clear.
I won't stop fighting, but I despair at the ILliberal ideas and actions of my supposed tribe.
Thank you so much. For those saying democrats and republicans are the same, they are ignoring that one is now a part of nazis destroying the US and environment, while the other is a mixture of many people but who want to keep health care, food stamps and basic survival issues continuing.
That is why I vote Democrat, though I am a Lesbian who has been fighting the trans cult from the very beginning, and in print in 1973.
We never agreed to have heterosexual men ("T" in "LGBTQIA etc.") made part of our community when they have been perving on us from the beginning. The trans cult is inherently Lesbian-hating and female-hating, and a lucrative form of conversion "therapy" aimed at eliminating Lesbians and Gay men.
I so hope the well-meaning Democrats will finally realize that this issue is why they lost and not confuse supporting Lesbians and Gay men with supporting our enemy, the trans cult.
Girl, same.
I was raised in the 1960s and 70s by women's libbers.
Why on earth would I suddenly throw my sisters under the bus now, just because the Democratic Party that women built--that *I* helped build--has unthinkably sold out to the conscienceless billionaires behind the gender-stereotype ideology cult? (Republican billionaire & past-Trumpster James Pritzker, I'm talking about you.)
There was like a brief moment after Trump won that I thought there would be a course correction but they just can do it.
Democrats and Republicans are just 2 wings of the same corrupt bird. My son actually called it the "cult of politics" in a song he created. The end is near. The majority of them need to go. They are compromised by big money and bad people who got them into bad/compromising positions and then blackmailed them to do what is absolutely evil (and treasonous in many instances). Hold onto your hats because this situation goes way deeper than we can most likely imagine, and it's all about to be exposed!
"It's all about to be exposed"? Really? How?
I agree that both political parties are beholden to big money, which has been the case for decades if not forever, but only one political party is in thrall to the psychosis of "trans".
The other political party thinks it's ok to try to overthrow the government. So we really are between a rock and a hard place.