Ehhh, his statements on podcasts have done real harm and should be seen as part of the cohesive media & Beltway assault on trans rights. I will never expect people to smile for someone who tells them the state violating their bodies is just good sense.
Oh it’s gross, don’t get me wrong but I was also living here in 2004 when he approved the city covering transitions for municipal employees so it’s hard to square as a clear and present danger.
I mean it's not really that hard? That was then, this is now, and the media outlets are absolutely frothingly obsessed with normalizing & propagating transphobia. Newsom being a weathervane means he'll go with whatever he thinks will get him attention & votes.
I guess there’s that possibility but it seems very unlikely. But there are more than enough leaders of trans rights movement who have shown agendas that were nothing short of destructive in the last election and they’re clearly pulling the strings right now and I’m not comfortable
giving them fuel to their social blackmail fire ever again. Newsom isn’t my first choice but until he actually runs on anti trans legislation I’m not kneecapping him as a Nazi like this app is.
I understand and agree that CA's actual government under Newsom has been better on trans rights but his statements about it should be disqualifying until he actually repudiates them & does real work to atone, imo, not just going "watch what he does, not what he says." What he says matters.