Opinion: The debate over transgender rights is a liability for Democrats. Here’s how to neutralize it, writes @thirdway.bsky.social think tank co-founder Jonathan Cowan.
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may 29, 2025, 10:51 pm • 3 0 • view
Absolute Nazi shit. We are not a fucking liability you subhuman filth
may 29, 2025, 8:04 pm • 50 0 • view
Trans people didn't "weaponize" this issue. You're telling Democrats to partially blame us for trying to preserve our rights.
may 29, 2025, 10:46 pm • 117 0 • view
These people would have accused black americans in the 60s of weaponizing the civil rights movement
may 30, 2025, 12:05 am • 10 0 • view
The article's author is Jonathan Cowan. It should be Jonathan Coward
aug 28, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
hell, these people would have accused Black americans of weaponising civil rights in, like, 2020.
may 30, 2025, 2:19 am • 5 0 • view
I didn't weaponize my identity. I'm literally just trying to exist. It's the right wing nut jobs that keep weaponizing our identities, and the Dems sit back and say "oh those poor trans people, you should fight harder" while doing nothing
may 29, 2025, 11:15 pm • 65 1 • view
Why are you blaming Democrats when this guy isn't a Democrat? Actual Democrats have stood up for trans civil rights. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
may 30, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
Some have. And several have been abandoning us.
may 30, 2025, 2:26 am • 14 0 • view
Some. But most aren't Newsom. Blaming them for Newsom isn't going to help fight Trump.
may 30, 2025, 2:28 am • 0 0 • view
Well when more of them stand up to the attacks on us and against articles like this, I will. But most of them seem keen to ignore the administration's attacks on us, at best.
may 30, 2025, 2:39 am • 10 0 • view
Nearly all of them did. I already linked the article. I can do it again. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
may 30, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
That's an important move, but it also isn't enough. People are being constantly bombarded with anti trans rhetoric and meanwhile, most high ranking dems won't speak to it, several openly talk about abandoning us, and many of the others won't condemn their colleagues.
may 30, 2025, 2:46 am • 10 0 • view
We're steadily losing rights and they aren't doing nearly enough
may 30, 2025, 2:46 am • 12 0 • view
What are they supposed to be doing? There's hundreds of things going wrong right now.
may 30, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
Because it's mostly performative. They won't introduce bills to stop the shit happening and they only speak up when it benefits them.
may 30, 2025, 7:13 am • 6 0 • view
may 29, 2025, 8:28 pm • 4 0 • view
No ethical person can treat civil rights as a “liability”. Democrats will lose my vote if they do this to any minority group.
may 29, 2025, 7:02 pm • 35 1 • view
There isn't a fucking debate. Trans people deserve rights you absolute muppets
may 29, 2025, 8:06 pm • 63 1 • view
counterpoint: only stupid and hateful people think trans rights are a "liability"
may 29, 2025, 8:13 pm • 29 0 • view
Counterpoint: fuck transphobes and anyone else who obsesses over the genitalia of children.
may 29, 2025, 8:07 pm • 22 0 • view
My rights aren't yours to debate, pissfucker
may 30, 2025, 11:15 am • 138 1 • view
The conversations i’ve had the last few weeks has shown me that trans people and immigrants are just acceptable collateral to way more people that claim to be liberal than i had previously thought. They aren’t willing to rise up and protect us in any meaningful way.
may 30, 2025, 11:47 pm • 12 0 • view
Media never changes. It’s always the marginalized minorities that are the problem to you fascist fucks and not the bigots
may 29, 2025, 10:30 pm • 187 12 • view
That’s the same logic used to justify Jim Crow. There is no “center” between bigotry and equality. GFY bigot
may 29, 2025, 10:21 pm • 12 0 • view
Protip: You are not going to out-republican the republicans when it comes to be fascists ghouls. Grow a fucking spine, or even better, smash your phone with a hammer and live alone in the woods for the rest of your life.
may 29, 2025, 10:02 pm • 17 0 • view
“If Dems would simply declare defeat in the culture war right wing people who view them as communists will vote for them”.
may 29, 2025, 8:28 pm • 15 0 • view
Your opinions are a liability to decency. With more respect than you deserve, go fuck yourself.
may 29, 2025, 10:19 pm • 19 0 • view
I agree with this except every time o get done licking those boots they keep walking in mud again! What is a fashy to do?!?!
may 29, 2025, 7:59 pm • 6 0 • view
Fuck you
may 29, 2025, 10:04 pm • 28 0 • view
"Extremist on both sides" fuck you, you equivocating twat
may 29, 2025, 10:55 pm • 17 0 • view
Didn't you write this slop in 2003 about gay marriage & the Democrats? Did you write this slop after 9/11 about Muslims? Did you write this slop in the 90s about inner city communities? Didn't you write this slop about Civil Rights Movement & Johnson in the 1960s? 🙄 Same song, different beating
may 29, 2025, 11:32 pm • 343 30 • view
may 30, 2025, 1:24 am • 7 0 • view
politico is a zionist rag so their default position is hard-right nazi and they get worse from there.
may 30, 2025, 8:38 pm • 3 0 • view
All the more reason to call out the hypocrisy industry of hate speech recycling.
may 30, 2025, 9:51 pm • 4 0 • view
I mean, if Politico had existed in the 90s, it probably would have. They'd be arguing against asbestos regulation and explain-o-graphing the need to nuke Vietnam if you just ran them back another fifty years. They're nihilists. They stand for nothing.
may 30, 2025, 12:40 pm • 10 0 • view
Those snakes shance their skin, but they're still the same hate selling snakes they always were preying on the short term, overwhelmed attention spans of people
may 30, 2025, 1:00 pm • 5 0 • view
Change* Wtf Samsung AI, you drunk on my personal data already?!
may 30, 2025, 1:18 pm • 4 0 • view
Omfg thats true actually. Yeah this article is a fucking psyop.
may 30, 2025, 5:36 am • 31 0 • view
Hopefully @democrats.org @democrats.senate.gov realize that because that's who that article is aimed at and written to manipulate.
may 30, 2025, 12:19 pm • 13 0 • view
I guarantee the Democrats don't realize that. Sen. Gallego was parroting the same shit yesterday
may 30, 2025, 4:02 pm • 9 0 • view
They never will. Aside from a few, most are just mindlessly playing the game banking on fascists play with the gloves on
may 30, 2025, 4:51 pm • 8 0 • view
He’s such a Sinema 😡
aug 22, 2025, 4:19 pm • 2 0 • view
The way to neutralize it is to support our trans brothers and sisters unreservedly and to tell those who think otherwise to fuck off. Thus, fuck off.
may 29, 2025, 7:40 pm • 16 0 • view
"The far right smears trans people as mentally unstable rapists and child abusers, and tries to undermine trans access to legal documents and ethical medical care, but sometimes Democrats talk about pronouns, and these are both Too Far; I am in the ~sensible center~" My guy, what?
![First, Democrats should express their frustration and disgust with the ways extremists on both sides have weaponized the issue. Doing so will immediately signal to swing voters that they are trying to resolve, not exploit, the culture wars. Democrats can make clear that on the right, hardcore conservatives have used this debate primarily to inflict harm, painting transgender people as monsters who seek to change our culture and history. On the far left, progressive activists police our language, attempting to shame those who step out of line or do not agree with every item on their agenda. While there is no moral equivalency between those two sides — the demonization by the right is much worse — both extremes are wrong and are [text ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zpi6k4ze5upuf4cwelcgnhbk/bafkreif44nrmhrlefycqkryc7mxstlfed6vihqbpkmmkyltgxwpggiudh4@jpeg)
may 29, 2025, 9:11 pm • 156 8 • view
Cowan's perception is in line with every cis faux-ally I've ever met: they'll support trans ppl right up until there's the slightest amount of friction. Until they have to listen to us or alter the most minor harmful behavior. Why can't we be REASONABLE, they say—like all their cis friends are?
may 29, 2025, 9:11 pm • 94 2 • view
he's a perfect liberal. that's how they treat black people - for their civil rights in the abstract, but when someone suggests integrating their lilly-white school district the klan hoods and robes come out.
may 30, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Guys like Cowan, and possibly Cowan himself, said the same thing about abortion for years. It’s always someone else who should cheerfully give up their human rights/bodily autonomy/right to continue living
may 29, 2025, 10:26 pm • 40 0 • view
Wrong.
may 30, 2025, 4:20 am • 3 0 • view
I would suggest NOT taking "third way"s advice: "The researchers found that respondents who viewed female athletes as less deserving of attention, support, and media coverage were more likely to oppose transgender inclusion in sports." www.psypost.org/transgender-...
may 29, 2025, 11:06 pm • 168 24 • view
Absolutely Unneeded Advice Award.
may 30, 2025, 3:38 am • 1 0 • view
Facts fr. There is a reason they are on many transphobia blocklists here on Bluesky
may 30, 2025, 10:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Transphobia is just misogyny plus homophobia.
may 30, 2025, 9:08 am • 19 0 • view
That's fascinating
may 30, 2025, 11:19 am • 0 0 • view
Right. Just keep carving up that tent, smaller and smaller. Any bets on the next group that gets kicked after the trans ppl?
may 29, 2025, 6:50 pm • 134 3 • view
You're not kicked out, you're expected to share the tent and support people who want to eradicate you quietly or else the people who are loudly trying to eradicate you will win.
may 29, 2025, 8:39 pm • 11 0 • view
No you don't get it. We're not kicked out. We're still expected to fully support and advocate for Dem candidates and then we can get blamed when they lose.
may 29, 2025, 7:27 pm • 134 2 • view
Sounds like a win-win…for fascists.
may 29, 2025, 8:02 pm • 35 0 • view
Well the two sides of that coin ARE the same.
may 29, 2025, 8:26 pm • 13 0 • view
Yup. Double headed coin.
may 29, 2025, 10:42 pm • 7 0 • view
It’s absolutely grotesque that you would publish this and it makes me question your entire editorial team’s judgement - both professionally and morally, as they seem to be failing both.
may 29, 2025, 8:30 pm • 110 3 • view
Opinion, y'all would rather let children die and scientific research burned well hate crimes rein cuz you do not want to defend a minority group or cover any of the like 10+ last studies all which affirm trans rights.
may 30, 2025, 2:32 am • 3 0 • view
your contributions to nazi collaboration will not be forgotten, and when it's time punishment will be exacted upon you and yours for making this article
may 29, 2025, 6:50 pm • 397 10 • view
I wonder how Cowan would feel if this debate were transposed to an alternate universe where navel gazing pundits were the class of people being targeted, dehumanized, and straight up disappeared by murderous bigots.
may 29, 2025, 7:17 pm • 41 2 • view
may 29, 2025, 7:43 pm • 29 0 • view
When these guys are all done and hanging upside down from lamp posts Jonathan Cowan is still going to be a collaborator
may 29, 2025, 7:19 pm • 22 0 • view
Fuck you, again, Politico
may 29, 2025, 7:37 pm • 14 0 • view
ratiOOOÒ
may 29, 2025, 8:59 pm • 15 0 • view
The centrist transphobes who throw trans people under the bus because they’re so scared of being called woke and then can’t even admit to their own shitty transphobic opinion but have to launder it through referencing the “debate” over transgender rights, are the ultimate cowards.
may 29, 2025, 11:19 pm • 210 8 • view
Heck, at least the actual fascist transphobes say it straightforward that they hate them. Not the wishy-washy centrists who will abandon trans rights whenever convenient. They're way less predictable.
may 30, 2025, 2:37 am • 27 1 • view
Worst part imo is to me, "centrists" are either Republicans too pansy to say it out loud, or mega pansies to the point that they believe in nothing but whatever the last person pressured them to think. They exist solely to never disagree with anyone, like it would kill them to dislike or be disliked
may 30, 2025, 6:25 pm • 2 0 • view
When one side is fighting for equal rights and the other side is fighting for suppression and policies that lead to higher rates of suicide for a minority group, centrism just means you are uninformed, a coward, or an evil-apologist.
may 31, 2025, 9:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Fuck the third way and you too politico - nobody gets thrown under the bus
may 29, 2025, 7:40 pm • 20 0 • view
absofuckinglutely not
may 29, 2025, 7:15 pm • 18 0 • view
That’s kind of right, but only because it shouldn’t be a debate. Humans should have human rights, and the bullies who say otherwise should be treated as the scum that they are.
may 29, 2025, 11:24 pm • 3 0 • view
This is some idiotic shit
may 29, 2025, 7:31 pm • 13 0 • view
“let’s kill people for votes and money” democrats 🤝 nazis
may 30, 2025, 12:36 am • 304 4 • view
Cowan isn't Dem
may 30, 2025, 2:10 am • 17 0 • view
the title of the article is “trans people are a liability for democrats”
may 30, 2025, 9:37 am • 39 0 • view
Yes, and it was written by an obviously fascist-friendly RWDD.
may 30, 2025, 10:55 am • 8 0 • view
and democrats have been throwing trans people under the bus forever. what now?
may 30, 2025, 12:30 pm • 26 2 • view
this post and comment section is about him literally writing a peice for a think tank called "Third Way" that exists to pressure Democrats to the right.
may 30, 2025, 2:15 am • 111 0 • view
Right, the Democrats, who don't agree with him that they should ditch trans people, are not represented by Mr never-won-an-election.
may 30, 2025, 2:21 am • 4 0 • view
Kamala Harris said last year that the states should decide on whether trans people should have human rights and she fucking lost
may 30, 2025, 2:23 am • 49 0 • view
Why are you fucking lying about Harris? Go away. Stop campaigning for transphobes.
may 30, 2025, 2:27 am • 5 0 • view
But this isn’t a lie? She abdicated her opinion to states rights (to abuse trans people).
may 30, 2025, 2:32 am • 35 0 • view
No, she did not.
may 30, 2025, 2:34 am • 1 0 • view
Ahhh well, if you say so. Must have misheard her. Thanks for telling me what I heard!
may 30, 2025, 2:39 am • 11 0 • view
Heard right, plus that loser newsom just put in a trans sports ban.
may 30, 2025, 3:04 am • 8 0 • view
Quote or stfu
may 30, 2025, 4:24 am • 0 0 • view
What are you talking about?
may 30, 2025, 2:57 am • 2 0 • view
When did she say this?
may 30, 2025, 4:24 am • 1 0 • view
Different states have restrictions on trans care rights. Different laws. Harris could only say she would follow the law.
may 30, 2025, 5:32 am • 3 0 • view
No, she didn't.
may 30, 2025, 3:11 am • 3 0 • view
You are literally one of the transphobes. You vote for one of the two killer parties.
may 30, 2025, 6:56 am • 1 0 • view
Harris didn’t give a specific answer when asked whether she believes transgender Americans should have access to gender-affirming care. “I think we should follow the law. I mean, I think you’re probably pointing to the fact that Donald Trump’s campaign has spent tens of millions of dollars…,”
may 30, 2025, 2:30 am • 6 0 • view
Weird. She has a specific answer right there in your quote as you backpeda. The law said trans people had civil rights. Well, until you voted for Trump to change it.
may 30, 2025, 2:34 am • 1 0 • view
Words are cheap genius. If you leave trans rights to the states instead of ensuring them at the federal level they WILL BE TAKEN AWAY for people who live in fucking red states. JUST LIKE ABORTION. All Democrats know how to do is triangulate and cede ground to republican framing THEN FUCKING LOSE
may 30, 2025, 2:37 am • 16 0 • view
I notice you failed to defend your position, and now you continued to do the transphobe's work of lying about Democrats. Sure seems like you're here to make sure Trump wins.
may 30, 2025, 2:38 am • 1 0 • view
the law in certain states had already outlawed trans healthcare at that point outside a brief couple years mayyybe, the law has basically never said "trans ppl have civil rights", be serious
may 30, 2025, 6:23 am • 6 0 • view
"i believe we should follow the law" when the "law" kicked trans ppl off medicaid in states like florida (under her watch, no less) is pretty explicitly anti-trans
may 30, 2025, 6:21 am • 5 0 • view
cant deny they work hard to match his record
may 30, 2025, 4:06 am • 1 0 • view
There are several democrats that absolutley agree with the content in this article.
may 30, 2025, 2:36 am • 6 0 • view
...But the vast majority of them do not. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
may 30, 2025, 2:39 am • 2 0 • view
Shame that all the ones that agree with it are in leadership and no matter how much they fail they keep moving up on the party!!!!
may 30, 2025, 3:05 am • 6 0 • view
Citation not included in your statement. Why is that?
may 30, 2025, 3:07 am • 2 0 • view
Not helping the Republicans pass one anti trans bill doesn't meant they're not clearly dropping it as part of their very famous play dead strategy. Well that's not fair Schumer did help pass yrump's budget to legitimize a bunch of the cuts to lgbtq orgs and their funding.
may 30, 2025, 3:14 am • 5 0 • view
Oh! 'How dare Schumer not mention trans people all the time when there are hundreds of other things to mention' Go away. He blocked the bill, you're just a troll.
may 30, 2025, 3:22 am • 1 0 • view
I sure hope so! I'm sorry but after seeing the arguements from this article come up so often from people who call themselves "liberal" or "moderate dem" I can't help but feel nervous about how steady of a foundation it is to rely on democrats to help us, even if a majority of them sincerely want to.
may 30, 2025, 2:45 am • 4 0 • view
Because, as said before, there is a not insignificant amount of dems that give less than a shit about us. www.mlive.com/news/2025/03...
may 30, 2025, 2:49 am • 4 0 • view
You just proved that only a minority of Democrats are anti-trans. 8 voted for, 44 Democrats stood against it. Can you math? 8 is not even most of them. It's not even a quarter of them.
may 30, 2025, 2:54 am • 0 0 • view
I did not say a majority, I said a not insignificant number, and it isn't insignificant if it can pass a transphobic bill. And 8 transphobes is still 8 too many.
may 30, 2025, 3:08 am • 4 0 • view
Are you trolling? Maybe you should read, like, a single thing about this topic before making a comment?
may 30, 2025, 2:29 am • 4 0 • view
Are you responding to me? Because you're talking to a trans woman who has a legal same-sex marriage because of Democrats, a passport because of Democrats, and labor rights protections because of Democrats... ...I would ask you the same question, have you read anything about the topic?
may 30, 2025, 2:32 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, I'm absolutely amazed you could be so confused about this. A number of Democrats opposed trans rights and agree with this opinion peice. It's very easy to find news. In fact I dont know how you have missed it. This opinion piece is literally expressing a common Dem sentiment.
may 30, 2025, 2:37 am • 5 0 • view
Weird, that number seems to be very small. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
may 30, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
Wait, so now you DO know about it? what the fuck girl? Were you pretending before? Why would you behave like this?
may 30, 2025, 2:40 am • 3 0 • view
Well, did you read the stupid politico article? At least enough of it to realize it's not from a Democrat, but from some thIrd-way asshole? Why would you behave like this? Why help Republicans?
may 30, 2025, 2:42 am • 1 0 • view
Politico has become a cesspool of right-wing dreck and vomit left over from the morons that run the current regime. Let them out to dry in the sun, should we ever see any sun in goddamn Pennsylvania, and eventually, what you will be left with is crud. Essentially, Politico.
may 30, 2025, 5:35 am • 10 0 • view
Fix your hearts or die.
may 29, 2025, 7:58 pm • 136 5 • view
At this stage I'm happy for every civility pervert to skip to option 2
may 30, 2025, 9:01 am • 13 0 • view
Did Mr big brain third way understander actually talk to any trans people about this? After all, it's our fucking lives y'all keep using for clicks.
may 29, 2025, 7:17 pm • 244 8 • view
Now why would he do that, we clearly have a pro-"continuing to exist freely" bias.
may 29, 2025, 7:45 pm • 88 2 • view
Fuck all the way off. And when you get there, fuck off some more until you are fucked off so far we never have to hear your shit takes ever again
may 29, 2025, 7:11 pm • 244 5 • view
Counterpoint: No, it's not.
may 29, 2025, 10:51 pm • 10 0 • view
Fuck off Jonathan Cowan.
may 29, 2025, 7:44 pm • 11 0 • view
suck my dick and balls
may 29, 2025, 7:41 pm • 92 0 • view
Are you working at NASA?
jun 1, 2025, 12:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Whoever wrote that transgender rights are a "liability" should be fired out of a cannon into a concrete wall
may 29, 2025, 7:12 pm • 66 0 • view
How about we just try to fuckin protect Americans. You know our friends and neighbors.
may 30, 2025, 5:48 pm • 69 1 • view
The opinion is appeasement bootlicking.
may 30, 2025, 5:48 pm • 34 1 • view
"NO guys, u just gotta let Hitler annex Austria, he'll totally stop- huh? He wants the sudetenland now too? Uhhh... yeah! Let's give that to him, that'll satisfy him!"
may 31, 2025, 9:37 am • 9 0 • view
This reads like an awkward high schooler telling his social group to ditch their disabled friend so they might get invited to Billy Cramston’s party when his parents are gone. “Come on guys!! They’re getting a keg! Girls who rejected us might make bad choices, meaning us! We may even touch a boob!”
may 29, 2025, 9:26 pm • 19 0 • view
Sure! Wait... Nope. Let's change all the laws to require private single-person bathrooms, so nobody can watch us pee or poo or wash our hands or change diapers. And of course filming another person in any bathroom is always a felony. So is any attempt to hide in a bathroom.
may 29, 2025, 9:20 pm • 2 0 • view
this opinion can fuck all the way off
may 29, 2025, 9:41 pm • 13 0 • view
Opinion: Jonathan Cowan should eat glass
may 29, 2025, 7:37 pm • 29 0 • view
"I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt smells and... I like to kiss my own butt." -Jonathan Cowan, Co-Founder of @thirdway.bsky.social
may 29, 2025, 10:37 pm • 15 0 • view
Fuck off
may 29, 2025, 9:40 pm • 9 0 • view
Go fuck yourselves, the fight for people's rights isn't a liability and y'all should know better than to platform a poll-fellating piece of shit trying to push it like it is. He's a cowardly collaborator piece of shit and so are y'all for giving him a space to spread his word.
may 30, 2025, 12:52 am • 42 0 • view
Suck my dick from the back
may 29, 2025, 7:48 pm • 449 2 • view
may 29, 2025, 9:19 pm • 24 0 • view
make them pay you first
may 29, 2025, 11:33 pm • 8 0 • view
Thank you both for making something funny 😂
may 30, 2025, 12:56 am • 4 0 • view
🔥🤌🔥
may 29, 2025, 10:15 pm • 8 0 • view
Thanks for my new favorite phrase.
may 29, 2025, 9:23 pm • 6 0 • view
Grow a spine or something
may 29, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view
How about you start autistically following the sentence "Human rights for everyone" if you are not ready about the animal talk fine but at least encompass every human on earth under the same protections.
may 29, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Look, they came for the immigrants, all right? Maybe if we give up trans people too, they'll stop there. I mean they certainly won't go after the professors or the scientists
may 30, 2025, 12:17 pm • 141 4 • view
I’ve come to accept that immigrants and trans people are just acceptable collateral to many centrist liberals, unfortunately.
may 30, 2025, 11:43 pm • 23 1 • view
Here's how you can go fuck yourself
may 29, 2025, 8:42 pm • 10 0 • view
FAAAAAART SOUND
may 29, 2025, 9:42 pm • 11 0 • view
Cowardly bootlicking are a liability for Democrats. Here's how to neutralize it, writes anyone with basic morals and integrity.
may 29, 2025, 8:19 pm • 495 8 • view
Jonathan Coward, imo
may 29, 2025, 9:46 pm • 55 0 • view
he's not a coward, he's quite open in his bigotry and willing to stand up for it in public.
may 30, 2025, 8:39 pm • 6 0 • view
The very idea that a German Nazi party founder actually has the best interest of Democrats in mind. 🫠
may 29, 2025, 10:40 pm • 9 0 • view
F*ck you facist enabler.
may 29, 2025, 10:57 pm • 11 0 • view
"A minority asking for basic human rights is a liability to democrats" certainly is an idiotic and losing stance to take
may 29, 2025, 10:13 pm • 12 0 • view
Absolutely the fuck not.
may 29, 2025, 9:05 pm • 13 0 • view
Get stuffed. Complicit media like @politico.com calling Republican bigotry a “debate” is the liability. It’s YOU whose framing puts Dems at disadvantage. Just because Dem responses can be feckless, doesn’t mean the “debate” is of their making.
aug 24, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
pee pee poo poo
may 31, 2025, 3:52 am • 0 0 • view
Turd Way
may 29, 2025, 10:04 pm • 15 1 • view
I hope Jonathan Cowen doesn't get anything less than he deserves for this. Really happy for him.
may 29, 2025, 7:34 pm • 16 0 • view
how the fuck is there a centrist position on this?? it's either trans people exist or they don't, there's no inbetween dipshits
may 29, 2025, 7:12 pm • 62 0 • view
it's either acceptance or genocide and only one is an acceptable stance
may 29, 2025, 7:12 pm • 48 1 • view
If I said what I wanted to say about this it would be a ToS violation, but “people” can be coddled for posting evil shit like this in earnest.
may 29, 2025, 8:55 pm • 10 1 • view
Eat shit nazi fucks
may 29, 2025, 7:21 pm • 36 0 • view
Politico delete your account
may 30, 2025, 12:59 am • 71 2 • view
Remember folks; Cowan didn't post this. Politico made a political decision to advance anti trans hatred by publishing some weird crank.
may 30, 2025, 1:02 am • 84 4 • view
Thats true, I fucking despise politico. This anti trans bs has to be stamped out wherever it fucking pops up
may 30, 2025, 5:37 am • 14 1 • view
Not trans myself but I will gladly wear some nasty heels to do so.
may 30, 2025, 8:43 am • 8 0 • view
Thank you! 🫶
may 30, 2025, 2:21 pm • 4 0 • view
This opinion sucks.
may 29, 2025, 9:21 pm • 5 0 • view
This is so dumb. Valuing human rights is a non-negotiable for my vote.
may 29, 2025, 6:54 pm • 93 3 • view
Hey Politico! I used to actually respect you. Those days are long gone. Enjoy the shoe leather. It's all you have left.
may 29, 2025, 11:59 pm • 4 0 • view
Politico, what the fuck is wrong is with you?Did you fail your high school Civics class? Do you not understand that civil liberties must apply to us all or they do not apply to any of us? How can the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party be this fucking stupid and self-serving and yet be so incompetent
may 29, 2025, 11:58 pm • 10 0 • view
Eat shit! I’ll never betray transgender people. Dems will lose if they do this. It’s guaranteed.
may 29, 2025, 9:28 pm • 25 0 • view
go live in the sewer chud
may 30, 2025, 9:34 am • 47 0 • view
Fantastic job framing a complex human rights issue to a both sides debate to "The GOP is using the full power of state and federal government to erase and harm trans people" vs. "someone (citation needed) will cancel me (citation needed) if I use the wrong pronouns (citation needed)."
may 29, 2025, 8:57 pm • 209 5 • view
To the author I ask" what value does the centrist "in group" opinion of an "out group" have when the mainstream semiotic framework to discuss said out group has been so thoroughly co-opted by people like Michael Knowles, whose stated public goal is to "eradicate trans people from public life"?
may 29, 2025, 9:02 pm • 99 0 • view
Also: how much does it pay to write an editorial where you start with the conclusion "the centrist opinion on X, as indicated on these polls, is correct" and shallowly work backwards? Can anyone do it or do you need an entry level certificate in people pleasing?
may 29, 2025, 9:16 pm • 74 0 • view
may 29, 2025, 10:54 pm • 3 0 • view
It's an opinion, a shitty opinion but an opinion nonetheless.
may 30, 2025, 4:18 pm • 7 0 • view
Dems blaming everyone but themselves for their failures against fascism.
may 29, 2025, 9:22 pm • 21 0 • view
How about a debate between my foot and Jonathan Cowan’s ass
may 29, 2025, 7:08 pm • 47 1 • view
Jonathan Cowan’s ass needs to meet the people who want to kick it where they are.
may 30, 2025, 1:54 pm • 2 0 • view
💯
may 30, 2025, 1:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Opinion: go fuck yourselves
may 29, 2025, 7:12 pm • 19 0 • view
I wish someone would neutralize your ability to publish
may 29, 2025, 7:20 pm • 22 0 • view
Opinion: Jonathan Cowan is a liability for everyone and should get a real job
aug 24, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, because taking advice from our enemies is SUCH a good way to win. And yes, Cowan is our enemy, but I mean you too, Politico.
may 30, 2025, 2:34 am • 11 0 • view
may 29, 2025, 7:40 pm • 14 0 • view
I'm not even going to click it to hate it how do you feel about that
may 29, 2025, 10:36 pm • 7 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/juli...
may 30, 2025, 1:24 am • 10 1 • view
I really can’t emphasize how much Andy Beshear has shamed you in a deep red state by just being a decent person.
may 30, 2025, 2:27 am • 1 0 • view
Evil.
may 31, 2025, 12:25 pm • 1 0 • view
What “debate”? These are human beings like any other. Change the word to “The debate over *African-American* rights” and oh, look at that, slavery and Jim Crow connotations! There is no debate. Transgender people are people and inherently have all rights as human beings.
may 29, 2025, 7:31 pm • 22 0 • view
Fuck you
may 29, 2025, 8:12 pm • 14 0 • view
Turd way
may 29, 2025, 6:49 pm • 37 2 • view
“Let’s cede ground on human rights because fascists told us to” Gg you fucking ghouls for play forming this vile bullshit
may 30, 2025, 1:48 am • 18 0 • view
it's perfect :)
may 29, 2025, 9:44 pm • 18 0 • view
I think he's trying to explain why we're in the mess we're in now. We can't take the criticism from members of our own party? Are we capable of deciding for ourselves. If not, so much for a big tent. The gop is using anyone not "normal " as a talking point and it's working. Punch back.
may 29, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Except he's wrong. Harris did NOT support trans rights despite being painted that way, and probably would have gotten more votes from those who didn't bother if she had. Also, we don't debate human rights.
may 29, 2025, 11:35 pm • 4 0 • view
No, his stance is literally "lol Centrists hate trans people, just not as much as Republicans do, so if Dems want to win them over they need to just shut up about trans rights."
may 30, 2025, 3:49 am • 7 0 • view
Jonathan Chait follower; incoherent opinion discarded.
may 29, 2025, 11:16 pm • 7 0 • view
go be an insurance adjuster or an accountant then. if you can't take the heat, get the fuck out of the kitchen and make room for people who actually want your job.
may 29, 2025, 9:40 pm • 12 0 • view
Fuck off into the sun.
may 29, 2025, 9:04 pm • 12 0 • view
Fuck you
may 29, 2025, 9:39 pm • 9 0 • view
Nope
may 30, 2025, 3:55 pm • 1 0 • view
No, and also fuck you.
may 29, 2025, 7:45 pm • 12 0 • view
No.
may 29, 2025, 6:44 pm • 80 2 • view
Funny that dems who run on protecting trans peoole usually win while those who dont or try to compromise civil rights lose. Kamala didnt say shit about trans peoole and let trump define the issue. That was the problem.
may 29, 2025, 7:34 pm • 38 2 • view
Walz did, but she needed to.
may 29, 2025, 7:41 pm • 16 0 • view
Every great thing he did was shut down by the DNC.
may 29, 2025, 10:03 pm • 14 0 • view
It wasn’t the dnc, it was consultants. One in particular who said not to call the gop weird and other bad advice. He still did it. He still publicly supported trans and all LGBTQ+ people.
may 29, 2025, 10:09 pm • 11 0 • view
Lol I didn’t see your reply. See below, another commenter says exactly what I would say.
jun 3, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
So you don’t know shit. Thanks for letting me know.
jun 3, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
Wow. Fuck you, this is how you talk to people? I didn’t come at you with an ounce of ill intent, why the blow back? Fucking chill.
jun 3, 2025, 3:23 am • 1 0 • view
Does the DNC hire and follow the advice of consultants? Are they a godlike entity? Did Harris decide her own campaign or was she a lightweight with no backbone or moral convictions?
jun 3, 2025, 12:56 am • 2 0 • view
No, the consultants materialized out of the ether. I think they breed by spores…
jun 3, 2025, 2:59 am • 2 0 • view
We don't normalize flat earthers. Flat earthers are extreme, not everyone else. The fact is trans people are just people that represent another way nature manifests species diversity. Trans people are biologically our gender. Denying facts is extreme. Facts themselves are not. Your article sucks.
may 29, 2025, 9:20 pm • 24 1 • view
This dipshit "guys im doing a populism!" "So like public housing, freezing rent, public healthcare, workers rights etc?" "Hahaha, no!"
may 30, 2025, 12:10 am • 14 0 • view
The amount of likes on this nazi rag have more than tripled since I posted previously. Ya'll, remember what we do to nazis.
may 31, 2025, 3:14 am • 17 0 • view
49 likes from nazis. US trans folks will be here for longer than your rancid corpses will survive and if you keep this shit up you'll find that out sooner rather than later.
may 29, 2025, 7:55 pm • 19 0 • view
fuck you
may 29, 2025, 10:08 pm • 10 0 • view
Arguing for human rights is never a liability.
may 29, 2025, 8:07 pm • 10 0 • view
Opinion: you're a coward, Jonathan. Support trans rights or become a Republican.
may 29, 2025, 9:21 pm • 10 0 • view
This is bs framing. Civil rights for all or freedom for none. GTFOH with this.
may 29, 2025, 10:24 pm • 17 0 • view
Look, if that kind of poll-led crap worked, we wouldn't have Trump et al. in office right now. You don't win by backing off your convictions, or abandoning part of your coalition. Do you want for people to feel like they need three showers after they vote for you, just to wash the slime off?
may 29, 2025, 7:46 pm • 14 0 • view
No more fucking civility you dank tuft of rectal pubic hair
may 30, 2025, 6:25 am • 40 0 • view
No, bigotry is never acceptable, even if it’s popular in some circles.
may 29, 2025, 9:35 pm • 7 0 • view
Fucking liberals always doing handwringing for the far right. I don't even need to look to know the writer is cishet and coddled.
may 29, 2025, 8:20 pm • 10 0 • view
Hey, maybe consider just deleting this article
may 30, 2025, 7:19 am • 173 1 • view
how about this: go fuck yourself and roast in hell for all eternity. Try that one on for size playboy. Shut the fuck up.
may 29, 2025, 7:15 pm • 27 0 • view
In history books, they will be a section for newspapers like you who continue to give a platform to transphobic pricks and other fascists that helped to put America in the spot it's in now.
may 30, 2025, 2:59 pm • 86 1 • view
Old dudes need to stop foisting their insecurities onto everyone else.
may 31, 2025, 3:37 am • 2 0 • view
So... you're not into that whole "liberty and justice for all" thing... Such a shame since that's a core Dem value. Ever consider becoming Republicans? You'd probably feel more at home there. Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
may 30, 2025, 2:51 am • 12 0 • view
No one's going to waste time voting for fascism- lite. The Democrats have become a party without purpose. They stand for nothing, believe in nothing, and fight for nothing.
may 29, 2025, 7:39 pm • 15 0 • view
Hey, this fucking sucks, but I guess it is a useful reference to put a final nail in the coffin of this Third Way think tank. Apparently they are VERY BAD and PATHETICALLY BIGOTED.
may 29, 2025, 8:00 pm • 10 0 • view
the democrats are a liability to everybody
may 29, 2025, 8:54 pm • 17 1 • view
hahaha. Ok, Third Way.
may 29, 2025, 7:27 pm • 8 0 • view
disgusting drivel printed by Politico
aug 23, 2025, 3:23 am • 0 0 • view
may 29, 2025, 7:29 pm • 17 0 • view
may 30, 2025, 12:20 am • 245 5 • view
This guy isn't a Democrat. Actual Democrats so far have blocked the anti-trans legislation. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
may 30, 2025, 2:22 am • 19 0 • view
gavin newsom is A) a democrat and B) is preparing to run for president.
may 30, 2025, 3:10 am • 26 0 • view
Sorry I was still stuck waiting for C) kind of a bitch
may 30, 2025, 4:01 am • 17 0 • view
i was going to say 'complete piece of shit' but yeah.
may 30, 2025, 4:09 am • 11 0 • view
also works 👍🏻
may 30, 2025, 4:17 am • 7 0 • view
It's sad, though. There was a time when I would have been enthusiastic about supporting Newsom. Not any more.
may 30, 2025, 11:09 am • 0 0 • view
Gavin newsom just segregated trans children. Democrats broke ranks to vote for hr1 which would take away trans healthcare. Some Dems have tried to block legislation but Dems broadly have not.
may 30, 2025, 1:04 pm • 41 1 • view
even that's not true. They carefully manage who has to break ranks to get the outcome they want, and give out hall passes if a favored politician in a close district would be hurt by it. the dems, broadly, are for all the bad shit trump does, they just keep up the kayfabe for idiot voters.
may 30, 2025, 8:32 pm • 3 0 • view
I don't disagree I just know libs well enough to know they'll never accept that without some intervening steps lol
may 31, 2025, 12:47 am • 3 0 • view
fair enough. only difference then is i consider lib-brain to be both terminal and untreatable but you think there's a cure.
may 31, 2025, 12:53 am • 3 0 • view
Some ppl get through it, for sure. For now I'll settle for convincing them to hate gavin newsom so he can't be 2028 nom
may 31, 2025, 12:56 am • 3 0 • view
the best cure for lib brain is other liberals. I realized my mistake after holding my nose and voting for hillary and the unbearable nails-on-chalkboard screeching at me afterwards for suggesting that she wasn't the most perfect person ever finally woke me to how awful they all are.
may 31, 2025, 12:58 am • 2 0 • view
I love how these guys are always like: "Why hello there my fellow democrats!" while barely hiding their horns.
may 30, 2025, 6:41 am • 1 0 • view
Ask Newsom what he thinks of trans people, you dolt
may 30, 2025, 3:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Or his thoughts on bulldozers and the homeless.
may 30, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
democrats like gavin newsom are currently helping trump to segregate trans people in sports and other areas of life www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
may 30, 2025, 5:21 am • 11 2 • view
No true Scotsman, as always
may 30, 2025, 12:14 pm • 8 0 • view
hope you're not paying by the word when a gif would have sufficed
may 30, 2025, 1:37 am • 10 0 • view
The responses to this vile article will now be framed as “We tried to present a reasonable argument and the blueskys chased us off the website!”
may 29, 2025, 9:02 pm • 417 2 • view
Indeed. When we stand up for people’s basic rights, fascists will smear us as intolerant. Oldest trick in the book.
may 29, 2025, 10:43 pm • 4 0 • view
and there was much rejoicing.
may 29, 2025, 9:12 pm • 50 0 • view
Yo, maybe *don’t* share this stupid article hundreds of time to dunk on it, resulting in it getting tons of clicks? Refer to it, screenshot (with alt-text) passages, sure, but don’t share it please.
may 29, 2025, 9:56 pm • 132 1 • view
Alternatively one could use an archive site like archive.today Normally I'd advise actually looking at the articles so the news site can make at least a little money, but this is so disgusting that I'm willing to say that piracy is the only ethical option.
may 29, 2025, 10:41 pm • 39 2 • view
good they can gtfo
may 29, 2025, 10:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Good riddance.
may 29, 2025, 9:49 pm • 3 0 • view
How about “mind your own fucking business and stop fussing about a group that bad actors are lying to you about. Focus on our real problems like inequity, disease, genocide and climate change”
may 29, 2025, 8:20 pm • 13 0 • view
SHUT THE FUCK UP
may 29, 2025, 8:22 pm • 22 0 • view
may 29, 2025, 7:07 pm • 36 0 • view
Get rotated.
may 29, 2025, 11:49 pm • 5 0 • view
There aren't extremists on both sides, you wastes of carbon. One extreme is treat trans people with respect as fellow citizens. The other side is exterminate trans people. Thank God for Pritzker. He loves his sister and won't listen to you un-American appeasers.
jun 1, 2025, 8:57 am • 4 0 • view
Civil rights is NEVER a liability. Civil rights is how we win.
jun 1, 2025, 8:52 am • 6 0 • view
to everyone involved in writing and publishing this article: i hope every one of your children comes out as trans and never speaks to you again
may 29, 2025, 9:46 pm • 18 0 • view
Childish reaction, don't you think?
may 29, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
You're right. Scapegoating trans people is a very childish reaction to political losses.
may 29, 2025, 10:40 pm • 16 0 • view
He doesn't blame trans people, not at all. He is blaming dems for not being strategic: win a fake-battle, lose the war.
may 29, 2025, 10:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Fuck off, scum
may 30, 2025, 11:58 am • 4 0 • view
the battle for trans rights is very real, you asshole. there's hundreds of anti-trans bills in motion at any given moment right now.
may 29, 2025, 11:54 pm • 16 0 • view
What fucking horse do you even have in this race, Mr. "I live in Utrecht"?
may 30, 2025, 3:46 am • 5 0 • view
There is no "sensible center" here. Why are you people so obsessed with being being in the center? Are trans people deserving of the same basic respect and dignity and respect that cis people get or not? Explain to me why it's okay to put our lives up for debate or get out of the fucking way
may 29, 2025, 6:56 pm • 86 0 • view
The "center" is relative to where the two opposing sides are. And right now, it's ultranationalist far-right fascism from the GOP, and moderate right-wing neoliberalism from the DNC. Where would the "center" land in this calculus?
may 29, 2025, 6:59 pm • 53 3 • view
it's because they're cowards. every centrist is a coward and will find new and self-humiliating ways to show us how cowardly they are.
may 29, 2025, 10:56 pm • 6 0 • view
fuck this and fuck you
may 29, 2025, 11:31 pm • 42 1 • view
Counterpoint: Trans rights weren't a part of Kamala Harris' campaign platform in 2024 and she lost the election. So the Dems already tried the "trans rights are a liability" route. And it failed. Which logically means, we should actually campaign on and enact policy for trans rights. *mic drop*
may 29, 2025, 7:07 pm • 89 1 • view
I'm tired of being polite & nice when discussing the basic civil rights of the most vulnerable. So I guess I'll just be adding: Go fuck yourself, you bootlicking fascist tool. Just about every trans person knows someone who is no longer with us. We are fighting for our right to exist. Fuck you. 🖕
may 29, 2025, 9:13 pm • 234 2 • view
Third way…. Self-aggrandizement by right wing democrats telling you to throw away human rights for the sake of a few more billions in donations to the DNC.
may 29, 2025, 5:13 pm • 91 2 • view
go fuck yourself
may 29, 2025, 7:16 pm • 18 0 • view
wow, that's dumb as shit. you guys should quit publishing.
may 29, 2025, 7:46 pm • 30 0 • view
Fuck off you putrid gas bags.
may 29, 2025, 7:21 pm • 20 0 • view
This is bad faith. One side is trying to beat the other side to death, the other is trying to simply live. Brain-dead levels of false equivalency.
may 29, 2025, 10:46 pm • 219 2 • view
How about standing with trans people against those who would "beat them to death" but also, say, acknowledging that even Democrats are overwhelmingly against trana participation in women's sports?
may 30, 2025, 1:52 am • 4 0 • view
You are incorrect.
may 30, 2025, 7:16 am • 0 0 • view
I can certainly acknowledge that they're wrong about that, sure.
may 30, 2025, 2:56 am • 8 0 • view
why don't y'all stop worrying about sports and worry about us getting raped to death in men's prisons, hm?
may 30, 2025, 9:04 am • 15 0 • view
sports are the single lowest stakes issue in play here, but it comes up every single time, despite them taking our fucking healthcare & invalidating our passports
may 30, 2025, 9:07 am • 14 0 • view
A lot of cis people haven't heard about the passport situation. Folks who have valid passports with incorrect names or gender markers might want to get legal advice before requesting any changes that could result in deadnaming, misgendering or passport confiscation. lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checkli...
may 30, 2025, 11:27 am • 2 0 • view
If children’s sports ranks ANYWHERE on your list of priorities while voting you are a brain broken moron, real people do not fucking care about this shit.
may 30, 2025, 12:57 pm • 6 0 • view
Sounds like you agree that it is trivial and not a huge civil rights issue. Great, you must also agree that it is ground that should be ceded given how unpopular it is electorally
may 30, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Nope, I will continue to mark people like you who bring it up as a major issue as fucking weird. You mistake my dismissal of your dumbass take as approval for “ceding ground” when I’m objecting to there even being ground to cede.
may 30, 2025, 1:03 pm • 9 0 • view
Sounds like you are happy to give the GOP a powerful wedge issue. Trump supporter?
may 30, 2025, 1:07 pm • 1 0 • view
"How about standing with gay people against those who would 'beat them to death' but also, say, acknowledging that even Democrats are overwhelmingly against gay marriage?" — you ca. 2000
may 30, 2025, 6:13 pm • 6 0 • view
literally true, the democrats didn't do anything about it until a *republican* special interest forced the issue to the supreme court and won. Then they all tripped over their own dicks rushing to tell you how much they supported gay rights.
may 30, 2025, 8:40 pm • 2 0 • view
In 2000 50% of Dems supported gay marriage.
may 30, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
the vast majority of White Votes - back in 1992 almost the entire electorate - were against Interracial marriage back when Clinton/Gore were running should they have disavowed those who supported it?
may 31, 2025, 12:32 pm • 1 0 • view
had Clinton been running against the modern GOP, they almost certainly would have run ads attacking them for being n word lovers who want to marry off your precious White daughters How should they have responded, if that had happened
may 31, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Most people are idiots. That doesn’t change human rights.
may 30, 2025, 2:24 am • 19 0 • view
Playing in womens' sports leagues is not a human rights issue. And if you think it is, and see no countervailing rights at issue or ignore them, then you will continue to put people off and repel would-be supporters. Take the L on the sports issue
may 30, 2025, 2:28 am • 1 0 • view
brain dead. tell it to Jackie Robinson, dumb dumb
may 30, 2025, 10:21 am • 7 0 • view
Jackie Robinson wasnt trying to play in a womans sports league dummy
may 30, 2025, 10:38 am • 0 0 • view
pretty sure he was WNBA MVP three times, moron
may 30, 2025, 10:41 am • 2 0 • view
he was trying to play in a sports league where the vast majority of people claimed that it was "unfair" for him to take the spot of a deserving White Person on a baseball roster
may 31, 2025, 12:20 pm • 3 1 • view
it's literally the exact same arguments which are currently being used to ban trans people from playing sports lol
may 31, 2025, 12:20 pm • 2 0 • view
"not fair; not safe"
may 31, 2025, 12:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Suddenly women's sports is important. No, not pay parity No, not equality in coverage. Oh, only the issue that right wingers fabricated to use as an excuse to take away rights from a vulnerable scape-goated minority? Cis-women can do better than allies like you.
may 30, 2025, 11:45 am • 8 0 • view
It's just a game. Let anyone play. Who cares man.
may 30, 2025, 10:06 am • 7 0 • view
"playing in Whites' sports leagues is not a human rights issue" due to supposed fairness and safety concerns was the exact argument used to ban black people from competing against White ones
may 31, 2025, 12:18 pm • 4 0 • view
How are there equivalent fairness and safety concerns when men born men are playing men born men? You guys are ridiculous. You are unwilling to engage with reality and all you do is turn away people
may 31, 2025, 12:29 pm • 0 0 • view
"when both are born men" and neither is born the same race, White vs Black do you think White people were admitting it was fair or safe for black ones to compete against White Ones LOL i can assure you that they were not
may 31, 2025, 12:41 pm • 4 1 • view
If you really think the Nazis will stop at keeping trans people out of sports, you're either a fool or a liar. Which is it?
may 30, 2025, 2:57 am • 12 0 • view
It IS very much a human rights issue, because it is an issue of whether or not a particular class of people has a right to fully participate in all the aspects of their society that other classes have. Either you're equal or you're not. "Let's compromise to make the bigots comfortable" is shit.
may 30, 2025, 8:35 am • 8 0 • view
It is. Playing sports is a part of normal life, barring trans people from any normal part of life is a very obvious civil rights issue. You know they used to ban black people from competing in sports with white people, right? That was a civil rights issue and it was just playing sports.
may 30, 2025, 2:45 am • 19 0 • view
Your supposition that trans rights somehow cause people to become fascist is a self-serving prophesy because you are a fascist. Professional and Olympic sports have had guidelines for trans athletes for decades.
may 30, 2025, 2:45 am • 16 0 • view
Trans people have been competing in sports for a long time- you only think it’s an issue now because you were told to think that by your fascist propagandists. The right lost on gay marriage to they pivoted to trans issues. They tried it with bathroom bills and those failed.
may 30, 2025, 2:45 am • 15 0 • view
So now they are trying to use sports and people like you who are ignorant and never cared about women’s sports anyways just gobble it up because you’re a misogynist. You need to believe that male bodies are all superior to female bodies, not on average, but as a rule. But it isn’t a rule.
may 30, 2025, 2:45 am • 13 0 • view
There is no evidence that shows that trans people have any advantage in sports. They are not superhuman supernatural super soldiers- a lot of them aren’t even good at sports. And then there’s the fact that trans people total are about 1% of the total population.
may 30, 2025, 2:45 am • 11 0 • view
1% of the population, less than really, but that means about half of that 1% are trans women, then the fact that most won’t even have interest in sports, let alone any talent- and the issue itself is obviously being overblown out of of proportion if there is an issue at all.
may 30, 2025, 2:45 am • 11 0 • view
American principles project, ultra conservative think tank, started this “debate” and they implanted that thought in your lil mind. now you bark like a sea lion whenever trans people are mentioned… god you people are exhausting- willfully ignorant and unbelievably gullible.
may 30, 2025, 5:41 am • 13 0 • view
Hitler started banning Jews from competing in sports his first months in office. We will not willingly take any "Ls". It's a wedge issue that you're letting the right use. Some of us aren't as comfortable with where it goes next as you are
may 30, 2025, 9:11 am • 6 0 • view
American principles project, ultra conservative think tank, started this “debate” and they implanted that thought in your lil mind. now you bark like a sea lion whenever trans people are mentioned… god you people are exhausting- willfully ignorant and unbelievably gullible. Get rekt.
may 30, 2025, 5:44 am • 13 0 • view
Good thing most Democrats actually SUPPORT trans women playing in women's sports. The ones that don't are fake Democrats who pretend to be centrists.
may 30, 2025, 3:18 am • 5 0 • view
may 30, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
oh holy shit a poll, apologies, wow, these are always right
may 30, 2025, 10:21 am • 3 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/trac...
may 30, 2025, 3:22 am • 4 0 • view
American principles project, ultra conservative think tank, started this “debate” and they implanted that thought in your lil mind. now you bark like a sea lion whenever trans people are mentioned… god you people are exhausting- willfully ignorant and unbelievably gullible. Yes I’m spamming you.
may 30, 2025, 5:41 am • 3 0 • view
And it's funny you post a screenshot of a poll by corpo media when literally no one any of us actually knows anyone who took that poll. I didn't take it. My family didn't take it. My neighbors didn't take it. My friends didn't take it. My wife didn't take it.
may 30, 2025, 3:45 am • 3 0 • view
A poll is literally meaningless. Especially from corpo media.
may 30, 2025, 3:27 am • 2 0 • view
Fuck off with this. This is third way bullshit, Trump lovers
may 29, 2025, 7:19 pm • 12 0 • view
There's no debate to be had over human rights, you vichy bitch. Hope that clears things up
may 30, 2025, 12:53 am • 122 0 • view
You don't give any ground to these people, wtf is wrong with you? Trans rights are human rights
may 29, 2025, 9:40 pm • 13 0 • view
Should Politico exist? Opinion: The debate over fascist bigoted "news" websites is a liability for humanity. Here's how to neutralize it - don't read/subscribe/click
may 30, 2025, 10:52 am • 110 2 • view
may 30, 2025, 6:31 pm • 37 0 • view
fuck off
may 29, 2025, 8:29 pm • 24 0 • view
"Turd way," all I got to say.
may 29, 2025, 8:00 pm • 7 0 • view
Shame on anyone who thinks that turning our backs on trans will result in electoral victories. It won't, and democrats don't deserve to be in power if they try.
may 29, 2025, 9:43 pm • 10 0 • view
*trans people. Don’t help in dehumanizing us, please.
may 29, 2025, 9:53 pm • 9 0 • view
Typo. My apologies.
may 29, 2025, 10:37 pm • 6 0 • view
No worries! It’s a common thing I see. In a time where our person good is removed as we’re reduced to an ideology or some sickness I think correcting is important. I hope you didn’t take this as scolding, as one has thought, rather education. If not for you, for someone else who saw this and learned
may 30, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
I could use your help. What is the preferred terminology when talking to or about members of the transgender community? Seriously, I’m asking.
may 29, 2025, 11:10 pm • 4 0 • view
Here's a whole guide. Usually, you can just use "trans people" styleguide.transjournalists.org
may 29, 2025, 11:41 pm • 6 0 • view
@realbigbluecricket.bsky.social I second this!
may 30, 2025, 2:27 am • 2 0 • view
Wow, that’s great. Thanks!
may 29, 2025, 11:42 pm • 2 0 • view
This is a fucked up opinion and I hope mr Cowan chokes on it. Idgaf about the politics my friends are being targeted and if you stand against them you stand against me, so fuck your party
may 29, 2025, 10:22 pm • 8 0 • view
Fuck all left wing about his shitty think tank
may 29, 2025, 9:17 pm • 3 0 • view
omg no one gives a fuck what Turd Way is doing. They lost to Trump twice.
may 30, 2025, 6:30 am • 5 0 • view
may 29, 2025, 9:02 pm • 15 0 • view
cEnTeR lEfT
may 29, 2025, 10:22 pm • 10 0 • view
Counterpoint: Don't act on what is always politically expedient - act on what is right.
may 29, 2025, 5:13 pm • 196 0 • view
It's not even politically expedient to be transphobic, it's a proven vote loser.
may 29, 2025, 10:24 pm • 60 0 • view
No, educate people on why trans people are just as valid as cis people. Highlight how transgender (transwomen, transmen, non-binary, etc.) people want to live their lives in peace and share many of the same values and morals as everyone else. Don't throw them under the bus because it's convenient.
may 30, 2025, 2:34 am • 55 0 • view
hey, this is totally not a call out, because you have the right spirit, but be aware that leaving the space out of trans women and trans men is a dog whistle for the anti trans crowd. they run it together like that intentionally, as one word, to make sure they aren't calling us women or men.
may 30, 2025, 3:59 am • 47 0 • view
I love seeing this kind of outreach. I've seen far too many people instantly jump to the conclusion that the person who used the wrong word is actually a terf when basically nobody outside those two communities even knows the difference with the space or not until they hear about it.
may 30, 2025, 8:45 pm • 3 0 • view
i'm not going to attack an ally for not knowing the nuances of the worst people on earth's vocab. i appreciate any help we can get at this point, and i regret that i have to know this nonsense. if they weren't trying to make it impossible for me to live in society i'd never think about them at all.
may 30, 2025, 10:49 pm • 3 0 • view
I have never heard that before and I’m trans lol. Glad I know now. So many fuckin dog whistles. It’s deafening.
may 30, 2025, 5:10 am • 25 0 • view
yeah it's a whole thing. started with british terfs, but it spread to the rest of the anti trans groups pretty fast, at least in the english speaking world.
may 30, 2025, 5:31 am • 23 0 • view
Those fucking brit terfs…
may 30, 2025, 5:38 am • 13 0 • view
It's a technique used to try and ditch the argument that transgender is not a valid adjective, and intrinsically linked to the word after it, cutting down the comparison between it and other adjectival uses like "tall man/woman" etc. when that's all it is. Just another tool of oppression.
may 30, 2025, 9:16 am • 6 0 • view
Ironically, writing it as one word is the correct way in my country. Which can lead to pointless arguments.
may 30, 2025, 6:30 am • 0 0 • view
Transphobes are afraid to be canceled. Trans people are fearing for their lives.
may 30, 2025, 6:40 am • 221 4 • view
Like you couldn't have found a word more...uh,... "neutral" than "neutralize" which has particular other meanings, in US military jargon for example?
may 30, 2025, 6:53 am • 128 1 • view
I guess we should be thankful he didn't call us "collateral damage"
may 30, 2025, 4:01 pm • 9 0 • view
Treating others with compassion is not extreme. Outlawing the existence of people you refuse to understand is extreme. Do better politico.
may 29, 2025, 10:27 pm • 12 0 • view
I think you mean it's a liability for Republicans. They're the ones who hate our guts. Democrats are trying to defend us.
may 29, 2025, 7:44 pm • 6 0 • view
A debate over equality and decency seems to be something politicos have an issue with. Glad I’m not one of you guys.
may 30, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
FFFFUUUUCCCCKKKK YYYYYOOOOOUUUUU.
may 29, 2025, 7:55 pm • 15 0 • view
Human Rights are not political. One party has made this political and y'all are just yapping it up; just can't wait to make both parties that political so you can make more money selling papers. I will not vote for anybody who throws my trans brothers and sisters under the bus.
may 29, 2025, 9:44 pm • 17 0 • view
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jD6...
may 30, 2025, 3:54 am • 5 0 • view
Politico is a right wing tabloid rag. Pass it on.
may 29, 2025, 11:06 pm • 7 0 • view
Jesus Christ I am so sick of this both sides bullshit, my side is I want to continue to exist in peace as I have done for years and for bigots to leave me and people like me the fuck alone
may 29, 2025, 8:27 pm • 20 0 • view
Dumb as dogshit. Per usual from third way.
may 29, 2025, 6:43 pm • 107 2 • view
disgusting work.
may 29, 2025, 9:29 pm • 45 0 • view
No debate. We exist.
may 29, 2025, 7:30 pm • 127 0 • view
may 30, 2025, 1:56 pm • 78 1 • view
Huh. I took this pic at a local restaurant, which is thriving. No one seems to care. Maybe it’s Jonathan Cowan that has the problem?
may 29, 2025, 10:48 pm • 21 1 • view
That's great!! I will never understand why people make it such a big deal.
may 29, 2025, 11:46 pm • 5 0 • view
A bathroom that excludes Pete Hegseth! Excellent!!!
may 30, 2025, 11:34 am • 3 0 • view
Sorry, I stopped reading after "think-tank." Why don't you all get people with actual jobs to write opinions?
may 29, 2025, 9:48 pm • 14 0 • view
Opinion: Fuck you. Fuck this loser shit.
may 29, 2025, 7:24 pm • 13 0 • view