Huge success!! Congrats on the victory!!! It was a privilege to play a small part in supporting y'all

There is no moderate position on a human rights issue!

Are we sure this pragmatic sensible Gavin guy is trustworthy to do the right thing for the vulnerable and the weak..

look mom i'm in the newspaper

Cool so you're telling trans people to shut up and promising to vote for people who mean to harm us. Good luck winning elections.

Okay but what if that candidate is promising to abolish some rights for women?

This doesn't really change the pertinent issue that asking trans people to vote for the candidates throwing them under the bus is folly. There's going to be vanishingly few trans voters who wouldn't vote for a pro-trans dem in that district.

Amy Acton, running for governor in Ohio. Marcy Kaptur, U.S. House, 9th District (incumbent) Ohio Henry Cuellar, U.S. House, 28th District (incumbent) Texas Colin Allred, U.S. House candidate, 33rd District Texas Vicente Gonzalez, U.S. House, 34th District (incumbent) Texas

Laura Gillen, U.S. House, 4th District (incumbent) New York John Mannion, U.S. House, 22nd District (incumbent) New York Don Davis, U.S. House, 1st District (incumbent) North Carolina Jamie Ager, U.S. House, 11th District North Carolina Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senate candidate in Ohio

Jeffrey Hulum III, Democratic nominee for the U.S. House, 4th District; currently a state representative for District 119 in Mississippi Aaron Ford, candidate for governor of Nevada Susie Lee, U.S. House, 3rd District (incumbent) Nevada Tom Suozzi, U.S. House, 3rd District (incumbent) New York

Beau Bayh, candidate for Indiana secretary of state Josh Turek, U.S. Senate nominee in Iowa Rob Sand, Democratic nominee for governor in Iowa Sarah Trone Garriott, U.S. House candidate, 3rd District in Iowa Cleo Fields, U.S. House, 6th District (incumbent) Louisiana

Shomari Figures, U.S. House, 2nd District (incumbent) Alabama Terri Sewell, U.S. House, 7th District (incumbent) Alabama Mary Peltola, U.S. Senate candidate Alaska Xavier Becerra, candidate for governor in California Adam Gray, U.S. House, 13th District (incumbent) California

Incumbent democrat in Ohio's 9th district. I could find more but you only asked for one.

It's the same whether you like it or not. Pretending that what a candidate says on campaign doesn't reflect how they will govern is a folly. Say whatever you want to trans people but at the end of the day our votes are necessary and the anger around us saying we won't vote for transphobes proves it.

This is the same argument MAGA makes of 'ignore what Trump says on campaign it's all bluster' and then he governs exactly as he campaigned. You can't tell trans people to vote for candidates who throw us under the bus especially when it's so clearly for nothing.

Either the votes of trans ppl and their allies are necessary in which case it's in the party's interest to not alienate them or trans ppl don't matter in which case why get mad that we're unhappy? It's up to the party to win votes the voters are not obligated to vote for anyone in a free democracy.

It's simple, by spoiling/blanking the ballot you are showing parties you've previously voted for that, while you still participate in the process, they have lost your vote. This signals the party that these unhappy voters can be won back. We don't have democracy if the voters don't have that option.

If they ditch us it will be.

If they're taking anti-trans positions they can't expect trans voters. If they need trans votes then hedging on trans rights is bad politics.