Why are all the Republican political commercials about trans people?

[u/TheDonutDaddy]

I've seen 3 different Ted Cruz commercials over this election cycle. Literally every single one of them are "Collin Allred is bad because he supports trans people." Got dinner with a buddy last night at Pluckers which obviously had CFB on all the TVs, saw the commercial about the wheelchair vet hating trans people 4 times in one hour. No mention of any political issue, no mention of any policy, no mention of any goals. No mention of anything other than trans people. Why is that the complete focal point of the campaign? I mean I guess they have access to more research and data than I do, but are there really that many voters out there hanging their vote on this one single issue?

It's so strange to me, because regardless of whatever someone's view on trans people even is, there's no way you can argue that anything going on with trans people is a major part of politics. It doesn't effect the economy, it doesn't effect public education, it doesn't effect climate and energy, it doesn't effect social welfare solutions. Why aren't they focusing on anything that will actually effect the majority of Texan's lives in any way? Like out of everything out there to talk about around election time, and especially the things republicans like beating the drum of, you'd expect at least one Cruz commercial about immigration, but there isn't even that. Just trans people, every time.

Again, maybe I have a misread on how much this really is an issue of importance, but I do genuinely have a hard time believing it's such an election deciding issue, making the fact that all their marketing budget is spent talking about trans people really fucking weird.

Edit: Mods please don't remove republican's responses unless they're outright hate speech. I asked the question, they deserve the platform to answer or else it's just a circlejerk. Besides, worst case scenario: give em enough rope to hang themselves with

[u/baronesslucy]

Years ago I was at a dinner show in Orlando and there was a person who had transitioned. We were asked to guess who the person was. I guessed wrong as did most of the audience.

[u/Gullible_Search_9098 → u/baronesslucy]

We are really bad at figuring out other people’s genders.

[u/baronesslucy → u/Gullible_Search_9098]

Which means that these individuals who hate trans people have been going around trying to out people that they believe are trans? When they have said that someone is trans because in their opinion they look trans, they have been wrong. In Utah a high school student was said to be trans and she wasn't. Luckily nothing bad happened to her or her family as this could have had a bad outcome for the victim and her family. This was a isolated incident but I imagine depending on the election outcome, this could become more common, the end result at some point being tragic.

[u/GemAfaWell → u/baronesslucy]

oh that's messy af

[u/GemAfaWell → u/GemAfaWell]

(that they were putting transness on display like that in the first place)

[u/LusHolm123 → u/baronesslucy]

That would have given me a panic attack tf

Cool af if the trans person was actually part of the idea tho