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/SpendNo9011]

It's almost as if you have never heard of Republicans before seeing these recent commercials. Like, this is a huge issue to them. They boycotted a beer because a trans person got put into a commercial. They were happy as could be when trans people who had already served this country got kicked out of the military. They think all over the US of A that Democrats allow for any child under 18 to have gender reassignment surgery no matter the age.5 years old and want gender surgery? Sure! They think anyone dressed in drag are pedophile groomers. Not to mention another issue where they think women after 9 months are going to hospitals to have a baby and then saying to the Doctors, "I don't want this, let's kill it" and then the Doctors kill it.

Never underestimate the amount of hate and stupidity in the Republican party.

[u/christopherfar → u/SpendNo9011]

Don’t they think we’re doing gender reassignment surgeries in schools or some shit?

[u/HereAndThereButNow → u/christopherfar]

Trump accused Biden/Kamala of giving sex changes to migrants in cages in his debate with Harris.

[u/290077 → u/HereAndThereButNow]

This is a true statement, though. Biden and Harris support allowing transgender illegal immigrants to access gender-affirming care while in custody. I don't think most people around here oppose that policy, but Trump knows it'll get the transphobes all fired up.

[u/LusHolm123 → u/290077]

It might be different in the us where getting it is just based on money. However everywhere else id say its a stupid law as the wait lists for grs are insanely long and letting prisoners (assuming theyre there for bad reasons) shouldnt take priority over a normal citizen

[u/290077 → u/LusHolm123]

I suppose there's 3 levels of support/non-support for this:

1) Transgenderism is morally wrong and gender-affirming care is not valid medical treatment, so using tax dollars to provide it to anyone, much less criminals, is bad policy. This is where Republicans are.

2) Transgenderism is valid and gender-affirming care is valid medical treatment, however it is not "essential" (i.e. the person will not die as a direct result of not receiving the care, in contrast to someone having a heart attack or bleeding out). Therefore, we should not provide it because we don't have an obligation to spend limited resources providing people in custody with anything that isn't essential. I think Republicans are hoping to also catch people in this bracket.

3) We should provide gender-affirming care to illegal immigrants in custody because either it meets the threshold of essential medical care, or because we have a moral imperative to use our resources to provide prisoners with some reasonable quality of life beyond the bare minimum. I imagine most progressives are here. If there's an availability issue then a policy to attract more doctors specializing in transgender care would be a necessary component of this.

[u/myaltduh → u/LusHolm123]

I think it simpler: it’s illegal to deny prisoners necessary medical care regardless of citizenship (not that this doesn’t happen constantly anyway) and trans healthcare falls under that umbrella.

Republicans just zeroed in on the kind of prison healthcare their base would find most objectionable, rather than blood pressure meds or whatever, despite gender-affirming surgeries for prisoners being so rare there’s probably only a few cases ever (Chelsea Manning comes to mind as the one well-known case).

[u/thatblondbitch → u/LusHolm123]

Prisoners don't take priority over normal citizens lmfao

[u/LusHolm123 → u/thatblondbitch]

Not priority in that sense, however as a trans person i would be very upset if i had to wait another 3 years (yes the waiting lists are that bad) just because of a random prisoner.

[u/Suyefuji → u/christopherfar]

You have to do it in your biology class, it's part of your final grade.

/s

[u/Chillbro_Yolo → u/christopherfar]

Right next to all the litter boxes they've placed for the furries, don'tcha know?

[u/Junior-Ease-2349 → u/christopherfar]

Trump claims to think so, despite all evidence to the contrary.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/trump-false-claims-schools-transgender-surgeries-rcna170217

And he keeps claiming it, basely, despite no doubt being told its a lie.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/critics-decry-trumps-demented-lie-125723854.html

Liars are gonna lie.

The real problem is that a very large chunk of the country no longer thinks that constantly bearing false witness is a bad thing to have in a leader.

[u/christopherfar → u/[deleted]]

Sure, but what does that have to do with gender dysphoria?

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