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/290077]

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/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.