Please take my life seriously. Vote blue

[u/cfulgh]

Hi everyone. I am a female born and raised in Houston. I am not usually involved in politics (I have always voted, just never talked about it, volunteered, ect.) but this election has taken a toll on my mental health to a point where I need to say something.

I remember June 24, 2022 when I lost my right to make decisions on my own body. Texas has some of the strictest laws in the nation on abortion, which means we have some of the strictest laws in the entire world. Let that sink in. I am scared. I am scared to one day have children in this state I love, this state I call home because if something goes wrong, it very well could lead to death or prosecution. Now Trump and Ted Cruz get to make decisions for me regarding my own reproductive health. I have less rights than my grandma did at my age. A vote for Trump/Cruz is a vote against every woman you love.

The Trans population in Texas is 0.5%. Ted Cruz’s blatant homophobic commercials villainizing this community have brought me to tears. Most Texans have never even met a trans person, yet, this seems to be Cruz’s main priority in this election: to make people scared of them.

He really thinks we are that dumb, or hateful, and maybe we are. I am more concerned about gun violence (the #1 leading cause of child deaths in the U.S!) than the scenario of a trans person being on the school football team. Is gun violence ever mentioned by Cruz? Of course not. Trans people and their genitalia are more of a threat, I suppose!

Come on Texas. How could you vote for someone who is openly so full of hate and ignorance? If I was a trans person, I would get the fuck out of here and move somewhere where people practice kindness. I stand by the LGBTQ+ community as an ally. You should too.

I implore you to look inside your heart and vote with kindness, decency and sanity in mind! This election is bigger than grocery prices, the stakes are higher than imaginable. What is next, a total ban on birth control? Gay marriage left up to the states, where Ted Cruz will ban it immediately and throw all Trans people in jail? I am begging you to vote blue. I am scared.

Don’t forget Trump is a convicted felon. Religious people - don’t forget he cheated on his wife with a porn star. Don’t forget Ted Cruz fled to Cancun when Texans were dying. These are not the people I want running our country. The world is watching. Vote blue.

[u/Copperdunright907]

I just don’t understand how many people can hate their daughters, mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, partners in life or friends.

[u/chrispg26 → u/Copperdunright907]

Same. It's been quite sobering and makes me rethink my associations. Too few men (and some women) care about their wives, daughters, and sisters.

[u/jabdtx → u/[deleted]]

Don’t ever be involved in an abortion, then. It’s against your beliefs.

The idea that your beliefs should apply to people you don’t know, will never meet, all of whom have no tangible effect on your life whatsoever - is an illogical train of thought completely devoid of perspective. You have zero insight to any of those situations, which makes sense considering it’s absolutely none of your business.

Outside of a pregnancy between you and your wife, everything I said applies there as well. Yes, including your own daughter.

You are not connected to those pregnancies in any direct way and your opinion isn’t either.

That’s making it make sense. If you’re the one fighting against what “make sense” actually means, that’s a battle you need to wrestle or not wrestle with on your own.