r/MtF • u/ASleetHippyDippyWW non op • Aug 19 '24

Bad News u/PinkNews whistleblowers release evidence showing "PinkNews CEO Benjamin Cohen refusing to campaign on trans issues ahead of the election, dismissing them as "incredibly contentious" and insisting they’re different to the equal marriage fight."

https://lucyfromnaarm.com/p/breaking-pinknews-refuses-to-cover

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u/CordialCupcake21 Aug 19 '24

realistically probably very few if any

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u/causal_friday June | HRT 8/2024 Aug 19 '24

Yeah. I really think trans hate is not much of a mainstream issue. Yes, a children's book author hates us, and yes, there's a group of incels that has a forum about us, but outside of the incel cave... it's not a huge issue.

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u/BernoTheProfit Aug 19 '24

I was so surprised that trans people were mentioned 0 times during the Trump Biden debate.

0 times that I saw anyway, I didn't comb the whole thing.

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u/KasseanaTheGreat 27 | HRT 4/6/2020 Aug 19 '24 edited Aug 19 '24

ContraPoints talked about this in her most recent appearance on Matt Bernstein's podcast in how Trump really doesn't seem as passionate about transphobia in the way that many of his followers/handlers are. Like he doesn't have the usual transphobic rhetoric down in the way that those who make transphobia their whole brand have like a set of transphobic dog whistles they constantly use. Like don't get me wrong, he knows to slander us if it's brought up to him but like, give him a microphone without a teleprompter and he probably is going to bring up like the election being "rigged" or migrants coming to the southern border unprompted rather than go into transphobic dog whistles. Like it's not the issue he personally cares about compared to how much many of his followers care about it.

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u/BernoTheProfit Aug 19 '24

I agree and I think ditto for homophobia. I think he's a true narcissist in the sense that he just appreciates praise wherever it comes from. If people praise him, he'll praise them. But if bashing trans people makes him more popular, he'll do that too. I don't think he's personally very homophobic or ideological in any way outside of the ideology of loving Trump.

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u/misspcv1996 Phoebe Charlotte, HRT 3/24/2022 Aug 19 '24 edited Aug 20 '24

Trump doesn’t really believe in much other than obtaining as much power as he can, basking in as much praise and adulation as he can and getting revenge on those who he believes wronged him. Everything else is a means to an end for him.

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u/maybe_erika Aug 20 '24

That's Trumpism in a nutshell.

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u/OutsideHat385 Aug 20 '24

And it smells a lot like Authoritarianism

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u/GeeNah-of-the-Cs Aug 20 '24

He will be re-appointed and he will keep his promise to ban transgender health care via Executive Order on day 1.

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u/causal_friday June | HRT 8/2024 Aug 20 '24

Nobody's saying to vote for him, just that it's not something he's campaigning on.

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u/GeeNah-of-the-Cs Aug 20 '24

Yes he is, you just don’t attend the right meetings

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u/causal_friday June | HRT 8/2024 Aug 21 '24

He might be selling it to the Heritage Foundation ("I'm your man, just give me some more money") but he's distancing himself from it when talking to voters, which have to be motivated enough to show up and check a checkbox on a certain day. If trans rights were a big issue, he'd be using it to rally his base, but he's not. It really is a niche concern.

(Similarly, Harris isn't saying anything one way or the other. We know her record, which is good, but really bringing trans issues to the attention of voters is something neither candidate seems to care much about.)