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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Mace's goal is to provoke attacks on her that she can later use to portray herself as a victim and fundraise off of. Her fundraising will be something along the lines of "I stood up for keeping men out of women's sports and bathrooms and was attacked for it". She will not disclose her own provocation because that would not be effective in raising funds simply because most Trump supporters don't support such behavior.
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I'm a reluctant Trump voter, not MAGA, but I did vote Trump this time. I do not support self-ID, trans women in women's spaces, or the way the left has swung too hard towards the extreme on trans issues. At the same time, I don't support what Nancy Mace is doing. It's possible to fight back against excesses without gleeful cruelty. [b]Refraining from using words for a population that the group considers to be slurs on them isn't a lot to ask. [/b]Trans people are Americans too and they're entitled to liberty and the pursuit of happiness like all of us. A trans person should be able to go to work, pick up their kid from school, go grocery shopping, get medical care, get married, and live life without being afraid they'll be called names and shamed in the streets. That's not what this should be about.

Every social issue is a headache and heartache nowadays because both parties are extreme. Trump and Mace are going to take this backlash too far, but Dems aren't going to turn moderate either. Crappy choices all the time.[/quote]

I agree with all of this. But as to the bolded, many, many women have said they consider cis, menstruator, etc to be slurs. That has not been respected at all. In fact, women who politely said they didn’t like those terms have been told to shut up and worse from trans rights advocates. Some got rape threats for that. I’m not defending Mace’s use of the slur, but I see very little reflection from trans rights advocates for their use of demeaning slurs.

I think there needs to be some accountability across the board here. [/quote]
PP here. I agree with you completely. The trans movement lost me the day some nut thought up degrading terms like "birthing bodies" and "people with vaginas" and all of them got on board with it. I haven't worked this hard in my life to be seen and respected only to be reduced to my body's functions so that trans women can be gratified. I'm a woman, no modifier needed or accepted. [/quote]

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