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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Y’all are delusional. APE has never waded into culture war issues. They have a Facebook group and newsletter subscribers that reach over a 1000+ people according to their website. A member (supposedly as I still have no idea who you’re talking about) in the Facebook forum also belong to PDE (is that right?) which has anti trans views. Anyone can join the Facebook group. But because the website references their reach therefore MT = anti trans. Posters here okay to leap to transphobic assumptions while simultaneously taking pains to explain why MT’s supportive tweet of a picture of the APS trans student asking a tough question at the townhall somehow means the opposite of what any reasonable person would interpret. The posters here need to step back and let the forums play out. Given MT’s tweet and other comments I’ve seen her post and link to, I have zero doubt she’s a trans-ally. Is that her top issue on campaign? No and I hope not given that APS policy is supportive of trans kids and it would be pure virtue signaling. I’m sure she will be asked a pointed question on this and she will answer and until then you’re all just massively speculating and spreading lies on the internet. [/quote]

Yikes, my man. Rewriting history here. I was here in 2020-21 too, and APE members definitely waded into the culture wars. Your big tent has trash people. Deal with them.[/quote]

Really? Which issue? Because I’ve also been in the Facebook group and have been very impressed that they rise above all that nonsense. And they put out a regular newsletter, have all their issues on their website, and disclose who their speakers are at meetings. I’ve NEVER seen them touch a culture war issue. They’re hyper local issues about budget, curriculum, small class sizes, and teacher pay. You probably saw a stray comment on some Facebook post and have run with it being their platform. For the lurkers out there: this thread has gone off the rails, suggest you check out for yourself these assertions and leaps of imagination to see how off base they are. I look forward to you all looking like fools when MT affirms her support for trans students in a forum. I’m sure you’ll all be twisting in knots on how to spin it to mean the opposite of whatever she says. [/quote]

I agree. Miranda should weigh on this. Right now. Disavow herself of Youngkin's Transgender Model Policies and say on the record that trans boys are boys and trans girls are girls, and they absolutely should use the same bathrooms as their gender and play sports with people of their same gender. It's not that hard.

Honestly, Miranda's supporters here are making it worse for her by insulting and calling out "mental health" every time someone poses a thought different from theirs.

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It's just like what they did in the last campaign. Last time they labeled everyone who didn't agree 100 with them as a closed schooler. 
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I think this comment is the heart of the issue with this thread. These posters associate every comment made by someone as being what a candidate or group believes. I remember the obnoxious poster who called everyone a closed schooler and ventilation queen. They were annoying but to hold that against the candidate or APE is just dumb. People are obnoxious on the internet. Just like it’s really defying common sense to characterize ape as anti trans because some transphobe happens to join the Facebook group and to twist a trans-supportive tweet to have the opposite meaning. APS thankfully has very supportive trans policies and these are not pressing issues in our community even with the current governor. I also don’t recall ever seeing explicit trans policies on other candidate’s website (although I’m sure the kid has something given all that he really has going for him is virtue signaling with the best of them).  [/quote]

Human rights is always a pressing issue and the fact that you used the term “virtue signaling” tells me exactly what you are. Only one side uses that terminology. These issues may not be important to you, but they are to me. And I can’t I’m good conscience vote for someone who can’t say that trans people deserve to feel safe in schools and have the same rights as heteronormative kids. She and Antonio needs to denounce Youngkin’s divisive rhetoric.

Miranda needs to go on the record to unequivocally say her stances not just on trans issues, but CRT, library book banning, SROs, and the like. I feel like Antonio will be more forthcoming, but we will see. [/quote]

Antonio has nothing to loose so he’ll be very forthcoming on these topics. There is a path for him to win if he positions himself like former FCPS school board member Ryan Mcelveen. What set Mcelveen apart was his advocacy on behalf of student issues, and his famous snow day twitter account that brought him positive media attention. [/quote]

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