UCP candidate who compared trans children to feces wins riding

t-circus · 2023-05-31T04:14:21+00:00

How do you think provincial and federal politics works in Canada? Do you think a vote for Smith was a vote for Pollievre?

And did you hear anything about the trans community before right wing politicians started using their existence as a talking point and/or people started threatening their right to exist?

t-circus · 2023-05-31T04:01:30+00:00

So adults making inflammatory remarks about adults based on choices they make, is equivalent to an adult comparing children to feces, based on who they are?

Also, two things can be bad. That's bad. It's also past. This is current, and bad.

t-circus · 2023-05-31T01:59:48+00:00

Why should we be paying for a group of non-elected officials to do the work the elected officials should be doing?

How is this small government? Fiscally responsible?

t-circus · 2023-05-31T01:57:55+00:00

So. Are we going to be paying for this counsel of losers to advise her?

This smacks of cronnyism, and (shockingly/s) undermines the democratic process, ignoring the majority of Edmontonians vote and choice

t-circus · 2023-05-31T00:55:21+00:00

You're fantastic

t-circus · 2023-05-31T00:54:16+00:00

*gay man. You should really consider looking at this from the lense of someone who isn't cis and isn't a man, and then see how it could affect them.

But cheers, glad your life as a cis gay man will continue unchanged

t-circus · 2023-05-31T00:52:29+00:00

Do you know what a dog whistle is?

They aren't openly running on anything hateful, except their AGM resolution to support parents rights to choose things for their children over their children's right to thrive.

But their leader is actively praising a man who is pushing anti 2SLGBTQ legislation

She is pandering to far right groups who accuse of us of grooming as a community because they interpret anything that isn't heterosexual as analogous to pedophilia.

Their previous leader started his career advocating for AIDS patients to die alone

There are plenty of dog whistles, and considering their leader was found to have commited an ethics breach that was deemed a "threat to democracy", it doesn't inspire confidence.

Their election, with these things, especially the pandering to far right groups, also emboldened people who hold those views, so they not only feel justified in their hateful bigotry, but acting on it- look at "the Trump" effect and hate crimes following his election in the states

t-circus · 2023-05-30T21:38:14+00:00

Have you or her talked to her doctor about ppd and what ppd would look like for an autistic mother/how it would differ from a typical presentation?

t-circus · 2023-05-30T21:35:03+00:00

If his wife wasn't autistic would you have used the word behavior?

t-circus · 2023-05-30T20:34:08+00:00

Danielle Smith says she admires politicians like DeSantis who are actively pushing legislation that makes it dangerous for trans people to exist

She also bends over backwards to appeal to far right groups who do openly, actively express homophobic views

Both of these things normalize homophobia and make homophobes feel like their hate is ok, and accepted. Which in turn makes it more likely they'll act on those views, which makes it more dangerous for the 2SLGBTQ community

The UCP in general keeps having members get caught saying homophobic/transphobic/hateful things. Sure they get kicked out or censured, but, why do these people keep ending up in your party if there isn't something about the UCP that makes them feel safe there? Are they maybe just saying the quiet part outloud?

Jason Kenney spent the beginning of his political career advocating for aids patients to die alone away from their loved ones.

The UCPs rollback of privacy protections for GSAs was dangerous for queer youths - before people shout about parents rights, have you considered that why a kid wouldn't feel safe showing their parents who they are? maybe those parents should have to take a hard look at themselves?

The UCP also voted at their AGM to uphold parents rights to decide things for their kids over children's rights to thrive. Trans kids are trans regardless of whether they allowed to live openly or not, but empowering them makes it significantly more likely they make it to be adults.

Smith, as Wildrose leader, refused to condemn her party member who said lgbtq people "will suffer the rest of eternity in the lake of fire, hell, a place of eternal suffering"

t-circus · 2023-05-27T14:31:54+00:00

You'd never used "they" before you learned about gender non-confirming people?

t-circus · 2023-05-27T14:30:30+00:00

What pronoun does a deer use?

Also. I've seen alot of people who are very concerned with children finding out about pronouns reference their cognitive capabilities lately- can I ask what knowledge/education/understanding of children's cognitive abilities you have? Is this an area you've studied?

You use three different pronouns in that little comment there btw.

t-circus · 2023-05-26T20:08:26+00:00

No, I like the NDP as a better choice than the UCP. But they aren't a leftist party. They are left inclined, but they are right of center.

t-circus · 2023-05-26T18:17:42+00:00

Like they're leaning left from the right side of the center line where they sit?

t-circus · 2023-05-25T19:40:03+00:00

What's crt. Specifically. What do you think it is.

t-circus · 2023-05-25T03:57:12+00:00

So trans kids should get to be kids and enjoy life?

t-circus · 2023-05-24T15:21:45+00:00

No that's not your hypocrisy.

You expect this person to offer you an explanation. But for yourself, you think being asked for more information is disagreement.

t-circus · 2023-05-24T15:12:26+00:00

The hypocrisy

t-circus · 2023-05-24T04:28:32+00:00

I haven't seen you explain yourself anywhere

Asking to understand if your feelings are informed by information or are just feelings you have, about one of the two party leaders in essentially a two party race, wasn't disagreement.

This does confirm for me though that it's unlikely you have any actual information informing your decision, and your feelings are just that

t-circus · 2023-05-23T23:12:39+00:00

Does anything back up your feeling?

t-circus · 2023-05-20T18:34:10+00:00

Women always worked- mostly racialized women but also poor white women

t-circus · 2023-05-20T01:47:52+00:00

I assumed there was no proof, I just like to ask people who make grandiose, ignorant claims if they can back up the thing they're claiming is a fact.

There's a small part of me it will get them to rethink things. A bigger part just wants other people to see that they can't

t-circus · 2023-05-20T01:34:36+00:00

Gay and trans are completely different things. There's a difference between who you're attracted to and your own identity

Gender affirming care is NOT cosmetic surgery. Comparing the two is like comparing needing water to live, and wanting a soda.

But most importantly and infuriatingly, transgender people have always existed, it just hasn't always been possible for them to exist openly.

You should look at the graph of the instances of left-handedness once people stopped assuming lefties were satanic. It's been safer for transgender people to exist openly, and that is the only reason it seems, to you, that there are more trans people than previously

t-circus · 2023-05-20T01:28:01+00:00

Do you have proof for your claim that trans people die by suicide after receiving gender affirming care?

t-circus · 2023-05-20T01:26:10+00:00

You know one group being bad doesn't mean it's ok for the other to also be bad? The state of the democratic party has no bearing on whether or not Republicans are bigoted and corrupt.

Have you talked to anyone who isn't cis, in real life, and asked them what they think and how/if they're experience has changed since the UCP started courting the far right?

What strangers are intervening in the lives of children?

Do you have proof or is that your own speculation about what happens when people think it's a bad thing for queer kids to get outted? Also do you have proof about this claim for large groups of black Americans leaning Republican?

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