Things were bound to come to a head eventually; reality has a way of catching up with mass psychosis; the truth wins out against the lie on any long enough timeline.
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Let’s get the lay of the land.
Fascinatingly, AOC, as Robert Spencer covered for PJ Media yesterday, progressive lynchpin and chief virtue signaler of the progressive wing of the Democrat party, memory-holed her pronouns on her X bio a few days ago.
In a nutshell, AOC apparently has come to the conclusion that not displaying her pronouns like a lunatic on social media is a political net benefit.
Via Newsweek (emphasis added):
The right-wing media sphere flew into a frenzy on Thursday when several users on social media pointed out that U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York had removed her pronouns from her bio on X, formerly Twitter.
The overarching sentiment was that Ocasio-Cortez's decision to remove her pronouns from her bio underscored President-elect Donald Trump's decisive victory in the 2024 election, and was an inflection point in "woke" ideology—a derisive term that many conservatives use to describe identity politics and progressive values.
Party leadership ‘claps back’*
*Please note kindly that I use the term “clap back” here ironically; it’s a favorite term of progressives that means something like “strongly rebuke.”
Obviously, the true believers in the Social Justice™ faction of the party — as opposed to the vast majority of Democrat politicians who don’t have any ideological stake in the transgender stuff but know their bread gets buttered by going along with whatever trend du jour — aren’t going to let their death grip on party policy and rhetoric wane without a fight. There’s too much power and prestige wrapped up in the Pride™ flag to walk away.
As the loudest and most aggressive faction of the Democrat coalition, their indignation at being demoted in the priority hierarchy could potentially cost Democrats more elections in the future.
And, just as, if not more, importantly for the party, donor bucks from the pharmaceutical and medical industries that make a killing off of “gender-affirming healthcare” might be at risk of drying up if the party ever got serious about protecting the public, especially children, from predators masquerading as surgeons.
Accordingly, savvier members of the delicate leftist coalition are trying to pump the brakes on a full-bore abandonment of the alphabet agenda.
Via TIME (emphasis added):
Sarah McBride took the stage in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday night, making history as the first openly transgender person elected to Congress. By the time the week ended, the battered Democratic Party’s support for trans rights was shakier than ever, as two of McBride’s future Democratic colleagues’ waffling on the issue was splashed across The New York Times.
Such is the seesaw facing a party that wrongly thought they had cracked a code and built an intersectional coalition that would deliver the White House to Kamala Harris, perhaps defend their slim majority in the Senate, and maybe even claw back the third slice of the governing trifecta, the unruly House of Representatives. But with the White House gone, the Senate tanked, and the House at best an iffy proposition, the blame game has hit hyperdrive and—as is often the case in these situations—the least powerful of these voices is facing the brunt: the tiny percentage of Americans who identify as transgender, and their allies in the broader LGBTQ community.
“The Democrats have to stop pandering to the far left,” re-elected Rep. Tom Suozzi told the Times on Wednesday. “I don’t want to discriminate against anybody, but I don’t think biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports.” He then offered some advice to his party: “Democrats aren’t saying that, and they should be.”…
Two main topics drove that admittedly successful rhetoric: trans athletes competing in sports that match their gender identities—specifically trans girls competing against other girls—and widespread confusion about gender-affirming care, which is recognized by the medical community and in some limited cases comes with taxpayer coverage.
For the most part, Democrats let the attacks go unanswered. Alongside inflation and immigration, inclusion of trans youth made up the new three-legged stool of the modern GOP. It was ugly, but it worked. Some 64% of voters said they saw attacks against Harris’ support for trans rights, according to one poll from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.
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While this TIME piece is obviously intended to fortify the base’s support for child trannyism and rebuff any challenges to party orthodoxy before they get legs, what it absolutely gets right is that Kamala ran away from the transgender issue with more urgency than any Democrat in modern history.
Under advisement, she clearly didn’t want to touch it with a ten-foot pole; on the few occasions she faced real questions on this or any topic, her obfuscations were, indeed, so deflective as to be painful to watch.
2020 Kamala Harris would have, and did, brag about her championing of all manner of LGBTQ+++™ pet issues. Her rhetoric there speaks volumes about how dramatically public sentiment has shifted toward common sense in just the past year.
The effort by more moral and/or sane members of the party, such as they are, to purge the most destructive elements of transgender ideology isn’t going to happen overnight. It’s going to get ugly. Accusations of transphobia and worse are going to fly. Smear campaigns bankrolled by NGOs and medical industry groups are going to come hot and heavy.
It’ll be a hell of a show.
