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Ted Cruz falsely calls 2 cis teen girls “boys” in desperate search for trans athletes to demonize (www.lgbtqnation.com)
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[–] ThePowerOfGeek 109 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

The man is a fucking ghoul.

If he's going to spread baseless rumors about people, then he should be scrutinized too. Maybe attention should be drawn to the fact that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer. Or Ted Cruz was a notorious creep on campus. Or if we want a new one, how about... Ted Cruz likes jerking off to images of JD Vance fucking couches.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 weeks ago

I heard a rumor that Ted Cruz pisses his pants on purpose because he likes the warm feeling between his legs.

[–] Bonesince1997 26 points 4 weeks ago

Ted Cruz was Epstein's favorite Congressman. They both just love kids.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ted Cruz likes jerking off to images of JD Vance fucking couches.

While imagining himself as the couch?

[–] Death_Equity 22 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

God no, he isn't gay, he just likes to watch.

[–] edgemaster72 8 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, we all know Lindsey Graham is the couch.

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 4 weeks ago

Also, I wish people would stop saying JD Vance fucked a couch.

JD VANCE NEVER FUCKED A COUCH!

It was just hand stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Do couches have gender?

[–] Death_Equity 11 points 4 weeks ago

They are feminine. They are comforting, soft, and every home is incomplete without one.

A bench, those are masculine. They serve their purpose and offer no real comfort unless you get the angle just right.

[–] PwnTra1n 94 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

This is the effect they want. It’s more oppression. On top of trans people it’s women as well. Too good? Too buff? “Gotta be trans”

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 weeks ago

Gender policing is about enforcing rigid, misogynist gender roles.

At the rate they're going they're just going to declare that women's sports are trans and then ban all women from them.

[–] FlyingSquid 22 points 4 weeks ago

These girls don't even look especially masculine! This was a hit job.

A Cruz campaign spokesperson responded by saying the photo “features a female athlete who spoke out against boys playing in girls’ sports after participating in a track meet where a biological male beat female athletes and impacted individual and team medal results” but didn’t address the campaign labeling the young women as “trans”boys.”

They aren't even addressing the fact that the photo shows two girls, not one. So which one is this teenage girl who is such a horrible ally to trans people that you decided to demonize her in this ad and which is the one you just didn't bother cropping out?

[–] edgemaster72 81 points 4 weeks ago

"Won't someone think of the children!"

"So you'll apologize to the teenage girls you attacked, misgendered, and whose likenesses you used without permission?"

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 weeks ago

Ted Cruz will endanger your children for political points. He will assign a label to them and point his posse at them. He is a dangerous man, and the parents of those girls ought to press charges. Cruz is not unaware of the hateful mob he's riled up in Texas, who would be eager to take action against any supposed trans children; this was an intentional effort to put the lives of Texan children in danger, full stop.

[–] FlyingSquid 38 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

My wife works with a lady who has a prominent mustache. She is cis, she just has facial hair like some women do and she doesn't shave it off all the time because fuck that, she doesn't have to.

I can't imagine the shit she gets all the time.

[–] Dainterhawk999 2 points 4 weeks ago

Squids too have to tackle tentacles irrespective of the genders... Ones body ones own choice

[–] bcgm3 37 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

In some circles, obsessing over youths' genitalia is considered uncouth.

[–] thelasttoot 4 points 3 weeks ago

Everywhere else, it's considered weird

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago

ah, republicanism. the party of delusional psychosis and unhinged political violence. yep. that tracks.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Once again the people who can "always tell" misgender people, this time because they are women who are.... Good at sports.

[–] billwashere 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn’t that idea in and of itself a little sexist?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Exactly. It's not enough to be Cisgender, you have to be feminine or masculine enough by obeying the gender roles assigned to you at birth.

"You were born under the sign of the Vagina, so you must be pretty, like baking, and bad at sports, otherwise you will be outcast."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

It’s a witch hunt

EDIT: this comment was originally “literally a witch hunt” but I changed it because I was told it might be interpreted as saying trans people are witches which I obviously did not intend. This edit was not intended to make the user who accused me “look stupid” as they insinuate, but to improve the comment at their request.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Everyone knows what a witch hunt means. And almost everyone knows how to not feed the troll. It is insane that you succumbed to any idiot suggesting that "witch hunt" would demonize trans students. By the same coin, when Trump talked of his impeachment as "witch hunt", he did not come out as a witch, did he? This is preposterous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I saw a meme the other day that really struck home for me. I don't remember the exact phrasing, but the gist was: "Nobody has ever killed a witch."

Witches don't exist. Witches are the thing you hunt for when you want someone to blame for all the things you think are wrong in the world. Because you can catch that witch. You can torture and kill it to make it pay for all the evils you think you've suffered. But witches don't exist, so you have to find a person. A person just outside of normal enough that you can convince someone else they're a witch. Once others are convinced they'll help you come up with all kinds of justifications for why the witch needs to be punished and killed. Everyone knows that witches are evil, and everyone loves a good witch hunt, because getting rid of witches means you're making the world a better place.

But witches don't exist.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago

Sue him

[–] Snapz 7 points 4 weeks ago

Cancun cruz here just got so thoroughly destroyed by his opponent in last debate. He's still bleeding and desperately trying to do anything he can to change the narrative of him being a cowardly, broken loser. This is the "Mr. Potato Head is trans" distraction attempt...

These republicans 1000% have closed door conversations with each other where they speak the actual truth and say, quietly, "Can you imagine if we actually had to win elections on merit? We'd get so fucking obliterated!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

2 cis teen

^I’m sorry^