[bayarearefugee]

I agree that the Democratic party has fumbled the ball (over and over) and deserves a lot of blame for where we are now, but all of the trans talk in 2024 was driven entirely by the right.

The Democratic party wasn't talking about trans people in 2024 (if anything the Democratic campaign was conspicuously avoiding the conversation entirely). The trans "debate" that people remember from that time period was driven entirely by right-wing ads and social media.

Obviously this is a pretty successful strategy considering how many people falsely remember who was actually talking about this.

[kevin_thibedeau]

2024 Democratic platform [1] word counts:

  men:         4
  woman/women: 86
  gay:         3
  transgender: 8

They slit their own throats by ignoring half of the voting population.

[1] https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTE...

[coryrc]

Of the three references to men I found, one was counting Trump's judicial appointments and the others were "our brave men and women of the armed forces". No acknowledgement of the college enrollment gap nor illegal competition in several predominately-male fields having driven wages way down.

[JackFr]

They talked about it because they knew the median voter disagreed with the Democrats.