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Nancy Mace tried to sell transphobic wrapping paper & failed miserably (www.lgbtqnation.com)

submitted 2 days ago by whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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she tried to get wrapping paper made, presumably to sell to raise campaign funds.

the wrapping paper and it had a pattern that alternated between a graphic that reads,

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“No [picture of balls] in our stalls,” and her campaign logo.

“My team just informed me that no company would make this wrapping paper for us because it’s too ‘offensive,'” she wrote.

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“What I find offensive is men in women’s bathrooms.”

“A sitting Congresswomen using a disgusting and bigoted slur about Americans who staged a nonviolent protest,” responded Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL). “People who use this type of despicable language should not be leading anyone.”

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[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right? This is what is also complete hypocrisy on Republicans part. On one hand, they (erroneously) equate trans with surgeries when they want to condemn youth healthcare. But somehow all adult trans people are no-surgery self-identifying "men in dresses".

[–] BerenstainsMonster@kbin.earth 3 points 14 hours ago

Transfemme enby here. I hear what you two mean, but I wanna make sure we also resist medicalizing gender nonconformity. While many trans folks undergo bottom surgery to alleviate dysphoria or to simply be "safe" from the scrutiny of the cis gaze, surgery is not what qualifies a trans woman as a woman. The issue isn't about genitalia, it's about transmisogyny.

TERFs have so deeply internalized the misogyny that it's all they know, woman TERFs and man TERFs alike, cis or not ('cause Caitlyn Jenner is still a TERF).