Four women who could break new ground in the mid terms election.

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I'm angry about this. I personally see three women here. Why cant natal born males expand the bandwidth of maleness?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2018/oct/31/four-women-who-could-break-new-ground-in-the-us-midterms-video

I could predict what was going to happen here before I opened the thread.

Every example hardens my heart more deeply. I feel sickened by the sight of that person donning a costume and stealing my humanity. I'm struggling to deal with how angry I am to be honest.

I feel sickened by the sight of that person donning a costume and stealing my humanity.

This a million times.

Its the female bit

No such thing as a transfemale

Transwoman fair enough...i might even be persuaded that you could have woman used in purely a social sense...MIGHT

But female is not up for negotiation as far as im concerned

It's ludicrous. "Meet the four female Democratic candidates"
Well done Guardian, you've fucked up again.

Christine Hallquist is an interesting person. The New York Times ran a profile earlier this month:

www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/politics/christine-hallquist-vermont.html

From the piece:

And as exciting as Ms. Hallquist’s campaign has been for many transgender people, she has also faced criticism in the past for some of her statements on L.G.B.T. issues.

Last year, when a gay bar in Winooski, Vt., was criticized by people who called its name — Mister Sister — transphobic, Ms. Hallquist defended the bar’s owners.

And she has upset some transgender people by preferring to call herself a “transgender woman” instead of simply a woman, and sometimes using her male birth name when telling stories about her past. “It would be an injustice to women,” she said, for her to describe herself as a woman without specifying that she is transgender.

So while the Guardian's approach is (predictably) awful, the candidate seems much more nuanced.

Personally I like Hallquist. The Guardian can stuff it.

It is not a year of womxn, or transwoman.

It is a year of women. For the first time in history, white men are a minority on one major party's ballots. That's the story, not the cutsy gotta make it accessible story about 4 people, one of whom is male-bodied.

It's a sea change, and women did that.

Grin

Thanks for that update. Interesting indeed.

So Hallquist is more of a transsexual type?

It's a sea change, and women did that.

Completely. The Guardian have missed the story big time. As an aside, did you see last night's SNL sketch about Democrats' election anxiety? I thought it was hilarious:

So Hallquist is more of a transsexual type?

From the Times story:

... classmates mocked her for being feminine and the nuns at school beat her and recommended her parents treat her nonconformity with an exorcism.

She transitioned publicly in 2015 by making an announcement four months in advance that she would start going by Christine that December.

It was also the subject of a cover story in the local alt-weekly newspaper and a deeply personal documentary made by her son, which followed Ms. Hallquist’s transition and its impact on her wife, Pat, and their three adult children. The film ended with Pat and Christine separating.

Ms. Hallquist said they have since reunited (“Both of our Facebook statuses say, ‘It’s complicated,’” she said), but her campaign declined to make Pat available for an interview, citing her desire for privacy.

It's ridiculous, that person is male