Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️<p>How wildly successful anti-trans ads fired up Texas' Republican voters<br><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/08/transgender-ads-motivate-texas-republicans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texastribune.org/2024/11/08/tr</span><span class="invisible">ansgender-ads-motivate-texas-republicans</span></a></p><p>* barrage of attack ads, focus on trans kids playing youth sports<br>* Democrats struggled to respond<br>* fact that Texas’ senate candidates argued about youth sports rather than economy, immigration, future of democracy was a Republican victory</p><p>Comment - that's the plan:<br>* social media attacks go viral amplifying hate<br>* "trump" weak, reactionary responses</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AttackAds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AttackAds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hatred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hatred</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump2</span></a></p>