Anonymous
8/25/2025, 10:03:55 PM
No.40825868
Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transgender-people-are-not-feeling
>If you’ve scrolled social media lately, you’ve likely seen Democrats cheering California Gov. Gavin Newsom for trolling Donald Trump. Whether it’s his all-caps posts, his red hats emblazoned with “Newsom Was Right About Everything,” or his willingness to spar with right-wing culture-war fixations like the Cracker Barrel rebrand, Newsom has been telegraphing his ambition to be Trump’s foil well before 2028. That performance has Democrats buzzing about him as a future national standard-bearer. But among transgender people, the mood is markedly different: Newsom inspires discomfort at best and outright hostility at worst. Their reaction is telling. In recent years, trans people have learned how quickly politicians can turn on them, and many see Newsom’s brand of politics as a flashing warning sign. For those who are not transgender, this piece will explain why so many of us do not look to Gavin Newsom for our future.
>First, an acknowledgment: Gavin Newsom has proven effective at needling Donald Trump online. He’s gaining followers, driving news cycles, and picking fights where he knows he can land punches. On substance, he’s also taking steps Democrats should applaud—leaning hard into California’s redistricting fight after Texas’s mid-cycle power grab, and pressing California universities not to cave to Trump administration demands for monetary payments to the government and policy changes, including those for transgender people. These moves are good, or at the very least, refreshing.
>But in his bid to win over the center—and even peel off some on the right—Newsom has decided that at least one group can be sacrificed for his own political gain: transgender people. In the aftermath of the 2024 election, a handful of Democratic candidates and strategists settled on a convenient scapegoat: that it was transgender rights that cost Kamala Harris the presidency.
Anonymous
7/17/2025, 2:39:36 AM
No.40409758
Newsom’s Bizarre Interview with MAGA Podcaster Platforms Anti-Trans Conspiracies
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/newsoms-bizarre-interview-with-maga
>California Governor and podcast personality Gavin Newsom has continued his right-wing media tour, feeding into the anti-trans hysteria with his signature coiffure and million-dollar smile.
>Earlier this year, the Governor said he “completely aligns” with some of the gender politics of far-right extremist Charlie Kirk and faced widespread backlash from constituents.
>Nonetheless, he appeared to double down on the sentiment and then some this week on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast. The whopping four-hour conversation (which was not exclusively about LGBT issues) started by questioning the participation of trans athletes in women’s sports, cascaded into sowing doubt about evidence-based gender affirming care, and landed on fake news about schools providing litterboxes to kids who say they’re animals.
>Newsom emphasized that he thinks conservatives are exploiting and weaponizing rhetoric about trans kids—but that hasn’t stopped him from feeding into it. Intentionally or not, Newsom has lent his Democratic branding and credibility to entertain the musings of anti-trans actors. Meanwhile, the far right has openly admitted to manufacturing a crisis around trans athletes to serve as a “beginning point” and get “opponents of the LGBT movement comfortable with talking about transgender issues,” as per Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project.
>On this latest podcast, the meandering conversation started on America’s so-called “masculinity crisis”—a reference to real problems facing boys and men, such as higher rates of suicide and social isolation, or a nod to conservative pearl-clutching about the perceived “feminization” of American boys, depending on who you ask.
>“Most of these kids, many of them [are] not even having any relations, sexual relations, with other women,” Newsom said.
