LGBTQ Reporter: Castro, Dems Not Woke Enough on Abortion Rights for ‘Trans Men’ – IOTW Report

LGBTQ Reporter: Castro, Dems Not Woke Enough on Abortion Rights for ‘Trans Men’

Breitbart:

A transgender reporter this week said that presidential candidate Julian Castro and other Democrats running for president are not woke enough on abortion rights for “trans men,” pointing out that Castro bungled his first few attempts at declaring that transgender individuals deserve abortion rights.

LGBTQ reporter Katelyn Burns wrote in Politico (“I’m Trans. The 2020 Candidates Don’t Know How to Pander to Me.”) that Castro initially botched his attempt to express support for abortion rights for transgender Americans.

“For most of my life as a trans woman, trans people and our issues have been a source of derision. … So when, during the first debate of the 2020 presidential campaign, Julián Castro responded to a question about abortion by saying that all women, including transgender females, deserve access to a full range of reproductive health care options, it should have been a momentous occasion for a trans community that’s long existed in the shadows,” Burns wrote. “There was just one small problem. Castro fumbled his answer.”

Burns explained that Castro, on the national stage, said “trans females” instead of “trans men” should have abortion rights.

“‘Trans females,’ as Castro said, refers to trans women who were assigned male at birth. That’s a demographic that doesn’t need access to abortion care. Trans men and nonbinary people who were assigned female at birth, on the other hand, do need that reproductive health care access. Labeling them as female is considered misgendering. It’s a basic mistake,” Burns said. “Still, a tweet from Castro further muddied the waters. In it, he said that ‘all women,’ including the trans community, deserve reproductive health access. The tweet misgenders every trans man and many nonbinary people—who would not consider themselves ‘women’—who need those services.”

When asked last week if his healthcare plan would include public funding for abortions, the former San Antonio mayor said he believes in “reproductive freedom” and “reproductive justice.” Castro, who was former President Barack Obama’s Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary, then spoke about abortion rights for transgender Americans.

“And, you know, what that means is that just because a woman—or let’s also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female—is poor, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the right to exercise that right to choose,” Castro continued. more here

14 Comments on LGBTQ Reporter: Castro, Dems Not Woke Enough on Abortion Rights for ‘Trans Men’

  1. Oh boy are we in for some entertainment the next 12 months!
    Pretty sure Castro was implying that men who ‘become’ women were the ones he intended to cover, and that they would be able (somehow) to get preggers. Frankly, I think that is even more woke than covering women who become men!

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  2. Ahh, fock off, LGBTQ reporter. You never even thought about that shit until La Raza Boy vomited it up. You sound like a fool. Just go back to bashing Pence.

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  3. You’re born with or without a “turtle” (one daughter’s obgyn’s term). Nothing is “assigned” at birth. Fact of life. I’m so tired of hearing so much being promoted from the crazies. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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  4. hey everybody- there is going to be a book burning soon, and I just wanted to let everyone know, so they can get ready. Just go through any of your biology, health, psychology and law books and gather them together for the bonfire. Those books aren’t any good anymore, so let’s set them afire and we can celebrate as we wait to be told what we should next believe and think. It will be fun and we will do it at night, so the carbon footprint will be reduced.

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  5. Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in His own image;
    in the image of God He created him;
    male and female He created them.”

    Thus endeth the lesson for today

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  6. All 7 pregnant women who identify as men can now rest assured that the 2020 race for president, iow, the most powerful person in the world, will be about them. Those 7 pregnant women with their light stubble are the most important people on the planet.

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