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How have trans issues scrambled our politics? | Brianna Wu & TafTaj | Just Asking Questions, Ep. 53
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1:09:38Now PlayingBrianna Wu and TafTaj discuss the role of transgender issues in the 2024 election, 'centrist' trans politics, and their own personal stories.
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About 0.5% of US adults identify as transgender as of a 2022 UCLA study. Among 13-17 year olds, it's grown to about 1.5%. That uptick in the youth might help explain why trans issues have played an increasingly large role in American politics.
Registered voters told Gallup pollsters it was among the least important political issues they considered when weighing their presidential vote–just below climate change.
And yet, the Trump campaign spent $65 million running ads in swing states attacking Harris' transgender policy stances in the final stretch of the campaign, according to the New York Times. The top Harris super PAC found that one such ad shifted voters who viewed it almost 3 points towards Trump and that it resonated particularly well among demographics that shifted significantly in Trump's direction.
In a relatively close election, is it possible this actually was a deciding factor? And how should trans advocates and Democrats adjust their their approach to this issue.
Joining us today to talk about it are Brianna Wu and TafTaj. They are two of the co-hosts of the new show Dollcast, a show about transgender issues and politics acting as a corrective to what they see as the excesses or errors of the trans and gender critical movements. Taftaj is a streamer and commentator. Wu is a programmer, political activist and commentator perhaps best known for her involvement in Gamergate. She now runs the progressive Rebellion PAC.
Recorded on: November 19, 2024
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Sources referenced
⚪️ Williams Institute: How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States?
⚪️ Most Important Issues to 2024 Presidential Voters
⚪️ New York Times: Trump and Republicans Bet Big on Anti-Trans Ads Across the Country
⚪️ New York Times: How Trump Won, and How Harris Lost, the 2024 Presidential Election
⚪️ Washington Post: GamerGaters inundated Brianna Wu with death threats. Now some are apologizing — and she forgives them.
⚪️ Brianna Wu: I fear that progressivism has become the very thing we fought against
⚪️ Brianna Wu: X Post "from the center"
⚪️ The Cass Review
⚪️ Should kids medically transition? | Jesse Singal | Just Asking Questions, Ep. 21
⚪️ IFLScience: The Woman Who Gave Birth Despite Most Of Her Cells Having XY Chromosomes
⚪️ PubMed Central: Rare successful pregnancy in a patient with Swyer Syndrome
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