They’re minors and he used their pictures without their parents’ permission, seemingly calling them “boys in girls’ sports.”
Republican Ted Cruz’s desperate search for trans targets in a hateful series of anti-trans attack ads directed at his Democratic opponent Colin Allred has landed the two-term Texas senator in hot water with the parents of two cisgender girls and their high school.
The teens appear in at least two fear-mongering ads attacking both the trans community and Allred, picturing them alongside former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and CeCé Telfer, a Jamaican-born sprinter and the first out trans woman to win an NCAA title.
I think this is a good example that free speech is not free consequences. The question is who carries the consequences. My guess is the two girls that may get mobbed at least until they graduate, maybe even longer.
Btw, I am pro free-speech, I just find it kind of sad that more often than not the consequences of free speech from people like Ted Cruz hit the people he’s speaking about.
Free speech doesn’t mean irresponsible speech. I’m for free speech as well. Except I expect to be held accountable over what I say, and so do others. And I accept that I give space to speech I disagree with.
The irony is that those who whine about needing free speech the most also hate to be held accountable to what they say and they hate it when others disagree with them. Both of which are actually violating the principles of free speech.
So how about we all accept that free speech is an important right to uphold and protect as well as not be a bunch of dicks about it 😎
he’s starting a witch hunt
Not an ounce of athleticism in Ted Cruz’s body.
Which isn’t a disqualifier for his position. But since it’s Ted fucking Cruz we’re talking about, it’s fair game. He might be the only person on the planet who looks less intimidating with a beard.
Maybe he should stay in his fucking lane. Hope you Texans can help him figure that out in ten days.
This is why we don’t want idiots like Ted Cruz in charge of what defining what gender your child is
This is why we don’t want idiots like Ted Cruz in charge. FTFY
This is why we don’t want Ted Cruz.
Serious question to them: what about girls in boys’ x, y, z?
No no no. Girls in kitchen
Sue him into the fucking ground.
I’m not a betting man, but I would put money on those girls now being harassed and picked on by their schoolmates, and wouldn’t be surprised to find out they and/or their family was harassed by adults, either. Their life has been essentially ruined by this fucking piece of shit. They have every right to recourse, and there’s only one thing these fucking gop bitches understand.
Sue. Him.
They fortunately live in a very left leaning suburb of Portland where the vast majority gives zero shits if someone is trans.
Well that’s good, at least, but that fucking bitch needs to be put in his place. I’ll say it again: sue the fuck out of him.
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