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So much silly words. LGBTQ+ advocates say blah-blah-blah because personal freedom blah-blah-blah and the right to blah-blah-blah.
I feel the blue candidate that wouldn't dance around and explain, reference studies, etc, but just smash them by so what's your exact problem? and why are you so hurt about it? would inspire much more voters.
Republicans like harsh replies? Dems can play that game too. Maybe even make them feel like cowards for not accepting this and that.
I'm not a political technologist. I'm just guessing what it would be to call an average red-state person a pussy for fearing imaginary bullshit. How much in broken bones?
Having been involved in entirely too many of these hearings, we're not really appealing to the GOP legislators but to the general public. There is no magic set of words I'm going to say that's going to convince the folks that are hanging out with the Family Policy Alliance team that drafted the bill. If I go in there and tell them my unvarnished opinion, I get my mic cut and removed, and the folks pushing the bill have an immediate example of an "unhinged" trans person.