The poll comes as Newsom has taken a more aggressive position in standing up to President Donald Trump.

The poll indicates support for the more aggressive position Newsom has taken in standing up to Donald Trump, particularly over a plan by Republicans in Texas to redraw their state’s congressional seat map in the hopes of winning more seats in midterm elections next year.

The battle to become the 2028 presidential election candidate will likely set the new direction for the Democratic Party as it struggles with net favorability at what one recent poll showed to be a three-year low. Newsom has not formally announced his candidacy.

  • Light@noc.social
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    9 days ago

    @jordanlund @btaf45 A woman *is* an adult human female. If you claim otherwise, you are - at best - twisting language.
    This is not the same as throwing a banana at a black person as it does not promote stereotypes.

    “You are not a woman” is not hate speech, because no one thinks men are inferior to women. “You are a monkey” usually is, because humans are - whether rightly or wrongly - generally considered superior to non-human animals.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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      9 days ago

      “You are not a woman” is, in fact, hate speech. It’s an attempt to deny someones identity in a situation where acknowledging their identity is vital to their health and well being.

      It shows a callous disregard for the other person and their future existence which is why it will not be tolerated.

        • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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          8 days ago

          Being disingenuous is not an identity.

          But hey, I’m open minded. If you undergo hormone therapy for a year to change your species and live as a cat 24/7 that can be respected.

          Of course you’d have to stop using human language and the Internet…

          • Light@noc.social
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            8 days ago

            @jordanlund I don’t think hormones can change your species. They would be much better at changing sex but I don’t think we have the technology to fully change sex yet.
            Hormone therapy just changes your appearance IIRC. It can’t give you a functional womb, ovaries, or testes. And it can’t make you produce functional opposite sized gametes.
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            • Light@noc.social
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              8 days ago

              @jordanlund
              If it did, I might be more comfortable referring to trans people who have undergone such an operation as their adopted sex.

              But it HAS to not be forced. That is NON NEGOTIABLE.
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            • Light@noc.social
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              8 days ago

              @jordanlund I wasn’t being disingenuous btw. I was honestly asking how far your “identity respect” goes. With the implicit reductio ad absurdum.