CW: transphobia and slurs

Friend—Running for Congress is hard enough without having another candidate unabashedly deadname and misgender me while spreading lies about my pro-LGBTQIA+ involvement with Glendale Unified School District.

I woke up last week to this video from another person who wants to represent this district, and spent the morning fielding hateful comments from his supporters who think it’s okay to call me a tr*nny.

This sort of hateful rhetoric shouldn’t “come with the territory” of running for public office—and it is exactly why I’m running. CA-30 is home to SO many LGBTQIA+ people and allies and I’m repulsed that my opponent believes this is how to be a leader.

This explicitly anti-trans rhetoric should disqualify one from representing CA-30 in Congress. It’s abundantly clear to me that transphobia & anti-LGBTQIA+ hate aren’t just red state issues.

I called on several other candidates and local leaders to condemn this language and behavior, and thankfully, some of them have.

And if anyone reading this can spare it, please consider donating to my intersectional, humanitarian campaign against hate here and everywhere across the U.S.

I don’t want to just be the trans candidate. There are so many other economic and social issues facing our country that require our attention—many of which I agree on with my more conservative opponents. 

The Republican using my deadname actually called out another opponent of ours for taking money from Hollywood studio executives during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes! This is the sort of pro-labor, pro-working class agenda I can get behind!

But when you sow division and hatred, and blatant disrespect, it divides working people in a way that makes it hard to heal.

We need to put these differences aside and come together to provide universal single-payer healthcare, housing for all, environmental justice, reproductive rights, tuition-free college, racial justice, and more pressing issues than how to treat your neighbors with basic human respect.

No more distractions. Let’s focus on the issues at hand.

In solidarity,

Maebe