Nancy Pelosi refused to remove trans rights from landmark Hate Crimes Act despite pressure

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/nancy-pelosi-refused-to-remove-trans-rights-from-landmark-hate-crimes-act-despite-pressure/

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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 70d

Rare corporate democrat W

TallonMetroid@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 70d

Rare Pelosi W, as the kids say.

LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 70d
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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 70d

The Blade called Pelosi “one of the most influential champions of LGBTQ rights in American politics,” recognizing, among other things, her HIV/AIDS advocacy, as well as the roles she played in passing the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act and in repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

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homes@piefed.world · 0 pts · 70d
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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · -27 pts · 71d (8 replies)

homes@piefed.world · 49 pts · 70d (5 replies)

And

Monument@piefed.world · 11 pts · 70d

This is delightful. Thank you for sharing it.

NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 70d (1 reply)

I agree with dunking on the deflection, but this is more a red herring logical fallacy, which is (as the image says) presenting an irrelevant (whether true or false) subject change to avoid rebutting the argument. It could also perhaps be framed as ad hominem or appeal to hypocrisy, though neither truly fit.

Not really a straw man fallacy, which involves presenting an intentionally weak version of a relevant core argument to easily rebut it.

homes@piefed.world · 5 pts · 70d

Fixed

GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 70d (1 reply)

Ooh. Logical fallacy referee meme. That's cool, I'm stealing these. Thanks.

homes@piefed.world · 2 pts · 70d

There are tons of them if you just do a Google image search.

I wish I could claim that I had made them, but I did not. I used these in Reddit arguments long past.

ExFed@programming.dev · 39 pts · 71d

Sure. But for once, just this once, can we celebrate a win?

Steve@communick.news · 23 pts · 71d

What's that have to do with trans rights?