CleanTechnicaTina Casey
A Referendum On Elon Musk And Transgender Rights — Who’d A Thunk It?
US voters rarely, if ever, get a chance to vote on someone whose name is not on the ballot, but this year is an exceptional one with Tesla CEO Elon Musk throwing millions at key races.
Who’d a thunk it?
Coincidentally or not, Elon Musk’s highlypersonal vendetta against transgender rightshas materialized against the backdrop of a corresponding focus in Republican Party campaign strategy, with one early hint being his“pronouns suck” messageon Twitter in July of 2020.
Musk went on to buy Twitter and rename it “X” in 2022, and the rest istransphobic history.
Also coincidentally or not, the Republican Party has been hammering against human and civil rights for generations, but the razor-sharp focus on transgender persons did not bloom into full flower until 2021, after US President…
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