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[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago

To clarify, you're referring to this portion of the article:

Newsom then appeared on the Shawn Ryan Show, another far-right podcast, where he expanded his rhetoric. He downplayed transgender people’s pronouns, saying, “I'm trying to understand as much as anyone else the whole ‘pronoun’ thing.”

Digging into the detail link gives a smidge more context on the quote, but not much...

Naturally, Ryan’s line of questioning didn’t stop with sports, either. He suddenly turned to the idea of trans kids in general. “Is eight years old too young?”

“The trans issue for me is so novel,” Newsom said. “I'm trying to understand as much as anyone else the whole ‘pronoun’ thing.”

I don't interpret that as genuine confusion over trans identities and pronoun use. That's straight-up pandering; doing a pantomime of having a boggled mind to endear himself to the host and his audience.

It's a transparent falsehood; disingenuous, cheap and ridiculous. These are not qualities befitting of someone seeking the highest office, let alone at a time when the nation teeters on the brink of fascism.