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Anonymous07/30/26, 19:58No.44360809Amy Acton Scheduled Meeting With LGBt Advocates, Didn't Show Up, Kicked Out Trans People Who Did
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dem-ohio-gov-candidate-amy-acton
>Amy Acton, Ohio Democratic Candidate for Governor, has seen her relationship with the state’s LGBTQ+ community go from bad to catastrophic. Weeks after Acton endorsed a transgender sports ban and called transgender girls “boys,” the fallout has been intense: the Ohio Democratic Party forced its own Progressive and Pride caucuses to delete their criticism and a meeting the campaign promised would begin repairing the damage instead further inflamed tensions. Inside sources who have gone public now say the “listening session” was a debacle. Acton did not show up, her campaign manager barred Arienne Childrey—Vice Chair of the party’s Pride Caucus, a transgender candidate for the Ohio House, and Ohio’s first openly trans city council member—from even entering the Zoom call. When another advocate demanded to know why Childrey was barred, she was ejected. The Chair of the Progressive Caucus, Kim McCarthy, was locked in the waiting room during the entire “listening session.” And in the end, the campaign ultimately refused to apologize for calling trans girls “boys,” refused to retract Acton’s support for a transgender sports ban, and ended the meeting with no plans for what come next.
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Anon07/30/26, 20:00No.44360829
>LGBt Advocates
*LGBT
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Anon07/30/26, 20:23No.44361005
the race is close in ohio & the campaign is trying to get the few extra fundamentalist republican voters who dont like that ramaswamy is hindu by giving them another reason to vote for her, without losing too many democrat votes -- a difficult balancing act
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Anon07/30/26, 21:46No.44361723
Holy fuck this is basedI’m a cisgay and genuinely have hope for the dems for the first time since like 2017
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Anon07/30/26, 21:49No.44361746
STOP TOLERATING LIBERALS
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Anon07/30/26, 23:58No.44362878
I fucking hate it here
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Anon07/31/26, 02:38No.44364234
if she had just said she doesn't support trans people in womens sports she would be golden because that's a majority view. instead she called them men in the process and is now doubling down like a moron. it is beyond me how these establishment democrats constantly obsess over focus group opinions and trying to never step on anyone's toes yet they always make sure to throw some minorities under the bus in the process
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Anon07/31/26, 05:07No.44365305
strange behavior