{"id":581256,"date":"2023-07-04T01:26:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lgbtq-conservatives-say-they-feel-misled-by-desantis\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T01:26:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T22:26:35","slug":"lgbtq-conservatives-say-they-feel-misled-by-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lgbtq-conservatives-say-they-feel-misled-by-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"#LGBTQ conservatives say they feel misled by DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/desantisron_062323gn16_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LGBTQ Republicans say they feel misled by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) after the GOP presidential hopeful\u2019s \u201cwar room\u201d shared a bizarre video widely seen as inflammatory.<\/p>\n<p>The video bashed former President Donald Trump\u2019s (R) support for the community and leaned into conservative state policies passed under DeSantis this year that were criticized as anti-LGBTQ.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>LGBTQ conservatives, reacting to the video, said DeSantis had shown his true colors as an \u201canti-LGBT champion,\u201d undermining his arguments that his support for the policies were about protecting children and parents\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like he\u2019s going mask off,\u201d said Brad Polumbo, a Michigan-based libertarian journalist. \u201cThe cat\u2019s out of the bag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polumbo said he\u2019d have considered voting for DeSantis at one time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m somebody who has my fair share of policy disagreements with DeSantis, but I was considering voting for him in the primary before he entered the race officially,\u201d he said. \u201cSince then, he\u2019s done thing after thing that really makes me increasingly write off that possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who has endorsed Trump for president but vocally supported Florida\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t\u2019 Say Gay\u201d bill on the campaign trail last year, said, in light of Friday\u2019s video, he now feels that he was \u201cused\u201d and misled by DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to think he was a great governor,\u201d Santos, the first non-incumbent gay Republican elected to Congress, said of DeSantis. \u201cNow, I\u2019m starting to think differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProudElephantUS\/status\/1674893068519247872\">video<\/a>\u00a0shared Friday \u2013 the last day of LGBTQ Pride Month \u2013 by the \u201cDeSantis War Room\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> account features footage of Trump at the Republican National Convention in 2016 saying he would \u201cdo everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s remarks were made in response to a mass shooting that had occurred just weeks earlier at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that was at the time the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. It remains the deadliest incident of violence against LGBTQ people in the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The video, originally posted by \u201c@ProudElephantUS,\u201d a pro-DeSantis Twitter account, also features old clips of Trump saying he would be OK with transgender women competing in the Miss Universe pageant, which he owned when he made the comments in 2012, and would be comfortable with Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic decathlete who came out as transgender in 2015, using the restroom of her choice at Trump Tower.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The video then cuts to images of DeSantis overlaid with headlines that the Florida governor signed \u201cthe most extreme slate of anti-trans laws in modern history\u201d and a \u201cdraconian anti-trans bathroom bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ad also features images of shirtless men and several celebrities, including actor Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in the film \u201cAmerican Psycho,\u201d about a young investment banker who leads a double life as a gruesome serial killer.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, like other conservatives who have championed similar policies, has defended his signature on legislation to remove lessons about sexual orientation and gender identity from Florida classrooms and ban transgender women and girls from female sports and restrooms by invoking the protection of children and women\u2019s spaces.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But Friday\u2019s video left some on the right, including Polumbo, wondering if that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all about how you frame it,\u201d Polumbo, who is openly gay, said of policies that may be viewed as anti-LGBTQ.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, he said, conservative lawmakers may argue that, by supporting policies like Florida\u2019s Parental Rights in Education bill \u2013 known to its critics as the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill for its heavy restrictions on talk of LGBTQ identities in public school classrooms \u2013 they are merely working to protect children from being exposed to in<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriate materials at school.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>On the other hand, more extreme Republicans may say they endorse such policies because they do not believe in or support LGBTQ people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought at first he was doing the former,\u201d Polumbo said of DeSantis, \u201cbut ads like this make me think he\u2019s the latter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Santos, the New York Republican who backed the \u201cDon\u2019t say gay\u201d legislation, also suggested his opinion of DeSantis had turned because of the video.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI still stand by the bill in its nature, but now it seems that it had a more perverse agenda behind it,\u201d he said, later adding that \u201cI\u2019m starting to see [DeSantis] for what he is. His rhetoric is to diminish and remove rights away from people like myself, and I can\u2019t support that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne Dean-Bailey, a former Republican state legislator from New Hampshire, said her plans to back DeSantis as the GOP nominee in 2024 were dashed by Friday\u2019s video, which she said solidified her already-waning support for the Florida governor\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the final nail in the coffin,\u201d said Dean-Bailey. \u201cAt this point, I can\u2019t see myself voting for DeSantis.\u201d She said she is likely to vote for a third-party candidate in 2024.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Dean-Bailey, who is openly gay, said she was initially drawn to DeSantis\u2019s candidacy by his criticism of pandemic-era lockdowns and mask mandates and his plans for the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe really set himself apart as like, this future of the Republican Party,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is somebody who can really kind of cross the political divide and work on those issues that are important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s since led this conversation on the culture war that is so unattractive to me,\u201d Dean-Bailey added. \u201cI don\u2019t even want to call myself a conservative anymore. I don\u2019t identify with these people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the intent of Friday\u2019s video was to make Trump seem less palatable to Republicans, it very likely backfired, said Jennifer Williams, a Republican who in January became the first transgender woman elected to a municipal council in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, it\u2019s going to help a lot of moderate Republicans,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Williams added that she\u2019s been disappointed by the extreme and harmful rhetoric surrounding LGBTQ issues \u2013 and transgender issues, in particular \u2013 coming from DeSantis and other GOP 2024 frontrunners, including Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never would have expected that going into 2024 transgender people, in particular transgender women, would be a more important issue than defeating China on the world stage \u2026 or fulfilling all the many promises that were made at the beginning of COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of those are major issues they\u2019re discussing,\u201d Williams added. \u201cThey\u2019re worried about what\u2019s in someone\u2019s pants, and how someone wants to be happy in their life. 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