Parker Molloy says Hinojosa went out of her way to make an anti-trans joke
Writer and media critic, publisher of The Present Age, posting on her personal Bluesky account
“*sigh* I'm getting so tired of Democrats doing weird-ass anti-trans vice signaling to appeal to Republicans. [2/2] The replies on Threads are all people being like, "OMG, why are people so sensitive? There are things that matter more than pronouns!" as though the issue isn't about the fact that she went out of her way to make this dumb anti-trans joke?”
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Molloy's thread is the most widely shared criticism of the ad on Bluesky, with about 3,100 likes, 342 reposts and 101 quote posts by September 17. The first post attaches a still from the ad; the second names Hinojosa's joke directly. Chris Geidner and other journalists replied in the same thread. Verified in a logged-in browser session; Bluesky post pages return 404 to automated HEAD requests because the site routes client-side.
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The ad itself, posted to Gina Hinojosa's official YouTube channel on September 9, 2026. It runs 15 seconds and had drawn about 1.2 million views by September 17. This is the copy most critics cite; Katelyn Burns's column and several Bluesky posts link to it directly. The Texas Signal described the spot as a digital ad, while the campaign's own release said it would run statewide.
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The ad was posted to Hinojosa's YouTube channel and social accounts earlier that day, a day after Greg Abbott's campaign opened a transgender-focused attack on her.
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The thread became the most widely shared criticism of the ad on Bluesky, drawing about 3,100 likes and 342 reposts, with Chris Geidner and other journalists replying. Molloy returned to the subject days later in a reply to Erin Reed, calling the joke "bleh."
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Case context: Did Gina Hinojosa’s “Pronouns” ad mock transgender Texans?
The label describes this statement’s response within the context above.
Why this label?
The case asks whether the closing line of Hinojosa's September 9 "Pronouns" ad — "My pronouns are Mom, Texan, and soon to be: Governor" — mocked transgender Texans; that line is the fixed reference point, not Abbott's attacks on her record. Molloy answers it directly and in her own voice: the ad is an anti-transgender joke that Hinojosa went out of her way to make. That is an express condemnation of the conduct at issue. The closest competing label is challenges_characterization, because part of the second post disputes how defenders are framing the objection. That loses because the framing dispute is with her critics, not with Hinojosa, and the passage states a substantive evaluation of the ad itself rather than resting on a description of it.
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Did Gina Hinojosa’s “Pronouns” ad mock transgender Texans?
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Read the full case“Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for Texas governor, spawned an online backlash from some lefty trans posters by appearing to mock pronouns. "My pronouns are mom, Texan and soon-to-be governor," she says in a recent campaign video posted to YouTube. When I made a post on Bluesky pointing out that none of those words are pronouns, and implied that it was wrong to mock trans people's pronouns with this style of joke, a bunch of Bluesky liberals took umbrage.”Read statement
“Yes, I saw the 'my pronouns are' ad, and yes. I also think that was a bad move that didn't consider the reality trans people living here face; but Governor Abbott wants to erase trans people altogether.”Read statement
“Republicans are using people like me and my friends as a wedge issue to distract from their own failings - on that much, I agree with Hinojosa. But it's really easy for commentary about that problem to descend into complete apathy about trans issues. I'm unsure what 'my pronouns are mom, Texan, and soon-to-be Governor' is supposed to communicate. And I don't think actual swing voters will get it, either.”Read statement