Chris Geidner calls the ad trash and completely unnecessary
Legal journalist and publisher of Law Dork, replying on his personal Bluesky account
“yeah, this is trash — and completely unnecessary!”
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A short reply within Parker Molloy's thread, which attached a still from the "Pronouns" ad; the referent of "this" is that ad. The post had about 97 likes by September 17. Because the quotation is brief, the surrounding thread is what fixes its target, and the Molloy source record is retained alongside it. Verified in a logged-in browser session.
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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.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Before the quotation
Parker Molloy had posted a still from the ad with the comment that she was tired of Democrats doing anti-transgender vice signalling to appeal to Republicans.
After the quotation
Geidner's reply drew about 97 likes. Several other journalists replied critically in the same thread, including Melody Schreiber, who mocked the ad's grammar.
How this statement is classified
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. Geidner rejects the ad outright and adds that it served no purpose, which is an express condemnation of the conduct at issue. The quotation is short, so the thread it replies to is what fixes its target: Molloy's post attached a still from the ad and named it. The closest competing label is that this is not a position event at all, on the ground that a four-word reaction is too thin to classify. That loses because the referent is unambiguous in the reply context and the evaluation is explicit, but the brevity is recorded here so a reviewer can weigh 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