Chris Geidner calls the ad trash and completely unnecessary
Chris GeidnerLegal journalist and publisher of Law Dork, replying on his personal Bluesky account
Legal journalist Chris Geidner replied to Parker Molloy's thread about the "Pronouns" ad, which attached a still from the spot, calling the ad trash and saying it was completely unnecessary.
“yeah, this is trash — and completely unnecessary!”
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Did Gina Hinojosa’s “Pronouns” ad mock transgender Texans?
On September 8, 2026, Greg Abbott’s campaign opened a transgender-focused line of attack on Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for governor of Texas, nicknaming her “Gender Bender Gina,” cataloguing her votes against Texas restrictions on gender-affirming care and school policy, and posting an altered screenshot of one of her own public-schools ads in which an American flag had been replaced with a transgender pride flag. The next day Hinojosa released a campaign ad titled “Pronouns,” which her campaign said would run statewide and in which she is the only speaker. In it she said Abbott wanted to run a campaign calling her “too woke” while she would run one about working people being “too broke,” closing with the line “My pronouns are Mom, Texan, and soon to be: Governor.” Whether that closing line mocked transgender people is the matter in dispute. Transgender writers and advocates said it borrowed a mocking right-wing joke about pronouns at their expense, while the campaign defended the pivot away from culture-war argument. Hinojosa has voted against the Texas restrictions Abbott cites, and the criticism of her is about the ad’s rhetoric rather than her legislative record.
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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. Because the quotation is brief, the surrounding thread is what fixes its target.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, 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 referent is unambiguous in the reply context and the evaluation is explicit, so the brevity does not prevent classification.
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Read the full caseHinojosa says the "Pronouns" ad was meant to rebuke culture-war politics
“What I was trying to communicate is to both Greg Abbott and to the culture wars. You can shove it with your culture wars. He had just accused me of working with teachers to try to trans kids. It's just ridiculous, right? … And so that was to say, look, we're not doing your culture wars.”Read statement
Greg Pak dislikes the "Pronouns" ad but credits Hinojosa for not waffling on trans rights
“Didn't like Hinojosa's recent "Pronouns" ad. I *DO* like her actual voting record in Texas for trans rights, and I'm glad that unlike some other politicians, she's not waffling on those stances.”Read statement
Katelyn Burns says it was wrong to mock trans people’s pronouns with this style of joke
“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
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