Greg Pak dislikes the "Pronouns" ad but credits Hinojosa for not waffling on trans rights
Greg PakComic book writer and filmmaker, posting on his own Bluesky account
Comic book writer and filmmaker Greg Pak posted on Bluesky that he did not like Hinojosa's "Pronouns" advertisement, while saying he approves of her voting record in Texas on transgender rights and contrasting her favourably with other politicians he described as waffling on those positions.
“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.”
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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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The speaker's own post on Bluesky, cited from the post itself rather than from a screenshot or repost. Pak worked on Ann Richards's 1990 campaign for governor of Texas, which he mentions in a separate post the same evening.
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The advertisement was released on September 9 in response to Abbott's campaign attacks on Hinojosa's record on transgender issues. Commentators including Parker Molloy, Chris Geidner and Katelyn Burns had criticised the pronouns line.
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Pak worked on Ann Richards's 1990 campaign for governor of Texas. The post had 43 likes, five reposts and one reply when accessed.
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Pak rejects the advertisement while separately endorsing the record it sits alongside, holding both positions at once without resolving them. The closest competing label is condemns, since his only statement about the advertisement itself is that he disliked it. That loses because the sentence is built as a contrast: the objection to the advertisement is immediately qualified by approval of her substantive record, which is the structure the mixed label exists to capture.
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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
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
Jeis Whittaker says they cannot tell what the pronouns line is meant to communicate
“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
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