Parker Molloy is an American writer and media critic who publishes the newsletter The Present Age. A transgender journalist, she has written for MSNBC, Rolling Stone and The New Republic and was previously an editor at Upworthy and a researcher at Media Matters for America.
Case
Gina Hinojosa answered Greg Abbott’s anti-transgender attacks with an ad closing “My pronouns are Mom, Texan, and soon to be: Governor.” Transgender writers said the line mocked them; her campaign said the culture wars are over.
Role at the time: Writer and media critic, publisher of The Present Age, posting on her personal Bluesky account
Statement summary
Writer and media critic Parker Molloy posted a two-part Bluesky thread attaching a still from the ad, saying she was tired of Democrats engaging in anti-transgender vice signalling to appeal to Republicans. In the second post she said the replies defending the ad missed the point, because Hinojosa had gone out of her way to make what Molloy called a dumb anti-transgender joke.
“*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?”
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.
Statement dates: September 9, 2026
Statement dates: September 9, 2026
