Parker Molloy
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?”
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)Why we used 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.