TWIT Awards – Nov 9, 2026

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At a rally in Iowa on November 1, President Trump reiterated his lie that parents drop their child off at school and the child gets their gender changed. This time, the parents dropped off a boy named “Tim” and, “four days later, Tim comes back as Sally.” It seemed slightly more plausible when it was “Tim” becoming “Tammy.” Now, he can’t even get a feminine name to correspond with the boy’s name. For repeating a lie which has been disproved, for failing to provide any evidence whatsoever (largely because there is no evidence for this, because it does not happen), for wasting so much time on a matter where the few voters who will be persuaded will already vote for your side, and for sheer ego, President Trump gets a TWIT. The Advocate has this story.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held a press conference shortly after the election results came in. He complained about the Republicans’ use of anti-transgender ads, While he’s right about that, he is wrong about why they didn’t work. He said, “I think they ran some [anti-transgender ads] in Florida, but our voters know we took care of that. So that wasn’t speaking to their concern. It was effective four years ago.” First of all, you won the battle, but the war is far from over, and your win in the battle can be undone. Second, it actually played to your voters, and you admitted it when you said a bit earlier, “It was kind of an attempt to just scare Republicans to vote.” For his arrogance in assuming that his law negates science, and for ignoring the fact that the Republicans really had nothing else to present except the economic policies which brought about the current mess, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gets a TWIT. This story comes from Erin Reed at Erin In The Morning.

Republicans, aided by a giant donation from Elon Musk, spent an awful lot of money trying to influence this election. An estimated $200,000,000 was spent on anti-transgender ads alone, and much more was spent on an unsuccessful attempt to elect more Republicans. It was obvious that the anti-transgender ads were not working, and that the economy was the overriding issue. Yet, Republicans–especially Ken Paxton–kept up the anti-transgender attacks, and never fully embraced any other message. For not reading the obvious fact that you needed a different issue, Ken Paxton and the Republican Party get a TWIT. Erin Reed of Erin In The Morning has this story.

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Category: Transgender Opinion