When conservatives accept as a matter of fact that Democrats have been engaging in election fraud to have the stranglehold they do on blue cities and some of the purple states, perhaps the best instance of "where there's smoke, there's fire" is...Democrats acting like themselves.
Case in point: the Minnesota DFL "Feminist Caucus", which has been wrangling over...well, I'll let the complainant, Dex Anderson, a "nonbinary" person who attended a caucus meeting, do the talking, about an intraparty complaint filed last year:
Tonight, I attended my first and last DFL Feminist Caucus meeting. As someone who did not come by my feminism through how I was raised, but rather fought my way through to live as the gender I am and to exist as a non-binary person in this world, I found the experience to be demeaning, demoralizing, and actively anti-feminist. If being a feminist in the DFL means caucusing with this group, count me out.
My pronouns are very simple and yet the caucus chairs and caucus leadership could not get them correct, despite being repeatedly reminded and corrected at every single opportunity. However, they could suddenly use the singular “they” when it came to my fellow caucus member who happened to be a trans woman, despite her repeatedly giving her pronouns as she/her.
This was just the beginning. It was clear from the start that no one leading this meeting understood Robert’s Rules, and very clearly wanted to vote for their friends and be done with it. At the very beginning, an illegal motion was made to just adopt an entire slate of leadership, despite there being challengers to those positions known to the caucus.
For me, however, the most hurtful thing was that despite repeatedly affirming that underrepresented people should run for caucus office, should be prioritized in the process, no trans or non-binary people were represented in any of the caucus leadership, much less respected in the meeting. My pronouns - they/them - were clearly seen as an inconvenience, met with eyerolls and annoyance whenever I corrected people. At one point, one of the newly elected caucus leadership claimed her pronouns are “Black Queen,” a clear mockery of the process of asking for pronouns altogether.
The local Racket franchise commented:
A Zoom meeting Tuesday night of the state DFL Feminist Caucus… did not go well. What began as a clash between generations apparently devolved quickly into cis women repeatedly, unapologetically, and perhaps intentionally misgendering trans participants and making hacky jokes about pronouns...Late last night, Ward 9 City Council Member Jason Chavez called on the state DFL “to issue a public statement condemning what just happened at the DFL Feminist Caucus meeting.” While I haven’t seen video of the meeting, a live report from Bluesky user Luna Stargays corroborates Anderson's complaint.
So let's recap: a meeting of a DFL feminist group swerved into the weeds over pronouns.
The state DFL's "Code of Conduct Committee" - perhaps eyeing a mid-term election where their presumptive nominee, Senator Amy Klobuchar, has less than 50% approval and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan's path to replace Senator Tina Smith is not looking especially smooth in a state where reactions to this sort of thing turn from tolerance to mockery pretty quickly the further you get from downtown Minneapolis - rejected the complaint.
And the Minneapolis City Party - once a bastion of blue-collar union common sense, but today a DSA theater kids club - is not happy:
Let us be clear: The conduct of the DFL Feminist Caucus attendees and the failure of Feminist Caucus leadership to correct this conduct is transphobia, and transphobia cannot be tolerated in the DFL Party.
The Code of Conduct Committee’s decision to dismiss these complaints is troublesome. Especially against a backdrop of repeated failures within the DFL and greater Democratic Party to advance our purported value of inclusion. For example, delegates to the 2025 Minneapolis DFL Convention harassed transgender delegates using the restroom which spurred statements warning against such conduct at this year’s convention. In the same year, Pete Buttigieg and Gavin Newsom – Democratic party leaders – backslid on the issue of trans inclusion in public accommodations. This troubling trend needs to cease.
Minneapolis has a large, vibrant 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Dismissing transphobia in our party and continued failure to implement corrective actions alienates a cherished part of our base.
Speaking as a Minnesota conservative? I say "stick to your guns, Minneapolis". What could possibly go wrong?
