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Because of course.
I saw some clips of a stream on Jamie Reed's Twitter. I could only stand a few minutes of it. In what I saw, the women in the audience were berating him and employing emotional appeals ("vulnerable population", "I voted for you and I'm ashamed" etc) and he was asked "you have a lot of constitutents here who are upset with your vote. I'd just like clarification: do you vote your conscience or do you vote for your constituents?" He replied that he did his research and listened to women, Democrat women, who felt silenced on the issue. To which one woman in the audience replied with contempt "yes I believe they're called TERFS!"
This was applauded. I had to stop watching. These women hate other women that disagree on this. It's so disheartening, sad and scary.
The first 2-3 "questions" were just statements condemning Rep. Wheeler. Some other gems included Rep. Wheeler asking "I listened to women... am I supposed to just ignore them and call them transphobic?" to which MANY in the room responded with "YES!" Also, Reed mentioned at the end of the livestream (as people were leaving) she overheard the woman who hosted the event saying she wanted Wheeler voted out. The whole thing was a big pile-on, there was like one question directed to the other rep.
In any other context, a bunch of White women (I'm assuming most of the handmaidens here were White) doing this to a Black guy would get them doxxed and accused of being Karens and trying to kill him or whatever. But, because the Black guy thinks that females deserve to be listened to and keep some spaces to themselves, its open season on him