• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    Separate but equal, total neolib move that’s super classy. “Your discomfort is tolerable because I don’t have to deal with it”

    Also this is not the only example of dems throwing trans under the bus. The far more egregious example is newsom going on right winger podcasts and giving validity to the utter bullshit of the cass review and the idea that you shouldn’t be allowed to transition until your mid 20s (plus all the sports bullshit). Backing legislature that is anti trans too. not just sports stuff, though there is a lot of that. The NDAA banning trans care for any military children was voted in by several democrats and some states did the same for Medicaid with dem support. Texas’s bathroom bill had some dem support. Memorializing Charlie Kirk, a total shithead who was openly and vehemently anti trans. Etc

    No spine, no moral code. End result is a minority class that has constant existential anxiety because one side actively wants to destroy them and the other is like “supporting you is like a whole thing, I’m just in this for the donor money”

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      Wouldn’t women have to deal with “discomfort” from losing to males they have no chance of beating?

      He has a point that women’s sports are exclusive specifically because women can’t physically compete with men. It’s why for most sports, the “men’s” cateogory is just “open.” Women are allowed to compete in the NBA, for example, but none of them are physically able to compete which is why we never see a woman playing.

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        Wouldn’t women have to deal with “discomfort” from losing to males they have no chance of beating?

        Do you understand that you’re implying all women are physically inferior to all men? That a man could never lose a race to a woman?

        Or do you think we should always exclude all the top athletes because everyone else would also feel “discomfort from losing to [people] they have no chance of beating?"

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        3 hours ago

        Your rhetoric matches that of notable asshole Riley Gaines who competed and tied against Lia Thompson at UPenn then went on to become a maga darling on this issue specifically and eventually just on trans hatred. The linked article is about her rhetoric and how she believes trans sports is the wedge issue to remove trans rights altogether by progressively erasing more and more. They won’t stop here.

        Otherwise the trans issue has been debated to death but essentially if someone has been on hrt for a significant period of time the picture is far muddier than what you portray.

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          3 hours ago

          I don’t know who those people are and don’t have to answer for anything they’ve said or done. Stay on topic.

          Are you trying to suggest that it would be acceptable to have MTF transpeople competing with women if they are “on hrt for a significant period of time”?

          You can say that if it’s your argument. You don’t have to say “things are muddier” and expect me to fill in the gaps for you.