• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    One side wants to literally kill you.

    The other side won’t let you play in some sports.

    And your solution is to let others decide between the two, because you don’t like either.

    • UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      13 hours ago

      One side wants to kill us, and now the other side is shifting to agree with them on trans people existing being a problem. I don’t know why you think it’ll end with sports. If they’re successful at banning trans people from sports, next comes bathroom, employment protections, housing protections, and so on. We can’t just brush these things off, or they’ll continue to sprint towards right wing ideology to pursue the mythical “centrist” voters.

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        10 hours ago

        Sports are the only one of those that we’ve segregated by gender.

        It’s also the only one that’s remotely bipartisan.

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      13 hours ago

      Are you intentionally trying to miss the point that this is entirely fixable if Newsom walks back the transphobia? Because all I’m hearing is that there’s a certain amount of transphobia that trans people are obligated to silently accept, and that’s horse shit.

      The fact you think it’s ‘just sports’ shows you have zero clue what that represents. Asking trans people to just accept the erosion of their participation in public life for the good of a society that hates us is fucked. Which of your rights have you put on the chopping block for everyone else?