The entire issue is an intentionally crafted wedge issue against trans rights by the right wing, to engage in it as an honest discussion rather than a political attack is itself ceding ground to them
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So there is no benefit to learning more from science?
aug 23, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
There is plenty of benefit of learning from science, but the current debate and blanket bans is based on transphobia and not science. Trans people have been competing in sports for decades and observably haven’t swept the field, banning them now until proven otherwise is a policy based on exclusion
aug 23, 2025, 1:49 am • 1 0 • view
Blanket bans are wrong. Honestly, I feel like this is an extension of the policing of female bodies in general. Don’t see all this pearl clutching over transmen in sports.
aug 23, 2025, 1:52 am • 1 0 • view
There was a big brouhaha a year or two ago about a trans boy who was banned from competing against other boys in wrestling and was forced to compete against girls instead. Unsurprisingly, the anti-trans folks complained about that as well.
aug 23, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
They are awful people. The same people throwing dildos at WNBA players because they love women’s sports so much.
aug 23, 2025, 2:00 am • 1 0 • view
The current anti-trans bathroom stuff going on in the UK would also prohibit trans men from women’s restrooms on the basis of making the women there uncomfortable. It’s always been about removing trans people from public life, with the fairness of gendered spaces as an excuse.
aug 23, 2025, 1:57 am • 1 0 • view
What is so crazy is they’ve been sharing women’s restrooms with transwomen for a long time. They literally don’t know in many instances. All so bigoted.
aug 23, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
When a teenager is forbidden from competing in team sports on the basis of being trans, for example, it’s difficult to argue that *that* is the outcome we should go with just to be safe. Far better to err on the side of not further alienating a vulnerable minority.
aug 23, 2025, 1:54 am • 1 0 • view
100% agree. Even the governor of Utah who is a GOP agrees with this. The harm to trans kids caused by exclusionary practices is unforgivable.
aug 23, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view