There's nothing to be concerned about. We're talking about something kids get more of a social value from than anything else. Just let the kids be kids and play sports.

@democrats.org @actblueorg.bsky.social wanna know why I'm staying home, why I'm not backing or support candidates actively anymore. This shit is why. I have no idea how the party expects to make the ten bigger by throwing more people out. Smh. Y'all go out of your way to earn your losses

Why are you letting Walker Bragman lie about what Pete said?

For everybody that's all mad, tell me you didn't watch the interview without telling me you didn't watch the interview 🙄 Pete Buttigieg says politicians have no business making decisions about trans athletes - LGBTQ Nation www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/pete...

>Asked if a parent who is worried about trans athletes “has a case,” Buttigieg responded, “Sure.” yeah no that's a dogshit response and i'm still mad

While simultaneously saying that parents of cis athletes "have a case". They don't, the science on the subject is clear and anything short of inclusion is bigoted bullshit.

Maybe, now hear me out, watch the damn interview before you comment. Just saying. This is what moderates like me mean when we say liberals and progressives have effectively become a reactionary cult just like conservatives. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

i have. it sucked shit. what's your point?

I wonder how many people actually read the article or listened to the actual interview.

"I think most reasonable people would recognize that there are serious fairness issues if you just treat this as not mattering when a trans athlete wants to compete in women’s sports,” Buttigieg told NPR." Yeah that doesnt make it better.

Fk them both 🖕🏻Mayo Pete 🖕🏻 Rahm Emanuel

No, he said that parents that oppose trans kids playing sports should be pandered to, and at the same time sports associations and schools should be deciding on it and not politicians. Either way, Pete Quisling Buttigieg is giving credibility to the falsehood that there is a fairness issue.

Jesus Christ, Pete.

Haha, some of these replies versus what was actually said. Hell, I support trans kids, and even I can't stand most of the hyperbolic, drama actors on here. Pete: It's nuanced. Extremists on Bluesky:

Pete: "I think most reasonable people would recognize that there are serious fairness issues if you just treat this as not mattering when a trans athlete wants to compete in women’s sports,” Buttigieg told NPR." Fuck off, Pete. Its actually NOT nuanced or complicated in any way.

Why do we have a tradition of keeping men and women separate in sports?

What percentage of these kids are genetically gifted when it comes to sports that they will be elite athletes? What percentage of those are trans? I’d argue the chances of a trans kid being so gifted they pose a physical threat to the safety of the other kids is probably not that great.

Yup, Michael Phelps is a genetically gifted swimmer yet no one says that's unfair. And that's an actual biological advantage.

Yes that's true but it's also true to say that if men and women sports were combined, a woman would never have won an Olympic Gold in swimming.

Because men were getting their feelings hurt after losing to women.

Yuuuup this

1. It's not "nuanced." There's no reason to ban kids from playing sports as their actual genders. 2. Referring to being pro-trans rights as "hyperbolic" and "drama" makes you look like an asshole. 3. "Tom Nichols" follower, LMAO get bent.

Great framing, "Advocate"

This is what Pete said. He throws trans people to the wolves to placate transphobes. Framing has nothing to do with it.

Yes, that's what I mean, and the Advocate writing it as "concedes" frames it as if he's correct to do so.

Yeah. It's a whole mess.

You're publishing Walter Bragman at his word? If so, can I interest you in a game of three card monte?

Liberals need to stop trying to play to both sides when the other side is both made up of fascists and they're wrong He's placating to people who hate him and his marriage too Fucking freak

All sports are inconsequential. Let's talk about the fairness of minimum wage.

What about us parents who have legitimate concerns about the way trans kids are being used as scapegoats to distract from the capitalist class that's robbing us all blind and destroying the environment our kids need to survive

That got a follow! Thank you!!!

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what the chicken-fried fuck? Gotta say I'm impressed (derogatory) how the Democratic leadership is drifting towards transphobia here.

Parents have concerns. But their concerns are based in fear-mongering, bigotry and/or ignorance. You should not capitulate to those concerns. You should educate where you can, and dismiss where you can’t.

Democrats: Never failing to notice an opportunity due to a passing bus.

No, they don’t.

They actually do not

What he should have said about a parent's concerns: "Sure, *but then you refute any misinformation they might have and quell their fears.*" Many parents have concerns. How you address it is the important bit.

Read his actual answer in the article.

I did read it, and while some interpret his response as an answer, he went on to say that he disagreed with blanket bans, and that these kinds of decisions should be handled by the governing sports bodies and not by politicians. That isn't a clear answer, skippy.

What’s your clear answer?

The people who have "concerns" over trans people in society are the exact same people who had (or still have) "concerns" about immigrants, Jews, Black people, or gay people in society. They were wrong then and they're wrong now. Clear.

lmfao - it appears that I gave one, skippy. Perhaps not THE answer, or one that you're comfortable with, but an answer nonetheless.

You should go outside and interact with real people.

I do, on the regular, but it appears that you and I have come off on the wrong foot, and for that I apologize. I believe we're striving for the same end, trans rights, but we interpret this article and what Pete said differently.

Let ‘em play, just like trans men do.

Do you think this will be persuasive to people who don’t agree with us?

I don’t think people who don’t agree agree with us know. In fact, I didn’t know until I looked it up. But the middle of the roaders, yes, they are persuadable, and I’m fairly certain they have no idea that trans men are welcomed and do play D1 sports and Olympics.

Great. It sounds like you have this all figured out. Let me know when you persuade one person with this message.

Are you fucking ok? Are you uncomfortable letting people know that trans men are encouraged and do play D1 and Olympic sports? It makes a mockery of the entire argument. I didn’t say I “had it all worked out”. But it’s relevant.

If you’d like to loop back to the beginning of this conversation, you can do that. bsky.app/profile/peor...

My clear answer is that Buttigieg is manifestly unfit for any public office at a state or federal level. Actually no, recalling his disastrous mayorship, he also is unfit for municipal office.

So this doesn’t really have anything to do with his answer. Thanks for clarifying.

No it has to do with the man himself, we’ve known he sucks since we all had to learn about him on a national level, and before that in South Bend. God you guys stink.

He said they have legitimate concerns about fairness and did not say that trans kids should be able to compete but that it should be left to leagues and states. He refuted nothing and conceded the false bigoted premise.

Thank you for recognizing this. When Dems got rock hard for his Fox media hits, they sailed right past now he affirms the premise of a right wing attack every single time. It’s so he can go for a pathetic “by your logic” gotcha on an axis of logic that Republican beliefs simply don’t exhibit.

100%. Elite liberals like Petey love to try and win on a model UN debate rubric against a klansman with a gun, and no moderators. Except potentially other klansman with guns

Read my fucking lips and go to hell

What's he going to say when those same parents claim to have legitimate concerns about the gays?

Right? Like, they’re already well down that particular road too by this point.

Traitor.

They really fucking don't, though.

no, he's willing to say this to maintain proximity to power all this anti-trans nonsense is a right-wing tactic to blame marginalized people as the scapegoats for people with power making our living conditions even worse than before if trans people play sports, i only hope they have fun

Dear parents, your little princess is most likely not going to be an elite athlete, she is going to lose to someone at some point, and it's probably not going to be a kid on puberty blockers. Ps. Sports are supposed to be about fun and teamwork, just let trans kids play.

thanks for spending years laundering this asshole and sucking his dick you hacks

Nah, fuck this traitor.

I think co-ed may be the way to go.

The cist: We must not allow trans girls in sports because male puberty Normal people: Uh huh, so that doesn't apply before puberty Cist: IT DOE BECAUSE PBURUETETE 8 year olds are GROWN ADULT NP: Right. And puberty blockers and HRT that prevent the— Cist: THOSE ARE NOT ALLOWED PUBRERUERERERCERERE

Fascist aren’t at the door they’re in the White House and in Congress and liberals still can’t find a backbone

I remember straight people saying that about gay men being seen in public in the 80s and 90s. It’s completely disgusting to see gay men now saying it about Trans people.

Walker Bragman is not a trustworthy source of factual analysis, actually.

1. Bragman didn't write the article. 2. There's video of Buttigieg saying these things.

I watched the interview. The point he kept making was that trans athletes should get to play.

yeah "we should late states and leagues decide if they want to ban them" you are just as feckless and cowardly as he is. typical "ally" bullshit.

Regardless, it does not change Pete throwing trans athletes under the bus.

"legitimate" or a result of exposing themselves to transphobic media for the past 7 years?

“These decisions should be in the hands of sports leagues and school boards and not politicians, least of all politicians in Washington trying to use this as a political pawn.” That would make a better headline. It’s more representative of his tone, and is a more helpful message.

Michigan, Pete’s adopted home state, has a statewide independent body, Michigan High School Athletic Association, that sets the rules for youth athletes. They’ve allowed trans athletes on a case by case basis and we’ve had no major issues. Trans kids are not a threat!

Fuck Buttigieg.

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social Millions of Democratic voters coming ever closer to sitting out the entire 2026 election because the supposed 'opposition party' wants to feed trans kids to the child-eating Nazis who currently hold power in a bid to save themselves.

No. They’re not. You’re a screeching lunatic who spews misinformation, hatred and chaos. Feel free to stay home for the entirety of 2026 like you would have anyway because capitalism still exists or some other dumb fuck reason to sabotage sane people.

Lol. 'I know zero trans people in real life.' Good job telling on yourself.

Except for all the trans people firmly in my life. Try again you fake, destructive fuck

Try reading the article and getting at least some of your info from places that aren’t Reddit normie-hate groups.

The next presidential election is in 2028, not 2026. Also, what?

The “what?” is what the fuck are you doing attacking one of your best allies just cuz you didn’t read beyond the headline that told you next to nothin

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social We WILL NOT VOTE for anyone who harms trans kids. Not now, not ever, not even if you point a literal GUN at our heads. All you will get from us with this 'look at me, I can be a Nazi, too!' song & dance routine is millions of LGBTQ Dems + Allies who just FUCKING STAY HOME.

Also, the framing that transgender kids need 'compassion' implies that they have DONE SOMETHING WRONG by choosing to transition & wanting to play sports with their same-gender friends. It's a VILE and DISGUSTING framing. Trans kids are the bravest, most honorable fucking human beings on the planet.

If you want to say they deserve 'EMPATHY,' go right ahead. But you offer compassion to people who are in the wrong and don't know it. Trans kids know better than any of the so-called fucking ADULTS in their lives who they are and what they need. We used to offer compassion to those ignorant adults.

Not anymore.

Very disappointing.

You mean the parents of trans kids, right? The parents of trans kids have legitimate concerns.

And he's fucking wrong according to *checks notes* all of the available science on the subject.

motherfucker

Oh good. Another cisgender person weighing in on something they know nothing about. That’s exactly what’s needed. Not a doctor. Not a trans athlete. A fuckin cis guy. Stfu Pete.

Fck’n McKinsey pete. Wrong answer.

They don’t. He can get fucked.

This is honestly a pretty terrible article. Referring to what Rahm Emanuel said as "contradicting party orthodoxy", for instance - what he did was deny the lived experiences and identities of me, my wife, and millions of people around the world

I'm really sick of articles like this about people "weighing in" on topics about which they know literally nothing. If trans women are such a huge threat to women's sports, why has the IOC allowed them to compete for decades? The IOC did a pretty thorough review of the science on this, unlike Pete.

Like the article or not, it does not change the fact that Pete used conservative framing to toss trans athletes under the bus.

I have legitimate concerns about quisling gay men

the word "legitimate" does not appear anywhere in the article this is a SUPER misleading post and the author should be ashamed for making it here's what he ACTUALLY said:

I don’t know why you’re posting this like it’s better. This is just more words that say the same bullshit.

Yes... he's saying there are legit concerns about trans kids playing their sport as their gender which is a fucking LIE.

He has chosen frustratingly ambiguous phrasing that enables him to seem 'reasonable' without taking a hard stance. You can read it as "they are concerned about legitimate issues" or as "they legitimately hold these concerns" - the latter being something you could say of a child afraid of monsters.

I was trying and failing to articulate this exact sentiment, thank you

I think that's giving him too much credit, myself. Its too bad.

Imo the real failure there is that he doesn't immediately follow it up with something along the lines of "Which is why people worked on these issues decades ago to address these concerns and ensure trans and cis athletes could safely and fairly compete with one another, and they were successful."

You know what’s misleading? You not including Pete’s full quote.

"legitimate" "concerns" which are all bullshit

he looks like absolute shit