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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.
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.
Sports are the only one of those that we've segregated by gender.
It's also the only one that's remotely bipartisan.
Might wanna read closer: bathrooms are frequently segregated by gender.
The argument isn't really about where we are now (bad place), it's about permitting the shift of the overton window to the right permitting the further erosion of trans rights.
People always bitching about 'you gotta look at the big picture' and sacrifice trans rights as if those repressive forces aren't working on that same damn timeframe to take those and more.
I'm willing to "sacrifice" trans rights in women's sports. There's at least some point there that's debatable.
I'm not willing to harass people over what bathroom they use.
I was asked some three or four years ago my stance and I didn't have one then it wasn't even something I thought should be considered. How has your attitude changed in the last few years?
Furthermore, do you consider yourself well represented by the Democratic Party now? Or were you better represented in the past?
I've come around very slightly on how hormones level the playing field, but not really. The problem in sports is that we are filtering for the exceptional. There's a better reason to segregate sports by gender than there are bathrooms.
Well represented? Not really. I think we have a system where money plays too big of a role, nobody in the Dem party really runs on big ideas, and everything is rightfully consumed by the fight against fascism.
But I also think those problems are very much secondary to Mango Mussolini. And I think even most establishment Dems try harder than they're given credit for.
It's always easier to throw tomatoes from the sidelines than it is to actually lead.
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?