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no one cares about trans women in women’s sports and you are, most generously, the worlds biggest idiot if you take it at face value as an earnest concern had by real voters

it’s the most obvious wedge issue in the history of time. they dont care about sports, they want to make it impossible to be trans legally and socially and should be responded to as such. if you start earnestly debating about competitive integrity you are doing their work for them

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Libs aren't realizing that Dems adopting that framing is them admitting, "some people's rights are negotiable." And it shouldn't have to be said why that position is wholly unacceptable for any seemingly "progressive" candidate to hold.

I was already so much not caring back when gay marriage was a hot button issue because it just does not concern me that it was really mindblowing when a whole large ass country became concerned about like a few handful of people who are performing middling in sports with low view numbers

There's also the angle where moneyed football boosters that also donate to these causes want to regain more control over student athletes now that they can be compensated; this is the tip of several spears really