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MAGA struck gold with trans rights as a wedge issue. They are going to ride that hard down the stretch. Only Dems will be harangued by the press about trans rights, though.

This is really what the argument feels like: "well, boys are too emotional and dangerous to be trusted around girls." Like it's less about trans kids and more about how these people are afraid of raising boys differently. If only something like feminism existed that could explain that.

I don’t think most teens or athletes of any gender share your views.

Elon Musk’s super PAC dropped dozens of ads this week in key Senate races, and the majority of them focus on trans people. Others are resorting to AI. This is their primary focus, plus they are making up stuff with AI 19thnews.org/2026/09/elon...

which is another goal of theirs. they want to erase trans men from the picture and force us to live as cis women because to them, we're not being Good Christian Women and becoming breeding stock

As soon as there are feminine and masculine qualities, nobody can BE a full human. NO full human can tolerate #ArmageddonCapitalism You have to suppress HALF of everyone's cognition to keep the "money is good" scam going on a planet ALL humans can feel breaking down from sadistic over-extraction

Also, from a purely cynical point of view, you’re conceding ground for absolutely nothing in return. It’s not like the transphobes will ever agree that it’s far enough

skeptics through persuasion before anyone can expect supportive policy to not be hugely contentious and prone to passionate backlash. Like it or not, this stuff is toxic to a 9-digit number of Americans who simply don't interact directly with trans rights advocates at all, much less actual trans

For me its the accepting a small number as a reasonable concession. Once rights become a reasonable concession, every group that isn't a majority should rightly fear if they are small enough for their rights to be the next concession.

Americans should kniw about presedent. You attack one tiny little piece of human rights legislation, you attack all of it. You only need one tiny shimmy and you Set presedent to Chip away at anything you want.

They use it to make participation harder, have women/girls/LGBTQ face harassment for their looks, lessen participation & then end female sports as too LGBTQ positive. Don’t support or attend female sports, except to complain. Aren’t protecting women, are discriminating.

Here's my point, we all breathe oxygen, resperate and need to pee, truth do you look at the person next to you while doing a human function, my wife would just jump on ole porcelain while I was shaving, ITS NOT A BIG DEAL If, it is a big deal It's the bathroom Look in the mirror It's you

Scapegoating marginal groups is how fascism demonstrates expanding oppression for its intimidating minority control. There is no way to meet this abuse "in the middle" without enabling more of it. bsky.app/profile/ianb...

I don’t think this is necessarily true. I support trans women in women’s sports but think it calls into question how we demarcate sports.

The problem with this argumentation on your behalf is that the people who need to understand it are not ready to admit conceptual throughline or material conditions matter. They live in a world where each of these debates are separate issues in a vacuum you can have a convo about in a college class.

Hopefully this is a little bit helpful to anyone who's been confused by how strident people get about this issue

It's explicitly a stalking horse for education (college and under) and employment (everyone else) discrimination. Which are the main kinds of discrimination. They have at times been very very explicit that they want to use trans participation sports as a wedge to undermine and overturn Title IX!

Most people don't know (or don't know they know) any trans people. It's easy to hate a concept.

it sure is neat how liberals will assume the right wing isn't absolutely evil psycho nazis and looks at anyone to the left of reagan as an enemy of humanity and possibly an actual demon, from hell

if anyone reading this belongs to a minority group, how would you feel if a progressive darling endorsed one of the most persistent libels against you and gave a plausibly deniable endorsement to a policy that retracted your rights?

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They really don't, they push their religious conservatism however they can, even by pretending it's not religiously driven. From 2017.

You are ignoring this is an 80/20 issue where many people-- women, liberals, parents, athletes, Democrats-- do not want gender id overriding sex when sex is the relevant divisor. In sports male sex, regardless of self image, confers advantages.

Disagree with you there. They’ve turned it into the Most Important Issue Facing America because it does exactly what it’s doing: it divides the Democratic coalition, and unites the right.

Someone's trans identity directly flies in the face of the American Christian's belief in god and their religion as a whole and because of that they can never accept it as being anything other than fraudulent.

Also, so many of these people obsessed with school sports will use any little bit they're given to start terrorizing any girl or boy who doesn't conform to how they think a boy or girl should look. They'll be wanting legal permission to peek in underpants.It's just the first step on a horrible road.

So well put!

Absolutely. If you're going to commit to the bit, you've got to go all the way. You can't say "the emperor's new clothes are stunning, but we would like him to cover his genitals when the parade passes the kindergarten." He's got to swing his junk along the whole route or the schtick falls apart.

Specifics aside, it's literally demagoguing against a minority (a minority of *children* even!) for political power. Some of us used to understand that this was an evil thing to do!

Who wants to ban women's sports?

I regard "Trans in sports" as the gateway drug for full-blown transphobia.

Also, not for nothing but the petition filed a week ago asking the Supreme Court to "review" the DC Circuit ruling that Trump & Hegseth can't kick trans ppl out of the military refers directly to the recent SCOTUS ruling on trans student athletes. Seventeen times. It's never "just" about anything.

It's the typical cynical GOP play on a small minority - electorally unimportant as a constituency but ethically abhorrent demands, aimed at forcing a surrender of basic values. It's not reasonable at all, I totally agree, it's just cynical.

It’s worth stipulating, Talarico definitely did not say “trans kids should not play sports”.

>Picking winning battles doesn't mean conceding the war. yeah, it actually does mean that.

Conceding here makes every one of those battles harder to win. That's my point

If they can't tolerate trans kids playing something as low stakes as school sports, they will not defend trans rights for jobs, housing, etc.

You don't win by taking away the rights of a marginalized group, fuck head.

And the hyperfocus on gay marriage left a *lot* of poorer & racialized gay people behind, to a degree that has yet to be rectified Trans communities have learned from that and are trying to prevent a repeat there, as part of the reason here

Trans sports *wasn't* controversial until very recently after an astroturfed hate campaign, though. Like, conceding this ground isn't going "it's not the time to push for gains here" it's saying "the bigots are right" as your starting point despite it being trivial to argue back against.

I personally find that bigots aren't actually confused people. Transphobia isn't confusing that it's cruel and dehumanising. Transphobia is fascist and has connections to racism and eugenics. Transphobia is hate that is more important to a person than even their own human rights.

Reality never matters to these people. Abortion was mostly used by women who already have children not wild teens, late term and "post birth" were fantasies, and no one wants to use an expensive medical procedure as birth control. And yet here we are...

I agree - D's should not be conceding that trans kids don't get to play organized sports. Who did? Seth Moulton? That's one of the reasons he was trounced.

👀 I'm on the right side of the interwebs here. 🥰

Grant the premise, and it can be extrapolated from there. We wouldn’t do it for “race realism” or any other bunk shit these freaks inundate us all with, so why do people think it makes sense to give any sort of leeway to an obviously genocidal endgoal?

Girls can also be bigger than boys at certain stages of development too!

I went to a muay thai tournament filled with trans people once and it really didn't make much of a difference when people were kicking the shit out of each other

Imagine a high school coach telling a kid at tryouts that they're too tall to be on the basketball team.

If you all don’t think that female sports should exist, why are you not putting your efforts into campaigning for the simple abolition of sex categories?🤷‍♂️

Remember JK Rowling going after that cis woman who is an Olympic boxer? Any woman is subject to their anti-trans mania. They really give the game away with that stuff.

"MY PRECIOUS BABY GIRL LOST SO CHECK THE OTHER GIRL'S GENITALS" is 100% going to be a rallying cry.

That part. 😽

When coward politicians do this it tells me they'll throw anybody under the bus. Just depends on who is the most expendable in their minds. Looking at you, @osbornforne.bsky.social. You need to do better here.

The 'smallness' of it to me makes any attempt at legislation just feel all the more bizarre and spiteful. Half of these laws are specifically meant to hit, like, 5-6 kids, or literally zero in the case of the proposals for the WNBA. Why should we throw away rights forever just to hurt them?