• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Before you run out of oxygen and collapse, it’s simpler than that. Making trans people in sports a litmus test for any Democratic candidate is a fast track to handing Trump a third term. If we can’t prioritize any better than that, we anre done. And then you can kiss every issue that matters goodbye, including trans people in sports.

    Yes, sweetie, I’m sorry to be the bearer of realism, but we must prioritize. And no, I’m no going over the existential edge for any fucking thing having to do with sports, period. We need to get a grip on the fact that we are hurtling toward extinction. You want to shriek about being able to compete on the team you choose as a do-or-die human right. Just no.

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      3 days ago

      Yes, sweetie, I’m sorry to be the bearer of realism, but we must prioritize.

      Democrats, telling minorities to sit down, shut up, and learn their place since 1965!

    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      And no, I’m no going over the existential edge for any fucking thing having to do with sports, period.

      For trans rights is what you mean. Trans kids being able to participate on the appropriate team under Title IX isn’t important enough. Just say that instead of pretending it’s about sports. You’re not fooling any trans people.

      • scarabic@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Fine. THAT trans right is not a redline priority for me. I feel differently about the availability of gender affirming healthcare. Everyone responding to me really, really needs me to be an anti-trans monster, but I’m simply not going to litmus test candidates on the trans sports issue.