• Cheebus@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    How common of an issue is transgender in sports actually?

    This seems like one of those distractions from the Epstein files I keep hearing about

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      24 days ago

      In actual sports?

      .002% (10/500,000) of US college athletes

      In the minds of Idiot America?

      It’s very much an outsized concern. 73% of Americans were uncomfortable with transgender athletes competing on sports teams that do not match their sex at birth. and even in the Democratic party,

      Democrats are more divided on the issue. A slim majority (55%) said they would be not too or not at all comfortable with athletes playing on teams that do not match their birth sex, while smaller shares said they would be somewhat comfortable (21%) or extremely or very comfortable (23%).

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        24 days ago

        Despite there being statistically few transgender athletes, unjustly barring them from sports cements a perception that it’s also acceptable (and under the current administration, encouraged) to discriminate against them across society as a whole.

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            24 days ago

            A lot of trans people, me included, are bad at making doctor’s appointments, let alone anything strenuous and witnessed.

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      23 days ago

      It’s more about an extension of the world view of the people in the Epstein files.

      It is the very people in those files that spent decades polling and focus group testing a successful message they could have to attack trans people. The “bathroom” attacks being a failed trial of attack method. But more broadly, using the attack on trans woman specifically to attack woman and children in general.

      That is why the entire issue of trans rights is being reduced down to trans girls in high school sports teams.

      They don’t give a shit about girls high school sports. Unless you are a parent of a trans kid or a trans kid yourself then YOU should not give a shit about it either.

      This is nothing more than a bunch of pedophiles that want to see your kids genitals. It is a defense of patriarchy that is lashing out at the ideas of gender roles and the second class status of woman in society.