“We’re seeing a war against trans individuals being waged by our federal government, and we, as citizens, need to be willing to step up and say this is not OK,” Kluwe said. “The Democratic Party has taken a very defensive posture on trans issues when that’s the absolute wrong thing to do. You don’t make a bully go away by cowering in the corner and say, I’ll agree with you on these little things. That just encourages the bully.

“We need to be full-throated in the attack, saying these are people who pay taxes, who serve in our military, and who are entitled to the exact same rights that every single other American is entitled to, which includes health care and the opportunity to live a prosperous life. We can’t be afraid of the right-wing fear machine. We have to take it to them, show that we’re willing to fight.”

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    I’ll take this deflection as an admission that your nazi point was stupid.

    Look, I shard articles yesterday from a different comment where people have been very supportive of trans people, but disagree on the issue of sports, and they have been labeled transphobic for it. It’s no worth copying and pasting cause you and I probably disagree on what constitutes a transphobic bigot, so what’s the point?

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      5 days ago

      I’ll take this deflection as an admission that your nazi point was stupid.

      There’s a whole separate comment responding to that. I split them because your quibbling as to how much hate is tolerable isn’t a productive discussion.

      Look, I shard articles yesterday from a different comment where people have been very supportive of trans people, but disagree on the issue of sports, and they have been labeled transphobic for it.

      Who? Where? What comment?

      Let me see if I can find this alleged comment of yours…