I have a trans nephew (XX) and I have a straight daughter (XX). I love and support both. I would hope neither had to play on a team with XY players. Sorry but not sorry. There are limits and this has to be acknowledged. This wedge issue just helped us lose an election. No purity tests please.
You are delusional. You can call yourself what you want, you can dress as you wish, you have bodily autonomy to change what you desire, buy you cannot change the chromosomes you were born with. Denial is a river in Egypt. Cope.
Well the election wasn't lost it was stolen for starters. 20 Million missing ballots. But also girls can absolutely beat guys in sports even more intense ones like boxing they were just allowed to. It's kind of really sexist to believe otherwise. And I am a cis-male saying this.
Remember the big dan Patrick Texas solution in search of a bathroom problem? That’s what the sports issue is. It is a non issue manufactured and force fed along with all the other conservative grievances. Just stop buying into them. Peace
Why not think of alternatives to gender coded sports? Why shouldn't it be based on something more measurable? They don't put a heavyweight boxer in the ring with a feather weight. At 5ft tall, I wouldn't want to compete against my female cousin who is 6'3. Why can't it be based on body composition?
It hasn't worked terribly well for many because there is no absolute female or absolute male. Everyone falls along a spectrum. That's why we all will define others in comparison to the average. There are tons of people who fall outside of those averages. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/sex-testing-olympians
DSD exists and people living with it don't fall into the binary male or female. Beyond that no one has the same chemistry, personality and physical attributes. I understand that binaries are much easier to understand but we don't live in a binary world.
We all come in different forms. There are people who are XX but may be born with male genitals and vice versa because it's not the Y chromosome that actually determines gender expression. There are also people who are XXY and/or are intersexed. What gendered team should they play on?
The limits should be testosterone-based, like most sports organisations already do. Making them chromosome-based is nonsensical. What would you say to someone with Klinefelter's, for example?
Every person has the right do decide for theirselves what they want to be or what they want to do with their body. I don't think that It should concern other people as long as It doesn't hurt anybody else lol, being a trans doesn't hurt anyone
Possible problem with that is that he intends to remove gender and define sex as sex assigned at birth for all laws, government legislation, documents etc etc. The minute he does this it will render all issued passports, new birth certificates etc null and void
Well, this statement is still very neutral
I think the existence of trans ppl should have POSITIVE impacts on many many people. We're evolving and it's POSITIVE.
This will always be a safe space for everyone
Everyone deserves to live their authenticate lives without fear or harm
Everyone deserves to feel & be safe in America
Most importantly: LOVE will always beat HATE
"Hate never made any country great"
#LoveTrumpsHate
Thanks for sharing. I left Twitter when musk took over because I was being threatened by transphobes. I’m seeing more MAGA trolls here than Threads and want to make this safer than Twitter because I like it more than Threads.
You're welcome. I like this place too, and there are SO MUCH tools that anyone can use to make their timeline clean and safe. Blocklists and labelers and starter kits, oh my!
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Thanks! I’m still trying to figure out how to do that. I have blocked a few trolls this morning and went to create list but I am a bit confused how to add names. Assuming I have to copy and paste a name when I’m creating, then later come back and add names I’ve copied and pasted?
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It's funny how maga accuses the Democrats of fear mongering and can't see that the ones spreading fear, hate and division are from the Republican party.
My belief is the Christian right are frustrated because they can’t fight about abortion as much. So now they are turning their viciousness to trans people. It’s about control and putting people down.
So you’re trans? I want to know who is monitoring the streets to actually know who is trans and who is not? This is ridiculous! Also, who stands outside of bathroom doors to know who is trans going in which bathroom? It’s asinine all of this is just plain asinine.
It’s politics of fear. People are always afraid for children. This is understandable. The only thing they want to protect more is their gun, which is a strange choice.
The Christian Patriarchy stays in power by making people subservient to them. Some can just brow beat their flocks to obey the christian leadership & vote 4 who they're told to vote for. The abortion ban cudgel has enslaved as many women as it is going to. So now they turn to control the "others."
So either Conform Goddammit to something we approve of, or we're going shame you, degrade you, & preach condemnation until you obey. Jesus would suggest another way, but American Christianity is about wealth for the leaders and political power. It has more in common with the RCC than actual faith.
Religions are horrible for the world. The one reason people believe is because they are scared. Selfishly, I’m gonna say the only thing beneficial they contributed to was art that they paid for out of sucking their followers dry.
You need a group as your scapegoat. It used to be the jews before blacks and so on. They were making the same talking points about gays back in the 80s and 90s how they are mentally ill, shouldn't be teaching in schools etc.
...unless I'm a female athlete and that guy who's been 107th in his own league becomes trans and is allowed to compete against me and wins. That hurts me, it hurts my sensibilities and seems patently unfair. Otherwise, sure what harm?
Been a woman for 57 years now, and have yet to figure out how trans people threaten my own sense of self. Lot's of things in this world have, but certainly not that.
The societal effect of people putting "he/his/him" or "they/their" at the start of their LinkedIn profile was monumental and probably responsible for Trump's comeback.
You and others on this platform have huge outreach. We need to let our minority communities across this country, be got their backs. Adrian American people are already getting threats . They need all of us to stand beside them. A soldier in battle does, we must as well.
It actually does because I have to save transgender people across the globe with my laser eyes when the evil villains attack them but you wouldn’t know anything about that :(
Im you with this but I will tell you: from here on out elections? —winning is everything. I don’t like it when our weak enemy tars us with bad slogans, like defund, the police, woke, and transgender surgery for inmates, etc.
#Alt4You All-caps text "Trans people existing does nothing negative to your life, you crybaby bitch" on a trans pride background, both inside a rainbow circle. Credited to Shay Z.
I chatted with a trumper who honestly believes high schoolers are taken by school nurses for gender affirming surgery. I have no words for people like that.
I think the arguments that being highly focused on divisive identity issues was a significant factors in the last elections outcome may be at least partially correct. It is worth considering that pursuing them in this way may mean the left won’t have the power to fix it. For your consideration.
Also, if you’re worried about trans women in the restroom, how do you feel about Trump bragging about walking into girls’ dressing room like the creepy peeper that he is?
People like me are not threatened by people, it's the gender ideology that drives the medicalization of lesbian and gay youth and the erosion of sex based rights that bothers me.
This! Among other things that I never understood why from the right, was going after people just living their lives in the way that was fulfilling to them & not hurting anyone was one of them. I stand with the lbtq community.
I wasn’t making fun of gay men. I have several gay friends and grew up working with gay men and women in several jobs. I’ve always supported rights of the entire lgbtq+ community. What I don’t support is these bigots that base their entire identity on the hated of these people.
In order to provide balance to this post, it does, in fact, have a negative impact on women's lives, women are entitled to women only spaces, the trans community aren't the biological sex they choose, they are what they are born, trans people should have their own spaces.
it is, your right untill you start forcing me to call you stupid pronouns because your offended by everything else like a fairy, its your life choice that only effects you, dont force me to live to within your life choice, & we are all happy, be what You want to be. not what you want everybody to be
Personally I think it makes it more positive. The more varied the ppl around is the more different points of views and perspectives I experience and grow as a result.
My view about this is... We are all human. It starts and should end there. We all have differences because, we are human and we all are equal. We all have good to contribute with these differences helping to make us better as a whole.
I was unprepared for this quantity of truth on the internet. It seems counter-intuitive, but I'm new to this site so clearly I have some expectations I need to manage.
Oh but that is what makes them Important, actually noticed by them selves! It’s actually a Very Christian/Muslim thing… my take…organized religion will be the ruination of human populations
No, but talking about it constantly instead of issues that affect working people got us Trump. Which affects everything. How do 1% of the population deserve 20% of our attention?
Because Republicans never talked about trans people, or how much they disliked trans people, or how there's no such thing as trans people?
You know what's an issue that's gonna affect people? Increasing tariffs, dismantling government and deporting as many people as they can, axing the work force
I didn't hear Kamala talk about it hardly ever but boy did I hear Tump's team ENDLESSLY TALK ABOUT IT, especially the political ads when I was trying to watch the damn World Series. That's all the ads talked about. It was most of the ads, too!
In other words it's THEM talking about it. We need to secure trans people's rights because those fuckers have decided to use it as a stupid brigade like they did with abortions, since they lost that campaign tool.
I say that but it comes across wrong: we need to secure trans rights in any case but we need to do it fast because those guys are coming after it for no other reason than to rile their base.
Not sure how to contact list creators, but if someone could link this post to comb through for the phobic comments and add them to the phobic lists, that'd be amazing <3
As a matter of fact, trans people existing and being open about their experiences actually enhanced my life. And for that I will always be grateful ❤️❤️
I love this!! I will fight to the death for my 2 trans grandkids' be able to just live the life guaranteed to every American-nothing more, nothing less. #LoveIsLove
AG, as an avid follower and supporter of you and DG on Daily Beans, I am finding a little comfort in these post-election days. However, I'm not really doing that well. I've finally left Twitter and come over here to follow you in a place that I can (hopefully) feel safe.
True, but Republicans effectively used transgender advocacy against Democrat candidates. In Texas, unpopular Ted Cruz crushed Colin Alred by 9 pts by pushing the issue.
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Pretend ally's are worse than straight up haters sometimes
Sports didn't lose the election, Kamala dropping the ball over and over again when she didn't have to lost it.
The person campaigning against her is just a Republican operative.
Perhaps you need to change your social media consumption away from Fox News and Xitter?
Do a lot of research every country has different laws about how long you can stay. About working. And if you can earn citizenship.
It's only going to get worse unfortunately.
It's very upsetting.
I think the existence of trans ppl should have POSITIVE impacts on many many people. We're evolving and it's POSITIVE.
Everyone deserves to live their authenticate lives without fear or harm
Everyone deserves to feel & be safe in America
Most importantly: LOVE will always beat HATE
"Hate never made any country great"
#LoveTrumpsHate
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It's really not acceptable to call people a derogatory word used to dehumanise women.
The societal effect of people putting "he/his/him" or "they/their" at the start of their LinkedIn profile was monumental and probably responsible for Trump's comeback.
The most insignificant thing was the final straw.
(#bonjouryall)
It’s powerful. It stops them in their tracks and makes them THINK.
They never have an answer, but I know they’ll be haunted by that question.
i won't care what you do as long as you follow laws and rules set by lawmakers
I'd like to not need to defend the rights of people just to exist and be able to just celebrate people instead.
There's a lot of work to be done to get there first though...
I wonder how long before she realizes it & asks me why this is happening.
Well played.
You know what's an issue that's gonna affect people? Increasing tariffs, dismantling government and deporting as many people as they can, axing the work force
I can count on one hand how many trans ppl I’ve come across day2day this year
Thank you for that.
Yes we exist and we are not going anywhere!