Democrats Back Away from National Stance on Transgender Athletes
Democrats Back Away from National Stance on Transgender Athletes
And I am backing away from ever voting for another democrat unless they can prove -- with receipts -- that they are 100% pro-trans. Although, if no one stands up to the maga regime, voting will almost certainly be rigged on a national scale from now on.
That attitude of drawing lines in the sand if the Democrats get your vote is why Trump won in 2024.
I'm a leftist and not a registered democrat; democrats aren't owed my vote.
Edit: human rights are non-negotiable.
Can we not do this? Trump won in 2024 because more people voted for him. And trans people are allowed to be suspicious of a political party that is actively throwing them under the bus.
If dems couldn't trip their way over a
line in the sandmassive human rights concern to win an election, whose fault is that, really 🤔No, it must be the people that have expectations that their government should protect people from human rights violations rather than perpetrating them that are wrong!
Unless it already was
The trans sports debate is so fucking stupid.
Trans people playing gendered sports was a cakewalk for conservatives. It was such a dumb fight to pick. Our civil rights leaders overplayed their hands, encouraging Democrats to chase this dragon, now the closest thing we had to political allies have to publicly walk back their alignment with us to save face.
It's literally setting trans rights back 20 years.
So yeah, make the issue a small one, managed by regional and local authorities. Encourage gender-integrated sports and leagues; that's the real answer here.
We have to win the culture first, THEN leverage that for legal protections. Now, because of these choices, we get to spend the next decade (or more!) being underpaid, underemployed, discriminated against and abused until we can convince anyone it's worth fighting for us.