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[–] stray@pawb.social 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I think the trans women who are passionate about their sport disagree with you. Why would you just be okay with letting someone literally lose their hobby or even career over their gender? It's dehumanizing.

I don't see what harm this conversation has. People who aren't terrible will be better educated and people who are terrible weren't trans allies in the first place. What have we lost?

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Frankly they can call me a biological male all day if they want to deliver some hormones to a girl who needs them.

You know they're going to stop that, right? They're not going to allow people to transition at all if they get their way.

[–] bayesianbandit@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Uh huh. As if this 1% of 1% are only ones of us who have lost our hobbies in the wake of having our life saving medical care revoked. So we should all make the conversation about them.

Do you have any idea how much losing access to HRT and surgeries disrupts a persons life and hobbies? How much a sex change in general does that? There isn’t a single one of us among us who hasn’t had their life knocked off course by a sex change it’s not that special.

Sports is a losing issue that sucks up all the air in the conversation and leaves the rest of us dehumanized. Conservatives know it that’s why they chose it.

Response to your edit: THEY HAVE ALREADY STOPPED DOING THAT AND YOU STILL THINK ITS ABOUT SPORTS. That’s the entire point. Stop fighting on their terms. Every time they try to make it about sports change the subject to what matters.

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

Why are you making it one thing or the other? We can have more than one conversation. Do you think we should shut up about trans rights altogether because all this bickering over such an insignificant number of people is distracting from larger human rights issues?

If it's the case that the conversation itself upsets you because it hurts and you're sick of seeing it, I totally get that; it's valid.

[–] bayesianbandit@lemm.ee 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago) (1 children)

So by your logic we should just roll over and allow them to run roughshod over our rights then while we debate every minute detail of our bodies and whether they affect competitiveness in silly games.

Got it. The general population has barely any attention capacity for this so let’s just keep playing on the conservatives terms then. Great effort.

For every conversation you have about hormone levels you could be raising awareness of far more pressing issues in our community and calling conservatives bluffs instead of falling for the red herring.

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 25 minutes ago

I would like to understand what you're saying better. I assume the original OP was a thread about sports (though honestly I have no idea). Given that context, how should someone in OP's position behave/respond (if at all) to the posts about trans women in sports?