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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Being excluded from women's sports is equivalent to being killed for your political affiliation?
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Maybe give this one another try and we’ll call this post a mulligan to save you some embarrassment.
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Originally Posted by Sliver
Well, winning has become a matter of global security, global economic stability and the sovereignty of nations is at stake. So, yeah, we need to be coldly strategic to ultimately move things in a direction that is safer, more equal and better for all.
Trans athletes in women's sports is not the hill to die on.
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Letting them ban trans women from sport has no effect on global security.
“We” doesn’t exist. You’re willing to concede on certain trans issues because it doesn’t personally impact you, which is fine, but you don’t get to decide what people should care about. If resources were infinite and they were using 90% of them fighting the dismantling of trans rights, sure, but that’s not how the world works. You can fight on however many political and ideological fronts you need to fight on.
Do you honestly think they’ll stop at that or concede anything else if you let them “have” it? Did you read the story in the Alberta politics thread about how things like GSAs, being called preferred names at school, and not having teachers have to report to parents being removed took away their only safe spaces from a toxic home? Did you read that they killed themselves?
It’s easier to say things that aren’t “rights” aren’t a big deal. They aren’t to you, fine. They can be a massive deal to the people they actually impact. And if they don’t impact you, recognize your extreme privilege in standing in a place of safety and we should just concede on them.