In the continuing race to see who can throwĀ transgenderĀ people under the bus most quickly,Ā South CarolinaĀ DemocraticĀ candidate for U.S. Senate Annie Andrews has released a new direct-to-camera campaign ad in which she states that she does not support trans athletes playing in sports that affirm their gender identity.

  • jimmy90@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    so it would be cool if they said ā€œi don’t support people assigned male at birth playing womens’ sportsā€?

    what else should be considered apart from the language being used?

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      5 days ago

      No idea what point you are trying to make but what would be cool is if a bunch of hatemongers didn’t get to invent new ā€œproblemsā€ as an excuse to hate others. We shouldn’t be talking about this. People like sports but that doesn’t make them important enough for any politician to ever talk about. If I had it my way, if you’re mad about trans people playing sports then you’re too stupid to vote and would lose that right for displaying such idiocy.

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      I genuinely don’t see why anyone cares if trans women play sports. How many trans women athletes could there even be?

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        4 days ago

        The idiot you replied to probably couldn’t name a female athlete, let alone a trans one.

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          Fair. It’s just weird to me because the trans community is like 1% of the population so the trans athlete community is what, 1% of 1%?