
McBride isn’t a good example. He looks like a cross-dresser, which according to the ACLU, falls under the all-encompassing transgender identity. |
What bathroom does McBride use in the capital? |
Mike Johnson announces transgender bathroom ban in Capitol after Sarah McBride's election https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/20/johnson-transgender-bathroom-sarah-mcbride/76454057007/ |
the fact is - nobody really cares (including the right) if a well passing trans person discreetly uses the bathroom of their chosen gender. The issue is things like actively forcing girls and women to be exposed to mentally ill people flashing their penises in the women’s changing room, people who went through male puberty taking sports achievements from women and girls or endangering them, and housing sex offending intact biological males in women’s jails. |
Why are you so threatened? I can’t imagine what kind of energy it takes to be so mean to people. I hope you’ll open your mind and heart a bit. The sun is out. Go bask in it. |
+1 I find the continued defense of drag from people who believe themselves to be non-sexist absolutely baffling. It is of course minstrelism and will be seen with the same horror in fifty years that blackface is now. |
I’m more concerned about being exposed to GOP males who want to inspect my and my children’s genitals to make sure we are comporting with their Stone Age world views as to who gets to be treated like human and who gets to be treated like a bangmaid. Why won’t someone protect my interests? |
Or, you know, we could use a birth certificate. Which schools already have. And are supposed to be accurate. Like we've been doing for like hundred years. Your obsession with these fantasy "inspections" just proves you are an unserious person. |
For trans athletes, their hormone levels need to be in range with that gender to compete with them. So for me, I've been on T for so long that my hormone levels mimic cis males and my musculature mimics cis males. It would be dangerous for me to compete against women in any contact sport, IMO. I also think I would have an edge in terms of speed and strength in many other sports versus cis females. Am I as tall as all cis males? Not at all. I didn't start T before puberty, so I didn't get any kind of height growth. I was tall for a female at 5'10", so I'm average-ish height trans guy. I'm not going to dominate cis men in most male sports, but I'm also not going to hurt them or get hurt by them. That's the key, IMO. If someone is new to T and transitioning from FTM and their hormone levels puts them in line with an average cis female, then yes, they should compete with the females until their levels rise. And vice versa for MTF. I'm all for allyship, but allies need to follow what actual transpeople like Sarah McBride are saying. If we're saying standdown and less is more, follow suit. Be an ally by not allowing transphobia and calling people out on that, but leave the fighting the issues to us. Does that make sense? Be our supportive backup, but let actual trans people lead the fight on the frontlines, so to speak. |
Great answer. The problem is, cisgendered upper middle class Democrats want to attack Republicans as cruel, bigoted, etc. and trans allyship is a great vehicle for that. The partisan attacks by affluent Democrats are more important than actual progress for trans folk who are generally not affluent or relevant political players. |
There should be a category in sports for transgender athletes |
This. Like a new category in the special olympics or the paraolympic games. |
THANK YOU! I am so sick and tired of being told that appropriating my immutable characteristics, mocking them with caricature appearance and saying it is an “art form”. No it is not. Drag shows are the exact same thing as minstrel shows. Women are not costumes! |
You want us to bring birth certificates to go to the bathroom?! |
PP is not far fetched. The boy scouts have a health form you have to have your doctor fill out that included an inspection of genitals. Our pediatrician refused to fill out that part of the form, and I turned it in blank.. |