I feel like it’s important to note that this is mostly cis people pushing for this. Like, it’s not entirely misplaced (there’s a whole article above this comment on why it’s not a bad idea), but at the end of the day trans folks are a tiny minority and we have slightly more pressing issues on our mind-like Floridians…

Using the phrase “*person* who menstruates” erases your personhood? Are you really claiming that?

Trans people, who have seen literally dozens of laws passed against us in the last year alone: ya fuckin’ think?!

If I could light these people on fire with my brain, then the world would be a better (if smokier) place.

That’s fair. Your original comment didn’t say trans women, and I inferred it based a lot more on circumstance than on anything actually in the text. Between the article itself and the frankly appalling comments here, my “shitty transphobe” button is at a hair trigger, which is not a good place to be when talking to…

Trans women are not biological men.

Dude is definitely also getting into the Matt Walsh anti-trans territory too. But he makes those shiny cars whose bumpers no longer fall off when it rains, so nobody really seems to care.

Sorry, I have no intention of platforming insane half-baked misogyny and transphobia. Begone, jackass, back into the pit with you.

If y’all want to go to a pride event that’s a lot less commercialized, and which still feels like, ya know, a protest, go to a Trans March. SF trans March, one of the largest and oldest events, is a 1.5 mile march in the streets, with thousands of loud trans folks and allies. No police, no big corporate floats, no…

Oops! You think that people need to still make friend-face with the members of their community that are actively selling them out! That’s extremely embarrassing for you!

Aw gosh, a facile, shallow politician got clocked as such by both parties? And now she’s openly scoffed at even by the people on “her” side? Someone fetch my smelling salts and my phonograph with Despacito pre-loaded!

Enjoy your strawman.

You seem to be conflating a lot of things (like that there’s a difference between accepting someone as their authentic self and allowing them unfettered access to all spaces instantly, which I didn’t say).

Gods, if that ain’t the truth.

Ok so let’s go thru these points in order:

Yeah but who is more self-owned, those people, or the spineless noodles who are somehow gonna lose to them in the midterms?

I’ve been here for years, feel free to fuck off to some other site. 

Amazed at how many people who claim to be progressive turn into howling social conservatives when it comes to trans folks in sports. Like, sure, there’s a bit of nuance there, but for every one person who understands it, there’s a hundred who all just stop short and then say, “well, but dudes are stronger than women,…

Nobody likes a pedant.

You may not know this, but the Clinton’s both ran for President (and one of them even won! Twice!) on the ticket of the “liberal” of the two major parties in the United States. What a wild idea! Now, are they as liberal as you or me? Probably not. But you can’t No True Scotsman them out of our end of the political…