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[–] 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is so fucked up. No one who voted for this thought this through.

This requires every girl looking to play sports to have their genitals examined. Just the girls. Boys are not subject to this humiliation.

This will lead to sexual assaults.

And every girl that has to endure this humiliating examination will think to themselves "trans people did this." It's all in service of creating segregated spaces for TERF politics to breed.

I don't believe this ad ever ran in Washington state. I so so so wish it had.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago

    "And every girl that has to endure this humiliating examination will think to themselves "trans people did this.""

    Nah, kids are smarter than that and it's pretty damn clear who's responsible. If I'm trying to predict their thoughts it'd be something more along the lines of "release the Epstein files"

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago

    The "male" part of the initiative is the part that just shows how sexist it is. Trans girls can't play with cis girls, but trans boys are good to play with cis boys. It's not even unique to Washington. Another person I know from another state entirely has a similar outcome for their trans students in sports. Trans girls are prohibited; trans boys face no issues. I hope a trans boy comes out and is the absolute best on his team. I need to see heads rolling after that.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    The race hasn't been called yet. There still remains about 46% of King County's ballots to be counted, and they lead in the rejection category, not to mention that King County is by far the highest population county. It certainly doesn't look (or feel) good though.

    I suggest changing your title to reflect the fact that the votes are only 60% counted on I-638.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

    Your post gave me hope but after looking at the secretary of state election results, I don't think its realistic. :/

    It seems like king county had low voter turn out overall. Only a third of king county appears to have voted.

    I hope I am misinterpreting the data, or that it is flawed in someway. Fuck I hope you're right, I just don't think so.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago

    I got my numbers from AP, so I'm not sure where their data comes from. I believe their website said they estimated that only 60% of the ballots had been counted for I-638 (statewide—King County's was at 54%). But regardless, it still looks very bad, even if there's a lot of uncounted King County voters let to be tallied.

    My hope is that if it passes, it is struck down as a violation of the Washington State Constitution, or the Washington Law Against Discrimination by the courts. The Seattle Times has a good article on how that may potentially happen

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  • [–] 14 points 5 days ago

    That's disgusting. I cant imagine being so obsessed with other people's, let alone kids genitals.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago

    I imagine/hope this will be held up by legal challenges until logic can prevail.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago

    Anyone who tries "inspecting" my kids genitals is going to need help recognizing their own pretty quick.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    But they block legislation that will allow rape victims to sue their assailants.

    Protecting woman has nothing to do with it.

    They just want you to hate an outgroup.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago

    We need better hate crime laws.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Arizona in exactly the same boat with Prop 318. It’s hard to be happy about any of the results last night when you see this kind hate and ignorance alongside it.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    I'm so disappointed in my upstairs neighbor state. We're better than this in the Pacific northwest. Wtf is wrong with people? I don't have a school age girl, but if I did, there would be no examinations happening. Either she'd play outside of school or not play at all, can't take that kind of risk. It's crazy to me that so many people are willing to not only take that risk with their girls, but use it to pick on trans kids that are only trying to exist, most of them are suicidal anyway. That makes you feel good, you feel it's right to pick on little kids? Jfc what a goddamn embarrassment these people are.

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