Pete Buttigieg can fuck all the way off.

Thanks, Pete. Remember that you don’t use the nice cloth napkins to wipe the boot polish off your lips when you’re done.

Fuckin’ LGB-sans-T motherfucker.

I've always fucking hated this piece of shit. Fuckin CIA McKinsey consultant piece of shit

🙄 Sports isn't about being fair though.

Unfortunately, this has been one of the better responses among the Democrats. At least he advocates for keeping the government out of this issue and that it should be determined by experts in the field, and that we shouldn't put blanket bans on sports because chess is obviously different than football.

Frankly, though, I have little to no faith in either party to protect me. I can't shake the feeling that whether a Republican or a Democrat wins 2028 that our heads will still be on the chopping block.

Looking at history, I don't think this will end up like the Civil Rights movement. I think our curse is that every 100 years, we have about 10-ish good years and come just shy of reaching social acceptance, then get successfully forced back into the closet and/or genocided with all our history erased, and then start to "reappear" in the public consciousness 75 to 100 years later to a public that thinks we're this new group that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. We simply don't have enough numbers to defend ourselves and no other groups will ever meaningfully try to defend us.

I'm trying to make a "raise this dick" joke, but I don't want to sound like I'm attracted to pete butt guy.

And this is why I've lost all faith in government. Disregarding the concerns of your base in search of more power like this to me seems like the obvious result of strict bureaucracy.

Yeah, so where are all the trans gold medalists before the ban was put in place?

They're gonna run him for Pres if he's already centrist-ing out

Daddy Pete shut the fuck up. The talk about fairness is a right-wing strategy for slow-walking progress using its centrist division (the Lisa Murkowskis and Lex Friedmans).

There's an army of boomer men who've been disconnected from the cult by a family member coming out as gay, trans, etc. Big Conservative still has a grip on these people using their generalized fear of the unknowns that inevitably come with progress and it's maddening that Pete is getting this one so wrong.

The rest of the quote in the article: When Inskeep pressed Buttigieg on whether he believes a parent who has complained about a trans athlete competing in girls’ school sports “has a case,” he agreed. “Sure,” he said. “And that’s why I think these decisions should be in the hands of sports leagues and school boards and not politicians… in Washington, trying to use this as a political pawn.”

Not a great answer. I wonder how he would have answered if the question was rephrased from a trans kids point of view, i.e. if a trans kid was barred from playing high school sports and the parent complains, do they "have a case"?

God damn it Pete, dementia Trump in office raises serious issues in the world and you have no other topic to talk about than sport?

Glad Pete is telling us he's willing to throw trans kids under the bus before he makes a run for president in 2028. Fuck him. Liberals aren't your friends.

Another standard issue centrist caring more about games than human rights.

Pete another neo-liberal nightmare, who serves up a word salad of Whataboutisms so he never has to answer the questions. His past as a two term mayor speaks for itself, heed the warnings.

“If he’s the next president, I fear for our country. He couldn’t run our city. How can he run the United States?” said Michelle Burger, 42, a stay-at-home mom who lives in South Bend’s impoverished and predominantly black West Side. “Look at all the crime — he didn’t do anything about it. Look at our quality of life. If he becomes president, the United States will become one big South Bend — a giant sinkhole. We’ll be in a new depression.”

Why South Bend residents are warning America about Pete Buttigieg

Hey, Pete! Get fucked!

It's not a huge surprise but extra sad when transphobia comes from within the LGBTQ+ community.

“Peter Principle” Buttigieg

Pete, you may think you’re speaking to both sides of the Democratic base, but you’re actually just making the moderates shrug and the left want to throttle you.

Every fucken time these stupid bitches think they need to go right. Every fucken time all that does is alienate their own base. This shit isnt fucking hard. It literally couldn't be easier.

This is a stupid made up wedge issue. The real question should be - what is sports and what exactly are athletes competing for?

Why is it the default in sports male and female categories? Is it because they are physically different? Is it because one has a uterus? is it because of hormones so males and females develop differently? We have managed, through scientific breakthroughs, hormone replacement therapy to be able to transform our own bodies into what we want and that in itself is an achievement - albeit it isn't perfect yet - but that's another topic.

If the goal is to compete and display human physical prowess and strategy in a regulated environment then male/female/other/etc. categories shouldn't exist. It should only be rated as 'where do I stand as a human being among my peers in X sport?'

Trying to fit a gender into a flawed categorical system of sports is bound to cause friction.

Do the "Fewer than 10" transgender athletes out of half a million that Charlie Baker, president of the NCAA, is aware of represent a "serious fairness issue", Pete? Fucking pussy.

Inskeep asked Buttigieg for his own opinion on transgender rights, to which he replied, “I think the approach starts with compassion. Compassion for transgender people, compassion for families, especially young people who are going through this, and also empathy for people who are not sure what all of this means for them. Like, wondering, ‘Wait a minute. I got a daughter in a sports league. Is she going to be competing with boys right now?’ And just taking everybody seriously.”

“I think when you do that, that does call into question some of the past orthodoxies of my party,” he continued. “For example, around sports, where I think most reasonable people would recognize that there are serious fairness issues if you just treat this as not mattering when a trans athlete wants to compete in women’s sports.”

When Inskeep pressed Buttigieg on whether he believes a parent who has complained about a trans athlete competing in girls’ school sports “has a case,” he agreed.

“Sure,” he said. “And that’s why I think these decisions should be in the hands of sports leagues and school boards and not politicians… in Washington, trying to use this as a political pawn.”

I was expecting a more nuanced case and was disappointed when I didn't get one.

If you're going to hand out medals, I think you should borrow from how they do it in boxing: by weight class. Or limb length or whatever matters to the sport, so that you're competing on skill, not whoever was born with the better [insert sport here] body.

And this is why any queer person who knows half a lick of history is, at minimum, suspicious of assimilationist sentiments if not outright hostile to them.

🖕 Fuck you too, Pete. You don’t give a shit about fairness, pandering asswipe.

lol that’s ok, Dems. i still remember how long it took for yall to champion same-sex marriage. i still remember HRC’s opposition as she ran for president in 2008. now i won’t forget how your party turned on trans people in the 2020s.

keep it up!

God what a pathetic shit head, no wonder he bombed in the primary. He's no different than Gavin Newsome

Good job, Pete. You've disqualified yourself completely.

Another white cis gay man dusting his hands off and says "Well I got mine" then pulls up the ladder behind him.

Just in case you thought Buttigieg was useful for anything other than Transportation Secretary, here you go.

Yeah, women have unfair advantages over men. It wouldn’t be fair to them, they went through a lot just to join us after all.

But people can figure out what is fair on their own and politicians can learn to let reasonable people live decent lives without their stupid uninformed perspectives.

New party is the only way for progress.

Dems are completely and utterly cooked, mayo Pete can take his identity politics and go fuck himself with it. Behold the anointed dem for presidential candidate in ‘28 in action. Pathetic.

he said this the same day evangelicals begged the supreme court to take up the case overturning obergefell

Controlled opposition party you say?