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[+] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago*

    Gavin Newsome simply said it's fair to question whether trans should be allowed to play on girls teams.

    This is a position that the VAST majority of the american working class agrees with.

    Let us, for a moment, remember the median voter and the fact that politicians must try to appeal to them should they wish to gain office.

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don’t get how so many can claim ‘confusion’ over the whole ‘pronoun thing’. And I know it’s just thinly veiled bigotry, but like why does everyone complain about it and why doesn’t everyone else call them out for being a dumb ass?

    How hard can it be to understand respect, and how being recognized as the gender you are is validating? Really? Is it really so hard?

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You know how I explain it for people that don't get it?

    You don't assume someone's name.

    You don't walk up to a complete stranger and say "Hey bob, nice to meet you".

    So why would you assume any other part of their identity?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    To clarify, you're referring to this portion of the article:

    Newsom then appeared on the Shawn Ryan Show, another far-right podcast, where he expanded his rhetoric. He downplayed transgender people’s pronouns, saying, “I'm trying to understand as much as anyone else the whole ‘pronoun’ thing.”

    Digging into the detail link gives a smidge more context on the quote, but not much...

    Naturally, Ryan’s line of questioning didn’t stop with sports, either. He suddenly turned to the idea of trans kids in general. “Is eight years old too young?”

    “The trans issue for me is so novel,” Newsom said. “I'm trying to understand as much as anyone else the whole ‘pronoun’ thing.”

    I don't interpret that as genuine confusion over trans identities and pronoun use. That's straight-up pandering; doing a pantomime of having a boggled mind to endear himself to the host and his audience.

    It's a transparent falsehood; disingenuous, cheap and ridiculous. These are not qualities befitting of someone seeking the highest office, let alone at a time when the nation teeters on the brink of fascism.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Idk if anyone wants to feel him.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    We need to primary someone better, but NOBODY can afford another republican in office

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    "Uhm, I don't understand the whole pronoun thing."

    Oh my god, shut the fuck uuuuup... 😮‍💨

    This is peak _ I have never talked to a trans person and I only know them through the prism of what right-wingers say about them._

    These people are always acting as if trans people are making everything difficult, and that it's so hard to talk with us, because we're impossible to understand, but they're the ones being difficult to talk with, because they walk in with all of their stupid-ass misconceptions about us and we are the ones who have to deal with their bullshit.

    They are so fucking poisoned by this image that they have of us, this like weird, strange, alien thing that has like 50 different pronouns on rotation every minute that when you just walk in there like:

    😙🐇🏳️‍⚧️ Hey, my name is Omega, I'm a Transfeminine person or trans woman, and if you don't know how to refer to me, I use she/her pronouns.

    ...something that at best you might find weird if you are not used to interacting with trans people, which is the vast majority of people, but is still perfectly understandable. But they start acting like you are reinventing the whole fucking dictionary and having existential panic attacks over it!

    🇺🇲🇬🇧🤯😱 Oh what a bunch of malarkey! I don't have pronouns. Are you a woman or a man? I am so confused. What's your chromosomes? Do you have a penis or a vagina? What's the estrogen counting your blood cells? Oh, you people are so difficult to understand. I'm gonna violate your human rights now! No, but really it's completely incomprehensible. Either you're a man or a woman. What are you? !

    ...and then you track the system like:

    🥱🐇💜🏳️‍⚧️ I told you. I'm a man.

    [Trap card activated]

    🇺🇲🇬🇧🤡🤬 No, you're not! You're clearly a woman! That's clearly the bone structure of a biological woman that I see on you! You clearly sound like a woman! Quit pretending to be a man! You'll never be a man! You'll always be a woman!

    ...

    😚🐇💜🏳️‍⚧️ Ok. Yay!

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