“Because I want to know, how does a 14-year-old girl prove whether or not she’s trans to a 50-year-old coach?”
Puts on rubber glove we have teasts
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Generally these tests are conducted by pedophiles and kept secret, so I can see why the GOP has no problem with them.
I love this. This is a really good, simple, impactful strategy.
The GOP is just a bad debater.
My immediate thought was to say something like "That question proves my point! We have no way of knowing who is or isn't trans without careful testing!"
"Okay, I'll inspect your genitals, drop 'em and we'll prove it to everyone"
problem is: these bigots would LOVE to show off the little junk they have in exchange for seeing others.
They’d probably have a sickly grin on too, because it brings back fond memories of Uncle Touchy’s Naked Puzzle Basement.
Spoiler: the rep is uncle touchy
"That's why we'll have to fire a dozen teachers; so we can have trained inspectors on hand."
You have to put yourself in their mindset...
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"Under this bill, coaches will ask their students this very question. High school coaches are the ones who will be performing this so-called 'qualified testing', and it starts with this question. Are you trans?"
"What if I ask you to prove it? Will you be comfortable doing that for me? Would you prefer we bring in a high school coach?"
"When do you think it's okay for someone to ask you to prove your gender? What if my colleagues and I are uncomfortable sharing the Congressional bathrooms and athletic facilities with you, until we know for sure what you are hiding in your pants? Do we have a right to ask you to prove it?"
Do we have a right to ask you to prove it?”
As a GOP master [de]bater I'd jump on that last one. "Certainly you have a right. I'll bring in a note from my doctor tomorrow,"
The great thing about this is that we have now stepped past the "why" part of the argument and gotten to the "how."
"To clarify, sir, a medical note is unacceptable. In order to comply with this bill, do you believe you should be forced to provide your original birth certificate to prove you are cisgender before you can participate in any sports activities? "
Besides, they drink the kool-aid. They're bad debaters because they believe this shit - as evidenced in this article - and most of them would absolutely not be willing to prove they are cisgender.
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I'm pretty sure he's MS13. We should deport him just in case.
No, he’s tren de aragua. He’s part of the invasion and should be transported to CECOT post haste
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I swear to god republicans found out Penis Inspection Day wasn't real and are now making it a thing to save face.
Penis inspection day was real though. Up until ≈1974 in the USA you had to show your dick to go swimming in public pools.
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Hahaha.... hol' up... what do you mean not real?
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I just hate that it takes my pastor the whole day to do the inspection
From the State House to the White House, we are saying that we will no longer allow our daughters and women to be taken advantage of by insecure men...
Yeah, we should protect them from these insecure, conservative men who constantly think about other people's genitals.
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It's a complex issue for sure, but I'm really proud of this thread for consistently using the term "trans women" when talking about the differences between trans women compared to cis women and cis men in sports.
On Reddit, most people on this debate just say "biological males," "males," or "men" in situations where they're clearly talking about trans women, which is a clear tell that it was never about fairness in sports for them.
I stay out of that fight because I don't know enough about the real statistics to comment on it. Which I feel like would drastically improve the situation if all these armchair "bIoLoGiCaL aDvAnTaGe" people would do the same.
I still don't understand why the government needs to be involved in sports at all. They're games, it's not that serious. Leave it to the experts within those organizations to come up with whatever rules are needed.
America has a reputation at being the "best" at everything always. That's why government is involved in sports in general, but as to the trans women topic it's because we're in a full on fascist takeover and they're number one on their list of people to "purify"
Sports is used as a revenue generator at all levels of government. Look how much taxpayer money is spent to build stadiums/arenas/etc. for the sake of the "local economy." Not to mention all the money spent on advertising and sponsorship.
All of which, of course, has nothing to do with lawmakers' arbitrary decisions on whether or not trans athletes should exist. Just wanted to point out how much the government is already involved in sports.
I mean if it were up to me they'd be paying for their own stadiums. The rest of it is just taxation which applies to pretty much everything.
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Circuses <--- you are here
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It's a real shame he deflected, I would have loved to see this argument continue.
trans guys have bigger dicks than republican legislators, so this is a fair question
Last time I was at the gynecologist’s- “that’s unusually big - are you sure you aren’t intersex”?
Nurse told me my dong was big, hehe.
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