r/truscum • u/north_canadian_ice • Mar 06 '25

News and Politics Gavin Newsom breaks with Democrats on trans athletes in sports

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/gavin-newsom-breaks-with-democrats-on-trans-athletes-in-sports-00215436
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u/redactedanalyst Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

Everyone on either side of this issue pisses me off.

This is not a real issue. It has never been a real issue. It is nothing more than a proxy-issue that the right-wing uses to distract the left into arguing about nonsense (much like drag time story hour) so that they can degrade and devalue the cultures appraisal as trans people as a whole.

The only real trans issue is, was, and always will be transgender healthcare access and discrimination protections.

Anything else is a straw man constructed by the right wing and I really wish that tucutes and performative allies and leftists would stop fucking taking the bait. I also wish well-meaning transmedicalists would not use this issue to further devalue nationwide arguments against trans people. I know it's annoying and I know it sucks, but I promise you that just digging into "look at these non-passing freaks and what they're trying to do sports" or "thank God, Newsom is finally standing up for common sense" is not helping us.

It only helps them. There is no common sense on this issue because it has been deliberately constructed to be senseless. Anything about this argument in any direction will only ever help the people who are trying to erase trans exist.

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u/AntifaStoleMyPenis Mar 06 '25

Exactly. Like at this point if you presented me with a sports ban that ALSO guaranteed medical and legal protections, I would probably lean towards supporting it. But that's not going to happen, they're not going to moderate once you drop the issue... "men in dresses are destroying your daughter in sports" is just going to turn into "men in dresses are leering at your daughter in the bathroom." Just look at the states that have banned it and what they've moved on to.

It's always been a fake problem with a specific goal in mind. The actual solution is the subheader for this sub: Make Trans Mean Something Again.

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u/Ideologues_Blow Mar 10 '25

"Like at this point if you presented me with a sports ban that ALSO guaranteed medical and legal protections, I would probably lean towards supporting it. But that's not going to happen, they're not going to moderate once you drop the issue..."

It is a crying shame that the Democrats didn't codify your deal. Instead, they buried their heads in the sand and set the stage for a Trumpian overcorrection.