https://youtu.be/F0kYLPr92z0

Where did Newsom support a policy of forcing people to identify as birth gender?

As for sports, you don’t think sports should be biologically separated by gender? Nor did he support a ban. His policy is to leave it up to the local governing bodies and communities that involve the people in question. It’s a FRACTION of a percentage point of people. That’s a very complex issue, and no I don’t think it’s hateful. If you think it’s coming from a place of hatred, I would definitely call that hyperbolic as I originally stated. I know trans people that understand sports are a more complex issue that involves fairness and biological advantages. Everything in life that doesn’t let you do whatever you want whenever you want is not the same as hatred and persecution. And this mentality is exactly the victim mentality that people are driving people towards the right.

Like by your metrics, I would be labeled as a transphobic hateful non ally, despite being a lifelong progressive voter with a trans gf all because I think you should make pragmatic voting decisions and understand that whether or not a fraction of a percentage of people can play some dumb games with a ball while they and far more people lose access to Medicaid.

This is exactly what people talk about when we say the left fights amongst itself, has no solidarity, no strategy. If you think trans sports affects trans people more than hundreds of billions being cut from healthcare, than hundreds of billions being redirected into a personal army that will hunt them, then I’m going to disagree.

Your fear is making you see everyone as an enemy, and if you want to get meaningful things done, it requires communicating and organizing with people, and communicating requires a bridging of minds. Not stubborn projection.

Ok, finished watching the entire interview. Didn’t hear anything that would I would classify as a hatred for trans people. What part did you find hateful?

Ok, thanks for that. I’ll watch the full interview and get back to you. If there are specific parts or timestamps of the interview you want to draw my attention to let me know, in the meantime I’ll open a tab and work my way through it.

Why, what did he do? I keep hearing hyperbolic statements with no facts that make me think Russian bots are responsible.

That sounds disingenuous and hyperbolic. How about we use specific examples in discussing this further? What exactly do you have a problem with? And are you aware of any policies he supports that do benefit the trans community? Or are you arguing there are none?

I know Trans people less certain about the issues you claim are throwing them under the bus than you are. They think Newsom has been perfectly reasonable on Trans matters. So do I. And if you’re going to use that wedge issue as an excuse to succumb to authoritarianism…

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Yes please. I’ve been wanting him to run for decades and I was hoping when he left the daily show he might end up on the path. I know he doesn’t want to do it, but no one who SHOULD have the job really WANTS the job, because they know what it means to do that job properly.

I wonder what a credit card dispute would result in here. Underutilized feature when businesses pull shady shit. Think I’ve had 6 or so disputes over the years, never failed.

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A classic from Introversion. It’s a bit older so it’s gotten over the review threshold by now, but I’d wager it’s relatively unknown.