• NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Why do i get a feeling that stopping trans women from competing in women’s sports is not about protecting women?

    Could it be about protecting men from accidentally admiting they may be gay when being turned on when watching the broadcasts?

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      12 hours ago

      A little while later: “Why is no one protecting me?” they screamed, while being dragged away by the stasi police/sheriff/FBI/CIA/DIY/ATF/secret police.

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        7 hours ago

        People rights are slowly being taken away, but no one cares until it effects them directly. At which point it to late.

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    Women should quit NCAA in protest. But they won’t, because reasons. Seem to be OK with massive spending differentials between men and women sports but still participate anyway.

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      Both women and men should quit NCAA in protest. Trans men exist just as much as trans women.

      I suppose Donny will be personally inspecting each and evey single athlete before a game?

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      They won’t because they have to pay for college and they are taking advantage of sports scholarships. They’re kind of fucked here and it really shouldn’t be put on them to do something like that.

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        It’s a matter of numbers. The bosses always pretend they’ll just fire people for defiance, but if whole teams strike they don’t really have a way to pull that off without grievously harming their business. (And while the NCAA is itself a nonprofit, it definitely has business interests.)

        It’s not fair, but solidarity and social resistance is going to involve good people taking risks when they could have just gone along instead. That’s the whole meaning of the ‘First they came for’ poem.

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          I’m afraid that is not how scholarships work. They are contracts. If you do not fulfill your contract, the scholarship is taken away from you.

          These women either keep playing with the team or lose their scholarship and possibly lose their only way of paying for college. You expecting them to give up college or go deeper into student loan debts so that they can protest an injustice is an injustice to them. All you are suggesting is that even more people get hurt by this than are already hurt by it.

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    9 hours ago

    It should be done. All this shit is low hanging fruit that helps conservatives win elections like having drag queens read to kids. Drag queens for the most part aren’t even transgender, trying to include them into the movement is bullshit considering past drag queen comedy is why Transgender people weren’t being taking serious by Boomers. Because they view transgenderism from fetishism and comedy. I believe in every other aspect trans people being included but stop helping conservatives win in battles that barely effect trans people. This has to suck for the athletes.