In the continuing race to see who can throw transgender people under the bus most quickly, South Carolina Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Annie Andrews has released a new direct-to-camera campaign ad in which she states that she does not support trans athletes playing in sports that affirm their gender identity.

  • jimmy90@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    so it would be cool if they said “i don’t support people assigned male at birth playing womens’ sports”?

    what else should be considered apart from the language being used?

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      1 day ago

      No idea what point you are trying to make but what would be cool is if a bunch of hatemongers didn’t get to invent new “problems” as an excuse to hate others. We shouldn’t be talking about this. People like sports but that doesn’t make them important enough for any politician to ever talk about. If I had it my way, if you’re mad about trans people playing sports then you’re too stupid to vote and would lose that right for displaying such idiocy.

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      I genuinely don’t see why anyone cares if trans women play sports. How many trans women athletes could there even be?

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          7 hours ago

          Fair. It’s just weird to me because the trans community is like 1% of the population so the trans athlete community is what, 1% of 1%?