2026-10-23 19:17 UTC
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@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-23 19:29
…"The focus is strategic… It’s not just about trans girls in sports; it’s about all girls in education,” she said, emphasizing that it’s about attacking Title IX and trying “to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights.” She explained that Title IX is also the mechanism through which women report campus assaults and that while the Trump administration is distracting everyone with anti-trans fearmongering, it “quietly defunded the civil rights division of enforcement in the administration on Title IX.”
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@Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-23 19:44
Every day more nazi things are happening. everyday. I feel like im going insane. 20 years ago, if you said “the Tvs and phones are all listening to us” youd be thrown in the grippy sock hotel. But today, it is truth, and each day, our low trust society grows. I cant even leave the house without eyeing some people up wondering if theyre a fucking nazi or not. I cant trust a man who dont have a beard. I see young, clean shaven, buzz cut men with crosses around thier neck… and I just, worry. Yesterday I saw a latino man with that nazi looking eagle on his sweater. Im glad for sane, smart voices. But, its so real out here. I live by a small airport, and the back hawks and shinooks normally run drills 3 days outta a month. Theyve been running drills everyday, all day, for over a week now. I feel paranoid. Just saw an article they fired a woman for supporting trans healthcare in the military :( Im just a dumb dumb, but this is seriously some frog boiling in the pot of water shit. It is so terrifying to see.
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@minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-23 23:27
Who else are they going to support though? Two parties have a stranglehold. Your options are between not good enough, horrible, and not participating at all. Not preventing Republicans also disempowers your voice in regard to all other issues and means revoking support for everyone elses issues. So why would those people keep supporting yours as much?
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@bumblefumble@feddit.dk 2026-10-23 21:58
That’s three words.
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@Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2026-10-24 04:43
I don’t think most democrats have an issue with defending trans rights. The issue is instead of dealing with issues that affect the majority, they only deal with issues that affect the minority. Worry about people not getting killed and abducted to concentration camps at the border. Then maybe we can talk about trans rights.
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@DebraBucket@lemmy.world 2026-10-24 03:18
I don’t want them “defending trans rights” though. I want them enforcing the protection of trans rights through legislative action and enforcement of those laws. “Defending trans rights” is when Republicans go on the offensive about transgender issues so we have to go from being on the offensive on issues like affordability, healthcare and a strong working class to “defending” trans rights. Look at the pamphlets in Texas, they’re no longer talking about gas and grocery prices in Texas, it’s all about who sent the pamphlets.
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@CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2026-10-25 06:37
Proud to have voted (fuck) no on an initiative today to “ban children who were born male from playing girls sports” because I live in a (sane) state that allows people to change correct their birth certificates this law said it would be on the girls wanting to play to undergo physical inspection, genetic or hormonal testing, and their expense of course. Disenfranchising transgirls and adding scary, invasive or expensive bars to girls sports, everyone loses, even the people who support this, living in a less free state where girls are denied opportunities isn’t good for anyone
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@abc@suppo.fi 2026-10-25 07:13
There is a difference between politics that’s aimed at getting elected and politics aimed at improving things. You can absolutely throw trans people under the bus before the elections and then after winning the elections use your power to improve their position.
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@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-23 21:06
I suspect that the majority of voters would prefer a policy of tolerance over the Republican party’s performative cruelty, but “we should treat these harmless eccentrics with basic human dignity” is one thing while transgender participation in sports or permanent procedures done on children are another.
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@lennybird@lemmy.world 2026-10-26 04:10
It’s not a losing issue if you trace it back to the fundamental principle of individual freedom. What they’re really saying is they’re being outspent and the propaganda against trans is winning with low-info voters and they don’t know what to do.