As children across the U.S. head back to classes and practices for fall sports, four more states are expecting their K-12 schools to keep transgender girls off their girls teams.
Kansas, North Dakota and Wyoming had new laws in place restricting transgender athletes before classes resumed, and a Missouri law takes effect at the end of this month, bringing the number of states with restrictions to 23.
I appreciate you sharing your perspective even though you knew you were going to be attacked. I don’t completely agree with everything you said, but I do agree that the amount of energy and capital spent on this issue is disproportionate to its impact. It seems to have become a rage bait topic, meant to sow division and discord.
I’m more than willing to post the unpopular opinion. I’m probably little older than the average Lemming and with that I’ve seen these scumbag Republicans years after year, election after election play the Left like a fiddle. They push them to react (overreact) to one pseudo emergency after another. You’d think the Dems would have learned their lesson, but that’s the infuriating part - they fall for it Every. Single. Time.
Asi mentioned to someone else, when it wasn’t these Trans athletes, it was the DACA kids. Then it wasn’t the DACA kids, it was the crisis at the border. Before that was some other made up bullshit that affects such a miniscule percent of people. You can call me cold and uncaring, that’s fine, but that’s not my point. My point is that you can’t help these smaller groups if you don’t have enough political power. And you don’t gain more political power if yiu don’t help the masses. The big ticket items. The policies that give literally millions universal Healthcare, or insert some other Think Big movement. Those millions helped are the ones who might reward you with more votes and thus more power in the next election cycle. The 50 fringe people here or the 200 fringe folks there, won’t. They just won’t. I’m not saying to turn their backs in them, but help the masses before you look after the tiny minorities.
Lastly every time the Left jumps to action to help the endangered spotted pigeon, they are seen as being out of touch with common folk’s problems. The Right is already good at fostering a “down home” image (as fake as it is), that it doesn’t help when the Left willingly takes these actions to benefit the few and not the many. Food for thought: the GOP has somehow cultivated an image of Teump that resonates with coal miners, and construction workers, and hunters, and other pickup driving blue collar jobs in small town America. This is a man who is (arguably) a billionaire,who wears exceedingly expensive suits, shits in a gold toilet and is from deep Blue NYC one of the biggest cities in the entire world. Stop feeding into the notion that Democrats are ivory tower elitists who only care about obscure shit and have turned their back on average Joe’s.
I’ve said enough. Commence the downvotes!
No downvotes from me since you make a lot of sense. I feel compelled to type a long response since you spent so much time on yours, but I would essentially just be repeating and agreeing with what you have already said. Idealism is nice, but not when it gets in the way of actual progress. As they say, we can’t let perfect get in the way of good enough.