• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The part about “allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports” confirms that “the transgender topic” is not just a sketchy phrasing.

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      2 months ago

      I’m sorry, apparently I can’t read. I somehow glossed over that part. Thanks for the clarification.

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        2 months ago

        Things like that get parroted as ‘common sense’ so often by conservatives and our brains tend to start ignoring it as obviously false. Then it becomes easy to not notice the same phrasing in other contexts, since we are used to actively dismissing that kind of bullshit.

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        2 months ago

        Women’s sports exist because men excluded women from mainstream sports for social reasons dressed up as biological reasons like ‘their uterus might fall out’, not for actual biological reasons like average strength or stamina.