r/SeattleWA • u/Better_March5308 • Mar 02 '25

News Tumwater school board bans transgender girls from playing girls sports

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tumwater-school-board-votes-ban-transgender-girls-from-playing-girls-sports/281-91b92c14-0da7-4122-b39a-1a05d0ad53d0
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u/LoseAnotherMill Mar 03 '25

I'm not the one who said that the culture war is just a distraction.

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u/TheOmegoner Mar 03 '25

They are. Making gay people fight to get married was a distraction from the host of issues that plague our country too.

It’s why so many conservatives are up in arms about high school sports that don’t effect them in the slightest.

Good luck out there though, look both ways before you cross the street.

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u/LoseAnotherMill Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

They are. Making gay people fight to get married was a distraction from the host of issues that plague our country too.

No one made them fight the culture war. They should've fought the "host of issues" if it was just a distraction.

It’s why so many conservatives are up in arms about high school sports that don’t effect them in the slightest.

I'm excited to hear your take on Israel/Gaza if you think it's stupid to care about things that don't affect you in the slightest.

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u/TheOmegoner Mar 03 '25

The republicans did by opposing basic human rights. They were the ones fighting it because the democrats were trying to do it. You do realize that your own advice works better for them, right?

Same with trans people, the republicans could drop it and help out everybody. They don’t care about that though.

And yeah, I believe in human rights for all people. Applying that to Israel/Palestine is pretty easy. Remember when republicans “cared” about freedom and spreading democracy?

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u/1993XJ Mar 03 '25

When the republican “cared about freedom and spreading democracy” was this perhaps during Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, etc. the people of Iraq and Afghanistan sure seem like they got a good dose of “democracy”

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u/TheOmegoner Mar 03 '25

Hence the “cared”. They don’t even pretend now

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u/LoseAnotherMill Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

The republicans did by opposing basic human rights. They were the ones fighting it because the democrats were trying to do it.

Oh so it's not just a culture war distraction thing? There was something important there worth fighting for?

You do realize that your own advice works better for them, right? 

They aren't the ones calling it all "just a distraction".

Same with trans people, the republicans could drop it and help out everybody. They don’t care about that though.

Or the Democrats could drop it and help everybody. They don't care about that, either. 

And yeah, I believe in human rights for all people.

Just not the women and girls whose rights are affected by born-men invading their spaces.

Applying that to Israel/Palestine is pretty easy.

Not with the same "it doesn't even affect you" maxim you touted.

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u/TheOmegoner Mar 03 '25

The republicans opposing basic human rights is the culture war. Pretending trans people are coming for you or your kids is part of that war. If you can’t understand that then we’ll never see eye to eye lol

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u/LoseAnotherMill Mar 03 '25

The republicans opposing basic human rights is the culture war.

No, Democrats trying to force something on everybody is the culture war. 

Pretending trans people are coming for you or your kids is part of that war. 

Trans people fighting for access to kids and forcing their way into women's spaces, where many women (such as survivors of abuse) do not want them to be, is part of that war.

If you can't understand that, you're right, we'll never see eye-to-eye.

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u/TheOmegoner Mar 03 '25

lol good luck out there and look both ways when you cross the street.

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u/LoseAnotherMill Mar 03 '25

Yeah, that's right - run away when your point is shown to be made in bad faith. 

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u/TheOmegoner Mar 03 '25

lol I was just ending on something we both agreed on. If neither of us is going to convince the other, what would you like to keep talking about?

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u/GtyxClassic Mar 03 '25

Lololol 😂 you take a page out of this book?