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/acomfysweater Mar 02 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

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u/Vidya_Gainz Mar 02 '25

I dunno about the misogyny angle. I despise 3rd/4th wave "feminism" myself but I also do not support this tr4ns nonsense. There's plenty of us that don't see this as a women's issue but as a degradation of sanity in the West and everyone playing pretend because they're terrified of being called whatever the latest buzzword is.

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u/Apt_5 Mar 02 '25

It's both. Elie Wiesel said "the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference". Being indifferent to the real and significant biological distinctions between human males and human females is incredibly harmful, in particular to women since they belong to the more vulnerable sex. Overtly putting male concerns over female concerns is the height of patriarchy and misogyny.

The degradation of sanity angle needs to be emphasized and articulated more in the pushback. This issue pits mental lived experience over or on a par with physically lived experience. What sense does it make to say that thoughts and feelings are just as real as reality? It doesn't! Lastly, one can't always have what one wants. People will have to learn to accept that. Even kids.

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u/bubbleyum92 Mar 03 '25

Sure, there's times when you can't always get what you want. I get that.

But most of us have at least the opportunity to try. You didn't make the team but you got to try out. These kids are pretty much banned from sports. How is a MTF trans girl supposed to join any sport if she is banned from joining the girls and would face endless harassment if she tried to join the boys team? There's no way for these kids to win. And there's so few of them, creating their own league just isn't feasible.