cass1312 (she/her)

Leaving stuff up the governing bodies is literally how it used to be and is the thing trans people are arguing for lol. Republicans want us banned at a federal level.

Here’s an actual study on it. Basically, trans women have slightly more lean muscle on average, but otherwise are statistically the same as a cis woman in terms of actual strength and cardiovascular strength.

Like I said in the previous response as well, its not “just playing sports” the same way segregation wasn’t “just water fountains”. As a trans leftist I will not vote for any candidate who is in favor of sports bans, (as would a lot of other trans people). And trans people tend to be very left leaning, so by espousing those viewpoints it would cost the progressive candidate votes.

Sports are a wedge issue used to open the door to further eroding trans rights is the issue, it’s not something you can compromise on. The reason sports are even something people even have a problem with is due to the fact that most cis people don’t see sex as mutable or trans people as changing their sex, which is the argument behind sports bans, bathroom bans, and other “single sex” spaces like women’s shelters or hospital wards. Any of those spaces banning trans people provably leads to more assaults/rapes, or otherwise materially harms trans people. And even if it somehow didn’t do that, from a moral standpoint it is still discrimination.

A minority being a minority of the population isn’t a reason to ignore those issues, and doing so just opens the door to more discrimination and repression of other groups as well.

All those other issues you listed are also important, but being willing to throw trans people under the bus doesn’t help you accomplish them, all it does it hurt trans people. El-sayed, Mamdani, and a bunch of the progressives that have won recently have done so without needing to abandon trans people, and are better off because of it. If you’re willing to sacrifice a minority’s rights to get elected, all it does is show that you don’t have actual principles and makes me believe you’d abandon other causes you otherwise claim to champion the moment it becomes politically inconvenient. And that goes for any minority, not just trans people.

Also, its worth noting that trans women are women, and that includes physically for stuff like sports. Almost every study done on the topic shows that a trans woman athlete has no statistical advantage over a cis woman one.

I mean in general gender-neutral bathrooms are a lot better due to non-binary people existing (and also are just more private and better in general), but its not super feasable to be able to just replace every public bathroom in the US with them at once. It also doesn’t necessarily address the issue of people not believing trans people are actually their gender (and sex too, the whole “gender is fluid, sex is unchangeable” thing is not really true and is a big part of the issue imo. It’s really the reason that “sex segregation” for sports or women’s spaces feels like something some liberals not educated on trans issues are tricked into believing is reasonable). That last part is a bit of a tangent (sorry lol), but gender neutral restrooms do feel like they’re partially an attempt to dodge actually addressing societal transphobia at large (at least for this one specific topic).

Edit: Oh also forgot to mention, the Arizona bathroom ban is only 1 part of the measure, the main focus is on sports segregation, as are 2 of the other 3 measures (with the 4th being a gender affirming surgery ban for minors in Colorado which also did a sports one). That’s also worth mentioning since for these measures specifically bathrooms were really just a bonus bit of segregation tacked onto measures mostly dealing with sports.

Yeah I want to be happy, and I am for a lot of places, Texas turning blue has the opportunity to reverse so many of their state level anti-trans laws, a bunch of trans candidates won in red state legislatures, and we had a good number of very vocal trans-allies win in the national elections. But its all very soured by the 4 anti-trans ballot measures that seem likely to pass, the election of extremely transphobic dems like turek and kaptur, and vocal transphobes like acton winning the governorship. The gains for trans rights in red states are exciting, but at the same time a lot of blue states had the opposite.

I get the point you’re making, and it is true, but at the same time there’s a propensity for people to focus on how cis people are impacted by transphobic legislation in a way that tends to minimize the impact it has on the trans people its actually targeting. The reason these ballot measures are bad is because they’re discrimination and segregation of trans people. While cis girls will also be impacted by them, the anti-trans laws aren’t bad, they’re bad because trans kids are being barred from sports with their peers and from the necessary medical care they need.

(Also this comment isn’t to attack you in any way, its just worth thinking about how stuff like this is talked about imo)

I don’t love a bunch of cis people posting shit like this when the 4 anti-trans ballot measures in Arizona, Colorado, and Washington all are about to be passed, including a college level bathroom ban in Arizona. It’s very tone deaf when trans rights (especially for minors) literally lost in a historic blue election.

I took an arduino class after already having programmed for years, and at one point the teacher wanted everyone to use chatgpt to write code for an assignment that was basically “run a motor while a button is pressed and stop it when it’s released”. The code for that is an extremely simple one liner, and if phrased correctly an llm could definitely spit out that single line, but everyone seemed to have it generate like 10+ line blocks with a bunch of if statements and stuff.

Unironically if I went on a date with someone and they infodumped for 30 minutes about sea monsters on old maps I think I’d fall in love lmao.

There is actually a weird group of people doing a carnivore diet where you basically only eat animal products. Literally to the point of what the meme posted says of not eating like spices, or food cooked in olive oil. It’s wild lol.