• TheDoozer@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Seriously. Like, okay, you think that the whole transgender thing is a fad, or “attention-seeking,” or any other nonsense. Everybody is entitled to opinions, even stupid ones. I guarantee I have some stupid opinions, myself, about things that have no relevance to me.

    But feeling the need to express those opinions, and feeling so strongly about it, and wanting to make legislation for it, and pretending you give two shits about girls’ and womens’ sports when 5 years ago you were talking shit about the WNBA because they were a joke to you, when you will knowingly interact with a trans person once or twice in a year, maybe, in your little podunk town, and since you are talking to them you won’t have an opportunity to use a pronoun for them… well there’s obviously something else at work here.

    It makes it clear it’s just an excuse to hate, because trans people don’t affect them in the slightest.

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      5 months ago

      It’s funny. Every time I see someone going on a rant about trans women in women’s sports, I ask them when they started watching women’s sports. I don’t get a response, but I do get a bunch of downvotes. Even on Lemmy.

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        5 months ago

        The people complaining about trans in women’s sports don’t watch women’s sports for the sports.

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          5 months ago

          Pretty much, which is why they don’t watch women’s sports except things like beach volleyball.

          They tend not to be big WNBA fans.