Can someone explain to me how my state got everything else right for the most part but went stupid for this one?

Literally, let’s inspect little girls privates, but not boys, because 10 trans students exist and MIGHT want to play sports with their friends? Jesus.

It was also kind of disgusting that literally all our state initiatives were funded by a 1%-er, Brian Heywood and his Let’s Go Washingtion PAC.

Edit: couple transphobes showing their colors here. Not only do they have a bad understanding of how hormones affect the body, degrading muscle mass and bone density in trans women for example, it also is just a dog whistle and avoids the real issue.

Segregating trans folk from sports is just another way to demoralize and dehumanize a small subset of the population. ā€œIf you’re not trans, you can play sports with your friends. You’re not really a girl/boy anyway.ā€ It’s disgusting. Do we need trans drinking fountains too? It’s attempting to instill these thoughts into children. In children’s sports. Which are just kids playing together and enjoying their lives. It SHOULD NOT MATTER if a boy plays soccer with a girl or a girl plays football with a boy. Let kids be fucking kids. Ask kids after they play with each other if one of them should be excluded. The kids understand it better than the adults pushing narratives who often don’t even have children. The kids just want to play together and do a better job of being accepting in group play than these conservative, lonely incels.

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    Unfortunately I can’t disagree with the stupidity of people. I do wish people would look something up rather than assume as the initiative did at least say that ā€œit would require verification of a student’s biological sex.ā€ I guess people didn’t ask the obvious next question of ā€œhow?ā€

    I can disagree with the biological male advantage though as it seems you don’t understand how hormones affect a person’s body and how any possible ā€œadvantageā€ is nullified from bone and muscle loss. Regardless, that’s entirely besides the point given that these are children who just want to play together and.not be segregated. Soon we’ll have trans water fountains and such at this rate. I also don’t remember the last time children were weightlifting and powerlifting either.

    Proper education and understanding is one of the biggest issues in society. We’re always moving too fast as society intends, so that we’re too tired to think about things, we’ve got bills to pay, and social media primes us to make and stand behind snap judgements.

    We really didn’t circulate this ad enough.

    https://youtu.be/Gt_IZoM9KuQ

    Thankfully it should get immediately challenged at the state level based on discrimination since it only applies to girls.

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      Unfortunately I can’t disagree. I do wish people would look something up rather than assume

      You can’t say that, in agreement with someone who said ā€œby allowing biological males (who have a distinct physical advantage)ā€. If someone had done the former, they’d understand the latter is not a blanket statement you can throw around

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        You’re right, thank you, I missed that all the way at the bottom. This is what I get for moving too fast.

        I agree that voters can be dumb. I definitely don’t agree that people who have muscle and bone loss due to their body changing from hormones would have any kind of biological advantage.

        Which is entirely besides the point. Children should be allowed to play with children. I also didn’t know that children were now weightlifting according to that guy. Maybe even competitively too.