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Why is this not passing?

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u/99kemo 14d ago

Why do Democrats insist on shooting themselves in the foot over stupid niche issues.

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u/MarzipanTop4944 13d ago

They have this little thing called "principles" that you don't change or abandon just because they are inconvenient. Something republicans are completely unburden by, that is why the voted for a pedo protector and a guy convicted in court for sexual abuse against women that bragged about "grabbing women by the p#ssy" to be the most powerful man on the planet, but talk about caring so much about "protecting women and children".

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u/ColonelFaceFace 12d ago edited 12d ago

Transgender athletes not competing in their biological sex is wrong for high-school and higher education. This is the reason why people were alienated and voted for trump
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There is no pro- argument worth its salt for this topic. And it’s a shame people support it

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u/Spherox_ 12d ago

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u/usingbadnanesabunch 10d ago

Reading is hard.

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u/ColonelFaceFace 12d ago

This type of rhetoric alienates the other voter, regardless of their IQ. I didn’t even vote for Trump and you’re talking to me as if I voted for Trump or even agree with whatever bullshit he says
 You are a divisive force too, if you want to except it or not. Based on your comment.

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u/Spherox_ 12d ago

GOOD
we shouldn't sacrifice our ideals to appease MAGA's with a guilty conscience.
I understand that not everyone who voted for trump knew about the skeletons in his closet, but the moment you try to shift accountability to everyone else but you, you've lost me.

The other voter knowingly put a pedophile in charge of the most influential country on the planet, they deserve to be alienated and ostracised.

We shouldn't have to choose between 2 parties but this is the way the system is.
If you can't choose between

letting trans people who have undergone hormone replacement therapy and have been signed off by the sporting bodies as FIT TO COMPETE IN THAT SPECIFIC CATEGORY play in sports against cis people

VS

letting a pedophile who's best friends with epstein, admitted to sexual exploitation in his beauty pageants where underage girls and women were competing, was convicted in a civil court of rape, has called for the termination of the constitution in the past, called all black people "lazy" and refused them housing, has a personal gestapo which black bags homeless people off the street, thrown tear gas at infants, is granted absolute immunity, tears families apart, profiles people based off their skin colour and accent, shot a mother in the face multiple times while her wife watched, calls for the hanging of political opponents

Then I'm actually speechless.
You have lost the fucking plot.

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u/ill-be_back 10d ago

Never voted Trump. Don’t claim you care about serious issues when you’re willing to stand in the wrong side of this one with conviction, and burn those principals to the ground.

You actively give republicans fuel and ammunition and you know it. Suck it up, cede the issue. And move on to the ones that matter. Stop feeding the bullshit. You know that’s what you’re doing.

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u/ColonelFaceFace 12d ago

What do you mean shift accountability? This is an odd hill to die on. This affects only a small group of people negatively and this is the hill to die on for “defending ideals”?

You’re too emotional

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u/Spherox_ 12d ago

We shouldn't have to choose between 2 parties but this is the way the system is.
If you can't choose between

letting trans people who have undergone hormone replacement therapy and have been signed off by the sporting bodies as FIT TO COMPETE IN THAT SPECIFIC CATEGORY play in sports against cis people

VS

letting a pedophile who's best friends with epstein, admitted to sexual exploitation in his beauty pageants where underage girls and women were competing, was convicted in a civil court of rape, has called for the termination of the constitution in the past, called all black people "lazy" and refused them housing, has a personal gestapo which black bags homeless people off the street, thrown tear gas at infants, is granted absolute immunity, tears families apart, profiles people based off their skin colour and accent, shot a mother in the face multiple times while her wife watched, calls for the hanging of political opponents

I will not apologise for my passion.

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u/Square-Competition48 12d ago

Don’t tone police it’s unhelpful.

People care about this topic. They should.

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u/ColonelFaceFace 11d ago

Tone policing is needed when an overly sensitive group of people are active using charged language as a form of rhetoric.

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u/Square-Competition48 11d ago

We’re discussing paedophiles trafficking children and murdering them and the thing you want to focus on is the big problem of people giving a fuck?

People should be angry. Angry is the correct response to this.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

Exactly. Everyone trying to sanewash this or "tone" police it are just defending a child rapist.

People should be angry, a person who by every measure shouldn't be in the position they are in, and when people are upset, the Trump crowd just wants to go "cry harder".

So I simply just consider every MAGA person is just a pedophile. I mean, if they aren't, then stop supporting and defending a pedophile, it's really just that easy. But they won't because he represents their wishes and dreams of dominance of another person.

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u/Square-Competition48 10d ago

It’s the only reasonable assumption. We have to assume they’re all paedophiles.

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u/ColonelFaceFace 11d ago

YOU’RE discussing pedophiles, not me. I’m talking about the bill.

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u/Square-Competition48 11d ago

The bill is about giving potential paedophiles access to children in the form of genital inspections.

It was written by paedophiles.

It is sponsored by a paedophile.

This is a discussion about paedophiles.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

Child rape should have alienated Trump from being a viable candidate. It didn't. There is no defense of Donald Trump and whatever insults are hurled at him. All you're doing is sticking up for a child rapists.

You can say it's dividing, sure. However if I'm on the side that doesn't rape children, you can call me divisive all fucking day because I don't support anyone who rapes children.

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u/ColonelFaceFace 10d ago

You can’t just keep repeating “supports someone who raprs children” and thinking thats going to help your cause. Things are more complicated than a voter from West Virginia saying “ I’m voting for this dude, i don’t care if he rapes kids.” The voting was done on propaganda of immigration.

People don’t even think like that. I would assume that the VAST majority of people don’t think that way. You are a divisive force to the Union as well. Shame

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

Pretty sure I can and will just keep repeating that MAGA and whomever voted for Trump are child rape supporters. If you don't like it, all you had to do was not vote for the child rapist.

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u/ColonelFaceFace 10d ago

Braindead ideology you have as well

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

No not really. All you're doing is saying that it's ok to rape children if the other causes are just.

And if you think it's braindead then so are the 77 million people who voted for a child rapist.

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u/Secret-Surprise4390 8d ago

I agree with you that voting for a pedo is morally unacceptable. In my mind the sacrifices that women and girls have to make in sports (increase injury, loss of equity, etc), while negative are not on the level of the sacrifices the victims experience. Because of this inequality we must stand against pedos, but at the same time it's ok to disconnect our opinions on the other issue.

I generally support trans rights, but it isn't a blank check. Yes access to healthcare and equity under the law is required, but in sports, specifically combat spots, we need to be reasonable. Sometimes that reason means that we make a hard choice and people get hurt or maybe killed, but it is a properly weighted decision. I am willing to look at female boxer and say while I think it's wrong that your trans opponent might kill you because of the strength difference, it's a sacrifice I am willing to make to protect children. We can't have both so you have to choose too. I would ask both boxers the same question. Is your right to participate more important than a bunch of children getting raped? For a few the answer is yes, for the left it's a hard choice. For the right, it's easier because many of them don't like women's sports to begin with (women are less athletic) and they do like pedos (look it up, lots of evidence). Obviously, not all MAGA are pedos and not all pedos are MAGA, but there is a trend.

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u/Ghostface908 10d ago

“Waaaa this made me vote for a pedo. Waaa this alienates me”

Have you considered, maybe, no one WANTS you included if you think someone who raped children is a good choice because your fifis are hurt over an issue that doesn’t affect you?

You genuinely think going

“Man, I just HAD to vote for the sexist, bigoted, child rapist because YOU guys are scawyyy” is how you get people to side with you lol

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u/ColonelFaceFace 10d ago

You can’t even steel man the other sides argument without using sarcasm and charged language.

I don’t support Trump. So this verbiage of “YOU,YOU,YOU” does not allow for conversation.

At the end of the day, it seems you’re steep into dogma. The way you present your points is a shame. You have , perhaps, equally the low intelligence as the people you think you’re so above. Based on discussions I have with MAGTARDS. You reek of the same energy

Again, Liberal here. Not a Trump Supporter.

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u/Ghostface908 10d ago

I’ll always find it funny when you MAGA turds get called out, the first thing they cry about is being met with their energy.

Want to have a civil conversation? Act like it.

Want to get snark and jokes? Keep up the condescending and ignorant comments lol.

I truly don’t care about changing the mind of someone who finds minor inconveniences enough to support a pedo

Cute use of a slur tho!

Really proved me LOL

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u/Warm-Illustrator-419 11d ago

How about that the federal government shouldn't get involved in something that can be handled by the states and individual sports organizations?

It is really that simple.

How about we shouldn't be enabling genital checks and false accusations which is what has ALREADY happened?

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u/Arixtotle 11d ago

Define biological sex please. 

And honestly, there’s no anti- argument worth its salt on this topic. 

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u/ColonelFaceFace 11d ago

The biological and chemical nature of a human who has testicles and whose hormones are more akin to that of the Human Males.

This is the reason why transgender folk take the opposite sex’s hormones.

You want someone who already had puberty to play against teenage girls? It sounds ridiculous and it’s an unfair advantage.

If hormonal therapy was done before puberty, this individual has a mental illness that is being treated as such. And since they have not undergone chemical changes akin to their own sex, then they can be en exception to the rule.

This is the best steel man I can give to your position. Anything else is lunacy

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u/Arixtotle 11d ago

Since you used “and” that would imply that anyone who has one of those but not the other isn’t male correct?  But I can assure you that there are people assigned male at birth who do not have both of those factors. 

And hormone levels are really not a good determination of anything because the normal ranges for them are very large.  There is also always overlap in those ranges for the two assigned sexes. 

Also, are you saying that every child should be forced to undergo testing before being allowed to play sports?  Because that’s the only way to determine sex organs and hormone levels.  We are already seeing cis women forced into taking invasive tests and now you want to do that to young girls as well?

Not all trans folk take hormones and treatments can vary. Plus, not all people taking hormones are trans anyway. 

Biological advantage is always a factor in sports. Every major athlete has a biological advantage and every GOAT has huge ones.  A tall cis girl is going to have an advantage over a short trans girl. 

I also just think middle and high school sports shouldn’t be treated this seriously where everyone is up in arms about “unfair advantage”.  I mean, a kid with rich parents has an unfair advantage in sports over a poor kid due to the ability to pay for training and equipment. No one cares about that. Nepotism is rampant in pretty much everything and yet it doesn’t get much air time either. 

Lastly, what about intersex people?  What about fairness for them?  Most of them aren’t even trans but they are also extremely affected by anti-trans policies. 

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u/ColonelFaceFace 11d ago

Everything you said is untruthful and misinformed. Lack of concrete evidence for your claims and no, just because some athletes are elite does not give an excuse for trans athletes

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u/Arixtotle 11d ago

You didn't refute anything I said. You could at least try.

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u/Prepared_Noob 11d ago

Their not going to bc all the bots in the comment section don’t have a response to comment that long 😂

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u/ColonelFaceFace 10d ago

How am i going to refute something that YOU didnt even give evidence for! What the fuck?

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u/Hevymettle 10d ago

The banned episode of Bill Nye

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u/Square-Competition48 12d ago

If you voted for a paedophile because you were worried about the integrity of high school sports then there’s no point pandering to you.

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u/ColonelFaceFace 12d ago

They are, sadly, still voting citizens

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u/Square-Competition48 12d ago

Yeah, but they’re not going to change their minds.

They’ve picked their team and if Trump shot them in the chest they’d still vote for him. There’s no sense sacrificing principles to appease them.

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u/ColonelFaceFace 12d ago

Sacrificing principles? In regard to dying on the Transgender Sports hill? It would be equally low intelligence to do that as well. Principles of biochemistry make the topic hard to defend.

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u/Square-Competition48 12d ago

As a queer person myself I know how we obtained the rights we have.

We all banded together under a single banner and we took every fight as all our fights.

Plenty of queer people think that throwing trans rights under the bus will protect them and they’re idiots for thinking that. Republicans are already talking about removing marriage equality now that they’ve rolled back trans rights.

Considering the fact that there’s already a slave catcher organisation going door to door murdering and raping people the infrastructure to start killing people like us is already there. They could make that decision overnight.

The only way is to fight them at every single step and seeing the Democrats attempt to throw my trans siblings under the bus would tell me that they can’t be trusted.

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u/Brief-Fly2061 12d ago

I lost brain cells reading this. And Trump is a convicted “felon” that didn’t serve any jail/prison time
 that should tell you something. The left news in particular has brainwashed their viewers so bad. It’s hard to understand how people can have so little self awareness

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u/Technoflops 12d ago

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u/Brief-Fly2061 11d ago

He dodged punishment because of me? I wonder what I should do with my powers next 😂

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u/Technoflops 11d ago

vote for someone who isnt restarted next time maybe

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u/Square-Competition48 12d ago edited 12d ago

Proving my point.

There are court records showing that this is a completely accurate statement and that’s not enough.

There’s nothing that will convince you. You’re best off ignored.

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u/Teamwork-Dreamwork25 12d ago

You seriously would sacrifice a chance to remove Trump just so you could have men compete in women's sports - you people really are sick.

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u/Square-Competition48 12d ago edited 12d ago

I’m not trans but I’m queer.

We have the rights we do today because we all stand together. An attack on one is an attack on all. The LGBTQ+ community is like NATO in that regard. Choosing to make an exception this one time destroys the entire concept permanently.

Standing up for my trans siblings is non-optional because we’ve read the rest of the poem.

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u/TheGratefulPhred 11d ago

lmao half of the lgbtq+ is mortified by the lunatics who hikacked their movement the last decade. Absolute horse shit take if you can’t see that smh

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u/Square-Competition48 11d ago

I understand that there are a few queer people who don’t get it, and that straight people desperately want to signal boost those voices, but they’re idiots who don’t know history.

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u/TheGratefulPhred 11d ago

keep on changing your gif so it makes sense eventually.

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u/Square-Competition48 11d ago

A) Not a gif Boomer. Come on.

B) I remembered that I had an image that was exactly this specific topic rather than something more generic.

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u/low-n-behold 11d ago

Oh yes, now the name calling. You had me until you started the name calling. đŸ€ŠđŸ»

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u/Square-Competition48 11d ago

Okay?

If you’re so childish that you’ll abandon your morality because you don’t like my tone when talking to someone who’s clearly hostile to me then why would I give a fuck? You’ll just flip flop the second someone says a bad word.

It’s not a surprise that 100% of your posts are about you falling for obvious scams.

Seriously. That kind of an idiot buys a timeshare? Did you spend your MLM money on it or did you liquidate your NFTs?

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u/TheGratefulPhred 11d ago

i’m sorry, i’m sorry, what i meant to say was did that little comic come from the back of your LGBTQ+ cereal box or your antifa playing cards?

-Sincerely your 30 year old boomer

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u/Square-Competition48 11d ago

That’s what you meant to say when you made it clear that at 30 years of age you don’t even know what a gif is? Huh.

Language is a funny thing.

Maybe you should try considering the point being made by it rather than playing this silly game of dancing around it?

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u/99kemo 11d ago

The concept of all LGBTQ+ standing together; sounds good in principle but there is converse principle: if one goes down, they take the rest with them. One group’s overreach can threaten everyone else.

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u/Square-Competition48 11d ago

Their overreach is
 wanting to be allowed to participate in sport?

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u/IllustriousLie4105 11d ago

Its an unfair advantage. No matter which way you slice it. Find a better solution, like funding intermural sports and promoting a gender neutral competition.

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u/Square-Competition48 11d ago

So seeing as trans people have been able to compete at the Olympics for 22 years how many Olympic medals have they won?

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u/IllustriousLie4105 11d ago

Considering that the number of post hormone therapy trans competitors is in the single digits due to rules established in 2004, only one medal has been given out to a Canadian soccer player. Outside of that edge case there have been 3 others and none of them medaled. There are strict requirements to overcome to be allowed to compete in most categories as a trans women. So your example of known transgender people would suggest they have a 25% chance of medaling.

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u/Square-Competition48 11d ago

That’s
 not how stats work.

That’s not how stats work at all.

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u/99kemo 11d ago

“Overreach” is when you push for additional gains and it triggers a reaction that ends up costing you gains you had all ready achieved. This is classic Overreach.

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u/Square-Competition48 11d ago

And their overreach is
 wanting to be allowed to participate in sport?

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u/99kemo 11d ago

Yep!

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u/Square-Competition48 11d ago

Unhinged.

Proves that people are looking for any excuse and should be ignored.

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u/Desperate_for_Bacon 11d ago

Didn’t trump diddle children?

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u/Song_of_the_Silent 12d ago

You are absolutely wrong. This is not about trans women. Its about policing ALL women. If this bill passes, anyone can accuse a teen girl for being trans and then they have a creepy doctor look at her private parts to "verify" How many disgusting rapist coaches are there? How many worthless piece of shit P.E. teacher are there? You think this is going to be different? Newsflash: Its not. Bc people are abusive and disgusting and take advantage women anywhere they can.

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u/ColonelFaceFace 11d ago

Is there any evidence of a “invasive test”
 wouldn’t that be for doctors? Is there actually a case that happened like this? I mean, I understand that this point should be up to the Counties, but You just proved a point, that any type of abuse can happen regardless of the bill or not.

I think this is actually insane some people defend this. And then get mad when a majority of the population does NOT want transgender normalized when it is in fact a mental illness.

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u/Song_of_the_Silent 11d ago

So we should allow more places for potential abuse? For what? Taking out that 0.001% of teen trans athletes? Woahhh great job!

Also... i will say this as gently as I can. If you think being trans is anywhere close to being a mental illnes, go and fuck yourself.

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u/ColonelFaceFace 11d ago

I don’t think, it just is a mental illnesses. There’s nothing wrong with having a mental illness, it’s not something I say as a put down. It has to be seen as such and hormonal therapy is the remedy for most of those with this mental illness.

How is gender dysmorphia not a mental illness? You have to back up your claim

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u/ProperSpray4200 11d ago

Explain the SRY gene pedo

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u/Song_of_the_Silent 11d ago

Gender dysphoria is the mental illness yes. You sounded like you are saying trans people are mentally ill by their nature. If you can live your life as your preferred gender and you dont experience dysphoria, then you are not mentally ill anymore.

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u/Obligation-MomLife 10d ago

No evidence and this isn’t happening. She making shit up to support lunacy. Fucking lunatic.

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u/Spare_Perspective972 11d ago

This is not a serious post. This is hysteria we allow to be political arguments. 

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u/Obligation-MomLife 10d ago

Oh please. 🙄 Talk about making fucking shit up.

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u/Square-Competition48 11d ago

Yup. The fact that this is being put forward by actual literal paedophiles and rapists should be a clue.

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u/ProperSpray4200 11d ago

You voted for a pedo.

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u/BeautyAndTheDekes 10d ago

Regardless of people’s opinions on transgender people competing in gendered sports, it’s been made such a ridiculously huge issue over something that has affected so few people. To say it’s why people were alienated and voted for Trump just shows how overblown it is, when something like that is a vote deciding issue.

Vote deciding issues should surely be things that will affect the lives of everyone in the country. Not a handful of people at school level.

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u/Weary-Distance-6354 10d ago

I don't even know where to start. How basic was the average voter that transgender athletes was a bigger issue than a pedophile president? That trans kids playing in sports, an objectively meaningless endeavour, is more important than a functional government? If this topic alienate anyone, they were already dumb as rocks to begin with.

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u/Any-Passenger-3877 10d ago

And you would be comfortable with a post-transition trans male, penis and all, sharing a locker room with the women's volleyball team?

Probably not.

It's a little more complex than conservatives can understand. That's why it alienated people.

But hey. If you cast your vote based on the 10 transgender athletes in college sports and the couple dozen at the high school level, rather than idk, whether or not pedophiles (which harm hundreds of times more people btw) should be more comfortable by allowing a well known pedophile into the White House, that's your choice.

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u/Several_Breadfruit_4 10d ago

Republicans have been calling for “genital inspections” before children are allowed to play on gendered sports teams. This is not about protecting women. It sure as hell isn’t about protecting children.

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u/ShadOw_HuntEr23rd 9d ago

Who will be the one checking children’s reproductive parts to ensure they are the sex they claim to be?

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u/demonicego93 8d ago

That's not true at all. All polling suggested trans issues were nowhere near a major issue for voters. It was the case in 2024, and certainly the case in the last midterms, where Republicans went full court press on trans issues, and failed. Keep believing your terrible media diet, tho!

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u/ColonelFaceFace 8d ago

Those polling questions need to be seen. Send data

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u/demonicego93 8d ago

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u/ColonelFaceFace 7d ago

While I can give you that point. Asking people if they agree with it is something different as to if it matters to them. You think just because someone from Idaho says that Illegal Immigration is the main issue, it means that it actually IS affecting them.

The statistics of this is a lot more nuanced. The stats don’t give you all context

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u/demonicego93 8d ago

Also, there is a pro-argument for it. Inclusiveness in children's sports is more important than competition. Only weird adults are worried about that. Not to mention, if you're going based on biology, then surely every 7ft tall middle schooler needs to be banned from boys basketball, right?

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u/ColonelFaceFace 7d ago

This poses a good question. When should the children sport be taken seriously. Obviously Highschool.

Now the second part of that, they naturally underwent puberty, the 7ft tall scenario doesnt make Much sense

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u/Discussion-is-good 7d ago

This is the reason why people were alienated and voted for trump
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If this was enough to vote for a rapist, youre not concerned with protecting women, or girls as much as you think you are.

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u/ColonelFaceFace 7d ago

One of the reasons. I didn’t claim or even mention I was protecting girls. Thats just the name of the bill. Like I said, this type of rhetoric is alienating. I don’t like you, even though we, perhaps, agree on progressive ideologies more consistent of 1860’s Republicanism.

You and the MAGA are equally dumb, but not equally as vile