As in full acceptance? All of us in the LGBTQ community deserve rights. Women deserve rights. Not thus fake shit we have.

I fully assumed that our rights had been fought for and we were all pulling in the direction of progress. But but nah! Our voting rights, our basic rights, our rights to have an abortion or to own our own bodies, they are as permanent as a movie purchase on prime video. The moment the actual owners want to, boom, they're gone. I don't want this! I was promised unalienable rights, I got returnable Costco purchase rights... Use it for a little while and return them for a full refund.

If we get the heck out of this deep bullshit we are in, we need those rights engraved in stone. In removable, non refundable, complete and equal to everyone else's.

The reality of being a transgender person in America in 2026 is that on election nights, while other folks are talking about who had a good night and who had a bad night, sometimes you are quietly wondering, 'Am I going to be OK?'" Hack said.

That. That is what the cishet majority does not even consider. The amount of trans athletes in competition is stupid small. The cishet’s also do not know what trans care for youth looks like. They can’t be bothered to google it, so they believe whatever angry person on tv/twitter says.

Oh, it’s “recalibrating” is it, you fucking cowards?

And, fuck Newsom anyway. He was never on anyone’s side but his own.

It's disgusting that PBS wrote the article in a manner that minimizes the injustice against transgender athletes and justifies the decision made by opportunistic, spineless Democrats like Newsom.

Why stop there? Let's make sports very fair!

If you can run faster, you get weighed down with bricks! If you can punch harder, you have to wear gloves!

It's funny to me of all of the things they think people can self-regulate, somehow sports aren't among those. Somehow, we need genital inspectors.

Somehow, the corporations that pollute our water and air can figure out what the right amount of pollution is without government oversight, but the girl's tennis team at the local high school just can't help themselves, they need the long arm of the federal government to intervene!

This country is a foul joke.

Hey, maybe don’t cosplay a sports expert and let the actual sports experts decide the rules for their sport. You know, just a thought.

One of the last things the biden admin did was take away gender affirming care from the trans kids of military members. That shit fucking sent me into a wall. Now here we are, watching the record be corrected right in front of us.

Fuck Joe biden, fuck trump, fuck the USA. We dont have to be like this. We can have real choices at the voting booth.

Conservatives probably want to vote differently as well. We need to give ourselves the freedom to pick what we needin life.

Ahead of every ballot, Ds abandon the most vulnerable members of our coalition to court centrists donors' money, and then after every ballot they do a post-mortem that shows they lost because voters couldn't stomach the compromise

While most Democratic officials remain steadfast supporters of the transgender community, an increasing number in red and blue states are distancing themselves from their party's unflinching support for the transgender community's policy priorities, such as allowing athletes to compete on teams that match their gender identity. The shift follows years of conservative attacks against Democrats on the divisive issue, which affects a relatively small number of transgender people and their families, but has emerged as one of Republicans' most potent political weapons in the Trump era.

The science is pretty clear. I'd be alarmed if a presidential candidate's official position is one of deliberately rejecting scientific consensus.

In what world is Newsom a leading Democratic prospect?!

I'd put PBS up there with James Carvel on having their finger on the pulse of the democratic base.

"Recalibrating" is an interesting way to spell "betraying."

While most Democratic officials remain steadfast supporters of the transgender community, an increasing number in red and blue states are distancing themselves from their party's unflinching support for the transgender community's policy priorities, such as allowing athletes to compete on teams that match their gender identity.

This is an extremely dishonest and inaccurate framing.

Party's unflinching support eh? I must have missed that part...

I haven’t been able to figure out how to make it fail from my perspective

How about you don’t use your flawed perspective? Let’s use science and studies and data. Quote why you don’t think it’s fair… I wish politicians actually used their resources instead of this, “Well I think…” bullshit.

If the Democrats want to win elections they're going to have to appeal to enough American voters.

Unfortunately, a lot of American voters are pretty regressive in this way. So now Democrats face the question: compromise a few principles for the sake of their other principles actually getting implemented, or take the high ground and lose. Thus sacrificing all of those principles.

Never a fun place to be in, but that's democracy.

The way California handled it at women's state track this past season I think is a fair balance. There was a MTF gal that took second in some race, and she and another each got credit for second place. At least until a better solution comes up, I don't see why that would be an issue.

I can see an argument why that's not fair to a trans individual for singling them out, but in that same vein there's an argument about how a MTF may have biological advantages over the competition.

If the above can't be achieved, I think allowing trans in sports is the right call. As someone that was a competitive athlete, I have to admit that I didn't just jump to this opinion and did have to reason with myself. I was never against it, but still had instinctive doubts.

That's not to defend Newsome at all, he's a snake. Even if these are is true beliefs, that he doesn't want to be on that side and perhaps it's a moral dilemma he knows is wrong, he can absolutely do better than this.