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Pete Buttigieg Says Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports Raise “Serious Fairness Issues” (www.them.us)

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[–] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Do the "Fewer than 10" transgender athletes out of half a million that Charlie Baker, president of the NCAA, is aware of represent a "serious fairness issue", Pete? Fucking pussy.

[–] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

“Sure,” he said. “And that’s why I think these decisions should be in the hands of sports leagues and school boards and not politicians… in Washington, trying to use this as a political pawn.” Buttigieg added that, in his view, “chess is different from weightlifting, and weightlifting is different from volleyball, and middle school is different from the Olympics.” “So that’s exactly why I think that we shouldn’t be grandstanding on this as politicians,” he said. “We should be empowering communities and organizations and schools to make the right decisions.”

That seems like a reasonable take to me. The leagues and organizations would probably know best how to handle these few outliers better than some old suits in a capital building somewhere far removed.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

if politicians can't make decisions as good as subject experts, they should discuss it with subject experts. else why do politicians even have a job?

[–] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Politicians don't need to be involved in everything. You'd want politicians involved in your sports too?

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

What makes it unreasonable is that he is saying “Let the transphobes discriminate. It’s fine if trans people are mistreated and excluded from society. They don’t deserve protection.”

This is why Democrats have a popularity problem.

“We could make things better, but we aren’t going to, and it’s not our fault if we stand here and watch things getting worse” is not a policy that resonates with people. It’s sociopathic.

[–] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

That's a wild stretch of meaning you made up versus the actual words said.

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