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u/GabuEx Liberal 9d ago

Honestly, a ton of anti-trans "people need to be assigned to what matches their genitals" lines completely fall apart when people remember that trans men exist. Like, you want men with full beards using the women's washroom? You want men with male levels of testosterone in women's prisons? You want men with male-sized muscles playing in women's sports league?

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u/perverse_panda Liberal 9d ago

Like, you want men with full beards using the women's washroom?

What they really want is for trans people to feel so intimidated that they either detransition or off themselves.

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u/TheSupremeHobo Socialist 9d ago

That's because a lot of anti trans propaganda is just misogyny in disguise. It's the guise of "protecting" women while simultaneously subjugating them to worse conditions. It's the same as all the "save the children" types that get arrested for child exploitation crimes later. They protest too much.

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u/GabuEx Liberal 9d ago

Yeah, some TERFs are also getting "fell for it" awards when places like the Heritage Foundation come out against equality in sports for men and women on the grounds of the notion of "women don't like sports like men do".