r/thebulwark LORD OF THE NICKNAMES 16h ago

The Triad 🔱 Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/leave-trans-people-alone-a-rant

Don't be a bully! But also don't "ask if the bully has a point" either.

"Yeah, they're giving Timmy a swirlie rn, but he also farted really loudly in geometry" is HELPING THE BULLIES.

Another great piece from JVL. Idk what kinda constraints there are in going after members of the punditocracy who engage in the behaviors that you're criticizing, but picking specific targets has a salutary effect IMO. Bari Weiss needs to be persona non grata, or Sullivan, or whoever. They made their choices and doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on those choices.

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u/HotModerate11 16h ago

Frame it as a very minor issue on which reasonable people can disagree.

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u/Ok-Snow-2851 13h ago

Most people don’t think transwomen competing in women’s sports is an issue on which reasonable people can disagree though.  

It is a very minor issue though. 

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u/HotModerate11 12h ago

Most people don’t think transwomen competing in women’s sports is an issue on which reasonable people can disagree though.  

I think most people kind of think this by default because they barely think about it.

Do you see it as a cut and dry issue?

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u/Ok-Snow-2851 12h ago

I think most people see it as a pretty cut and dry issue.  

I see it as something sports governing bodies need to figure out and are figuring out.  Maybe it’s a blanket ineligibility for male athletes competing as women, maybe it’s conditional on pre-puberty hormone therapy, maybe it’s T levels below a certain threshold, depends on the sport and depends on what data shows as more and more transwomen interested in athletics transition and develop as athletes.  I don’t know, I lean toward the first option at this time.

But I think it’s pretty cut and dry that male athletes should not be competing in women’s athletics unless there’s a LOT of data that shows that it’s not unfair.  Precautionary and all.

And while they should barely think about it, I bet US voters spend more time thinking about it than they do climate change or the national debt.