Glennfs wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:24 am
Let's review playing sports is a privilege not a right and life can't be fair all the time. If you let the transitioning athlete on then you are being unfair to the athlete who isn't transitioning.
Sports governing bodies have set up rules to keep it fair. But you don't give a shit, do you, they shouldn't have the RIGHT to make those rules, as your bigotry toward trans athletes should rule, and laws should be made so that transgender people can't play sports period.
As for drag shows I know you would never lie so let's just say you are mistaken. We (I) are talking about R or X rated drag shows or parades. Where many people march or perform while stroking a dildoe. While you might believe that is perfectly OK for kids to see most of society disagrees with you.
First, that drag show was late in the night at a festival, so it's likely that any children still there were asleep in their parent's arms.
And your side is protesting - often carrying guns - drag story times at public libraries, and
your side is trying to ban them:
A wave of bills restricting free expression is building in state legislatures. This time, the target is drag performances.
In the first weeks of the current legislative session, legislators in eight states have introduced legislation aiming to restrict or censor drag shows. A total of 14 bills have been introduced across Arizona, Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Other bills appear to be being drafted, including in Montana and Idaho.
This introduction of anti-drag legislation dovetails with a rise in political rhetoric about drag performances and drag queen story hours in public libraries in numerous states, and a growing number of recent protests at drag events, some of which have turned violent.
The focus of these anti-drag bills varies from state to state, but share some common provisions:
- Most define a drag performer as someone performing while using dress, makeup, and mannerisms associated with a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth. Nine include lip-synching within their definitions, and most specify that the person must be performing for an audience.
- Ten of these bills seek to expand the definition of adult or sexually oriented businesses to include any establishment that hosts drag performances, which would make it illegal for such business to be located within a certain distance of public schools or residential areas. In Texas, at least four different bills would put venues that host drag performances in the same category as adult movie theaters and strip clubs.
- Six of these bills also explicitly ban minors from viewing or participating in drag performances: A South Carolina bill would make it a felony to allow a minor to view a drag performance, and a Nebraska bill would make it illegal to attend a performance until the age of 19. Other bills would implicitly ban minors by reclassifying drag shows as adult or sexually oriented.
- Four bills explicitly ban drag performances at schools or public libraries. A drafted Montana bill would introduce a $5,000 fine to any school, library, or employee of a school or library who is found to be in violation of the law, and in Arizona, it would be illegal to hold a drag performance within a quarter mile of a school or public playground.
This is certainly not the first time governments have attempted to prevent people from wearing their preferred clothing when they perform in front of an audience. Laws criminalizing dressing in clothing customarily worn by the gender to which a person was not assigned at birth were common, and commonly enforced, in the 19th century. These were unconstitutional restrictions on expressive rights and used to disproportionately harm the LGBTQ+ community then, and they remain so now.
These attacks on drag shows and performers strike at the heart of our rights to gather, read, and perform together. Drag shows are an exercise of artistic and creative expression that should be free from government suppression.
As for your binary box again the entire subject is farvmore complicated than to be boiled down to something that simple.
Sounds to me like it's simple to you: Whatever sex they are seen as at birth is the only sex they should ever been seen as under the law, and when it comes to sports.
A mental disorder not unless being dyslexic is considered a mental disorder. It appears we are of the same opinion. As you believe that until a full transitioning is complete the person is the gender which they were born.
Please should us where trans is considered a mental disorder.
And we are NOT of the same opinion. I do not hold your bigoted opinions.
Again they can live their lives however thet choose and I support them 100pct. Until their rights interfere with someone else's life then we have to make a descion.
No, you don't support them, you don't support schools supporting them, or even speaking of ANY LGBTQ+ issue. You want to keep the second or even third class citizens who can't even appear before children.
Which is insane, as we grew up with men in drag, including Uncle Milty, Geraldine and many others. On family TV.