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Texas sues Biden administration for right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ students
(www.lgbtqnation.com)
What a bunch of ghouls
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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Well, that's gonna make Rafael Edward Cruz's daughter's school life even harder. She has come out as bi. https://www.sgn.org/story.php?312345
Cheney's younger daughter Mary was bi, and both he and Liz were happy enough to throw her under the bus in order to advance their political careers.
Texas will not allow Joe Biden to rewrite Title IX at whim, destroying legal protections for women
Because only we get to do that!
"Texas will not allow Joe Biden to rewrite Title IX at whim, destroying legal protections for women.."
Ohoho. Oh yeah. That quote coming from this woman's rights denying Texas shit bag is RICH
The new rules do not discuss the issue of transgender student-athletes and which teams they can play on.
Won't someone think of the athletes?!
I fucking hate this shit. Puh-lease. Like suddenly you care about women when it comes to women's sports fuck off with that shit, I don't give a fuck if someone who used to have balls won the women's soccer division give me my rights back you lying piece of shit ass sucker
I don’t give a fuck if someone who used to have balls won the women’s soccer division give me my rights back you lying piece of shit ass sucker
While I completely agree with your sentiment, I would imagine that some of the women in your scenario might find it extremely unfair to be competing with someone who has an innate physical advantage over them.
That's the problem with this culture war stuff, what should be reasoned debate becomes polarised shouting matches and people calling each other nazis.
What innate physical advantage? Transwoman on T blockers often have lower T than cis women.
Exactly. Almost as if trans women are actually women...
The whole, "They'll dominate women's sports!" is an ignorant statement at best and a blatant strawman at worst.
You know the IOC, who have pretty solid reason to know what they're on about, just released a study on this, and it suggests that trans women have a disadvantage as compared to cis women? Because that fits the actual results, where we haven't seen trans women winning 0.5% of competitions in line with their prevalence, nor more, but less? In any distribution there will always be outliers, but even the ones the people causing a culture war (who, incidentally, did focus groups to find the most effective way to make trans people a wedge issue) have found to trumpet from the skies as a "threat to women's sports" because of trans women's "innate advantages" lose all the time. They have one good day and they're dominating.
What was really fuckin wild to me was multiple mutant Michael Phelps coming out and parroting this opinion. Motherfucker, you have a reduced lactic acid mutation and longer arms than is the norm for your height. Should you be stripped of all of your medals, for your innate advantages? Because he's way more unfair than any trans woman anyone has yet found to present to his competition, but that's fine because.... Why?
ah yes, sports. Where everything is fair and equal, and certain individuals don't have obscene genetic advantages over others.
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It wasn't all that long ago when conservatives hated women's sports precisely because they conflated women athletes with lesbians.
You will be getting that back next if they succeed with this.
Excited for a law that requires Jerry Sandusky to inspect my kids genitals before every UIL event.
What could go wrong?
Hate states gonna hate. It's all they have.
If you take away all the hatred and reactionary thinking, and you insist on the actual points of progress or improvement or policy they wish to make, you’ll find there there’s nothing left.
Cruelty and extremism is all they have.
Conservatism is a vile plague of deception, oppression and death. It always has been.
Teach your children why it is inappropriate to do business with or keep relationships with conservatives. Speak openly about the deadly nature of conservatism. It is a hate-based lifestyle and should be openly treated as such.
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SCOTUS: We're going to let the states decide who they want to prosecute for merely existing.
They seem to be making a lot of "states rights" arguments. At this point we should just let the several States just be nations unto themselves. It's clearly what the Federalist Society wants. But then each State will have to provide for its own defense, have to print its own currency, and there won't be any organization to regulate commerce between these new separate nations.
All they need to do is reverse Lawrence v Texas.
That was functionally the status quo during my parent's generation.
And we counter with: members of the SCOTUS are going to start disappearing until they start making decisions that benefit humanity.
The entire rest of the country should sue the Biden administration for the right to discriminate against Texas.
Notice how Texas is kind of the only state where people move to it and can't stop boasting about how great everything is? Like I think you're trying to convince yourself not me, buddy.
It's only the Conservatives doing that, anymore. I don't think most folks from Austin, Houston, and Dallas are really under any illusions, anymore.
And to be fair, Texas has a lot going for it, if only you could excise the cancer that is the Republican party. They ratfuck the state and still somehow manage to scare their followers into believing it would be worse without them.
As a drunk Houstonian, I agree. Good money, beautiful scenery, loads to do, pretty good booze, lots of tech, and a billion types of cuisine.
If we could start turning bluer we could fix education and start giving everyone a chance instead of just the rich or lucky.
I actually like it here but I know how lucky I've been after I got so little help when I needed it most.
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California decided long ago that we would all collectively do this without federal approval. So don't worry, we've got this.
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Welp, that just means I have the right to discriminate against christian nationalists. I have a right to discriminate against republican zealots.
exactly. stop pointing out their hypocrisy. they don't care. just fight fire with fire, and don't stop until there's nothing left of them but ashes. it's the only way we ever fix any of this.
How dare he take away our freedoms...to take away freedoms of other people!
Alright, I’m gonna need the state to secede so the US military comes in and rolls the fuck over our stupid-ass state government so we might actually see some relative sanity restored to office in my lifetime.
The shit was doing just fine when suddenly the fan dropped just to hit the shit. That's the Republican party right there.
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There aren't enough insults to issue to the people that run this state to tell them how much I think they are so full of stupidity. I can comfortably say I know where the LOWEST bar is for our nation.
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Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott deserve to be peeled.
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