“It is a complicated issue. It is truly a complicated issue, with a wide range of views, truly a wide range of views,” Jean-Pierre said. “There is no ‘yes or no’ answer to this, it is complicated. There is a rule that the Department of Education [DOE] has put forward, and we’re going to let that process move forward, and again, we want to make sure that while we establish guardrails with this rule, we also prevent discrimination, as well, against transgender kids. But again, a complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that.”

“Absolutely no reason for the Biden admin to do this,” New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “It is indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can still walk this back, and they should. It’s a disgrace.”

“Honestly, this move by Biden to push a rule on trans kids in sports is not only a backwards betrayal, it [forces] us to have to spend our time dealing with god d*** sports instead of criminal bans on our healthcare,” Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate, wrote. “He could have just done nothing. This is legitimizing transphobia.”

The mOsT PrOgReSsIvE Administration in History™ funny-clown-hammer “A complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that” funny-clown-hammer Fuck off out of here with that “centrist” nonsense. There’s nothing complicated about it, and it’s not an issue unless you want to turn it into one and want to appeal to people’s emotions like Republicans are doing. It was only a matter of time before they’d start throwing trans people under the bus. I guess with the coming elections it’s as good a time as ever.

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      The brain understands that they are not the same, and unfortunately never will be.

      There it is lol. thanks for nothing, bitch

      an ideal world is one where all the fascists and capitalists are laid out in a nice little line and mowed down with .50 cal’s

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      “Period, end of story.”

      “That being said…”

      You support trans people. BUT… is not support of trans people. Its not complicated. The science is not complicated, its settled and theres no difference.

      If you support trans peole stop at “end of story.”

      Edit: i reread your post and its even worse than i thought at first glance. You’re just an outright bigot in denial.

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      It’s not complicated whatsoever.

      A transwoman is a woman, regardless of where they are in transition. They don’t have to transition AT ALL for that to be true.

      They are a woman with a condition - being trans.

      A trans man is a man, regardless of where they are in transition. They don’t have to transition AT ALL for that to be true.

      They are a man with a condition - being trans.

      The only “complicated” thing in this is your bigoted mindset. You believe that these people are not what they say they are until they undergo and complete transition. You see them as their gender assigned at birth, which is incorrect, and you see them as “changing” their gender by undergoing invasive hormone treatment and surgery. This is a completely bigoted transphobic mindset and you need to rid yourself of these brainworms. brainworms

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          The issue is that you think they need to transition in order to be fucking valid dipstick. By enforcing “you must transition first” you are actively taking the position that they’re not valid until they do.

          Fuck you. Stop talking to trans people. You are dangerous to them and their health.

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      There is no easy, fix all answer. It does not exist. You are left with a minority vs a majority. In an ideal world, yes, the answer would be easy and done with. We do not live in an ideal world.

      There an “easy fix.” There is an “easy answer” and you know exactly what that is the same way that ghoul does. The reason we don’t live in an “ideal world” is because people like you advocate for throwing minorities under the bus the moment our existence becomes even slightly inconvenient for you.

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      Unless you believe that people will change their genders expressly for an advantage in sports, the differences aren’t salient. And you shouldn’t believe that.

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      It is pretty complicated, yeah. Scientifically accurate human sex is not conducive to cleanly segregating people into two categories. Yeah, there are clusters, but I guess all systems are perfectly reasonable as long as you ignore all the ways that they don’t make sense or fail to do their job. Ending gender segregation is the only valid solution.

      But question of whether or not the Biden administration’s Department of Education should be using its powers to limit trans kids from playing school sports? That’s the only thing they have the power to do on this issue. And the answer is not complicated.