He used the inverse of the argument he used for not supporting Democrats over Gaza, but to defend trans people. He completely blew up his own argument.
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Is it being hostile to trans people to ask them to participate in sports that correspond with the sex that they were born in?
Then what is the “brave” position regarding trans issues? That is also politically viable for Democrats to support?
Participating in sports already has eligibility requirements for example. Look at the para Olympics or special Olympics other sports leagues also have requirements regarding drug testing and other performance enhancing substance requirements. How are trans people being marginalized in any way for following the same rules the rest of us have to follow?
Why can’t you articulate what the actual issue that you want Democrats to defend?
Can you provide some polling that proves this?
are you trolling?
Not a lie told.
Please provide it. Cause most questions is about women's sports not trans people in general
No, I am not trolling. You posited a claim that should be easily verifiable with a few polls, can you provide some?
So, just like @Loose said, the majority of your post is about women's sports specifically, rather than trans issues as a whole.
You also did not include a breakdown of how women feel about the trans issue, like I initially asked. Can you provide that information? Because you claimed that the majority of women don't support trans issues. Do you have any polls demonstrating your claims specifically?
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There is a really simple answer here. Because otherwise you're trying to create a solution for a problem that doesn't exist.
There is no attack/invasion on women's or men's sports at any level by trans people. You're literally dying on the hill of a hot take that's provocative and scares people. You know, like Hatians eating your pets...
World Athletics plans cheek-swab tests for elite athletes in female category
Governing body of track and field said new research shows male advantage exists before puberty and recommends ‘pre-clearance’ testing for female category
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World Athletics plans cheek-swab tests for elite athletes in female category
Governing body of track and field said new research shows male advantage exists before puberty and recommends ‘pre-clearance’ testing for female category
I'm confused, what does this have to do with the question I asked? You stated that the majority of females oppose trans issues?
You narrowed it down to just sports, do you not understand the question or are you deliberately misdirecting?
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Elissa Slotkin, the former CIA analyst turned battleground senator, will on Thursday start road-testing what she calls a “war plan” to “contain and defeat Donald Trump.”
In the first of a series of speeches about the Democratic Party’s path out of the wilderness, the Michigan senator said she will span everything from strategy to tactics and tone, acknowledging public perception of the party as “weak and woke” needs to change. She is urging Democrats to “fukking retake the flag” with appeals to voters’ sense of patriotism, to adopt “the goddamn Alpha energy” of Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell and to embrace an “airing out” of potential 2028 presidential candidates in a broadly contested primary.
Slotkin’s description of the speech as a “war plan” came in a recorded dry-run of the remarks viewed by POLITICO. In an interview, she hedged on whether she would continue to call it that, saying “it’s a military-style operational plan. I don’t understand how to rally us into a coherent approach if we aren’t on the same page on where we’re going.”
Slotkin won her seat last year in a state that Trump carried (and where Trump will return to for a 100 days event Tuesday), defeating Republican challenger Mike Rogers to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow. That has given her some cachet among party leaders, operatives, donors and activists following an election in which Democrats wiped out. After delivering Democrats’ official rebuttal to Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress last month, Slotkin decamped to her farmhouse in Holly, Michigan last month to develop what she is branding as a more robust strategy to oppose Trump.
She urged Democrats considering running for president in 2028 to get in early — “not waiting until 2027, start getting people kind of in circulation —and a broad group of people.”
An aide described her forthcoming remarks as a part buck-up, part come-to-Jesus speech.
Slotkin’s plan lays out why she thinks Democrats suffered sweeping setbacks last year, including focus groups of home-state voters who she said described her party as “weak and woke.”It defines success as winning a number of upcoming battles, including at the Supreme Court.
Her strategy also focuses on language and tone. She said Democrats should stop using the term “oligarchy,” a phrase she said doesn’t resonate beyond coastal institutions, and just say that the party opposes “kings.” And to beat their weak and woke rap, Democrats should channel the “no-bullshyt” energy of the Lions’ Campbell, she said, “A wonderfully sappy guy with his players,” but who is also “smart and tough and lovable.”
Slotkin plans to deliver another speech — which is set to focus on “killing sacred cows”
“I don’t think we need to hide the fact that Trump is flooding the zone and making us look 12 different ways at the same time,” Slotkin said. “But again, because I come from the national security background, there’s no end to fighting unless you’re dead.”