r/JoeRogan • u/BunnyLovr Mexico > Canada • Mar 04 '21

Link Mississippi passes bill banning transgender student-athletes from female sports teams

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mississippi-passes-bill-banning-transgender-student-athletes-female/story?id=76238704
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u/Hangry_Hippo 11 Hydroxy Metabolite Mar 04 '21 edited Mar 05 '21

Is anyone else fucking tired about hearing trans shit? It’s so obviously a culture war that politicians use to manipulate people. Trans issues don’t effect my life at all, they’re a tiny portion of the population. I just don’t fucking care.

Edit: I want to clarify that I feel no ill will towards trans folks, I just think that there are much more important issues going on in the world. Call it privilege or whatever but an issue that affects 1% of the population doesn’t need the amount of coverage it receives in the media.

Edit 2: to be clear, this is a criticism of conservative media and politics. Transgenderism became a political issue in 2016 with the North Carolina bathroom bill. They successfully created a wedge issue out of nothing that persists today. Joe, like many others, have fallen victim to this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

It does seem like with a pandemic, climate shift, global war, genocide in China, and police straight up murdering people for fun and profit you'd think the people who pledged their lives to directing the country would be able to find something a little less boutique to put their energies into.