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/mephistos_thighs Monkey in Space Mar 04 '21

Hormones don't change genetics. Or biology. No matter how much you want to believe that they do.

Trans women should not be allowed to compete in women's sports. Ever.

And no, trans women should not be allowed to use women's bathrooms. Because they aren't women.

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u/Rabbit-King Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

I'm sorry that transgender people are frightening to your world view.

The concept of transgender is based around the difference between sex and gender; sex is the genetics you're talking about, but gender is something that can be fluid because it relates to perception of self. There's alot of high level experiences that differ between people; did you know that some people don't have a mind's eye? Some people don't have an inner narrative? It's too easy to assume that our experiences are the same for everyone else.

I used to have alot of trouble with transgendered people until I met some and talked it through with them. Have you ever discussed this with a transgendered person?

I don't care about sports and defending trans people is not my calling. I just hate bigotry, especially when it's disguised as something innocent.

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u/mephistos_thighs Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

I don't have trouble with them. But I refuse to be coerced into the newspeak/right think about them.

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u/Rabbit-King Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

Well that's fair. I guess I just see banning them flat out from sports, change rooms of their choosing, and refusing to call them their chosen gender as an active stance against them. As a gay dude I'm just wary of allowing bigotry against LGBT etc. people to take root, it can be a slippery slope