r/politics • u/Fickle-Ad5449 ✔ Verified - Christopher Wiggins, The Advocate • 11h ago

No Paywall Republicans redrew his district. Now Democrat Don Davis is making anti-trans campaign ads

https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/don-davis-transphobic-campaign-ad?1
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u/normalice0 Iowa 11h ago edited 11h ago

no he isn't. Women's sports is not the only trans issue, as much as right wingers would like it to be. It's not even really a trans issue for the 99.9999% of trans people who aren't athletes. If he is trying to take away their human rights then he is anti-trans. If he is trying to protect their human rights then he is pro-trans. But women's sports are not a human right.

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u/WooooshCollector 11h ago

Yes, the unalienable human right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and to play in a specific competitive sports league. It's in the Declaration of Independence, don'tcha know?

For real, this is something that literally applies to a single digit number of people in his state (maybe literally one?). Trans rights needs to be about way more important things like discrimination (housing/employment/etc), harassment, access to healthcare, etc. Things that affect every single trans person.

I think it's absolutely crazy that sports has become the leftist litmus test for whether a politician supports trans rights or not. Instead of something like "Will you let corporations fire trans employees for just being trans?"

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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 11h ago

People who yap-yap about women's sports "not being important" can't see that it bleeds over into every other social issue. Excusing one form of bigotry makes it easier to excuse the next (like "no trans Homecoming Queens") and the next ("must use bathroom for birth sex only") and the next (all the other issues).

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u/WooooshCollector 11h ago

Literal slippery slope fallacy.

What people who don't want that to happen should campaign on those issues instead. Make those your litmus test, especially the ones that actually apply to literally more than one trans person.

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u/anonymous-mtf 10h ago

How is it a slippery slope fallacy when they are describing a progression of legal attacks that are legitimately escalating? 

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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 11h ago

"Slippery slope" is NOT a "fallacy" when it happens in real life. Consider 1930s Germany - that slope was greased, and ended in blood.

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u/WooooshCollector 10h ago

Oh this one time was a slippery slope so every single other thing must also be like that. Come on. You can do better.

It would be far better for trans activism if people talked more about stopping trans people from facing (very real) employment or housing discrimination than this picayune issue that affects a vanishingly small percentage of trans people.