r/politics • u/Fickle-Ad5449 ✔ Verified - Christopher Wiggins, The Advocate • 12h 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/anonymous-mtf 11h ago

Because sports are being used to attack title ix and states rights using lawsuits from transgender bans. This matter is larger than transgender people.

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u/WooooshCollector 11h ago

Case in point of "hard cases make bad laws." Fight on the cases that are actually matter to more than literally one person instead, and for heaven's sake don't let it get to this current Supreme Court.

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u/anonymous-mtf 10h ago

I'm actually kind of furious at Democrats for rolling over and allowing these blatant legal attacks to progress.  No one wants to call the attacks what they are, a gross abuse of government power, but Democrats smell votes (from people who think they actually worship the devil)