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Once again, it’s not about sports

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Why trans allies objected to Seth Moulton’s comments last month. This ‘idea’ is not fully baked because it’s not consistent even about whether it would regulate adults or children. This is not about sports.

When trans people are cut out of sports in Nassau County, New York

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Republican organizes militia. Democratic Party chair retorts: ‘Does he think we’re going to be invaded by Suffolk County?’ Your neighbors are ‘trained’ to serve someone who marks everyone’s sex as a site of surveillance and regulation. This violence affects everyone.

Oh, it’s about sports, is it?

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Nope, it’s not. It’s about constraining transgender lives. I don’t judge sports. I don’t pretend to. But I can detect when someone alleges injury and proposes a false remedy to delegitimize a group of people.