he said this the same day evangelicals begged the supreme court to take up the case overturning obergefell

lol that’s ok, Dems. i still remember how long it took for yall to champion same-sex marriage. i still remember HRC’s opposition as she ran for president in 2008. now i won’t forget how your party turned on trans people in the 2020s.

keep it up!

Inskeep asked Buttigieg for his own opinion on transgender rights, to which he replied, “I think the approach starts with compassion. Compassion for transgender people, compassion for families, especially young people who are going through this, and also empathy for people who are not sure what all of this means for them. Like, wondering, ‘Wait a minute. I got a daughter in a sports league. Is she going to be competing with boys right now?’ And just taking everybody seriously.”

“I think when you do that, that does call into question some of the past orthodoxies of my party,” he continued. “For example, around sports, where I think most reasonable people would recognize that there are serious fairness issues if you just treat this as not mattering when a trans athlete wants to compete in women’s sports.”

When Inskeep pressed Buttigieg on whether he believes a parent who has complained about a trans athlete competing in girls’ school sports “has a case,” he agreed.

“Sure,” he said. “And that’s why I think these decisions should be in the hands of sports leagues and school boards and not politicians… in Washington, trying to use this as a political pawn.”

I was expecting a more nuanced case and was disappointed when I didn’t get one.

If you’re going to hand out medals, I think you should borrow from how they do it in boxing: by weight class. Or limb length or whatever matters to the sport, so that you’re competing on skill, not whoever was born with the better [insert sport here] body.

This is a stupid made up wedge issue. The real question should be - what is sports and what exactly are athletes competing for?

Why is it the default in sports male and female categories? Is it because they are physically different? Is it because one has a uterus? is it because of hormones so males and females develop differently? We have managed, through scientific breakthroughs, hormone replacement therapy to be able to transform our own bodies into what we want and that in itself is an achievement - albeit it isn’t perfect yet - but that’s another topic.

If the goal is to compete and display human physical prowess and strategy in a regulated environment then male/female/other/etc. categories shouldn’t exist. It should only be rated as ‘where do I stand as a human being among my peers in X sport?’

Trying to fit a gender into a flawed categorical system of sports is bound to cause friction.

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Just in case you thought Buttigieg was useful for anything other than Transportation Secretary, here you go.

And this is why any queer person who knows half a lick of history is, at minimum, suspicious of assimilationist sentiments if not outright hostile to them.

🖕 Fuck you too, Pete. You don’t give a shit about fairness, pandering asswipe.

New party is the only way for progress.

Dems are completely and utterly cooked, mayo Pete can take his identity politics and go fuck himself with it. Behold the anointed dem for presidential candidate in ‘28 in action. Pathetic.

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Pete, you may think you’re speaking to both sides of the Democratic base, but you’re actually just making the moderates shrug and the left want to throttle you.

Another white cis gay man dusting his hands off and says “Well I got mine” then pulls up the ladder behind him.

God what a pathetic shit head, no wonder he bombed in the primary. He’s no different than Gavin Newsome

Every fucken time these stupid bitches think they need to go right. Every fucken time all that does is alienate their own base. This shit isnt fucking hard. It literally couldn’t be easier.

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Controlled opposition party you say?