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Re:Rival weightlifter speaks out on transgender Hubbard's Ol... by kristopolous on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:03PM (#27612202)
Huh? It's called criminal verbal threats and they're quite illegal.

Case laws have upheld them numerous times. This isn't "interpreted truths", racial slurs have been interpreted as intent and such things have been prosecuted.

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Re:Rival weightlifter speaks out on transgender Hubbard's Ol... by textgel on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:10AM (#27614749)
And you want missgendering to be interpreted legally as the equivalent of a death threat?
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