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Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by afavour on Saturday August 22, 2026 @06:59PM (#49404690)
“It’s seen as”

Is the crucial statement there. Not “it is”.

> It affects women and parents of girls

No it doesn’t. It’s a new boogeyman to demonize that isn’t actually a factor in almost anyone’s lives. Not to mention that the people pushing this issue are proposing things like genital inspections to ensure the boogeyman never arrives:

https://www.newsweek.com/kansas-republicans-pass-bill-genita...

As the parent of a girl I’m a hell of a lot more concerned about that than I am of a trans kid wanting to play sports.

Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by ipaddr on Saturday August 22, 2026 @07:51PM (#49404980)
The genitals inspections are a result of trans issue. Not concerning yourself with one issue that creates the issue you dislike is shortsighted.

I agree with "seen as" vibes think of the children era being foolish but its what liberal parents are talking about. Mega followers never accepted trans in sport or life so this doesn't change viewpoints.

Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by CamperBob2 on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:20PM (#49405428)
The genitals inspections are a result of trans issue. Not concerning yourself with one issue that creates the issue you dislike is shortsighted.

The "issue" is only an "issue" because some people on Fox News told you it was an "issue." Ask what you're being distracted from.

Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by the_gastropod on Saturday August 22, 2026 @10:00PM (#49405570)
What are you even talking about? Trans folks didn’t suddenly pop into existence in 2014 or whatever, and force conservatives to recognize them. There’ve been trans people since the beginning of human civilization. As with so many of these culture war topics, this outrage was just pulled from nowhere one day to rile up Fox News viewers after they’d adequately calmed down about Obama’s tan suit.

Suddenly, not wanting trans folks to participate in civilization, Conservatives have gone all in on the transvestigation bullshit that includes genital inspections, accusing conventionally less feminine-looking cis women of being men, etc.

These people are just bigots.

Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by blikn on Sunday August 23, 2026 @08:05AM (#49408138)
No-one is asking for "genital inspections". This is a claim invented for the purpose of sidestepping the fairness argument.
Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by esseph on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:30AM (#49409623)
Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by blikn on Sunday August 23, 2026 @01:32PM (#49410694)
Yes. Read the text of bill linked from that article. There is nothing in there that mandates "genital inspection" for the purpose of sex verification in sports. It merely provides an option of reusing existing health data that has already been collected.

But of course data reuse isn't a sufficiently controversial framing, so a "genital inspection" angle is pushed instead by the author of the article.

Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by esseph on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:40PM (#49412418)
The initiative would require students who want to participate in girls’ sports to provide “a health examination and consent form or other statement signed by the student’s personal health care provider that verifies the student’s biological sex, relying only on one or more of the following: The student’s reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels.”
Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by the_gastropod on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:07PM (#49412094)
There is no fairness argument, only ignorance. For amateur sports, giving even a little bit of a shit is just pathetic. The risk of accusing cis girs/women of being trans is obviously extremely damaging. And discouraging trans folks from participating in amateur sports is also incredibly cruel.

For professional or top-tier competitive sports, virtually every sports organization has had rules in place to handle this for decades. The IOC has used testosterone levels as the barometer for fairness since 2003. The entire right-wing apparatus works by feigning ignorance, pretending nobody has ever thought about the fairness of trans folks in sports, all to infuriate easily suggestible rubes. It's beyond absurd.

Re:Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade... by blikn on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:51PM (#49412497)
You have demonstrated another method of sidestepping the fairness argument, which is to pretend it doesn't exist and claim that no-one should care anyway.