“It is a complicated issue. It is truly a complicated issue, with a wide range of views, truly a wide range of views,” Jean-Pierre said. “There is no ‘yes or no’ answer to this, it is complicated. There is a rule that the Department of Education [DOE] has put forward, and we’re going to let that process move forward, and again, we want to make sure that while we establish guardrails with this rule, we also prevent discrimination, as well, against transgender kids. But again, a complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that.”

“Absolutely no reason for the Biden admin to do this,” New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “It is indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can still walk this back, and they should. It’s a disgrace.”

“Honestly, this move by Biden to push a rule on trans kids in sports is not only a backwards betrayal, it [forces] us to have to spend our time dealing with god d*** sports instead of criminal bans on our healthcare,” Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate, wrote. “He could have just done nothing. This is legitimizing transphobia.”

The mOsT PrOgReSsIvE Administration in History™ funny-clown-hammer “A complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that” funny-clown-hammer Fuck off out of here with that “centrist” nonsense. There’s nothing complicated about it, and it’s not an issue unless you want to turn it into one and want to appeal to people’s emotions like Republicans are doing. It was only a matter of time before they’d start throwing trans people under the bus. I guess with the coming elections it’s as good a time as ever.

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    I’m sorry to say this, but like most cis people who like to talk about trans people’s bodies, you have no idea what you’re talking about. You talk about scientific facts, yet lack any understanding of what transitioning even does to a person’s body. You often see transphobes throwing around their “biologically male” line when talking about trans women, when it goes against all reality. You people with these “opinions” always leave out the fact that a trans person’s body goes through various changes that affect one’s biological composition. Hormone therapy doesn’t just change someone’s appearance. It also changes various biological processes, including bone density and loss of muscle mass. If you’d even do the most basic of research on trans people, you’d know that trans people talk about these things all the time, because they’re very obvious changes that you cannot ignore. As a matter of fact, the irony is that there are many trans women who have even lower testosterone levels than most cis women, due to how much androgen is being suppressed with HRT. All of this stuff is medically known.

    I feel like I’m going to be ripped apart for this. But again I just want to emphasis I’m all for transgender rights.

    Yeah, you’re going to be ripped apart for this, because your so called “support” for rights is purely performative if you’re undermining those very rights with misinformation.

    I know the republicans are the ones making this an issue but take politics out of it and it was going to come up regardless

    No, it wasn’t. Wtf? It’s never been an issue until conservatives maliciously turned it into an issue. How many cases of trans women dominating sports do you about? I would like to know. Trans people are a very small minority. The amount of trans people who play sports is even smaller. Out of that tiny tiny minority, how many even play on a professional level? This wasn’t going to become an issue. And you can’t take the politics out of it, because turning this into an issue when there’s a completely lack of evidence that the issue even exists, is very much a political act.