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I disagree with excluding trans individuals from sports, but I can understand that there might be some leagues that disagree with me. So if a league or a private group wants to start discriminating based on some horseshit arguments about competitive advantage, I would simply boycot that league and move on with my day. I can't control what private groups want to do, and I can't force them to change eligibility requirements.
This isn't that.
What the fuck is this? There isn't even a horseshit argument about competitive advantage here. Are they saying that trans women are going to have so much testosterone that they tear up the fields? It's just bigotry, and it's government sponsored bigotry. We can do something about that.
This is where all the vitriol over trans women in sports leads. Roller derby is such a hugely queer sport, I'm so proud of them for taking a stand to defend their teammates.
I would agree to an extent. I don't know if I would be okay with a 'whites only' league existing.
I wouldn't be OK with it, but I wouldn't have much to do about it. If it were government sponsored, I'd have a lot of things I'd be doing about it.
So you're okay with systemic racial discrimination, so long as it's not the government?
Boycot in this context can vary from not buying the product (tickets) to pipebombs in an office building
Pipe bombs are absolutely not the same thing as a boycott.
There should be some kind of way to add a "joke" -tag in a message
That would require making a joke first. I don't see how saying you'll bomb a government office is a joke.
Yes you can. We have many laws protecting groups from discrimination. That's why you can't legally discriminate against people by race/ethnicity, sex/gender, or disability.
It sounds to me like you don't respect the idea of LGBTQ+ people being part of a protected class.
It sounds to me like you're going out of your way to selectively interpret what I said to create an argument.
I am not empowered to enforce the law, and I have no legal standing to sue for discrimination. I also can't stop thieves or murderers, but that doesn't mean I condone those crimes, either.
Sorry, I assumed you lived in a democratic country and were stating that there was no way anyone could ever be obligated not to discriminate. Assuming you live somewhere where you have zero ability to influence change, your original post makes more sense, and doesn't read like a tacit endorsement of the current status quo against trans people.
I accept your apology, and all is forgiven.