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🐆 Right-wing trans woman finds out "gender-criticals" cannot be reasoned with (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Armand1@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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...I could have told you that 🤷

Source: https://x.com/BriannaWu/status/1984574165643403370

Not my usual kind of source (Xitter), but I want any centrists out there who ask trans people to "just get along" / compromise with actual hate groups that want them eradicated to know that it doesn't work.

There is no such thing as a reasonable bigot, by definition.

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[–] powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

We have two boxers who are born as a woman [..]

Right, they were incorrectly assigned female at birth and raised as women but are biologically male, because

the athletes do not meet one of the eligibility criteria

I'm confused as to why you think those quotes support your point. The sex testing was done by an accredited lab, and is the eligibility criteria they do not meet.