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LearnedHand

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28. The other problem with the sports thing

Reply to Oneironaut (Reply #27)

Wed May 21, 2025, 01:52 PM

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besides all the above threads, is freaking REALLY? Is winning the only thing that matters in sports? Especially school sports. In zero ways is this worthy of all the oxygen it sucks out of the real conversation. I vote for NO ONE having a say about how trans people live their lives except the people themselves. And I vote for NOT EVER entering into this abortion of a "topic." Seriously. Elected Democrats need to attend Reframing 101. Or maybe even Remedial Reframing.

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