"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."
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"A complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that" 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.
We were before federation.
we’re still good at purging bigots. we just get a lot more of them now
I'm not saying our mods have let their guard down, i like that every bigot waltzing in here gets dogpiled immediately as well, but we would never have had a thread like this before federation. Look at what's going on here, it's as if i'm on one of the few radlib subreddits where the mods actually recognize and ban transphobia. I get that this is educational for a lot of lemmy libs, i'm not saying we should defederate, but we should have a hexbear only part of the site where all the nazi pigs from lemm.ee or these bazinga brained techbro instances are not allowed in. A place where i do not have to put up with this shit. I want to be able to completely tune out this fediverse garbage. I get that it's god for recruitment and educating left-leaning folks, i see a merit in that we federated on an agitprop level, but to me as a person, as a user of thisn site it's worthless and even harmful. I have enough fights to fight every day. I do not come here for more of that, i came here to shitpost and blow off steam in a safe environment and i do not have that safe environment anymore because this place is overrun with liberal cissie pigs "just asking questions". There's a reason i post so much less nowadays, it's just better for my overall wellbeing to hang out on left-ish trans discords instead. They're also full of libs, but at least those libs usually do not want to argue their right to misgender me or why it's complicated to not speak out about us being denied the right to exist in public.
cant argue with any of that. i especially agree we need a hexbear only comm/comms. im sorry this federation has driven you away, i miss ur presence on hexbear and im sure many others do too. it gets worse when we federate one instance at a time bc we’re opening a new floodgate every other week and as soon as things calm down we open another. once we federate widely enough and ban the bad faith non-hexbear users, im sure things will be much calmer