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Do not engage with such bullshit. This is such a fucking non-issue, that is ultimately more about demonizing one of the most marginalized minorities in history, rather than "protecting" anyone.
Yes, but the problem is that the right engages with these issues. It allows them to score points. The left should have never been in a position where it was arguing in favor of trans women in women's sports. It allows the ghouls on the right to dodge the economic and social issues that really matter.
The left should focus on real problems that matter to people in material ways. The right wants to make major cultural battles over some tiny fraction of people. They don't "engage with these issues", they create them. If you feel the need yo constantly defend yourself from every manufactured right wing outrage, you have already lost. By engaging, you legitimize their narrative. Focus on improving peoples' lives in measurable ways.
You cannot let the right's reactions control what you do. You'll never win if you let that happen.
That's the mistake that centrist triangulators like Newsom keep making.
When America shifts to the left on economic issues, that benefits all Americans, especially vulnerable groups like the trans community. The issue of trans athletes in women's sports helps no one. It doesn't help trans people. How does trans atletes in women's sports benefit trans people at large? It only causes hostility against the trans cause and against progressive politics.
Oh, because it worked so great last election. Tell me, how man seats for the Democrats pick up?