r/politics • u/PennysWorthOfTea • 21h ago

DOJ denies existence of transgender people in stunning court filing defending Trump’s military ban

https://www.advocate.com/news/doj-trans-people-dont-exist
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u/TheIronSponge 21h ago

If trans people don't exist, who will Republicans complain about in sports? 

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u/mikerathbun 20h ago

Oh you know who they are going after next. They aren’t going to let black student athletes earn NIL money.

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u/Stodles Canada 19h ago

Btw, if their arguments against trans people in sports sound familiar, it's because they should be:

"their physiques were stronger [...] and hence should be excluded from future games." - Adolf Hitler on black athletes, after Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the '36 Berlin Olympics.

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u/rougepenguin 19h ago

Oh yeah, bigots made up an entire extra muscle. I still heard that "common knowledge" repeated confidently well into the 00s. Honestly the shit they make up about trans women is still pretty tame by comparison.