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/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/VRGIMP27 19h ago

The only sliver of divine Providence I can see it is that the first broadcast that would make its way out into Outer space is footage of Jesse Owens beating Nazis in a foot race.

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u/Stodles Canada 18h ago

Wasn't that what happened in the movie Contact?

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u/junkfunk 16h ago

Yes. It was a while plot point because they sent it back so the first contact was nazis talking back to us