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Follow up question for PP, what's a biological male?

Make a policy on any of the issues Trudeau is supposedly bungling <-> Murican' style culture war

Sweaty superhero meme.

Yeah, I'm not sure why he's doing this. I guess his general polls are looking really good so he's focusing on his own caucus? Or maybe he just wants to distract from his own (deliberate, strategic) lack of vision, since I've increasingly seen it get media attention.

Fuck this guy. What fucking washroom do I fucking use then? The one where I pass as a woman and no one notices or cares that I'm trans, or the one where I get assaulted or harassed by a man.

Guess I'll just shit myself.

So our most likely next PM is going to be a massive transphobe. Great.

My sister literally just moved here so that her daughter wouldn't have to suffer this shit in Britain, and it turns out the same bullshit is waiting for her right here.

Why do Conservatives have to live their entire lives finding new groups of people to hate for no good reason? There are actual problems in this country that need solving, and instead you want to put your energy into being mad that someone decided they weren't comfortable in their assigned gender?

(and no, it is not new to me that Pollievre has transphobic views, but he at least wasn't being so utterly blatant about them before. The fact that he feels comfortable saying this stuff so openly is fucking terrifying)

"But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males," he added.

Shows how much he values other opinions.

Honestly I think this is just a bad take. I didn’t see it on lemmy so I’m posting it (never done this before).

For athletes and competitive sports, realistically that’s a discussion that you need nuance for.

Blocking trans women (and not men for some reason) from change rooms and washrooms? Are there even cases where trans women are creating issues? Lesbians are perfectly capable of ogling women in those spaces anyway.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stepped into the debate over trans rights on Wednesday, saying "biological males" should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms.

Last month, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith unveiled a slate of controversial legislative changes, expected to be tabled in the fall, that will significantly alter the province's student gender identity, sports and surgery policies.

When questioned about Smith's changes in the foyer of the House of Commons, Poilievre said the decision to pursue transgender treatments should be reserved for adults alone.

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs's changes to Policy 713 require school staff to get the consent of parents before letting LGBTQ students under age 16 use the names and pronouns they choose in classrooms.

Last fall, 69 per cent of delegates to the Conservative Party's policy convention voted in favour of a motion that said those under the age of 18 should be prohibited from accessing "life-altering medicinal or surgical interventions" to treat "gender confusion and dysphoria."

"I think Mr. Poilievre and politicians like him are choosing to attack some of the most vulnerable people in our society as a way of deflecting from the fact that they are very good at creating division and anger," Trudeau said Wednesday.

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