It’s understandable to think this, but there’s a straight downward slope from Reagan to Trump. Reagan laid the groundwork for all of this, and would be just as terrible - if not worse - if he had the opportunities presented by today’s political landscape and access to wildly successful social manipulation markets.

Trump’s domestic economic playbook is straight from Reagan, plus the tariffs from Reagan’s inspiration - Coolidge - who caused the Great Depression. Taxes for everyone but the wealthy, opposed labor and unions at every turn, and dismantled as much of society’s support structure and safeguards as possible, all while blaming vulnerable scapegoats (“welfare queens”, immigrants) for the problems of the middle class.

The nine most terrifying words… are I’m from the government, and I’m here to help

• Ronald Reagan, 1986

The vague threats of not trusting the government while actively defrauding the public and exploiting international connections in order to take and keep the highest office of the land. Pretending to be for “law and order” so he could commit crimes while expanding the police, military, and surveillance state. Weaponizing the law for outright campaigns of oppression against specific demographics. The lies. The dementia.

Coolidge, Reagan, Nixon, Bush, Bush again. It’s pretty much a straight line of economic failures, human rights abuses, authoritarian expansions, criminally negligent anti-environmental policies, hostilities toward minorities, and weaponizing the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government while simultaneously dismantling it from the bottom up.

Armed with the post-watergate propaganda machine in a society that was simply not ready for the internet, Trump is the ultimate synthesis of everything they’ve been building towards. It took a village to raise this manbaby, and the parties, donors, and media manipualators are just as much to blame, if not more.

But make no mistake, all of those presidents crawled and walked so Trump could run waddle into the Oval Office and take a shit on the country.

But with “fairness” you have to draw the line somewhere or the groups that are able to play against each other would be too small.

Exactly. You shouldn’t draw arbitrary lines to split up groups of athletes such that one of the groups literally has nobody to play with.

I think it’s only understandable if people that went through puperty without testosterone would complain if they would have to compete against more and more people who went through testosterone puperty.

“More and more” people is doing some real heavy lifting here. Every statistic - every statistic - agrees that this is not a common situation at all. We don’t hear the voice of a lot of transgender athletes because there are not a lot of transgender athletes. There’s barely any. And many of them - like many cisgender athletes - aren’t even good athletes.

I think its only understandable if people that went through puberty without growing 3 feet taller would complain if they would have to compete against more and more people who naturally became 7 feet tall from puberty… but that’s not happening. It’s not common. It never will be common. And many people who do become 7 feet tall will never become competitive athletes.

It’s so uncommon to find a 7 ft tall athlete that when you do, you often find them dominating the local sports teams. They’re allowed to play. Why shouldn’t they? Recruiters follow them around the country. Colleges give them scholarships and national leagues give them millions of dollars.

Their peers - the poor high schoolers that have to play against future national pros and olympic champions - they understandably complain that they don’t have a chance of winning. They are upset when they lose, or never get to touch the ball, or get benched. And yet no national campaign. No public outcry against giantism. No superpower writing half-baked oppressive laws “protecting” short people. Nobody vilified Andre or Shaq for standing out and flexing on everybody. (Edit - and for the record, no transition by default gives athletic ability, or ever gives such a significant advantage as for e.g. height does in basketball)

Why should we treat transgender people differently?

If a person is born with an abnormally large wingspan there are undeniable advantages over everybody that wasn’t.

We don’t limit abnormal body types in sports competitions, we elevate them. Wingspan in swimming, height in basketball, muscle in football, etc. It’s already genetics, there’s nothing inherently “fair” about athletics. Abnormally - but “naturally” - high levels of testosterone literally already give people an advantage in sports.

There’s nothing more or less unfair about giving normal - but “unnatural” - levels of hormone supplementation to people for legitimate medical reason, especially when there’s so few transgender athletes in the first place, and no evidence whatsoever that they are particularly dominating a given sport.