"It is a complicated issue. It is truly a complicated issue, with a wide range of views, truly a wide range of views," Jean-Pierre said. "There is no 'yes or no' answer to this, it is complicated. There is a rule that the Department of Education [DOE] has put forward, and we're going to let that process move forward, and again, we want to make sure that while we establish guardrails with this rule, we also prevent discrimination, as well, against transgender kids. But again, a complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that."
"Absolutely no reason for the Biden admin to do this," New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote. "It is indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can still walk this back, and they should. It's a disgrace."
"Honestly, this move by Biden to push a rule on trans kids in sports is not only a backwards betrayal, it [forces] us to have to spend our time dealing with god d*** sports instead of criminal bans on our healthcare," Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate, wrote. "He could have just done nothing. This is legitimizing transphobia."
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"A complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that" Fuck off out of here with that "centrist" nonsense. There's nothing complicated about it, and it's not an issue unless you want to turn it into one and want to appeal to people's emotions like Republicans are doing. It was only a matter of time before they'd start throwing trans people under the bus. I guess with the coming elections it's as good a time as ever.
we can request other instance admins to block that comm instance-wide. if some admins dont then yes, we will manually ban users. but they wont even see it in their “all” feed unless someone in their instance subscribes to it. its just supposed to function as a haven away from the rest of the fediverse. idk if it’s going to “fix” anything but i think it will be nice to have a safe haven where it’s just hexbears. ik it doesnt address ur concerns well, but perhaps it would be helpful if you reiterated those concerns in a c/feedback post so we could have a discussion abt it wider than just the two of us :)
I've just aired all of this in a big, emotional post in the pinned announcement thread for the den. Sorry in advance when one sentence there comes off as calling you out, i had to vent. Like, really had to. From what i've seen after writing that, local-only comms actually do not seem hard to implement, we may have those soon and i damn hope so because that's the only way i'm staying on this reddit-ass site.
no worries :)