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[–]quickbeam 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As a straight partnered Gen-X who has never cared about sports I never really encountered a situation where trans rights interfered with my rights so I figured what's the big deal. I think a lot of other X'ers might be in my boat. Just assuming they are for rights because rights are always good, right? But not taking into account that this is a somewhat different situation where one set of rights might be infringed upon by another. I also had no idea that there were people de-transitioning. It seemed like so much trouble to go to that I couldn't imagine people would get hormones or surgery unless they were 100% definitely transgender and had no other choice. Now seeing that some kids are regretting their decision and in some cases the process has been damaging to them, it's really heartbreaking. I'm not sure who in my network I can share this information with safely, but I am going to slowly begin that process. I think we jumped the gun on this as a society. I want to be as respectful as possible to trans-identified people, but this really needs to be reframed as a balancing of rights and trying to find a solution that works for everyone. If that's even still possible!