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B.C. man questions 9-year-old's gender in 'gobsmacking' track-and-field incident (www.cbc.ca)

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A B.C. family has garnered sympathy online — and international media attention — after sharing what they described as an incident in which a man questioned their nine-year-old daughter's gender during a sporting event.

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[–] QHC@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because they have been told it matters. That's it.

Trump recently joked on stage at a rally that nobody cared about trans issues 5 years ago. The audience laughed. I don't think either side of that incident had enough self-awareness to realize what that statement implies.

[–] Lells@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@QHC the amount of things that whole statement implies is staggering, not least of which being that none of them are considering trans people to be "anybody"... sigh, this world....