To think if I, some minimally enlightened Gen X Cis Het white man from a small town can figure all this out and see the field of red flags waving for attention, what’s wrong with everyone that voted for it? Why are people so narrow minded, ignorant and fearful that they let a bunch of people who just want to push a narrative lead them merrily into damnation?

The sort of Doctor I would want my child seeing would be aghast at this type of unnecessary procedure.

Plus isn’t there the matter of privileged medical information?

So a young girl who goes to a Doctor and is told that there is something that would make her run afoul of these ballot measures won’t be outed, they will just not progress with joining sports. The external difference between a “trans” individual and a girl that won’t or can’t comply will be nil. They aren’t going to get a gotcha, they are just going to get reduced participation.

Does this mean when the fascist pricks that have pushed this shit don’t have hard figures on how many trans kids they have barred from sport they will just take that whole number and claim they have kept that many “trans kids” from sneaking into women’s sports?

Fuck this whole steaming pile of shit gets worse the more I think about how a maximally evil person could manipulate this to push a fictional world view.

Checking for hernias, something that could give you a lot of grief if it went bad. Arguably not that big a deal not something I hear being done a lot these days. I had to do the same when I was doing flight training. The intent was to prevent a medical issue from blowing up into a much bigger deal, and while potentially embarassing it was minimally invasive.

This, this is not medically necessary this is solely informed by culture war nonsense and transphobia. And once the transvestigators get involved how many girls families will be expected to spend thousands of dollars on genetic and hormone testing? This is being presented as defending women’s sports but it’s actually a potentially massive impediment.

Conservatives and Christians turning women’s sports into the Battle of Bến Tre. What a time to be alive.

Wow I haven’t been super informed about this. How much of a bite will this take out of women’s sports participation?

They are literally throwing a huge hurdle up in front of every girl or woman that wants to play sports just in case one of them might be trans, not to mention anyone with non standard genital presentation or hormone imbalances or any of the other little variations of the human form that they like to pretend don’t exist. These people are the sort who would go target shooting with an ICBM.

Then again a lot of these freaks don’t really get why women would want to play sports when they could be having babies I guess. I swear the sooner we can start putting religion in the rear view the sooner we can start recovering as a species.

Totally agreed, I cut myself off before the diatribe became a screed, but if I had kept going I would have touched on that point. You did it a lot more succinctly than I would have. Thank you.

I realised I had bitten off far more than I could chew so I dragged in the slop bots. I could have opened the project up to other contributors and or stepped back or even away entirely and let the project continue but it made more sense for me to let big tech splooge all over it.

Maybe I am being unfair, but fuck that so sick of this slop code shit ruining everything because people are too fucking lazy to write their own code, too proud to get help, and too dumb to utilise the appropriate free software license.

And before one of the AI fucking collaborators chimes in “erghh local models” its all still built on theft of the community commons, and once the AI industry shits itself to death and the VC funding dries up development will stagnate, who is going to pay out the mega dollars to train new models, so your local models will see some minor updates but that’s it, I’d be really careful about lobotomizing yourself because an LLM can think for you.