Advocacy groups throughout the conservative commentary ecosystem have pushed to get these leagues on record about transgender athlete participation, without success.

Now, these groups are moving beyond just trying to get athlete eligibility questions on record. XX-XY Athletics, the sports apparel group that has used Cunningham’s comments as a way get its brand in front of cameras at WNBA games, is suing Colorado in court saying its state anti-discrimination law prevents the company from marketing its apparel using trans athletes’ deadnames and misgendering them deliberately. The company is at least partially bankrolled by a prominent conservative couple in Colorado with deep ties in Republican politics. The company’s face and CEO, Jennifer Sey, a Bay Area resident, was a national champion gymnast before she gained a following online arguing against COVID school closures and vaccine mandates.

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      Aren’t being killed? My guy…. They have been being killed for a while now…. And hounded into suicide, abused, harassed. The harm is happening now. Yes, it can get worse, but it is already bad. I don’t think standing aside is the winning move you think it is. Stand with your allies. A very liberal solution there

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        So what’s the end point? If the left doesn’t win then where do we go?

        We go towards death. They will kill more and the only hope is resistance. The only hope is we kill as many of them as they kill of us. That’s the future down the line! However, most people will go into hiding because they don’t want to be hunted down. So either way the only way out to survive is silence, is to lay low and hope democracy prevails. If it doesn’t then be ready to run, hide, or KILL

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      If they win, Democrats might put on a show about “justice” but they aren’t going to deliver on it. This goes far deeper than just one rogue president or one political party. Trick question: If you represented a large group of decadent, sociopathic billionaires with essentially unlimited funds and control of the vast majority of information and media, who wanted to infiltrate American politics to regulatory capture and disable all rules that apply to themselves so they can take more and more and push their unpopular agendas, which political party would you infiltrate?

      If you answered either “Democrat” or “Republican”: you’re wrong, the correct and actual answer is “both”. Voting itself is not an actual sham (yet?) but you don’t get to decide the actual important questions at the ballot box. You get a bunch of theatrics and rehearsed policy speeches to distract you from the fact that you’re not being offered any real choices. You get to decide whether your oppressive police nanny state is going to be decorated with scary goons with scary guns, or cheerful rainbows and polite smiles, but you don’t get to decide whether your going to end up in an oppressive police nanny state or not. They’re both pursuing the same goals, just using different tactics so it doesn’t look so obvious how perfectly aligned they both really are while they both keep moving the ball towards the endzone, one play at a time.