It's always fascinated me that companies who understand their core value proposition of their business can be so fucked up in so many other ways and still succeed.
Piracy is a service problem.
This is like a Trainwreck. I can't look away!
Can we instead remove oil subsidies?
The polling on trans issues shows it is true. With abortions, there was a group of people that truly believed that an abortion was murder. There was never and never will be a scenario that subsection of the anti-abortion movement will accept anything less than a full, near conception ban.
With trans issues, like gay ones, that's not the case. There's no fundamental argument against trans issues in the same way there was no fundamental argument against gay ones. Opposition to gay rights was always one of "tradition/religion says it's bad" or some specific implementation of gay rights that brought out the opposition (forced cake baking, forced clergy participation for example). Now that those issues have been logically resolved, opposition to gay rights has largely fallen. There's a core of zealots that are still opposed, but they're so small as to not be a legitimate factor in the debate.
Trans issues are more like gay issues than abortion and they should be fought and litigated in that manner. Approaching trans issues like there can be no common ground is a mistake. People care about protecting female sports, they care about protecting female scholarship, they care about protecting their kids from pedophiles (of which an estimated 5% of the population is compared to 0.1% of trans) and kids from abusive parents (which is also more common than trans estimated 1 in 4 kids).
So yes, you can push for support for trans F->M in men's sports. You'll have a lot of support. You can push for allowing transitioning M in female bathrooms, if assault from those protected positions is punished above and beyond what it normally is. And you can push for non-reversible trans care for minors if you establish strong oversight and drivers license like access limits. And while you'll have to do some convincing, there's no fundamental argument against those positions.
As long as there's pedophiles taking advantage of bathroom laws, not having the book thrown at them. As long as athletic men can beat the pants off women in sports. As long as there's abusive parents; the trans movement will suffer if it openly tries to ignore those problems and enable those bad actors. The trans movement can convince their opposition by pushing for strong protections (and in fairness may are). It doesn't need to try to beat their opposition into silence like they had to do with Abortion.
TLDR: Fighting the trans rights fight like Abortion will fail. The trans fight should be fought like the Gay rights and/or civil rights movements.
trans activism did
Actually, that's sort of what the article is addressing. Familiarity with someone who is trans, has led to trans people being more accepted.
Outlawing gender affirming medical care has zero impact on sports, you willful liar.
Yes but most of the support for the anti-trans movement comes from people who worry about it's impact on sports. Remove that support and the movement falls apart.
If trans athletics and access to female scholarship were something dropped from the movement, the anti-trans movement would loose like 70% of it's supporters. Most of the supporters of anti-trans stuff, don't truly care about trans issues. They care about sports.
Huge is relative. Roe v. Wade was heard in the early 70s. And there was 50 years of spending and organizing leading to its overturning. There's simply not been enough time for anywhere near the same amount of opposition movement to grow.
Right now the right has a motivation problem. There's 4 primary wings of it's party (Neocons, Christian Conservative, Fiscal Hawks and Trump's wing) and they've pissed off every faction. They're trying to find an issue to solidify around and quite frankly failing at it. Some places have passed laws that they openly expect even the most right wing justices to strike down to "score points."
20 years from now if this is still the biggest unifying issue on the right it would begin to approach the level of effort and coordination that Abortion has. Until then it's another "illegal immigrant crisis".
It's for taxes. 3days a week means that you're an in office employee for most subsidies.
Because it's easier to sell ending oil subsidies rather than raising gas taxes. Ending corporate subsidies has broad support among Americans.