Andrew Sullivan
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It's moral.
It's moral.
You treat people, individuals, not by their identity or race.
You don't discriminate on basis of race or sex.
You understand reality that there is such a thing as the sex binary.
I mean, this is a moral question.
And
You know, for me, one of the issues that brings us to bear is the trans issue.
And we're currently, in terms of the public and intellectual debate, the arguments in favor of sex changes for children have been demolished.
There really isn't anything left.
And yet the Democrats seem incapable of saying it and moving distinctly and clearly that
in a single direction.
If a Democrat could say, no, I support civil rights for all transgender people and their dignity and their equality and their humanity.
And I think it's unfair for boys to compete against girls in sports.
Now girls can be, I mean, you can have trans men
People who are genetically or biologically female will compete against other men because there's no unfairness.
They're going to lose, almost certainly.
But the other way around, no.
And the other thing is leave children alone.
Leave gay kids alone.