• _NetNomad@fedia.io
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    12 hours ago

    i do think sports have educational value, teaching teamwork and discipline and health. i learned more from cross country and marching band versus everything else combined. but i definitely agree about the ridiculous funding disparity, though, no extracurricular should be getting more funding than core classes

    my hot take is that sports and bathrooms shouldn’t be gendered. i understand the “seperate but equal” clause doesn’t include gender, but it should, given the better funding and accomodation boys sports get over all but the best girls teams. siloing off genders has catastrophic cultural consequences- “locker room talk” shouldn’t and wouldn’t exist otherwise, plus the whole trans rights thing that shouldn’t and wouldn’t be an issue

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      3 hours ago

      Do you really want boys sharing restrooms and locker rooms with girls? I think the girls may have something to say about that.

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          1 hour ago

          I should note for the lemmings constantly on the lookout for anti-LGBT shit, this is not a trans thing.

          Do you think women, of any age, want to share a restroom, with no cameras, with possible rapists?