Texas

Democratic candidates need to stop bending the knee to fascism for votes and instead attract voters by pointing out all of the horrible economic and foreign policy decisions the Republicans have enabled Trump to implement.

James Talarico could've literally said nothing about transgender issues and focused on economic, the current failed systems, lack of safety nets. Hostile sentiments towards Trans Americans are already fairly high, this dumb fucker didn't have to add fuel to the fire. It didn't occur to him to direct energy towards things that matter: Dismantling the federally protected and elected ring of pedophiles, billionaires, and corporations that are working together towards a very nasty purpose. You know, that major goal using Project 2025 as a template to dismantle democracy; to make working class people have no choice but work, keep us scared, desperate, and sick. They might not win it since there are more of us than them, but, we still need to stand up to these chuds.

Which is basically never. He's trying to walk the fence and appeal to everyone.

If it risks safety or fairness

Ah, the classic meaningless political statement.

Dignifying this “issue” with any stance is the wrong move. Why is this what we’re debating when the country is being destroyed by pedophiles and billionaires?

Fence riders get splinters in their asses.

Good! NOW he Can get the "I want to KILL ALL DEMOCRATS!" vote while Alienating the "We REALLY WANT to Vote Democrat!" vote!

I've seen people elsewhere handwave this as "playing politics" since it's Texas and all, but there are ways to cede ground to people you're trying to sway without completely fucking throwing an entire marginalized community under the bus once again. Yeah, using flowery wishy-washy language provides a convenient out if you put all of the weight on the word "if" but reading between the lines shows that we're just a political playing chip on the best of days and that you also just want us dead all the same on the worst of days.

Surprise! DNC sells out another minority.

Well, you’re not a real Democrat until you become explicit about your cowardice.

Unfortunately, hes still the lesser of evils.

In pretty much every case there is no risk to safety or fairness. The best the right can come up with is anecdotes.

I wonder if it's the same fairness issue that forbids women to compete with men on the shooting range for outperforming the latter

And now he will be purity tested out of existence, lettin paxton win. I bet he helps the trans community.

The entire idea of sports is against safety and fairness. Might as well stay in a padded room all your life.

Ah yes sports, the notoriously "fair" activity sports.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but he's not wrong, is he?

In lieu of gender-based leagues (a flawed concept in the first place), sports should probably be divided into physical weight/height classes in order to make sure that people of various builds have a fair shot and aren't going to be murdered in a big rugby tackle or whatever. That's not an unreasonable or anti-trans position to take.