Judge strikes down anti-trans sports ban after roller derby team fights for its members
Bruce Blakeman’s anti-trans executive order made headlines across the country and led him to battle with New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The government should not have this level of power. Executive Order or legislation, it doesn't matter, a sports league should be able to set its own policies for membership. As per the Constitutional right to freedom of assembly.
Sports: more inclusive than the government since 1947.
This sounds like a good way to foster vast inequality. You'll have good places where people are included and able to grow up into reasonable people, then you'll have other places where people are utterly ostracized and never even have a chance. This isn't some magical capitalist world where people can just pick up and move to wherever is 'best', there will be people who are stuck. When those people don't have the resources they need, the cycle will just end up perpetuating again, and the inequality builds on itself.
The government has to have the ability to keep rogue states from declaring swathes of the population as second class citizens. Yes, there's the obvious downside of "What happens if" - but we're in this together and we have to try for the only tenable solution. That growing inequality will affect the 'good' areas, even if they put their fingers in their ears and say "lalalalalala not my problem".
right of the people peaceably to assemble...
hm what's your opinion on sundown towns i wonder
Not a fan.
Is roller derby a real sport? I always figured it was more performance than sport like pro wrestling.
Yes, it's a real sport.
A badass one at that. Their athleticism and reflexes are unreal.
Roller derby in the 70s was likely scripted. Modern roller derby is almost definitely not. Tons of legit athleticism and power out there.
It's a little dated by now, but watch Blood on the Flat Track. It's about the Roller Derby resurgence from 15ish years ago.
Even if scripted, roller derby in the 70's took athleticisms and power. I agree the sport of roller derby is different now, but practitioners of the past deserve respect. The level of training/conditioning in all sports is very different now, does not mean past practitioners were not athletes. Comparisons across eras is difficult because standards change.
It is definitely a sport, although every time I've tried to watch it, I've been confused as hell. Even reading the rules confuses me. But I don't doubt it's actually as sport. Cricket is a sport and it's really confusing too.
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted for asking an honest question. You asked it in good faith.
Starting to think you people just can’t live without having something to be angry with.
My hypothesis: corporate social media has trained us to be combative for engagement, and our habits/attitudes haven't fully adapted to fediverse yet.
They say getting angry over imagined Internet points.
Go watch a roller derby event. It's pretty fun and mostly chaos. But there's some real skill and strategy involved.
You need to watch this incredibly accurate historical movie on the topic
Is roller derby a real sport?
It's the NASCAR of women's sport.
Its very real Source: I've been officiating it for 13 years
Pro soccer is more performance than pro wrestling but we call that a sport