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Cisgender Boy Forced to Play on Girls' Sports Team Because of Birth Certificate Error (www.them.us)

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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Feels like malicious compliance to me. But who knows.

Edit: For those downvoting, someone else in the comments pasted a quote about a law that was passed in that state. So I was just speculating that maybe they were maliciously complying to show how ridiculous it is.

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, the one experiencing the greatest maliciousness here is the kid.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

That's always the way.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

It's never actually about what's good for the kids. It's about control and tribalism

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

That's an interesting take. I didn't think of it until you mentioned it, and now I need this to be true.