The grim thing is in America, we let kids enjoy a sport that sometimes kills them and don't do much to moderate the type of dangerous physical contact it requires. But trans kids can't get medical care that we know helps them live happier safer lives. www.statnews.com/2021/11/25/n...
Preventing youths from dying on football fields will require the country to address deeply rooted cultural attitudes that celebrate the dangers of a high-risk collision sport for children.
if we gave a single collective fuck about "the children" we'd be addressing guns as a major factor in school shootings. it's been made abundantly clear a very loud and truculent faction values guns more than kids' lives. the Venn between this faction and the anti trans brigade is a circle.