Football has always had a political side. Those fans showed their political colors I guess
I have a lot of German friends, and it seems really regional but a lot of the country is extremely transphobic.
Can confirm that it’s mostly regional. Having spent 15 years in northern Germany, all I ever heard on the topic was something like ‘just let people do what they want’.
Although, and this might be relevant, none of the people I’ve been in contact with are religious or anything of the sort.
Meh. Nowadays if you don’t want a mtf athlete competing with biological women or children taking life altering hormones at 12 some coward bully will want to justify bashing your head in because they call you “transphobe”.
We gotta stop with the word and actually talk about the issues without threats every 5 seconds. Not that Reddit is the place for that since it’s circlejerk-land where anyone who disagrees is a nazi, but you get the point.
How is this specifically transphobic? I understand that this is against non-binary people, but don’t trans people want to change from one sex to the other, staying in the original binary selection?
These right-wing football fans aren’t waving this banner to start a gentle discussion about the differences between sex and gender. They’re doing it to be provocative and whip up hate against all trans people (including trans men, women and non binary people). It’s a shorthand for basically saying trans people are making it all up, designed to laugh at and try and humiliate trans people, which makes it transphobic / hateful in its sentiment. Intentions matter.
