# How much transphobia is permissible before banning

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**Created:** [March 12, 2025, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-transphobia-is-permissible-before-banning/1015457 "2025-03-12T08:16:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-transphobia-is-permissible-before-banning/1015457/49 "2025-03-12T14:38:13Z")

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> [@DocCathode](#):
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> First, who exactly are “these people”?

Everyone here who compares debating issues like trans women in women’s sports to debating the pros and cons of segregated water fountains or of Nazism.

This is of course ridiculous: the first is actively being debated by sporting bodies, as well as by governments, in the press etc. it’s fairly often brought up by posters in other contexts because it’s a topic of interest. The latter are long-discredited fringe views which few people are interested in discussing.

But for the people who believe these things comparable, there is no way to discuss the larger issue politely. It is not like asking someone to avoid using a slur; their problem is with the sentiments expressed, not the wording used for them.

For eg:

> [@Cheesesteak](#):
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> You can’t debate race relations with someone whose worldview is that we should go back to segregated water fountains.

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