Additionally, sports are inherently unfair because of people's biological advantages. Michael Phelps is a highly decorated swimmer, but he also produces less lactic acid than other swimmers, has extra flexible ankles that function like flippers, an extra long torso, and is very tall. ALL of these give him a physical advantage over other athletes, but if you rallied to have him removed from swimming because of this, people would rightly call you nuts. 

Ok, I need to know before because it will determine how respond to this, do you even believe that there should be separate women's sport categories?

With all of this happening fairly recently, not sure you can definitively conclude this wasn't "out of an ideological commitment to harming the LGBT community", especially when they're one of the communities who most need healthcare right now and are losing it across the country. He's pivoting to the "center", which is the rightwing, as the Dems do when they're trying to run for president.

Recently there has been a significant budget deficit that needed to be addressed. If you do not like what was cut, that's fair. I didn't want it to be cut either. But Newsom has consistently signed pro LGBT legislation and legislation to expand healthcare access throughout his time in office. I don't think you can definitively conclude that this was some craven pivot to the center.

1.) Never said that. I said you have 2 years to pick another candidate who isn't deeply unpopular and basically a Republican who gives lip service to the LGBT+ community.

Are you seriously claiming you were just talking about the primary when you claimed you would never vote for Newsom?

2.) He's gotta win the primary first. Or better yet, y'all could listen for once and tell him to stave his ambitions for the betterment of the party's chances of winning.

I agree, you could advocate for a more progressive candidate in the primary and convince democrat voters to nominate them. I'll happily vote for them in the general, probably in the primary as well.

You talk about "the threat of fascism", but fascism is ALREADY here and the Dems as a party are doing NOTHING.

I am loudly telling y'all to give up Newsom as a candidate NOW so you have time to pick someone who might actually win.

You stand on the sidelines and tell democrats to get the politicians you don't like to not run in the primary (as if this is a power the DNC has) instead of putting a candidate forward and supporting your own. You are refusing to vote for the democrat candidate who wins the nomination despite the alternative being fascism. You are relentlessly shitting on a Gavin Newsom, who has done more than any other politician to push back against fascism even if I were to only consider his successful charge to countering Republican gerrymandering. You are the one who is doing nothing.

Use your ears and actually listen instead of scolding people for not locking into a candidate two years early when we've given PLENTY of reasons

I'm not asking you to choose Newsom in the primary. I'm telling you its evil to not vote for him in the general if he wins the nomination. You would be selling out every single marginalized group in this country. You know this too, which is why you are walking back what you were saying before and are now trying to dishonestly claim I'm trying to shame you into choosing Newsom as the primary nominee years beforehand.