Also, I wonder how many of that small number are transgender females? - ThreadSky

gtconway.bsky.social • 11 hours ago

Also, I wonder how many of that small number are transgender females?

Reposted from Seth Masket

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americaisdoomed.bsky.social•10 hours ago

tuckingfired.bsky.social•1 hour ago

10 transgender athletes and repubes are going out of their minds. Over 200 measles cases-“rub a little oil on them and take some vitamin A.”

levich34.bsky.social•11 hours ago

The strawiest of all the strawmen....

forbin17.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Exactly. Only 1.6m in the US. Every sect and segment is important, but this group has been foisted atop the party when it’s 0.6% of the population of the country. Native Americans represent 3m people. Let’s start to focus on other, larger, more oppressed groups like that. All groups are needed

missgelato.bsky.social•6 hours ago

A mountain out of a molehill

wotfanatic.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Such small numbers yet data shows the issue played a huge role in MAGA winning in 2024. Further proof how stupid and easily manipulated Americans are.

bluedotredwithrage.bsky.social•8 hours ago

And this is the Senior Senator from MO’s #1 issue.

Josh Hawley can go fuck himself.

rugbykat.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Or mice

jessicatg2005.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I’m pretty impressed with my sisters.

10 Transgendered females have effectively taken over the Republican Congress, the delusional federal government and about 30% of the idiot US population.

…and they say Transgendered females are powerless.

Way to go girls!!

#LGBTQ

jeffas.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Not only that, but then how many of them are competing at an elite level or top of their sport. Some of them might just make the cut.

texasmetalhippie.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I’m a teacher & know a fair number of trans students. None is into sport.

johnslowey.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Outrage about infinitesimal percent of athletes that identify as transgender is analogous to the outrage over voter fraud that is also infinitesimally small. As Great Leader says “FAKE NEWS!”. But his supporters lap this shit up

bucketshopbob.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Governing for the majority

soozeq.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Exactly. Meanwhile, the billionaires are destroying this country.

hobbesjosh.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Most are transgender females. However there are probably one or two transgender males. But the discussion about this is how its bad to have transgender females competing against transgender males. Never any outrage about transgender males competing against other males.

hobbesjosh.bsky.social•10 hours ago

If you had a transgender male competing against other females, people would complain about how unfair that is. Even though if its all about competing based on what you are at both, that should be the case.

peskyprofessor.bsky.social•11 hours ago

The perfect distraction for people filled with hate.

careystrom.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Does anybody know why Newsom jumped on this stupid bandwagon?

arktoi.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Because he wants to be POTUS so bad that he wants to be perceived as moderate and appeal to nonMAGA Republicans. But with his Charlie Kirk podcast, he just lost the Dems. He wont ever be POTUS.

satanlaughing.com•9 hours ago

Those 10 transgender athletes compete with 100% of the athletes on the other team. As Gavin said, this is a fairness issue. Maybe we just abolish women's sport all together, huh?

jonjonjj.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I think we’d have heard of a trans man so I’ll assume all

ellaperl.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Schuyler Bailar, the first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer, and also the first publicly documented NCAA D1 transgender man to compete as a man in any sport, swam for Harvard.

jonjonjj.bsky.social•10 hours ago

thank you 💖

laszlopanaflexx.bsky.social•10 hours ago

And is there any evidence that they perform better?

harmoniouslvn.bsky.social•8 hours ago

No.

https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/four-myths-about-trans-athletes-debunked

piebrain.bsky.social•9 hours ago

FOX NEWS wants to check crotch of Billie Jean King today in history 1979

piebrain.bsky.social•9 hours ago

take that bigot

scrivener45.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Nip it in the bud, Moron.

megatron33.bsky.social•10 hours ago

It’s simply not fair competition. Doesn’t matter how many.

hobbesjosh.bsky.social•10 hours ago

So if its about competing with the same gender at birth, you would have no problem with trans men competing with women, right? Because they are were born women.

megatron33.bsky.social•9 hours ago

That’s correct.

hobbesjosh.bsky.social•9 hours ago

You do know trans men have an increase of testosterone which increase performance, right?

megatron33.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Like most reasonable people I would assume there would be testing like in Olympics to make sure they are at appropriate levels. But keep going with this crazy argument.

hobbesjosh.bsky.social•9 hours ago

What testing? Trans men have higher testosterone levels than Trans females. What do you think happens when you change genders? Good lord you people are ignorant.

jenniloumack.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Yep. More billionaires in his cabinet been trans athletes in college. Culture wars work.

spreuarts.bsky.social•3 hours ago

It’s literally a non issue. Except when the goo needs to gin up rage bait

th3gra4dde2ig4.bsky.social•9 hours ago

It has nothing to do with the vitriol spewed by elitist morons, and everything to do with us being an easy target for stupid people.

daytonatracy.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Nobody seems to care about trans women in male sports….

mznicky.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Are there any?

nietzchespony.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I think you mean trans men in male sports? And some ppl so care about it but it's less of a problem because biological women are at a disadvantage to men when it comes to sport and that's just a fact

arktoi.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The men dont care because the transmen arent winning. In women’s sports there are too many examples of post-puberty as male transwomen hurting players or winning due to natural male advantages. The people who dont care about this are the people NOT being displaced in competition or being injured

nietzchespony.bsky.social•8 hours ago

some men don't want women in locker rooms. Some ppl are concerned about the safety of women playing in men's sports. but I agree the advantage men have over women makes it a problem for them to compete in women's sports

falcon269.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Much ado about nothing on both sides. I have never understood why a genetic man would be proud of winning over a woman in sports. A reverse King-Riggs thing? Riggs v. either Williams today?

Just another thing I will never understand, I guess.

edithd.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Why do people act as if trans women are bearded, big balled men competing against tiny, frail women? Read something about HRT. Maybe don't stop allowing puberty blockers in transgender youth so they don't develop secondary sexual characteristics.

sharontt23.bsky.social•10 hours ago

10?

queerboy66.bsky.social•9 hours ago

jackacid.bsky.social•11 hours ago

If there are fewer than ten trans athletes, why do Democrats insist on losing elections over trans athletes?

davidsheldon1.bsky.social•10 hours ago

It's not a matter of choosing to lose, it's a matter of expecting that most people would be at least decent, human, and compassionate.

A clear mistake in the Trump era

kclark.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Yes yes yes!

megczee.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Its a non issue they made an issue. No one made it a deal breaker. Its a "looky what they want " lie

jenniloumack.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I would ask why they don't just do what Utah did and say they'll address it on a case-by-case basis. 🤷 Seems super reasonable to me and that's a red state thing.

robtaylor91.bsky.social•10 hours ago

exactly. they allowed themselves to get boxed into a corner they can't seem to get out of.

tomeclarke.bsky.social•11 hours ago

There are many millions of people experiencing something worse in life than being forbidden from playing sport in a way that's consistent with their identity (they still have the option of playing consistent with their sex).

tomeclarke.bsky.social•11 hours ago

We should really try and avoid realpolitik when it comes to rights, but playing sport according to your preferred ontology seems pretty far down the list of things we should sacrifice the greater good for.

jackacid.bsky.social•10 hours ago

The only thing that matters is winning elections because without that you have zero power.

martinnilsson.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I don't think any Democrat mentioned trans at all during last election. You think being actively against them is the way to go?

jackacid.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Nobody except the losing presidential candidate.

martinnilsson.bsky.social•8 hours ago

She refused the answer the question, which of course is weak, but also is very much not talking about trans.

dtlajim.bsky.social•9 hours ago

10 trans athletes v. 175 million women. We are choosing the 10 and handing elections to people who often hate trans people. Not smart & ultimately not good for trans people.

mznicky.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I asked this question at one of the lefty blogs I read and was roundly criticized for even bringing it up.

bidimensionale.online•10 hours ago

good question

jordanjanuary.bsky.social•7 hours ago

They didn’t. Trump launched a million dollar ad campaign targeting trans people while he was campaigning, as well as spread harmful rhetoric about it via the media. Dems were forced to take it on or else leave trans people out to dry

nietzchespony.bsky.social•10 hours ago

boom

mooplelog.bsky.social•10 hours ago

“insisting on losing elections” seems misleading … sacrificing a vulnerable population is .. well.. just wrong.

nietzchespony.bsky.social•10 hours ago

67% of Democrats do not support men competing in women's sports as a matter of fairness and consider women a vulnerable population when it comes to the advantage biological men have in sport

tensleep.bsky.social•10 hours ago

burren0316.bsky.social•11 hours ago

That’s my governor 👍🏻👍🏻

toneace.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Just puts a spotlight on what they do best, take nothing and turn it into something

klausflouride.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Trans athletes -- the biggest issue of our time. Just another reason for the nationalist christian right to get their undies in a bunch with faux outrage.

doglover99.bsky.social•3 hours ago

In a sea of a half million athletes, less than ten 🔟 females — that’s for sure

hockeynut0118.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I guess these idiots never played sports, because
I always had male coaches. (volleyball) And if we got hurt is because we did something stupid...lol

northernsnowdog.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Harris embracing the Democratic platform in favor of free sex change operations for prisoners is one lightning rod aspect of being out of touch with the bulk of the electorate. It is something that did not help the Democratic cause for votes, but most definitely helped Drumpf & Repubes sway votes.

saccosnephew.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Go tell fucking bill Maher

z1229.bsky.social•8 hours ago

"But my daughter finished 17th instead of 16th in a cross-country race..."

steve5kxc.bsky.social•10 hours ago

GOP focuses on "issues" that affect as few people as possible.

lpeterp.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Criminal to bully this tiny population of people who are our siblings, relatives and friends.

scooter10.bsky.social•10 hours ago

It's such a non-issue that the one case of a trans-woman actually doing well in sports is still Lia Thomas. And when was that, 5 years ago? And her big controversial win over Riley Gaines was for FIFTH PLACE. A total non-issue

chaosgreml.in•11 hours ago

Dear George - one small note: the appropriate term is “women,” not “females.”

I can share some links for edification, if you’d like!

Thanks for what you do.

motherf.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Why is this topic even being discussed by the administration, geesh!!

mznicky.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Why does that matter?

morgn18.bsky.social•10 hours ago

📌

afrowe.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Much ado about nothing or at least not much

jellibeanz.bsky.social•10 hours ago

0.0000196078% that's the percentage of 10 athletes in 510,000
That's all genders and non-genders

leaguesources.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I don’t know of any trans men playing NCAA sports. Perhaps in some Olympic sports at the lower levels. I do know there are many at the club level.

ktdallas.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Exactly! Their most talked about issue affects the tiniest minority I’ve ever seen. WTF?

sigmanerd.bsky.social•10 hours ago

There are slightly more trans women then men, about 38.5% vs 35.9% (the rest being gender non-conforming) in the whole US population. So, if there are 10 trans people in sports, maybe 6 are women but it could go either way.

sigmanerd.bsky.social•10 hours ago

A higher percentage of youth identify as trans than adults, so presumably there are more at the high school level than collegiate (Not much. Less than half a dozen probably)

Source:

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/

mktsutherland.bsky.social•9 hours ago

📌

b0rb.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Indeed. There are like... barely any trans people at all. Its like 0.1 percent of the population.

nocturnamine.bsky.social•8 hours ago

That’s one of the problems with the media is they will promote one or two examples of an issue in a country of 300 million people and then it’s somehow a national issue. It’s tricky. Fox News is really good at it

nietzchespony.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Either it's a civil rights issue or it's not. The number doesn't matter and the fact is 67% of Democrats do not support men competing in women's sports as a matter of fairness. Why ppl on Bluesky are purposely acting like the number is the important fact, I can't imagine

livelarge15.bsky.social•11 hours ago

So, .00001% of all collegiate athletes are transgender? Why are we even talking about this?

hobbesjosh.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I don't know. I had an idiot on facebook tell me that transgender athletes affect more people than abortion. Its right wing brainwashing as to how important this issue is.

barkingsheltie.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Gaslighting playbook 101.

jjurek.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Bingo

madhatterrhapsody.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Boogeyman, boogeyman .... Got to give the masses an enemy to fear, to hate. Otherwise, they wouldn't need Donald to save them.

dtlajim.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Republicans are talking about this because this issue is so wildly unpopular. It is a touchstone to how extreme & absurd Democrats are on this & other issues. Drop this issue, like we dropped the disastrous, but actually more popular, "defund the police" & it will not be talked about by the GOP.

rugger6300.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Seems like something Gavin Newsome should have mentioned

dianeraucher.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I seriously wish democrats would stop handing talking points to scared shitless Christian Nationalists. Let’s get our democracy back or there will be death camps in the red states soon.

ashiekins.bsky.social•11 hours ago

People focus too much on the sex or gender ID and not enough on "person". Under the law, a person is what matters- anything else is mere social expectations which may or may not apply to a person and doesn't reflect on the merit, the capability, and the potential of the person.

ashiekins.bsky.social•11 hours ago

And most important, on the question of the equality under the law of said person.

kevarosenberg3rd.bsky.social•9 hours ago

but but but hunter!

jeffincny.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Also, I guessing the number of people who transition to female just for the purpose of dominating a women’s sport:

hobbesjosh.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I don't understand why anyone would do this. I had someone idiot tell me that if Lebron James transitioned to be female, he could score 200 points in the WNBA. Maybe so, but he would make so much less in the WNBA doing it too.

hobbesjosh.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Maybe for a men's player who can't make it in the NBA it might be worth it to do. Except that people assume that going through the transitioning process is simple and easy to do. And that isn't the case. Then again, people also assume that abortion is so easy to go through too.

jeffincny.bsky.social•9 hours ago

A solution in search of a problem if there’s ever been one

maplepoutine.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Evidence of More transgender athletes than there are of Trump telling the truth

b1newtrail.bsky.social•11 hours ago

But her emails ??

richinnj.bsky.social•11 hours ago

It’s almost as if pundits and talking heads don’t bother to do any research.

rankled.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Transgender people are the new "Muslim terrorists under your beds."

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