Breaking News: The House passed a bill to bar transgender women and girls from participating in school athletic programs designated for female students. Its future in the Senate is uncertain.
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Don’t trans women have an unfair advantage over cis women in sports? Isn’t the whole point of sex based segregation of sports to avoid sex-based advantages.
This is good news. It's sad but entirely predictable to see so many people against female athletes being allowed to compete safely and fairly. I'll never understand this fully when there are options to guarantee everyone's participation in fair and safe sport.
I find it fascinating to see people defend this. Are there any other sports categories we should get rid of? Age maybe? Or weight? Disability? We know there are physical differences between male and female athletes that impact performance. Very telling that people ignore this.
Yes, of course there are physical differences. Nobody "ignores" that--sporting orgs set requirements e.g. for hormone levels to try to minimize those differences. But the priority is to allow people to compete as their correct gender. It's a trade-off between dignity and fairness.
No, it's denying female athletes the right to compete fairly and safely because nothing removes all the physical advantages of male athletes. The right thing to do would be to add categories, not to destroy the integrity of sport by removing them. As I said only the female category's under attack.
Although I am a strong proponent of equal rights, I must state that there are far more critical things that Congress MUST address, the first being the coronation of the first absolute monarch of the U.S. and his clown posse. They have the power to stop it. Our nation is on the brink of cataclysm.
And they picked up some Democratic votes, as well. Nice to see that, having already adopted the GQP’s Yellow Peril 2.0 fearmongering, en masse, a few Dems continue to find new areas of bigotry where they can stretch their legs.
White-(pseudo)Christo-fascist hatred on full display for the whole world to see.
I am certain that Speaker Johnson is thrilled with this targeted abuse of already vulnerable trans people.
This GOP (Group of Psychopaths) dog whistle will certainly embolden MAGAt bigots to harm LGBTQ+ people.
I’m so tired. My kid is gender fluid and feels really wrapped up in all of this. He often presents fem but feels masc. He would not be barred but his trans sisters would be. He stopped doing sports in TX because of this kind of thinking.
So glad that the federal government took the time to take legislative action on this.
Definitely couldn't have been handled at the level of individual states or athletics associations.
Out of 530K athletes (only at NCAA level) less than 10 cases of this have happened. The GOP has time to legislate irrelevant stuff but support GOP sexual abusers as judges and department secretaries. That’s their real moral and ethical destruction of the U.S.
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I am certain that Speaker
This GOP (Group of Psychopaths) dog whistle will certainly embolden MAGAt bigots to harm LGBTQ+ people.
When a transgender man wins against a woman
he is not a hero, he is a coward ...
Definitely couldn't have been handled at the level of individual states or athletics associations.