Holy shit - Gavin Newsom has clarified that this goes even further.
The transgender runner will compete "in her own category."
California is basically instituting a sports ban.
https://www.kcra.com/article/california-high-school-track-field-championship-transgender-trump-threats/64894427
The transgender runner will compete "in her own category."
California is basically instituting a sports ban.
https://www.kcra.com/article/california-high-school-track-field-championship-transgender-trump-threats/64894427
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This is a glorified time trial with herself, she will not compete in the girls race.
I don’t get Newsom at all. He doesn’t seem to have any core principles. There is no there there. That’s a dangerous kind of person to put into a position of power.
It's bad, it needs to be fought, but it's not a statewide ban.
There were warning signs.
I dunno that I'm comfortable with a good result, here.... Not saying they shouldn't fight! Just... Worried.
Given the logic being used by CIF, Newsom's support, and the creation of a third category for trans people under a pilot policy, you can expect this one to expand.
This needs major pushback now.
California, ditch Gavin.
I give it a year before America goes back to sterilizing people.
They can't have it both ways. 3/x
/fin
Wait - if trans girls are "biological boys" now in California then who is the trans athlete? Some kind of cyborg?
Get your bigotry straight California! Can't even decide who counts as biological.
how tf is the kid supposed to compete against herself/themself/etc?
how the FUCK did nobody involved stop and think "wait, isn't this absurdly unfair to TRANS KIDS?"
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social FUCK YOU you fascist piece of shit, fucking nazi collaborator #1. congrats.
Where are all the tears about hormones and biological whatever the fuck. Oh. That's right. They really just don't want trans people to exist.
I guarantee this will appear elsewhere with excuses all beginning with "But even California...."
The whole thing is contemptible.
He can NOT be the nominee in 28. What little is left of America would be destroyed by that.
Dems in the primary will vote for someone who stands up to Trump, not the guy who obeys in advance with Trumps dick between his lips.
Past tense its over.
We've seen this play out before and we know how appeasement ends.
Just look at how he has always attacked poor people in his own state. A state that is full of poverty
Fucking fascist.
all while underpaid entertainers and artists and writers who work in California are being demonized for wanting to unionize, and worse and worse wildfires continue to wipe out entire forests every year
If he think he's getting the nomination in '28 he's fucking dreaming
We definitely do not want *him* in ‘28.
But nah, they'll likely say trans guys deserve whatever they get. It's just cis girls that will need protecting. Ugh.
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If they were actually concerned with sex-at-birth, there would need to be two transgender categories.
It's almost like this isn't really about protecting children and is actually just about hating trans people.
The majority of our elected officials support trans rights.
Newsom is in the minority.
moment.
God I hate it here.
And then how many of those are in the same competing age group for the same sport?
The "separate but equal" status while maintaining a lack of ability to start a league is the point, even in coed sports.
& how, precisely will trans ppl play team sports? I mean at a track you can run at the same time as other runners & record your time. & other runners still help motivate/ pace you.
But are basketball/volleyball points kept separate? How?
(what if there aren't enough trans students for a competition)
Such useless opportunistic politics
You KNOW Newsom thinks he's "threading the needle" with policies like this—clearly he doesn't know that all he's doing is creating a "compromise" what won't please either Transgender Athletes and Allies OR Transphobes!
Have I said in the last 5 minutes how much I HATE NeoLiberals...?
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They know exactly what they're doing and they always have. The hypocrisy isn't something they missed in good faith... it's the whole point.
They want to ostracize us. They'll claim to believe anything they have to to make that happen, logical or not.
We can't afford to let him get away with it.
Fucking Democrats 🙄😒
He's not courting voters, he's courting superPACs.
All politicians are capitalists by definition, but he's a mask off case.
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Each athlete should compete “in their own category”
Individually, regardless of gender.
I think the Olympics do something like that
If you run a 3 minute mile. You’re running against your own time. Not somebody else’s time. It should personal achievement and progress.
What gender the other person is doesn’t / shouldn’t matter.
Because it's not about trans, is it now?
that doesn't work, has never worked for any minority, and will never work.
Capitulating never works and only ever serves to empower the other side. He, ironically, probably would've been better served taking a principled stand FOR trans rights.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/
bathroom bans now poll at around 2-1; for example
Polling shows most voters don’t care much either way compared to other issues.
And that’s after huge sums of money were spent trying to poison voters against trans people.
If anyone needs me, I'm going to be screaming into a pillow.
Zealots set the frame, media and too many pols immediately conform.
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Your ideology would indicate trans-women in sports is fine as long as they don't win right? Do you even hear the transphobia?
He's gonna have a fit about it, cuz his policies are really about discriminating against Trans people. Not about protecting anyone .
I would be surprised if the "trans division" wasn't made to self-fund, but certainly won't be scholarship eligible.
f*cking dino
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