This is what Gavin Newsom and the consultant class endorses when they try to play footsie with people opposed to trans people's very existence. There is no polite, liberal way to push people out of public life--you ultimately need the state to inspect people's bodies and enforce compliance. - ThreadSky

gbbranstetter.bsky.social • 54 days ago

This is what Gavin Newsom and the consultant class endorses when they try to play footsie with people opposed to trans people's very existence. There is no polite, liberal way to push people out of public life--you ultimately need the state to inspect people's bodies and enforce compliance.

Reposted from Jodi Cohen

There are two transgender girls in the state of Maine competing in girls’ sports.

There are now SIX federal agencies investigating the state.

Here is our latest @propublica.org story with @bangordailynews.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/article/main...

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hughbtruthful.bsky.social•54 days ago

Your tax dollars hard at work.

annemariebs.bsky.social•54 days ago

People just need to stay out of other peoples lives and get a life.

petekotz.bsky.social•54 days ago

Two girls! Playing sports! They must be stopped!

decmusicology.bsky.social•54 days ago

This is what is so insidious about the "just raising questions" brand of centrist pundit that has spent the last ten years litigating trans people's very existence in the pages of the Atlantic

They are functionally equivalent to the most draconian rightist exponents of anti-trans eliminationism

mpwth1195.bsky.social•42 days ago

As a life-long Californian, I used to be proud of @gavinnewsom.bsky.social , now I’m just ashamed of him. The LGBTQ community put him in office and he shit all over them.

shari-in-the-sky.bsky.social•54 days ago

Big government at its finest !

jellymiser.bsky.social•54 days ago

While we are at it, we need to get rid of all NBA players who are over 6'7', because they create an unfair advantage for the other players. I want to be in the NBA, but all those taller, younger, far more athletic types just get to jump in front of me and get contracts when I don't? Unfair.

diablorojo55.bsky.social•54 days ago

Government so small it will fit in your underwear

3athalete.bsky.social•54 days ago

The power of paranoia.

gbbranstetter.bsky.social•54 days ago

And their is no "compromise" position here that will satisfy them. Just ask the NCAA, which went so far as forcing people to turn over their birth certificates but that still wasn't enough--they're being sued by TX to begin sex testing

marfro.bsky.social•54 days ago

rayoso.bsky.social•54 days ago

Exactly. It’s not about “safety in sports”, when these same people are dead silent on grooming coaches, overworked players, steroid and painkiller abuse, bribery, and other issues in sports. It’s about pushing out trans people out of every facet of society.

gbbranstetter.bsky.social•54 days ago

That's because the point of this has nothing to do with women's sports--that is simply the crowbar for reopening decades of feminist legal progress against sex discrimination in schools, at work, and across public life. Pay attention, don't be fooled.

epee.cc•54 days ago

And to take that further, there is no degree of being trans that they find acceptable either--not using public restrooms or playing sports or being sentenced to the wrong jails or being barred from gender-specific services is not enough to satisfy them. They want us to not exist.

epee.cc•54 days ago

And if they are not stopped, they are going to do everything in their power to see to it that we don't.

bearealally.bsky.social•54 days ago

imo..just to take that further, no real degree of diversity in general they'd find acceptable..trans are scapegoat/foot-in-the-door but rw/gop etc want, as mission #1, to ultimately reverse ALL civil rights protections and they'll sacrifice everything: the economy/national security/edu etc to do so

epee.cc•54 days ago

I disagree, they very much want civil rights protections. They just want those protections to only apply to "the right kinds of people." Which just happens to be whatever "kind of person" that individual nazi is.

aminhnow.bsky.social•54 days ago

Title IX will essentially be rendered unenforceable in a year's time. There will be no civil rights enforcement through the Dept of Education and the civil rights division of DOJ won't sue to enforce anything except Christian dominance of public life.

childrensrights.bsky.social•54 days ago

Children shouldn't have to out themselves to participate in school activities.

And if a school activity is really "too dangerous" for everyone to participate, then maybe we shouldn't be doing that activity?

rgminnott.bsky.social•54 days ago

Makes sense!

suzi00.bsky.social•54 days ago

Picking on children

Low
Low

And way icky ew wierd

merchant15.bsky.social•54 days ago

But Republicans are all for less government I thought? Least that is what I have been told.

trinicher.bsky.social•53 days ago

"opposed to trans people's very existence." seriously? Any feeling beyond abject compliance is opposing their existence.

bryceinvegas.bsky.social•54 days ago

It is a Trojan horse. A supposed rational argument to trick people into thinking trans=bad and trans=shady. In 2 months this administration went from no trans in sports to banning trans from military and not allowing identified gender on passports.

jennifkslc.bsky.social•54 days ago

Found the government waste

shmmeee.bsky.social•54 days ago

Just play with your sex. It’s not that big a deal.

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