California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."
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I agree one issue is more important than the other but I don't think Dems should imply people have to choose between having a Health Secretary who doesn't kill people and having fairness for females in sport. In real life most people probably want both.
Forcing all women to confirm “femaleness” to compete in sports isn’t fair. In real life, most people want you to stop thinking about what’s in their pants and let them live and play sports in peace. Care about real issues that actually affect you, like public health failures.
Given you seem to be someone who cares about science, take a step back and read the dozens of studies on the topic showing minimal to no advantage. The IOCs recent study showed trans women athletes have a disadvantage compared cis women.
It is in no way unfair that trans kids get to participate in sports. Trans kids represent less than .02% of participants. It's UNFAIR to suggest that gov't should ban them w/o cause. Also, just to reiterate trans women are not predators or pretending so they can be in women's washrooms.
Sports are played by biological entities, not psychological concepts. A “transgendering” male can compete with the other males without issues. Females who “transgender” are free to compete with other females, as long as they are in compliance with the rules covering drugs.
Nobody’s excluded.
You're under the impression that people are solely biological and not a combination of bio, psych and social constructs. But for the record, human biology is not binary when it comes to gender.
Also we didn't test for dope when I played softball, so AMAB girls on puberty blockers should be cool.
Nope, we are absolutely also psychological and social constructs. Cause we're talking with English words that were not programmed into us biologically. WE LEARNED THEM. That's a social construct. Like gender.
I'm assuming from your confusing language (just use 'transitioning' as the verb) that you mean people should play with the gender they were born as so no one is excluded and that's dumb. Cause if a boy is a boy in the rest of his life but sports, he's gonna feel excluded being on the girl team.
I don't believe in your definition of "gender", which has no biological or physical existence. Everyone knows that it's not possible for people to change their sex, just as we can't opt out of our ethnicity and pick something different, or decide to be young, or to be immortal.
It matters because telling females they must sometimes come second to a male in a female race is deeply sexist. It plays into social conditioning that tells females they must prioritise "kindness" over their own needs.
What's with this false dilemma? Why not worry about both? It's not that hard. Ban men from participating in women sports, college or elsewhere, and vaccinate your kids. Plenty of countries are able to do both.
It's a completely avoidable epidemic, by the way. Measles was all but eradicated, and then the wierdo anti-vaxer Moms and RFK Jr cult followers took over.
DOGE cut the funding for research, testing and vaccinations last week to Lubbock, TX. Lubbock has two big hospitals which treat people from up to a hundred miles away. Surrounded by mostly rural small town, it is crucial to stoping the spread of measles that funding be reinstated
I once had a driver stuck in OK in the winter. A highway patrol walked into the truck stop he was at and my driver asked him when they were going to clear the road. Officer replied, "God put it there, God'll take it away." This is the same thinking being used for measles.
Right! So far around, popping up on the other side of something. Let's just please not have to step over bodies in the street, that's what all this governance is about and yes it's big and yes it's expensive and yes people should be allowed to vote and live with privacy and with dignity. Done.
"honestly I don't think being transgender is an illness or an epidemic."
You're right, we're not. There's no 'agenda' or 'ideology'. We're just people, with the same thoughts, feelings and troubles. I don't think any of us asked or wanted to be born this way. We just are, and make the best of it.
There are absolutely more kids with measles in Texas than there are Republican members of Congress with courage or scruples. THAT'S the epidemic we should all be worried about.
MAGA has found its boogie man (no pun intended) and they are using it for all it's worth. Hopefully it is just a matter of time until people stop paying attention to things that aren't important, and focus on the things that are.
How about having a TOWN HALL MEETING IN FRONT OF AVERAGE CITIZENS? THEY NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO ABOUT HOW WE CAN HELP STRAIGHTEN OUT THIS DISASTER WE'RE LIVING THRU. That would include talking about how the US has sucessfully controlled measeles for the past 75 years.
I’m so sorry 🙏. It’s an attempt to throw the magat argument in their face with their constant ridicule of transgender athletes. It is of course , not a ‘normal’ comparison for literate , educated people . Magats are the dumbest populace on the surface of the planet unfortunately. My deep apologies 🏳️⚧️
I understand the sentiment, but I have the same reaction when people refer to us as the transgender's once again missing the point that we are transgender people not a disorder or a disease. Thank you for saying what you did. It's just this has been reposted way way too much.
I hear you 💯 🙏. BlueSky can be a minefield . Please continue to educate us and keep us aware of who you are and who we are and how we can lift each other up. Not pull us down to the magat talking points . Love you ❤️❤️🏳️⚧️
Thank you love you too. As a point of education for others, it's the same thing as saying Black people instead of the blacks or Jewish people instead of the Jews, again the original idea had merit they were trying to do something good with it, but it just doesn't work.
10/500,000 is 0.002%. If trans people are 1-2% of the population, that means we're underrepresented in sports by a factor of at least 500. So there is a problem here, and it's discrimination against trans athletes, not some insane fantasy that there are "too many."
Do you genuinely not understand rhetoric or are you being bad faith? He says multiple times trans people aren’t an epidemic.
24/7 disease-themed transphobia messaging. He mentions measles. The rhetoric is parallel use of “epidemic” to highlight “culture war over real governance” by these people.
No, but the message here is that the trans athlete issue is so small that it needs to be handled at the NCAA or state hs athletic association level. It’s silly for the federal government or even state government to be getting involved with this when it affects 0.002% of all collegiate athletes.
I think he's metaphorically dumbing it down for the MAGA cult members in a way THEY can understand. I dont get the impression he has malice towards our Trans brothers and sisters.
He literally says we aren’t a fucking epidemic, what more can anyone want? The maga dipshits who think trans people are sacrificing children and mutilating them believe this nonsense in *part* because they WANT to.
No amount of “messaging” is going to magically make them not insane about us.
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Most of the states laws against trans athletes have been proposed in can't even identify anyone in the state who would be affected. That's how much of a non-issue it is.
Just to clarify, I was responding to the quoted part of the speech, which implies that trans athletes are just a *lesser* epidemic, but having gone back and watched the context he makes it clear that he doesn't think it's an epidemic at all.
So I retract my criticism and, as my original post says, I agree 100% with his sentiment and tip my cap to him for standing strong for transgender people.
If there was a Supreme Court case with a plaintiff arguing that there aren't supposed to be Trans people in sports and the majority opinion in favor of the defendant would have the same logic as George Carlin's bit about sports.
Oh, lots of things can be cured with ivermectin. Even in humans. It’s such an important drug that my parasitology prof referred to pre-1984 as “BI”, for “before ivermectin”, and it’s a WHO essential medicine. It just only works on what it works on. Which is parasites. Sigh.
True, true, I have forgotten! I remember the medical shows about using ivermectin for "river blindness" and other parasitical infestations. I guess I need to say that can't cure THESE THINGS with those two.
I fully agree. It was just a sarcastic imagining of the bigoted and nonsensical argument the right would have to counter the point the speaker was making.
Mr. Rivas nailed it!
He‘s a smart guy, but you don‘t have to be smart to recognize what the real epidemics are.
US citizens: You will have more real epidemics soon and a lot of you will die from them. Your government doesn‘t care because they are busy fighting LGBTQ.
Good luck!
no this is just typical big-L liberal's saying the quiet part out loud to get the mythical "moderates" to lean back across the line on an issue. until the Dem party gets a Left version of the tea party this shit will just continue.
Oh my god you're pissed off because he didn't say "real"? Jesus fucking christ would you please at least understand when people are on your side and not endlessly shitting on them for not doing it the way you arbitrarily decide is best
I mean, there are currently more supreme court justices than trans people in college sport in the entire US. The average unhoused person has more dollars in their pocket than trans athletes in their state. In fact, my car has more tires than there are trans athletes in my state.
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I agree with Rivas. I also hope he drastically amends his extremely anti-environmental bill AB 306, which stops all local governments in California from requiring improved energy efficiency or from moving away from methane gas for the next six years.
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Nobody’s excluded.
Also we didn't test for dope when I played softball, so AMAB girls on puberty blockers should be cool.
strawman bs from maga, gdi...
It's just what some fellow Americans, neighbors, friends, and coworkers happen to be. Nothing more or less than that, and not very dramatic, either.
You're right, we're not. There's no 'agenda' or 'ideology'. We're just people, with the same thoughts, feelings and troubles. I don't think any of us asked or wanted to be born this way. We just are, and make the best of it.
- Immune amnesia
- Pneumonia
- Convulsions
- Pregnancy complications if exposed while expecting
- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)
FUCK REPUBLICANS!
24/7 disease-themed transphobia messaging. He mentions measles. The rhetoric is parallel use of “epidemic” to highlight “culture war over real governance” by these people.
This messaging doesn't work.
Call a spade a spade.
No amount of “messaging” is going to magically make them not insane about us.
Sharing this for everyone's edification.
"In the late 1920s during the Harlem Renaissance, "spade" began to evolve into code for a black person,...
But the quoted part doesn't make that clear.
If there was a Supreme Court case with a plaintiff arguing that there aren't supposed to be Trans people in sports and the majority opinion in favor of the defendant would have the same logic as George Carlin's bit about sports.
Absolute trolling
Also: HOLY SHIT! GO, NIGER! (Done by giving 80% of the susceptible population ivermectin fot 10-12 years!)
He‘s a smart guy, but you don‘t have to be smart to recognize what the real epidemics are.
US citizens: You will have more real epidemics soon and a lot of you will die from them. Your government doesn‘t care because they are busy fighting LGBTQ.
Good luck!
He probably didn’t mean that, but fuck he sucks at words.
”That’s a real epidemic we should all be worried about” would have been the way to say it.
So literal flipping the script
I was clearly not the only one who misinterpreted it, though.
Sorry for being on edge. People want us dead.
Context matters.
https://www.hrc.org/resources/get-the-facts-about-transgender-non-binary-athletes
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Outrage is an expected response to Trump and Musk’s sabotage of American democracy. Their betrayal benefits only America's enemies. At noon on Saturday April 5th, we need to all attend a rally, make our presence known and our voices heard. It’s the least we could do!
Being trans is not an epidemic, and lumping transgender athletes in with measles implies that is a fellow epidemic.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5046662-ncaa-president-transgender-athletes-college-sports/
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