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Inside the Right-Wing Movement to Ban Trans Youth From Sports
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:10 pm
maybe most people don't want to act like this isn't mental illness being pushed on children
Inside the Right-Wing Movement to Ban Trans Youth From Sports
In the spring of 2020, Idaho became the first state in the United States to ban transgender girls and women from participating in women’s sports. Two years later, fifteen states have enacted similar laws. Trans athletes—particularly trans girls—are now directly in the crosshairs of America’s raging culture wars, as bills targeting trans and gender-expansive young people proliferate across the country.
But the reason for this explosion in sports bans isn’t a surge of trans student athletes dominating the playing field, political strategists and LGBTQ advocates say. It’s politics, plain and simple. Conservative groups and lawmakers realized that the issue could reliably excite Republicans and potential swing voters, drawing them into broader cultural debates surrounding trans rights in the U.S.—battles that tend to serve Republicans electorally.
“[These] bans are gaining steam for the same reason that election audits and [critical race theory] bans have been popular over the past year,” says Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, who has been critical of the Republican Party under Donald Trump. “They are PR campaigns masquerading as legislation, designed to keep culture wars at the center of the conversation.”
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Inside the Right-Wing Movement to Ban Trans Youth From Sports
In the spring of 2020, Idaho became the first state in the United States to ban transgender girls and women from participating in women’s sports. Two years later, fifteen states have enacted similar laws. Trans athletes—particularly trans girls—are now directly in the crosshairs of America’s raging culture wars, as bills targeting trans and gender-expansive young people proliferate across the country.
But the reason for this explosion in sports bans isn’t a surge of trans student athletes dominating the playing field, political strategists and LGBTQ advocates say. It’s politics, plain and simple. Conservative groups and lawmakers realized that the issue could reliably excite Republicans and potential swing voters, drawing them into broader cultural debates surrounding trans rights in the U.S.—battles that tend to serve Republicans electorally.
“[These] bans are gaining steam for the same reason that election audits and [critical race theory] bans have been popular over the past year,” says Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, who has been critical of the Republican Party under Donald Trump. “They are PR campaigns masquerading as legislation, designed to keep culture wars at the center of the conversation.”
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This post was edited on 5/16/22 at 4:11 pm
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Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:12 pm to djmed
Those Right Wing Extremists are the biggest science deniers on the planet.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:13 pm to djmed
They aren't banned.
They simply cannot compete in their make believe gender. They can compete in their biological gender.
They simply cannot compete in their make believe gender. They can compete in their biological gender.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:16 pm to djmed
With dick.
Without dick.
Everyone is able to participate in their proper gender class. Everyone gets a trophy as well.
Without dick.
Everyone is able to participate in their proper gender class. Everyone gets a trophy as well.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:18 pm to Privateer 2007
quote:
They aren't banned.
They simply cannot compete in their make believe gender. They can compete in their biological gender.
Exactly.
Women's sports are for biological women.
Men's sports are for all genders. Believe me, if there was a female that could carry the ball like Leonard Fournette she would play on any football team in the nation.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:21 pm to djmed
quote:
“[These] bans are gaining steam for the same reason that election audits and [critical race theory] bans have been popular over the past year,”
I.e., plain common f*cking sense.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:22 pm to djmed
why do they have to go "inside" the movement like some bullshite Vice documentary? it's not a secret, none of us want dudes competing with girls. period. and we'll say it out loud, because frick you thats why
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:25 pm to djmed
Not liking girls doesn't mean you get to compete athletically with girls.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:25 pm to djmed
Let's assume that getting to participate in an athletic competition is some sort of "natural right" for a high school student. (It is not, but let's make this assumption for the sake of discussion). An implied corollary of that "right" would seem to be a right to have such competition be "fair."
We simply MUST accept the fact that a decade or more of developing male muscles give the TG athlete an "unfair" advantage over an athlete who spent the same time developing smaller and less dense female musculature.
Thus, with a MTF TG student who wishes to participate in athletic competition as a female, we would seem to have a conflict between that first right and its implied corollary, leaving us in the position of needing to balance those two rights and determine which is greater.
So, which is to receive the greater weight: (i) the "right" of the TG individual to participate (in general) or (ii) the collective, corollary right of every other girl in the competition to have a "fair" opportunity to compete and win?
I sympathize with the TG athlete and I certainly do not "hate" this individual, but in this case it just seems to me that the rights of the many must outweigh the "right" of the one.
We simply MUST accept the fact that a decade or more of developing male muscles give the TG athlete an "unfair" advantage over an athlete who spent the same time developing smaller and less dense female musculature.
Thus, with a MTF TG student who wishes to participate in athletic competition as a female, we would seem to have a conflict between that first right and its implied corollary, leaving us in the position of needing to balance those two rights and determine which is greater.
So, which is to receive the greater weight: (i) the "right" of the TG individual to participate (in general) or (ii) the collective, corollary right of every other girl in the competition to have a "fair" opportunity to compete and win?
I sympathize with the TG athlete and I certainly do not "hate" this individual, but in this case it just seems to me that the rights of the many must outweigh the "right" of the one.
This post was edited on 5/16/22 at 4:35 pm
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:26 pm to djmed
quote:
gender-expansive young people
Stupid leftist bullshite.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:29 pm to sawtooth
quote:
With dick.
Without dick.
XY.
XX.
Using the dick qualifier is insufficient nowadays.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:31 pm to AggieHank86
quote:
Let's assume that getting to participate in an athletic competition is some sort of "natural right" for a high school student. (It is not, but let's make this assumption for the sake of discussion). An implied corollary of that "right" would seem to be a right to have such competition be "fair."
With a MTF TG student who wishes to participate in athletic competition as a female, we would seem to have a conflict between that first right and its implied corollary, leaving us in the position of needing to balance those two rights and determine which is greater.
We simply MUST accept the fact that a decade or more of developing male muscles give the TG athlete an "unfair" advantage over an athlete who spent the same time developing smaller and less dense female musculature.
So, which is to receive the greater weight: (i) the "right" of the TG individual to participate (in general) or (ii) the collective, corollary right of every other girl in the competition to have a "fair" opportunity to compete and win?
I sympathize with the TG athlete and I certainly do not "hate" this individual, but in this case it just seems to me that the rights of the many must outweigh the "right" of the one.
In other words, make girl's sports fair for our daughters.
What you hit on was just how miniscule this population is that society is cowering to.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:35 pm to djmed
They aren’t being banned.
They just have to play where they belong.
They just have to play where they belong.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:38 pm to djmed
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Republican strategist Sarah Longwell
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who has been critical of the Republican Party under Donald Trump.
Not adding up
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:42 pm to Tantal
Yep. Chopping off dicks doesn't remove superior muscle and bone structure and bone density. They lose some muscle mass on estrogen, but not all of it. If you want to watch real wtf progtrash, there's an episode of "Queer Eye" on Netflix where a MtF competes in women's weightlifting that shockingly wins everything he enters. Wow, what a brave and stunning womyn athlete!
And I keep reading a lot of them are like the Penn swimmer dude. They LARP as lesbians to ogle naked girls and wave their junk around in the locker room. "They just want to pee!"
And I keep reading a lot of them are like the Penn swimmer dude. They LARP as lesbians to ogle naked girls and wave their junk around in the locker room. "They just want to pee!"
Posted on 5/16/22 at 4:43 pm to AggieHank86
quote:
I sympathize with the TG athlete and I certainly do not "hate" this individual, but in this case it just seems to me that the rights of the many must outweigh the "right" of the one.
L
Occasionally you seem rational and sensible…..alas, its merely a fleeting moment or a brief mental lapse towards normalcy.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:08 pm to AggieHank86
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just seems to me that the rights of the many must outweigh the "right" of the one.
Seems that way to me about basically every left wing narrative that makes absolutely zero sense
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:13 pm to djmed
quote:i.e., they are overwhelmingly popular with the vast majority of their constituents
Conservative groups and lawmakers realized that the issue could reliably excite Republicans and potential swing voters, drawing them into broader cultural debates surrounding trans rights in the U.S.—battles that tend to serve Republicans electorally.
which is wrong, somehow
This post was edited on 5/16/22 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:14 pm to djmed
Why can’t trans athletes compete in sports according to the gender in which they were born? Born a guy? Compete in male sports. It’s not that hard.
Posted on 5/16/22 at 8:20 pm to djmed
quote:
Inside the Right-Wing Movement to Ban Trans Youth From Sports
No one is trying to ban them from sports.
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