“It is a complicated issue. It is truly a complicated issue, with a wide range of views, truly a wide range of views,” Jean-Pierre said. “There is no ‘yes or no’ answer to this, it is complicated. There is a rule that the Department of Education [DOE] has put forward, and we’re going to let that process move forward, and again, we want to make sure that while we establish guardrails with this rule, we also prevent discrimination, as well, against transgender kids. But again, a complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that.”
“Absolutely no reason for the Biden admin to do this,” New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “It is indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can still walk this back, and they should. It’s a disgrace.”
“Honestly, this move by Biden to push a rule on trans kids in sports is not only a backwards betrayal, it [forces] us to have to spend our time dealing with god d*** sports instead of criminal bans on our healthcare,” Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate, wrote. “He could have just done nothing. This is legitimizing transphobia.”
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“A complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that” Fuck off out of here with that “centrist” nonsense. There’s nothing complicated about it, and it’s not an issue unless you want to turn it into one and want to appeal to people’s emotions like Republicans are doing. It was only a matter of time before they’d start throwing trans people under the bus. I guess with the coming elections it’s as good a time as ever.
Margo Dydek is a 2.18m/7’2’’ tall cis woman who played basketball, does that not give her a genetic advantage over shorter basketball players? Should she be disqualified from competing with other women?
In many cases, there’s already a league like that - it’s called the men’s league. Of course, due to the wave of transphobic laws purportedly aimed at “fairness,” there are many cases of trans men being forced to compete in women’s leagues against their will. Because it’s not about fairness at all, it’s about hurting trans people, and the reason this is where the focus is is that it’s currently where the line is. If they win on this, they will shift focus to attacking us on a different front.
You don’t really get to choose where the line gets drawn or the specific, nuanced policy that gets implemented. You just get to influence, ever so slightly, which way the current flows. Maybe we could have a conversation if there wasn’t a large, committed movement trying to kill us, but as it stands, it’s vital that we don’t give them a single inch, because they will take a mile.
Here’s one. Though tbh I haven’t looked that closely at the data because I think it’s largely irrelevant, especially when it comes to school sports.
The point of sports, especially for kids, is to encourage exercise and socialization, and trans kids are particularly in need of those things, because those factors are essential to mental health. Even without the government going out of its way to fuck us, trans people are already more limited in what spaces we feel safe in. I think anyone who cares more about the fairness of competitions than they do about the physical and psychological well-being of children in a vulnerable group needs to seriously re-evaluate their priorities.