REPUBLICANS. YEA 216 NAY 0
DEMOCRATS. YEA 2 NAY 206
Sen Neil Anderson: Imagine being the party that accuses the other party of hating women, and then voting against women. The hypocrisy is breathtaking." Thread by @CrunchAlias on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - ""Why is there a man on the women's team?"
"It makes him happy."
"Now he's in the women's changing rooms.
"Just don't look."
"Fully grown men are racing in my daughter's competition!"
"It's only amateur."
"He took her place in the Olympic qualifiers."
"It's only one man."
"Now there's a man in the women's championship!"
"He has no advantage."
"Two men in the women's pool finals!?"
"It's only pool."
"A man gave a girl brain damage!"
"It's a dangerous sport."
"There's 5 men on the women's football team...?"
"The players don't mind."
"Now there's a whole team of males!"
"They have a right to play."
"How can we stop this?"
"Don't be a bigot."
"There'll be no women's sports left."
"Good, it's segregation."
"We can't compete with men!"
"Then start your own league."" Zachary Elliott on X - "To defend males competing in female sports, USA Today writer Nancy Armour @nrarmour claims that the proposed sex screening policies will discriminate against women with atypical chromosomes or bodies. She writes, "For those who missed it in biology class, gender is not black and white. There are women with three X chromosomes. There are women missing one of the X chromosomes. There are women who have XY chromosomes but female reproductive systems. There are women who have naturally higher levels of testosterone and androgen." No, sex screening relies on the objective, universal method of identifying the presence or absence of the SRY gene through polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Females with one X or three Xs will pass the screen. Females with higher T levels than other females will also pass the screen. Females who happen to have XY due to a genetic disorder might fail the initial screen due to presence of SRY. But these atypical cases will be referred to independent medical specialists. These women can return with medical evidence showing they do not have male androgenization. It is a very clear, objective process. It does not rely on subjective appearance, looking at someone's genitals, or making preferential decisions. All these critics have are lies and emotion that strawman the actual process that has been laid out by scientists, academics, and policymakers." Eldur - The Icelandic Gay Guy on X - "Reykjavík Open in Disc Golf ended yesterday. These two are the champions. Both men. One is the champion in the Women's category and the other in the Men's category. This was an international tournament in Iceland. #SaveWomensSports #HeIsAMan"
Jonathan Kay on X - "The great thing about intersectional feminism is that you don’t need any actual women" Colby Cosh: Malcolm Gladwell awakens from the transgender fog - "South African sports scientist Ross Tucker, had previously met Gladwell in 2022 at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Tucker had appeared on a panel about “the inclusion of transgender athletes in sports,” representing the position that biological-male physical advantages in women’s athletic competitions are fundamental, incorrigible and incompatible with the entire concept of a women’s competition. Gladwell had served as moderator. As soon as Tucker mentioned the panel on the podcast, Gladwell observed that it had clearly been “stacked” against him. “My recollection of it,” said a chuckling Tucker, “was that everything I said was met with deathly silence, and everything the other (panellists) said got cheered.” Gladwell attested that 2022 “was a particular moment, which has passed. If we did a replay of that exact panel at the Sloan Conference this coming March, it runs in exactly the opposite direction. And it would be, I suspect, near-unanimity in the room that trans athletes have no place in the female category. I don’t think there’s any question.” “I’m ashamed of my performance at that panel,” Gladwell added, “because I share your position a hundred per cent , and I was cowed. The idea of saying anything on this issue … I believe, in retrospect, I was objective (as a panel moderator) in a dishonest way. I let a lot of howlers pass.” Gladwell further explained that the discussion itself was a moment of dawning for him: in real time he saw the old trans-inclusion arguments that there is no meaningful male advantage give way suddenly to the attitude that, in the words of a trans athlete on the panel with Tucker, “you have to let us win.” Gladwell — who, remember, was a genuinely elite 1,500-metre and mile track competitor as a teenager — then spent about 10 minutes talking with Tucker about the plain preposterousness of allowing biological men and boys to compete in women’s and girls’ sport. He emphasized his own cowardice in a way that has already infuriated some commentators who upheld the sane position all along. (Tucker, it should be said, is not among the infuriated: he tweeted on Tuesday about his own memory of the 2022 Sloan panel , describing it as a “car crash,” but doesn’t think Gladwell did a bad job.) Asked how he accounts for the great force of the now-receding moral mania surrounding trans athletes, Gladwell said: “I think in retrospect we will look back on the COVID period as a period of profound cultural destabilization. I think we all went crazy. And, I think, for understandable reasons!"... Gladwell adds that “it’s harder and harder and harder to make a naïve argument about trans participation; the evidence is now mounting, so that even the advocates are now having to shift their feet and make a different claim.” I.e., an unconditional demand for inclusion at all costs, rather than contrived reassurance that the innate male athletic advantage can be mitigated. If it needs saying, Malcolm Gladwell is a big deal. He is thought to have sold 23 million books in North America, and is probably one of the top five bestselling Canadian authors who have ever lived. His brand of anecdotal pop social-science has been applauded and condemned, sometimes by the same people at different moments, and he has a gift for making provocative, even radical-sounding utterances without escaping the political boundaries of polite liberal consensus. He is probably well aware of the abuse and threats J.K. Rowling has experienced for having sinful opinions about exclusive social spaces for women and girls. He is bound to know, or will find out by the end of the week, that he is painting a target on himself" Dan Zaksheske on X - "A fourth girls high school volleyball team has forfeited rather than face Jurupa Valley, which has male athlete AB Hernandez on the team. A.B. Miller’s principal told OutKick in a statement that the players made the decision not to play."
Wesley Yang on X - "California's state legislature and the rest of Blue America wants to break these girls because they expose the lie at the heart of the travesty of a civil rights movement they declared was going to define the 21st century. Not one famous female athlete is willing to stand with them. It isn't because they all agree that boys should be able to dominate girls in their sports and that these stupid brats should be made to sit down and shut up. It's because they are all afraid. Even though we know by now that this is an 80-20 issue, with 67 percent of Democrats supporting these girls, they fear the powerful vanguard inflicting absurdities and cruelties on these girls, and all girls, far more than they do the general public. They know that not one politician from the dominant political party of institutional America will stand with these girls because of the same fear that keeps them paralyzed. The consensus said that everyone must lie so that more kids can be fed into a cult of medicalized self-harm so that more restrictions on people's freedoms of speech, conscience, association, and religion can be imposed in the name of kindness and inclusion so that more quirky kids can be brainwashed to yearn to be chemically castrated and dismembered so that more middle-aged adult men can choose to live their autogynephilic fetishes full time. The consensus said that anyone who hesitates to clap can be vilified and smeared and sued into oblivion or financially ruined by state sponsored investigative agencies. The coercive state power bearing down on those who won't falsify reality is strong enough to ensure total compliance in adults. But a growing number of children aren't complying, and the question is whether the adults who want to break them will succeed, or whether the girls will break the phalanx of powerful adults trying to break them." Wesley Yang on X - ""When you get to the issues around sports, trans issues, that's now no longer about celebrating your rights. It's about denying other people theirs." -- Gavin Newsom
Newsom articulates what will in the end prove to be the decisive fact about the trans rights movement: that trans rights and women's rights are zero sum -- to give to the former group is to take from the latter group.
"Marriage equality was about everyone's rights. Your marriage was not diminished because a couple that had been together 30 years got married and happened to be the same sex, but your child may not have that same opportunity to get on the podium if a trans athlete is competing for that limited spot."
Tremendous effort has been expended by the trans rights movement to deny this fundamental antagonism and keep it out of public circulation. Newsom just put it out there."
Lottie Lewis on X - "None of the female athletes are wearing makeup, but he has a thick clown-face full because it’s the only way to indicate to others he should be allowed to compete in and dominate their sport."
Violent protests erupt in California as trans athlete thrashes female rivals in defiance of Trump's executive order - as her glamorous mother hits back at president - "AB Hernandez, 17, sealed her place in three finals yesterday - high jump, long jump and triple jump - after coming out on top in all of her preliminary heats. This included a triple jump of 41 feet - nearly 10 inches further than her closest rival."
Meme - Eli Erlick: "I love winning against cis women in archery competitions just to spite the anti-trans sports police."
The irony is hilarious
Leigh Ann O'Neill on X - "Oregon girls high jump state championships just finished. 2 of the females refused to step on the podium with the male competitor and an adult official relegated them to the sideline for refusing. THIS MUST END."
PoIiMath on X - "If you want to talk about the kids rebelling against authority, watch this fat old man yell at two teen girls for standing up for what they believe in The left thinks that the fat old man is the hero"
