6mo ago

Trump signs executive order intended to bar transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports

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6mo ago

Trump signs executive order intended to bar transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports

apnews.com /article/donald-trump-transgender-athletes-3606411fc12efffec95a893351624e1b

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this is not a federal issue.
like, how can this EO have any effect on your local community softball league?
- It's in the second paragraph:
  The order, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” gives federal agencies wide latitude to ensure entities that receive federal funding abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administration’s view, which interprets “sex” as the gender someone was assigned at birth.
  
  Lol! They are planning on cutting all of that funding anyway...
  
  Good old federal funding, the arm that never stops getting twisted.
Looks like Trump is considering his Executive Orders law now, without first having to go through Congress
- They kinda are until the next president comes along.
  
  You have a lot more faith in what tatters are going to be left of our Democratic institutions in four years than I do my friend. I don't know that we'll ever get to vote for another President ever again.
So glad that our long national nightmare is over.
I wasn't aware that a President had to set policy on....sports? Aren't there other people involved? State level rights?
And that phukkin' photo op, jaysus. Some of those grinning women in there....WTAF.
I hope Riley Gaines develops a vulva itch that can never be soothed so she has to go through the day fighting the urge to scoot across the carpet like a pet with worms. Any place that doesn't just ignore this should just say fuck it and make one sport for everyone, split by ability.
- No it fucking isn't. It's an invented issue based on poor understanding of transition and sexist, hateful, misogynistic garbage.
  
  Wrong
- classic ignorant person situation.
- Also agree. It's either do this or get rid of sports that exclude specific genders to compete.
- Completely agree. How the left can try and defend that shit is insane to me. Shouldn't have even been a problem in the first place frankly.
  
  It wasn't a real issue. Like many of the Republican talking points, they invent an idea, fond accidental evidence or things that have already been disproven and ignore the facts while they find some fucking stooges, usually people that leave lost the respect of their field (disbarred lawyers, doctors with revoked licenses, etc.), but that appear to have credibility to an outsider, so that they can leverage that public ignorance to push the idea as widely as possible until their followers pick it up like it's a real thing and never do any actual research beyond the sanctioned outlets they control.

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