Connecticut is not immune to the anti-trans laws that are happening around the country, there is a candidates here that is attacking the low hanging fruit… us. Trans people.
Bob Stefanowski would evaluate policy allowing trans athletes in girls’ sports
Parents Against Stupid Stuff super PAC promises to raise the issue in gubernatorial campaign
CT Mirror
By Mark Pazniokas
April 13, 2022
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski declined Tuesday night to embrace or reject Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports, an issue unexpectedly introduced by a new super PAC supporting him.In a text message, Stefanowski questioned the process and analysis behind the policy without proposing a reversal — a move the Trump administration futilely demanded of Gov. Ned Lamont in 2020 and that the super PAC, Parents Against Stupid Stuff, is promising to promote in 2022.
Once again they are using fear and discrimination to grab votes at the expense of our children.
There are less than a half a dozen trans athletes in the state and they are racking them over the coals for the sake of votes.
When I was growing up they used to talk about sports building traits such as teamwork, resilience, sportsmanship, and leadership skills, so what does banning trans athletes teach?
Discrimination, exclusion, and bigotry.
Are those the skills we want to teach our children?
Sports have now become “Winning is everything! Everyone else are losers.”
Sports has become big business!
Less than one percent of the high school athletes apply for sport scholarships and even fewer go on to play professional sports.
But we don’t want the overweight athletes on our team who dreams of playing sports. We don’t want the child who can’t run but wants to play sports. We only want students who can win! Win! Win! Win!
But at least they can try out for the team while trans students can't even get a foot in the door.
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When the non-discrimination law was passed it was right down party lines, the Republicans introduced amendments like requiring all trans people to register with the DMV, amendments to strip us of health insurance, requiring us to use the bathroom of the gender assigned at birth, an amendment would have required schools to transfer a teacher out of the classroom while they were transitioning, while another amendment would have bumped up the harshness of a crime committed while “Any person who falsely exhibits a gender identity or expression, either through appearance or behavior, that is different from that traditionally associated with the person's physiology or assigned sex at birth.”
If the Republican’s get control of the governorship and the legislature you can count on them to roll back our protections here in Connecticut like they are doing in other states.
If Connecticut becomes a "Red" state we would end up like the southern states with all the anti-trans laws...
Old-school homophobia is back
Why anti-LGBTQ laws and accusations of “grooming” children seem to be everywhere now.
VOX
By Christian Paz
April 13, 2022
The past month hasn’t been great for queer and trans Americans.In March, after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill restricting the kind of discussions and instruction public school teachers can have that involve “sexual orientation or gender identity,” copycat proposals popped up in at least three Republican-run states. Conservative proponents of these bills then launched new broadsides against LGBTQ people, accusing teachers of “grooming” school-age kids and queer allies of enabling pedophilia in their criticism of the bills and the chilling effects on school discussions.
In the span of what seemed like a week, old-school bigotry felt mainstreamed. Sitting members of Congress, cable news hosts, and conservative intellectuals coalesced around “ok, groomer” discourse as a new way to attack LGBTQ Americans — not just the teachers these bills are targeting. Their attacks come in a country that is more accepting of queer Americans than at any other time in history; about eight in 10 Americans back nondiscrimination laws protecting LGBTQ people. But suddenly, it seemed, 20th-century homophobia acquired a modern, QAnon-esque edge.
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The feedback loop of anti-LGBTQ legislation and “grooming” discourse reveals new dimensions to the conservative movement’s efforts to stymie the progress of recent years: Some members of the political right see opportunities to wield their advantages in the nation’s increasingly conservative courts against LGBTQ people — and opportunities to claw back the ground they’ve lost in the culture war as Americans’ opposition to discrimination grows.
And trans athletes are right there in their cross hairs as the low hanging fruit to pick and spit out.
* Meredith Willson’s 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man song "Ya Got Trouble"
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