You all have heard Trump boast about the "Biggest Victory", "A Landslide", it was not "was not a victory of “epic” or “historic” proportions yet... it is just more lies! The headline in "The Nation" says it all,
Donald Trump’s popular vote total has fallen below 50 percent, and his margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed considerably as all the votes are counted.
Keeping that in mind, the voters didn't care about us, they only cared about the economy... So now one of the first legislation that they tackle is not the economy but us!
Trans people comprise a scant portion of athletes, at all levels, but the drive to bar them from participating in competitive sports has never been about numbers.The New YorkerBy Louisa ThomasJanuary 19, 2025What did people care about in the lead-up to the 2024 Presidential election? Last fall, Gallup ran a poll and asked. The economy was first on the list; most voters rated it as “extremely important.” Majorities of respondents also named a slew of other issues as either “extremely important” or “very important” to their vote: democracy in the U.S., terrorism and national security, picks for Supreme Court Justices, immigration, health care, gun policy, taxes, abortion, crime, income and wealth distribution, the federal budget deficit, foreign affairs, energy policy, race relations, and so on. In fact, only two issues on the list were not considered at least “very important” by a majority of voters. One was climate change, which half of those surveyed voted as “somewhat important” or “not important.” The other was transgender rights, which came last.
We were dead last on what the voters were concern but the first thing that they tackle. When I was on the radio interview with the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), they said that there were about a quarter million student athletes in Connecticut and about a dozen trans athletes!
But the drive to ban transgender athletes from sports has never been about numbers. In 2023, Ohio’s House of Representatives passed a bill banning trans girls from competing in girls’ sports as early as kindergarten. It was called the Save Women’s Sports Act, conjuring an image of barbarians at the gate. But, when the journalist Pablo Torre went looking for these girls who were, purportedly, breaking all the records and stealing all the opportunities, he found that, when the efforts of the measure began, there was one trans varsity athlete in Ohio: a backup catcher. (She wasn’t very good.) When the governor of Mississippi signed a bill in 2021 barring trans athletes from competing in sports according to their gender, supporters of the bill didn’t present evidence of trans athletes at public schools in the state. Around that time, the Associated Press contacted two dozen lawmakers who were sponsoring legislation to prohibit transgender girls from joining girls’ teams at public high schools, in addition to reaching out to conservative groups that were supporting the bills. In most cases, no one could cite any problematic instances of transgender participation. Many of the bills’ biggest advocates did not know whether there were any transgender athletes in their states at all.
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Given how vanishingly few transgender athletes there are, and how many voters pointed to other policy issues as greater priorities, a rational person might have been confused. But the Trump campaign seemed to capitalize on a few things. A 2023 Gallup poll found that sixty-nine per cent of Americans favor restrictions on transgender athletes, a seven-percentage-point increase from 2021. It doesn’t seem to matter that there aren’t all that many trans people playing competitive sports. And fans are not rational when they’re watching the University of Michigan play Michigan State. Football is a zero-sum game. The ads were zero-sum, too—them versus you.
But that doesn't fit the Republican's narrative that we are taking over women sports. Instead they make up lies and persecute us for votes.
Trump claims that the voters don't want trans athletes which is a lie... Trump lies, the Republicans in Congress, the Republicans in the states legislatures lie, how can you trust them?
Here in Connecticut they have introduced trans athletes bills...
- HB5125 AN ACT PROHIBITING STUDENTS WHO ARE BIOLOGICAL MALES FROM COMPETING ON FEMALE-ONLY ATHLETIC TEAMS AND USING FEMALE-ONLY LOCKER ROOMS AND FACILITIES.
- HB5352 AN ACT PROHIBITING STUDENTS WHO ARE BIOLOGICAL MALES FROM COMPETING ON FEMALE-ONLY ATHLETIC TEAMS AND USING FEMALE-ONLY LOCKER ROOMS AND FACILITIES.
- HB5669 AN ACT PROHIBITING STUDENTS WHO ARE BIOLOGICAL MALES FROM COMPETING ON FEMALE-ONLY ATHLETIC TEAMS AND USING FEMALE-ONLY LOCKER ROOMS AND FACILITIES.
- HB5789 AN ACT ESTABLISHING GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPATION IN MALE AND FEMALE ATHLETIC PROGRAMS.
- SB592 AN ACT CONCERNING PARTICIPATION ON A YOUTH SPORTS TEAM BASED ON ASSIGNED SEX AT BIRTH.
- SB690 AN ACT PROVIDING CIVIL IMMUNITY TO INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ORGANIZATIONS AND THE SANCTIONING BODIES OF PRIVATE YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS THAT ADOPT GENDER IDENTITY POLICIES CONCERNING ATHLETIC PARTICIPATION AND COMPETITION.
These are just the ones introduced so far in the first two weeks of the session that the Republicans has introduced.
The majority of the Germans didn't vote for Hitler either. So what he got the power just like trump. Now we all have to face what the band is playing and decide what we are going to do about it. Build the Resistance! Get a passport and flee to other countries where the right wing is gaining strength. Sing We Shall Overcome? Sing the rockets red glare, come by here lord, come by here, We are going to need more now that the Proud Boys are going to be roaming amerikkka as the new Storm Troopers and the billionaires are lining up with the fascists. Safe state for awhile but how safe. Part of the "now" rhymes with back then and part is a whole new ball game. Harry Hay once warned us that when the real "crap" hits the fan in this country, that everyone will be anything but lgbt. It is going to be more than interesting to see what comes down the road and we either die or outlive the death of amerikkka while we sing poems of these states. I'm too old to flee but not to old to fight.
ReplyDeleteI have to renew my passport this year. If I had to flee I think it would be to Canada, Nova Scotia is like Maine. But I'll stay around here trying to bring about change until...
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