Trump and women’s sports
This involves one of Trump’s campaign promises. The Democrats had chosen to support a form of “transgender rights” – biological men in women’s sports as long as the men claimed to be women – that harmed the girls and women the party had always claimed to defend, a position so extreme it even troubled some Democrats. With an EO, Trump banned federal funding for entities that allow biological men to compete in women’s sports.
Note how that CBS News article frames it in the lede – not as banning biological men, but as banning girls and women who just happen to be trans girls and women. Many readers probably wouldn’t even know that this means biological boys and men:
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to ban transgender girls and women from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity, marking his latest move targeting transgender rights.
I wager a lot of trans people don’t like how far the movement went when people like swimmer Lia Thomas pushed for being considered a woman when there was no question Lia was a post-pubescent male with the body of a post-pubescent male. It’s only much further down in the story that CBS News even attempts to explain what the EO really refers to.
Allowing biological males who identify as women to compete in girls’ and women’s sports is a very unpopular hill that the Democrat candidates chose to die on [emphasis mine]:
A recent New York Times/Ipsos survey found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don’t think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women’s sports. Of the 2,128 people polled, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.
Here’s the signing ceremony. Note how relaxed Trump is:
The legacy media have consistently referred to “assaults” or “attacks” on transgenders, when the issues have really been protecting women and girls in intimate spaces and providing fair athletic competition for female sports.
It’s amazing how powerful the “sin of omission” is in media spin doctoring. All people need to understand the issue is to see a full length picture of Lia Thomas in competition. The second photo in the article below is sufficient. There is an even better one I saw of “her” standing on the starting platform, but I haven’t found it again, just now. Needless to say, an inquiring mind will never see such pictures in the aggregated search images produced by Google or Bing.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/01/30/upenn-law-groups-trans-swimmers-success-due-hard-work-not-because-hes-man/
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I was wrong. A Google search showed me revealing images of Lia Thomas from this one-day-old article. Bing did not.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/sports/upenn-lia-thomas-teammates-grace-estabrook-margot-kaczorowski-ellen-holmquis-file-lawsuit-against-ncaa/
Photo about half way down in the above article.
@ TommyJay > “It’s amazing how powerful the “sin of omission” is in media spin doctoring.”
Of, if the damaging information is included, it’s so far down in the article that many people never get there.
Now we know why USAID lavished so much money on media bribes.
As LibsofTikTok said (paraphrased): they are using our own money against us.
My opinion is these men pretending or mentally unstable that they are women should not be labeled as women, they are not.
This will be a hill the Cultural Marxists will want to die on.
I was wondering how we would get back to sanity on guys guised in trans invading women’s everywhere.
Now I know.
TommyJay:
Great shots of the Thomas creature.
“the Democrat candidates chose to die on”
and may they do so … for this issue and many others