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
I am very surprised that at least one of these psuedo-female posers wasn’t attacked by irate fathers and brothers. I guess it’s a testament to the faith that underlies the system that this process was resolved peacefully, as far as I know. Well – with the exception of the girl that had her face smashed in from a male’s malicious volleyball spike, who will suffer from a brain disability for the rest of her life. There’s that.
Aggie one would think so, but fear of the Left is the biggest motivating factor Dennis Prager might tell us about why not.
Isn’t biological male redundant, like puppy dog or kitty cat? I didn’t know there was anything but male or female.
Our daughter in law was all-state in practically everything, full ride in softball, championship barrel racer. Son was all conf football, b-ball, tennis. Benched 300 in college to pass the time.
Our granddaughters are superior athletes. The younger, when in fifth grade, was beating the boys’ sixth grade cross country doing two miles sub-thirteen. Bored You finish the race and stand around waiting for the other runners, Quit.
All star in softball.
Yet in any contact sport they’d stand a good chance being crippled by some guy who’s mad he didn’t make starting fullback.
Older one, junior in high school, is going to state, last I heard, in power lifting.
And to think of some jerk wandering around their showers, leering.
You have to have some kind of perversion to favor and promote this. Ought to see someone.
Now the record books need to be amended so that history shows the actual performance of the female (XX) athletes and asterisks affixed to mention of the pretenders. Burn the crops and salt the fields if you do not want a recurrence.
Those girls are lucky it wasn’t Biden hosting that ceremony. He wouldn’t be able to keep his hands off.
Ray on February 8, 2025 at 8:22 am said:
Isn’t biological male redundant, like puppy dog or kitty cat? I didn’t know there was anything but male or female.
My wife just showed me a link to an article about an intersex person who appeared male but had more or less female DNA. That article said there were maybe 2% of the population with an intersex condition, with only 1 in 5000 potentially showing external factors that might show something unusual. I thought Neo had provided a comment or citation in the past that that percentage was dramatically smaller than 1%.
After some digging I found this: https://statsforgender.org/it-is-not-true-that-1-7-of-the-population-is-intersex-the-proportion-of-people-with-dsds-intersex-conditions-is-0-018/
“It is not true that 1.7% of the population is ‘born between the sexes’. The proportion of people with DSDs (‘intersex’ conditions) is 0.018%.
Conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female, occur in 0.018% of the population [1].
The claim that 1.7% of the population is ‘intersex’ [2] includes conditions which most clinicians do not recognize as intersex [1], and is often wrongly used to back up the ideological assertion that ‘sex is a spectrum’, or that biological sex is not dimorphic.”
@R2L: that percentage was dramatically smaller than 1%.
It might interest you to know that almost 30 years ago one of my college professors showed me, approvingly, a book that claimed biological sex was invented by Western scientists in the 18th century. The author made that claim using a highly selective and tendentious citation of historical sources. There have been a lot of people pushing a lot of wrong things for a long time now.
@ Niketas > ” There have been a lot of people pushing a lot of wrong things for a long time now.”
And most of us didn’t realize it because our personal experiences seemed to be unique — hooray for the free-speech internet.
@ Kate > “The legacy media have consistently referred to “assaults” or “attacks” on transgenders”
@ Aggie > “I am very surprised that at least one of these pseudo-female posers wasn’t attacked by irate fathers and brothers….the girl that had her face smashed in from a male’s malicious volleyball spike, who will suffer from a brain disability for the rest of her life”
IIRC, all of the alleged “anti-trans assaults” to date have been revealed as hoaxes.
The only people being assaulted are girls and women.