“It is a complicated issue. It is truly a complicated issue, with a wide range of views, truly a wide range of views,” Jean-Pierre said. “There is no ‘yes or no’ answer to this, it is complicated. There is a rule that the Department of Education [DOE] has put forward, and we’re going to let that process move forward, and again, we want to make sure that while we establish guardrails with this rule, we also prevent discrimination, as well, against transgender kids. But again, a complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that.”
“Absolutely no reason for the Biden admin to do this,” New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “It is indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can still walk this back, and they should. It’s a disgrace.”
“Honestly, this move by Biden to push a rule on trans kids in sports is not only a backwards betrayal, it [forces] us to have to spend our time dealing with god d*** sports instead of criminal bans on our healthcare,” Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate, wrote. “He could have just done nothing. This is legitimizing transphobia.”
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“A complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that” Fuck off out of here with that “centrist” nonsense. There’s nothing complicated about it, and it’s not an issue unless you want to turn it into one and want to appeal to people’s emotions like Republicans are doing. It was only a matter of time before they’d start throwing trans people under the bus. I guess with the coming elections it’s as good a time as ever.
Trans women have been able to compete in the correct categories in the Olympics for several of the games now. I think like one trans woman has, in the weightlifting category in the 2020 games, and she didn’t place.
Trans women in sports is not common. That’s why a trans swimmer coming in like 3rd in one of the six races she’s competing in that day is a weeks-long conservative hate-fest. That’s why an individual trans person competing at all is sometimes newsworthy. Often, when suits are filed against school districts because transgender athletes are competing in their proper categories, the suits are filed against like 3 people (and one time they were just using the court system to be shitty to one literal child). Some suits are even dropped, because everyone they’re targeting graduates.
The idea of cis men pretending to be trans women to dominate women’s sports is a manufactured reason to demonize a handful of specific transgender people and build animosity towards trans people in general.