GOP-led House passes trans athlete ban for girls and women's teams

[In It to Win It]

https://news.yahoo.com/house-aims-bar-trans-athletes-142600523.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House passed a bill Thursday that would bar federally supported schools and colleges from allowing transgender athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth was male to compete on girls or women's sports teams.

The legislation approved by a 219-203 vote is unlikely to advance further because the Democratic-led Senate will not support it and the White House said President Joe Biden would veto it.

Supporters said the legislation, which would put violators at risk of losing taxpayer dollars, is necessary to ensure competitive fairness. They framed the vote as supporting female athletes disadvantaged by having to compete against those whose gender identify does not match their sex assigned at birth. Opponents criticized the bill as ostracizing an already vulnerable group for political gain.

The House action comes as at least 20 other states have imposed similar limits on trans athletes at the K-12 or collegiate level.

[Freethinker65]

1. The GOP has nothing more important to debate and legislate? Raise the debt ceiling!!

Surprised the GOP House didn't propose, debate, and pass non-binding legislation to express their outrage to the makers of BudLight?

[jimfields33]

3. The sent a bill to the senate yesterday on the debt increase.

[Mad_Machine76]

15. Really?

The one with all the horrid demands? I don’t remember them passing it yet?

[AllyCat]

2. They have real issues to deal with! And only for girls.

Not even for all athletes (which would still be terrible) The GOP is not a political party. They have no ideas, no platform, no moral principles.

[ColinC]

4. More government overreach trying to control children now

[LostOne4Ever]

12. It is a Transphobic article!

TERFS NEED TO GET THE FUCK OFF DU!!!

[phylny]

13. I'm sorry, you must have misunderstood my post.

The illustration was informative, factual, and excellent. I did not comment on the article itself.

[LostOne4Ever]

11. FUCK TERFS

That is a TERF article and breaks the no bigotry rule! And you know it!!!!

It calls trans women “Trans Identified Males” or TIMs. This is a slur created by TERFs to misgender and insult trans women! The whole article is a terf spouting transphobia!

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/TERF_glossary#TIM.2FTIF_.28Trans_Identified_Male.2FFemale.29

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trans-Identified%20Male

https://medium.com/@notCursedE/a-glossary-of-transphobia-a31a001d279


Get this SHIT OFF DU!!!

[littlemissmartypants]

14. Published by the John Locke Foundation...

A right wing "think tank" cesspool.

[ShazzieB]

16. Thanks for these links.

Especially the Rational Wiki one. That was a goldmine of information. I knew what TERFs were but it turns out they're even worse that I realized.

[LostOne4Ever]

17. It is a great resource

And we are going to need every resource we have to fight them. So far we have mainly faced the fundamentalist bigots here in the US. I expect the TERFs to use this to start peddling their bullshit any day now.

I just know it is a matter of time before they begin trying to attack us using their pseudo-scientific Autogynephilia bullshit. I am surprised they haven’t started up on it yet like they did in the UK.

[maxsolomon]

7. Laser-focused on America's real issues, I see.

I had KIRO-FM on during my commute last night and they were bemoaning how unfair it is to female track athletes to work so hard and see a trans woman come in and shatter all the records. OK, I guess that would be unfair if it ever actually happened.

Legislating against hypotheticals.

[In It to Win It]

8. Did we ever get that inflation bill that they promised?

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

9. Where it will go to the Senate to die.

Like all the other performative nonsense bills these anti-government loons dribble on the floor.