When Graham appeared on Sean Hannityās Fox News program afterward, she attempted to recover by pivoting from her lack of national security knowledge to transgender athletes, as The Advocate reported.
āOf course, Taiwan is our friend,ā Graham said. āBut I think people in South Carolina are more worried about making ends meet. They are concerned about boys in girlsā sports.ā
Trump continued that strategy Friday by making transgender people a central part of his argument for Graham. He attacked Andrews as a āfar-left political hack who supports transgender for everybodyā and accused her of telling āconfused children theyāre trapped in the wrong body.ā
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Trump may have conflated those medical procedures with agreements his Justice Department has forced on two major hospital systems. Those settlements require Texas Childrenās Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic to establish or fund services for people who voluntarily seek to detransition. They do not order hospitals to perform surgery on anyone.
In May, Texas Childrenās agreed to pay the state $10 million, end gender-affirming care for minors and establish what federal officials called the countryās first ārestorative careā clinic for detransitioners. The Houston hospital also agreed to terminate five physicians connected to its transgender health program and permanently revoke their privileges, as The Advocate reported.
I agree with your points but I think you missed the one you replied to: as you said, the idiots are enraged over āmen in womenās sportsā but their point was those same people donāt say anything about āwomen in menās sportsā because trans men go completely under their radar.
In fact a group of bearded and burly trans men did a protest the other day by following the law in their state and using womenās bathrooms. At one point they were confronted by police and had an uncomfortable conversation about what their genitals and DNA were. But they were not arrested because the law in that state says they must use the bathroom of their birth sex. Brought the stupidity of the law face to face with a lot of ignorant people.
Oh, fuuck. /smacks forehead.
Dāoh!
Oh, well, anywayā¦LOL. Yeah, the conservatives seem to be mostly fixated on trans females vs. trans males, just like they are focused mostly on gay men vs. lesbiansā¦
Wait, you really donāt know why people would care about āmen in womenās sportsā but not āwomen in menās sportsā?
Youāre going to say itās because of physical advantage? Which has been shown to be negligible in trans women who have been on hormones for a length of time, when compared to the variations in physical attributes already present among cis female people (and not even taking into account intersex people who were "corrected " to female at birth). And which doesnāt even apply in a number of sports. For instance in shooting and biathlon events being female can be an advantage (at least by averages, there again individuals differ widely within the sexes) so a trans man could theoretically dominate if the hormones donāt change that too much. Or maybe weāre talking about how compliance to societal standards has always been more strictly enforced for women, even in the definition of being a woman, and how theyāre perceived as needing protection and separation but/therefore not compensation for their athletic performance.
Try thinking about this: a trans woman who competes as a woman has little to gain because womenās sports arenāt sufficiently appreciated. If she were willing to deny her identity and compete in menās tourneys she would be up against bigger stronger men, as would any man of her build, and rank lower, but sheād probably have better pay and equipment and facilities regardless. Sheād also still probably get similar abuse from transhaters, because sheās a target for their misogyny that gets them in less trouble than beating up on ārealā women (although they likely do that too).
Trans men are more able to āpassā in society because our expectations about the diverse appearance of men is so much greater. And if a trans man athlete competes and takes a spot from a less-athletic cis man, is society going to support his protest or say heās just a whining wimp? Thatās an attitude rooted in misogyny as well, by the way. Weak equals female equals unworthy.
High school sports donāt require any sort of hormones. Most sports donāt have official hormone-length schedules. But no, the advantage is not ānegligibleā. Height, limb length, joint size, heart and lung size, etc. are all fixed features. There minimal overlap between these aspects between men and women. A 5"10" person is average height for a male, but in the top range for females.
And yes, certain āintersexā males should also not be competing in female sports.
And as far as I see, women who donāt identify as women are still primarily choosing to play in womenās sports.
āwomen who donāt identify as womenā tells me a lot about your bias against trans people in general.
If Veronica Ivy chose to testosterone out and play as a man the profits would be considerably higher, even at a lower rank.
Most trans women who play in womenās sports do so because itās the only way they can play without denying their essential identity.
Womenās sports are important. Women are important. Trans women are women.