He huffed about how the question wasn’t “appropriate” even though his bill would result in kids being asked that same question.
A Republican state rep from Michigan testifying about his anti-trans sports bill on Monday was left speechless after an out Democratic colleague began his questioning by asking, “Representative, can you tell me: are you trans?”
A long beat staring down out gay Democratic state Rep. Mike McFall followed, before state Rep. Jason Woolford ® managed to reply, “Are you?”
“I’m actually going somewhere with this,” he said to lawmakers in the small chamber.
“Because I want to know, how does a 14-year-old girl prove whether or not she’s trans to a 50-year-old coach?”
I stay out of that fight because I don’t know enough about the real statistics to comment on it. Which I feel like would drastically improve the situation if all these armchair “bIoLoGiCaL aDvAnTaGe” people would do the same.
I still don’t understand why the government needs to be involved in sports at all. They’re games, it’s not that serious. Leave it to the experts within those organizations to come up with whatever rules are needed.
America has a reputation at being the “best” at everything always. That’s why government is involved in sports in general, but as to the trans women topic it’s because we’re in a full on fascist takeover and they’re number one on their list of people to “purify”
Sports is used as a revenue generator at all levels of government. Look how much taxpayer money is spent to build stadiums/arenas/etc. for the sake of the “local economy.” Not to mention all the money spent on advertising and sponsorship.
All of which, of course, has nothing to do with lawmakers’ arbitrary decisions on whether or not trans athletes should exist. Just wanted to point out how much the government is already involved in sports.
I mean if it were up to me they’d be paying for their own stadiums. The rest of it is just taxation which applies to pretty much everything.
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