Executive order banning transgender women from female sports signed into law

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1. So what is he definition of a woman being used here? Testosterone levels? Presence of a Y chromosome? Specifically XX chromosomes? Having ovaries?

   It’s never as simple as saying it’s only for women without having a working definition of what defines a woman… Which almost always is incomplete.

2. > “My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes.”

   > Trump announces a ban on trans women in female sports and vows to deny visas to ‘men fraudulently claiming to be women athletes ahead of the 2028 Olympics.’

3. How is this not wildly unconstitutional? The federal govt has exactly zero authority over sports – these are managed entirely by individual states, and the 10th amendment guarantees that. Brace for yet another round of lawsuits against this dictatorship…

4. Thank god the US is finally focusing on the important things.

   Also you gotta love how the folks championing “fairness in womens sports” never cared about womens issues, or womens sports until trans people entered the equation..

   Or fairness for that matter lmao

5. Please note: Executive orders by the president of the United States of America are not the same as laws. They are intended as policy guidelines for government agencies under the oversight of the executive branch.

   US Laws are bills that have been passed by both levels of congress and then signed into law by the president. (Some laws are occasionally made up and/or re-interpretted by a majority of the conservative leaning Supreme Court)

   However, it does seem like both the legislative branch (congress) and judicial branch (Supreme court) of the US government are not inclined to perform their constitutional duty to check the powers of the executive branch (president). So who the F*** knows what’s actually legal here anymore?

   Edit: grammar

6. >The NCAA did not answer a question about how many of its athletes are transgender. NCAA President Charlie Baker said at a congressional hearing last week that **he is aware of fewer than 10 transgender athletes who currently compete out of more than 500,000 NCAA players.**

   https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/college-sports/texas-attorney-general-sues-ncaa-trans-athletes-womens-sports-rcna185256

   How did the GOP get so much mileage out of trashing <10 people?

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8. Throw another culture war bone so the news talk about it for the next 36 hours all while he lets musk take a blow torch to the federal system now and tomorrow.

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   > 69 upvotes and 115 comments

   Oh it’s one of those threads? Huh, well I guess it’s time to bring some popcorn and drinks then scroll through this thread….

10. Thank god wokeism is finally dying. I can feel it. Canada next hopefully.

    If you use common sense then it’s a no brainer. This should never have happened in the first place.

    It’s fine if you want to be trans but to pretend you’re not trans is sheer ignorance and borderline fascism.

11. it is the height of normalizing what is happening to the US government to say that somehow a signed executive order is signing something into law. it is not.

12. This is nothing more than a solution in need of a problem.

    It’s also a storm in a teacup. Barely 1 percent of Americans are trans, and yet Republicans would have the public believe transpeople are a big threat.

    Truth be told, the only 1 percent that is a threat to American society is the 1 percent who own 30 percent of the nation’s wealth.

13. Oh so when *I* post news that tangentially involves the US automod immediately wipes it or I get deleted a few minutes after, but completely US-specific news is fine? Genuinely what is the logic at play here?

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