Transgender girls are at the center of America's culture wars, yet again

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Transgender girls are at the center of America’s culture wars, yet again

By Emily Wax-Thibodeaux and Samantha Schmidt
Jan. 29, 2021 at 8:25 p.m. EST

On the day that President Biden signed an executive order allowing transgender people to serve in the military, Republican lawmakers 2,100 miles away in Montana’s capital advanced a law to ban transgender youth from competing in girls’ sports.

Less than a month into their 2021 sessions, GOP state legislators across the United States are relaunching campaigns to restrict transgender people’s access to medical care and school athletics. But this time, their efforts are clashing with the agenda of a Democratic president who has been called the most pro-transgender in history.

Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office to reinstate protections for gender identity that were curbed by the Trump administration. Meanwhile, lawmakers in at least a dozen states have proposed bills in recent weeks that challenge such protections. Some were carried over from 2020 sessions, when a record number of anti-trans bills were filed in state legislatures, according to the ACLU. ... Many of those bills target youth and collegiate athletes, with supporters arguing that transgender girls have an unfair physiological advantage in girls’ sports, an edge that can affect access to scholarships.

Tennessee state Rep. Bruce Griffey (R), who has a cisgender daughter on a school golf team, is co-sponsoring a bill that would allow school competition only based on the sex listed on one’s birth certificate. ... “What if one of the boys is not doing well, so he pretends to be transgender to win?” he asked. “I’m protecting a discriminated class: that’s girls and women in sports.”

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Emily Wax-Thibodeaux
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux is a National staff writer who covers national news, with a focus on gender issues and social movements for the America desk. She is an award-winning former foreign correspondent who covered Africa and India for nearly a decade. Follow https://twitter.com/emily_wax

Samantha Schmidt
Samantha Schmidt is a reporter covering gender and family issues for The Washington Post. Follow https://twitter.com/schmidtsam7

[Nitram]

1. Is there a reason conservatives are more worried about transgender girls than transgender boys?

Do they really believe an unathletic boy would want to become a girl to give him an edge in sports? Are there anxieties that are hiding underneath the weird objections and theories they are coming upon with? Are conservatives less threatened by men that were assigned the female gender at birth?

[FreeState]

3. Unfortunately it's not just conservatives

Even on DU I see right wing talking points and turfs whenever transgendered equality is brought up.

[Claire Oh Nette]

2. Self loathing closeted homosexuals?

Name one boy, one, anywhere, who would, for the sake of winning a high school golf match, "pretend" to be transgender. For that matter, why is it "Conservatives" have no issue with girl on girl?


Nope.

It's always about gay men. Methinks they protest to much, and many of them are still in denial of their own sexual fluidity.

My advice to his daughter is play better. Work on your short game. The golf ball has no gender.