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House Republicans pass bill to ban trans women and girls from school sports
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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Now how exactly do you suppose this gets enforced? Because I'm betting it involves some creep being the authorized inspector of children's genitals. I'm sure nobody will be wielding that sort of role to sexually assault any children. Yep, this is just the perfect kind of policy to enact to protect the children from... checks notes... a "boy" unfairly beating "real girls" at girls' sports.
Remember this moment when swaths of stories about sexually abused children come out. I'm sure those stories will come out within a couple years of a bunch of stories about how girls' sports are suddenly seeing record low participation numbers "for some reason".
The horrifying statistics on the percentage of women who have been the victim of rape or attempted rape in their lifetime will be going up significantly as a direct result of this kind of legislation. Even if there were any real justification for actively discriminating against trans people, how could anybody ever be on board with this kind of direct consequence? What a disgrace.
Then they'll just say it's the liberals fault for not keeping women subservient. Somehow it will alway be the liberal/left/woke/[enemy of the day here]'s fault.