Posted on 03/09/2023 6:56:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington (AFP) – US lawmakers advanced a bill Thursday aimed at banning transgender women and girls from sports teams that match their gender identity, as Congress turned its focus on one of the most polarizing issues in American culture.
The "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act" seeks to narrow 50-year-old civil rights protections against sex-based discrimination to recognize sex as "based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth."
The bill -- which conservatives say aims to promote fairness while safeguarding women -- was passed by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives education committee, teeing off what is set to be an acrimonious debate in the full House.
"As a mother and past educator, I abhor the increasing prevalence of biological men competing in women's sports," said Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx.
Democrats hit back at Foxx, arguing that that it is discriminatory and hurtful to deprive trans athletes of competition.
The bill has little chance of becoming law, as it would have to be green-lit by senators in the upper chamber of Congress, which is controlled by Democrats who oppose the effort.
But it is part of a broader push by conservatives to provide a check on the promotion of transgender identity, which liberals say marginalizes and discriminates against the community.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Is there still a Trans Canada Highway?
Now there's a target rich environment.
just the fact that "conservatives" are named in the headline shows that it is nothing more than political theater
This needs to be addressed ASAP! or professional women sports will soon be filled entirely with men pretending to be women who were not quite good enough to compete at the professional men’s level.
You don’t have to have boobie attached, you don’t have to have long hair, wear dresses or makeup or even date men! you simply have to say.. I feel like I am a woman now.. or at least I do when I am playing professional women basketball for 1 million a year!
If they were serious, this would have been a front-burner item in 2017 and 2018 when they had solid majorities in both houses.
“The “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act” seeks to narrow 50-year-old civil rights protections against sex-based discrimination...”
There is no way that any legislation would have passed Congress in the 1970s that would have considered the ‘trans people’.
No one is “trans”. Those who claim to be are mentally ill. Why would anyone pander to delusion rather than confront it? Frankly, I don’t care one bit if someone’s feelings are hurt by my complete rejection of the notion of “trans”. I strongly suggest others reject it as well.
From the article:
“Democrats hit back at Foxx, arguing that that it is discriminatory and hurtful to deprive trans athletes of competition.”
Nobody is saying trans athletes can’t play sports. They just have to do so on the men’s team, where they will not have an unfair advantage, that’s all. How in the world is that controversial?
This issue has come to the Forefront in the past few years. There were not nearly as many of these so-called trans people in women’s sports in 2017 and 2018 as there are nowadays.
That’s the point I’ve tried to make when these discussions come up. Nobody is Banning or discriminating against the so-called trans people from competing in sports. What these proposed laws and policies would do is to say that you must compete against people of your same biological sex.
But the way the left distorts issues , they make it into some civil rights Crusade and say that trans people are being discriminated against, and not allowed to compete in sports.
It is factually incorrect to say they are not being allowed to compete in sports. But the way the left and the media report this issue, they are creating a false impression.
This won't go anywhere, and Republicans know it. It is just a virtue signaling opportunity in this case.
If they were serious, this would have been a front-burner item in 2017 and 2018 when they had solid majorities in both houses.
Good point. I'm glad many red states are implementing this on a state level, but it would be good to have a nation-wide protection of female athletes.
Yup. That whole area is the very definition of slippery slope. They got homosexual marriage. They are making tremendous progress turning children into sex toys for groomers. Polygamy will be easy when they decide to focus on that. And bestiality is just another bridge for them to cross.
The Left has been firing point-blank at Christian and conservative culture for decades, already!
This would not even be an issue, otherwise!
I believe you are mistaken. This is not logic, it is fundamental defeatism. It requires the following assumptions:
1. Republicans are all the same, unified, and the same today as yesterday and forever.
2. Republicans cannot be changed, pressured, primaried, or reasoned with. (variation of 1).
Those assumptions are unlikely to be correct.
"US conservatives [??? emphasis added] fire opening salvo in trans sports battle"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots beware!
The only sex-related protection that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect sex-related rights limits the fed's power to deal with sex-related protections to voting rights issues, evidenced by the 19th Amendment.
"19th Amendment:The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
In other words, regardless that career "US conservatives" are rattling the anti-LGBT agenda saber, undoubtedly to try to win conservative votes on this issue, it remains that this vote-winning stunt is an unconstitutional expansion of the already unconstitutionally big federal government's powers.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
In fact, since the 15th Amendment likewise limits feds power to make remedies for race-based discrimination to voting rights issues, probably most of the vote-winning Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its associated titles are unconstitutional imo.
"15th Amendment:Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
And regardless what FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers in Wickard v. Filburn, neither do the feds have the power to make race and sex-related civil rights protections for the workplace imo.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids." —Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.
Trump's first round of primarying state and federal RINOs in 2020 was hopefully for practice. In this example of sex-related protections, if a state's ordinary qualified citizen majority voters want biological sex at birth to be respected, then we need the following. We need another round of primarying state and federal RINOs in 2024, replacing hopefully shrinking number of RINOs with more patriot lawmakers who will promise to do their duty to guarantee each state a republican form of government.
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
Patriots, the bottom line is this imo. What is your threshold of “pain” for peacefully stopping unconstitutionally big state and federal governments controlled by bully, constitutionally undefined political parties, from oppressing the people under their boots?
The inevitable remedy for ongoing, post-17A ratification, corrupt political party treason (imo)...
All MAGA patriots need to wake up their RINO federal and state lawmakers by making the following clear to them.
If they don’t publicly support either a resolution, or a Constitutional Convention, to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by amending the Constitution to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A), doing so before the primary elections in 2024, that YOU will primary them.
If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.
With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 becomes the FIRST president of a truly constitutionally limited power federal government.
In the meanwhile, I'm not holding my breath for significant MAGA legislation to appear in the first 100 days of new term for what may still prove to be another RINO-controlled House.
Again, Trump will hopefully do another round of primarying RINOs for 2024 elections.
I added FR keyword transsports and checked to see what was there. I found an article about report from Sweden, which says crossdressing “women” have strength and power advantages even after taking estrogen:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3782004/posts
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