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Democratic lawmaker in Washington likens trans sports bans to racial segregation
Fox News ^ | 3/28/25 | Paulina Dedaj

Posted on 03/28/2025 4:09:22 PM PDT by Libloather

A lawmaker in Washington on Thursday likened legislation aimed at banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports in the state to racial segregation in the United States, arguing that those across the aisle are "making a lot of the same arguments today."

Washington Democratic state Rep. Kristine Reeves spoke during an executive session of the House Education Committee on Thursday morning where members of the committee introduced SB 5123, a bill that aimed to expand protections for students, including gender expression and gender identity.

"I recall a time in our country’s history not that long ago … where people like my grandfather were told that they could not participate in sporting activities because he was Black man," Reeves spoke following a proposed amendment to the bill.

"I can recall a time in our country's history, Madam Chair, where people like my grandfather and my great-great grandfather were not allowed to participate in processes and places in our society because of the color of their skin because people for years – for generations – had told our society that Black people were less than human, that Black people were animals, that Black people did not have the brain capacity to compete with White Americans."

Reeves claimed that similar to the scientific studies provided that have argued an unfair physical advantage for trans athletes in women’s sports, people also "generated science to compel people to believe in the argument that my father, my grandfather, my grandmother, my great grandparents were less-than in our society."

"We are repeating history, Madam Speaker, in this debate and it is very, very scary to me that we are making a lot of the same arguments today...

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The commies haven't quit.
1 posted on 03/28/2025 4:09:23 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Males in female sports injuring females during games I am sure Dr. Martin Luther King turns in his grave over the notion that opposing that is the equivalent of racism.


2 posted on 03/28/2025 4:17:04 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Libloather
people like my grandfather were told that they could not participate in sporting activities because he was Black man

Being black is a function of skin pigmentation.

Being a tranny is a mental disorder.

There's a difference.

3 posted on 03/28/2025 4:17:05 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Libloather
I recall a time in our country’s history not that long ago

When people had the good sense to know the difference between XX and XY. Now we are forced to live with idiots.

"Nabal is his name and foolishness is with him." (I Samuel 25:25)

4 posted on 03/28/2025 4:17:17 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Libloather

No, no, no, hell no.
The left has always stated that you can Not declare your race. Race is not fluid, or what you “feel”
In order to follow this logic, race is now fluid, can be changed to meet your feelings.


5 posted on 03/28/2025 4:21:26 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: Libloather

Wacko Alert.


6 posted on 03/28/2025 4:21:51 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: grobdriver
"..people like my grandfather were told that
they could not participate in sporting activities
because he was Black man.."

Jesse Owens - IMDb

Born in 1913 roughly the same time period
of the lying twit's grandfather, Jesse Owens
might beg to differ.

7 posted on 03/28/2025 4:26:06 PM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: Libloather

Communist don’t do the trans thing. They are actually somewhat prudish when it comes to morals.

The trans stuff is insanity and is the main reason the Sh*tocrats are sitting at 27% in polls.


8 posted on 03/28/2025 4:28:32 PM PDT by Fai Mao (All Democrats need to go to prison.)
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To: Libloather
(transgender)

Life or Death have been set before America. Choose wisely, Americans.

trans guy stole the luggage 🧳 🧳 🧳!!!



9 posted on 03/28/2025 4:29:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Libloather

So let’s look at it this way. Since blacks are only 13% of the US population then if we limit black football and basket ball pro player rosters to 13% wouldn’t that be fair. Hell no. Their rosters are based on talent not color. But then there a lot of people pushing organizations to hire employees not base on ability but on race, gender and sexual preferences. Where is the fairness in that?


10 posted on 03/28/2025 4:31:37 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: Libloather

It’s the same BS argument the left is using against the military.


11 posted on 03/28/2025 4:37:05 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: grobdriver

The bigger issue here is that biological males are naturally stronger than biological females.

This is like saying it’s dehumanizing if you don’t let a heavyweight compete against a featherweight. The heavyweight can wear a bikini and say he’ 100 lbs lighter than he is, but it’s still reckless endangerment to let him fight somebody 100 lbs lighter than he is.


12 posted on 03/28/2025 4:37:45 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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I know Washington Democratic state Rep. Kristine Reeves. She is a member of the George Soros political action group, “Indivisible.” The transgender perversion effort is the result of Soros’ money behind the transgender movement.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/11/george-soros-the-money-behind-the-transgender-move/


13 posted on 03/28/2025 4:39:53 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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And who would be served if the NFL required 50% of their players to be female, based on quotas?

These people who are saying that it is fake science that says males are stronger than females should put their money where their mouth is and introduce a bill requiring 50% of NFL players to be biological females.


14 posted on 03/28/2025 4:45:06 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

NFL TEAMS to be 50% female, that is.


15 posted on 03/28/2025 4:45:57 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Libloather

This old rag really isn’t in Washington. She’s in Washington state.


16 posted on 03/28/2025 5:01:59 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Bureaucratic District "Judges" are the greatest threat to America and Americans.)
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To: Libloather

She’s an effing nutter.


17 posted on 03/28/2025 5:49:03 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Libloather

In the 60’s and 70’s, the RAT Party was all for pushing feminism, and women’s rights. In the 2020’s they forgot about women’s rights, went Woke and decided to push for men’s rights as it pertains to giving birth, nursing babies, menstruation, access to tampons and sanitary pads, and physically abusing female athletes in women’s sports.


18 posted on 03/28/2025 6:02:59 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Libloather

I’m curious if gender transitioning supposedly puts biological males on equal footing with female athletes why do we not see transitioning females compete in mens sports?


19 posted on 03/28/2025 6:10:04 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Libloather

A mental/ spiritual illness is not comparable to melanin content. What an outage!


20 posted on 03/28/2025 6:20:21 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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