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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Democrats ALWAYS keep pushing the “transgender” lie
Yikes! I’m seeing double!!
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God bless
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