Posted on 03/24/2022 2:26:16 PM PDT by george76
Two Republican governors vetoed legislation this week that would prohibit transgender girls from competing in girls’ sports. Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah and Gov. Eric Holcomb of Indiana felt it was more important to protect transgender people than the girls who would be victimized by boys competing as girls. A similar bill was vetoed by Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota in 2021.
In addition to failing to protect girl athletes, they are double-crossing the people that voted them into office. The constituents of each state overwhelmingly support such legislation. It’s these types of betrayals that led Republican voters to flock to former President Donald Trump.
These types of acts happen far too often to Republican voters. Voters will support a candidate who promises to promote their interests, then, once they are elected, they do the exact opposite. Such is the scenario with the Republican governors who voted against legislation to protect girls’ sports in schools.
“As a woman who grew up competing in sports and as a current coach, it is disheartening to watch Republican governors fail to protect girls’ sports,” Kelly Schenkoske, a mother of two and host of A Time to Stand, told me.
This is a repeated occurrence, particularly when it comes to social issues such as transgender women destroying female sports. Frequently, in these instances, cowardly GOP politicians will reject taking a stand on such issues for fear of backlash by the LGBT community and Democrats — people who were never voting for them in the first place.
On the other hand, Trump had enough courage to stand up to these mobs. While no one will ever confuse him for the most devout, pious, conservative Republican president, Trump at least had the grit to defend conservative, Republican values that many of his predecessors and legislators were too afraid to do. Fortunately, some of Trump’s chutzpah caught on, and Republican governors protected female sports in Florida, Idaho, Alabama, Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota, Iowa, Tennessee, and Texas.
“While some Republican politicians abandon voters regarding cultural issues, President Trump listened to his constituents and didn’t abandon those values,” Schenkoske said. “This is one of the reasons why I voted for Donald Trump.”
We are at a point where men are winning women’s national championships in collegiate swimming and Supreme Court nominees cannot define what a woman is. The timidity to stand and defend conservative positions on social-cultural issues is significantly harming the country. Furthermore, it's helping the Left win the culture war.
Trump may not have been the defender that some Republicans wanted, but he was one to fight for these causes. Now, more than ever, we can see why he courageously took on the challenge. Now, more than ever, we can see why Republican politicians must follow suit — instead of surrendering women's sports to the LGBT mob like the governors of Utah and Indiana.
Truly and monumentally spineless chickenshit moves by those two governors, bowing to the tiniest minority out there. A knife in the back to those who elected their sorry asses. Sickening.
I thought the governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, also vetoed a bill to protect girls sports from transgender athletes?
I’ll take “Two Governors who don’t want their personal dirt exposed” for $100, Alex...
I’m not attempting to be strictly accurate with my numbers, but, roughly speaking 49.9% of the people are Men, and 49.9% of the people are women, and 0.2% of the people are transgender.
Republicans, those bold Conservators of American Tradition, and (just perhaps) Christian values have decided to side with the 0.2% of the population and totally screw over the other 99.8% of the population.
Way to go.
“I thought the governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, also vetoed a bill to protect girls sports from transgender athletes?”
After some changes were made to the original bill, she signed it.
She was playing word games last year..
South Dakota enacts law banning transgender athletes from female sports.. ~ Feb. 2022.
https://nypost.com/2022/02/04/south-dakota-bans-transgender-athletes-from-female-sports/
And, all of this just makes strong and courageous Governors, such as Ron DeSantis as more and more attractive of a Presidential candidate in 2024.
Recall, just this past Tuesday Gov DeSantis took a stand FOR Women athletes by proclaiming Emma Weyant as the winner of the women's 500-yard freestyle event, in place of what's-HIS-name (choosing to omit naming the true loser).
An online quote by DeSantis offers such a nice contrast to the cowardly and alleged GOP Govs... DeSantis wrote “By allowing men to compete in women’s sports, the NCAA is destroying opportunities for women, making a mockery of its championships, and perpetuating a fraud”
But they will blow it and focus on Ukraine. Just what the libs want them to do.
They say nice things to get the vote, then they turn their backs on the voters.
My governor will be signing a bill soon already passed 🤪
You are free to have any delusion you wish but you may not force the rest of us to play along.
Voters did not turn on Trump. The election was rigged through coordinated industrial scale voter fraud.
She did, but after several other conservative governors led the way signing legislation To protect women’s sports, she worked up the nerve to follow, and a signed a second piece of legislation.
Then she did an executive order and got a new better bill done last month.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/south-dakota-gov-kristi-noem-signs-transgender-athlete-ban/
Some guy is ranked over 400 down on the men’s list.
He came in first in a women’s event.
Within only a few years, not a single woman in the U. S. would
hold a record time, at any level of traditional women’s sports.
What is the confusion here, for these governors?
Either we believe in women having a right to compete
competitively, or we don’t. If not, don’t come for my
vote.
I think women’s rights are sometimes overblown. In this
instance I think women are clearly being relegated to the
trash bin of history when it comes to women’s sports
rankings.
It makes me angry.
RINOs on parade :: They say nice things to get the vote, then they turn their backs on the voters.
Same with ObamaCare and more
The choice of what candidate should receive citizen’s votes could easily be based solely on their ability (or inability) to say men and women are different.
Life doesn’t get much more basic than that and if they can’t enunciate that, they’re likely going to get almost everything else wrong, too.
Besides that, maybe 10 % of voters - at max - would vote for someone who can’t tell the difference.
Stating the difference is a win-win-win stance - the candidate is correct morally, scientifically and voters will overwhelmingly approve of the common sense.
I can’t say it any better so Ditto.
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