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US conservatives fire opening salvo in trans sports battle
France24 ^ | March 9, 2023

Posted on 03/09/2023 6:56:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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Make every member of Congress vote on this woke marxist insanity.
1 posted on 03/09/2023 6:56:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is there still a Trans Canada Highway?


2 posted on 03/09/2023 7:01:01 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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Is there still a Trans Canada Highway?

Now there's a target rich environment.

3 posted on 03/09/2023 7:03:15 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can never have enough clamps. Thanks Ben.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Transgender worship is an assault on ALL Females. Transgenderism is a mental disorder and desrves NO special protection whatsoever.

just the fact that "conservatives" are named in the headline shows that it is nothing more than political theater

4 posted on 03/09/2023 7:03:22 AM PST by KTM rider (what if a real J6 happens someday, instead of just a silly false flag show )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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!


5 posted on 03/09/2023 7:04:38 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
US conservatives fire opening salvo in protecting women, morality, and sanity.
6 posted on 03/09/2023 7:05:45 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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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.

7 posted on 03/09/2023 7:09:56 AM PST by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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“The “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act” seeks to narrow 50-year-old civil rights protections against sex-based discrimination...”


This is a lie. The legislation merely seeks to not include the broadening of protections to include men who pretend to be women.

There is no way that any legislation would have passed Congress in the 1970s that would have considered the ‘trans people’.


8 posted on 03/09/2023 7:37:28 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


9 posted on 03/09/2023 7:40:09 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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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?


10 posted on 03/09/2023 7:41:27 AM PST by FormerFRLurker
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To: fwdude

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.


11 posted on 03/09/2023 7:42:16 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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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.


12 posted on 03/09/2023 7:44:47 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: fwdude

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.

13 posted on 03/09/2023 7:50:28 AM PST by FormerFRLurker
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I beg to differ. The "transgender" steamroller got rolling immediately after the Obergefell Supreme Court decision obliterated gender in marriage in 2015.
14 posted on 03/09/2023 7:51:29 AM PST by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: fwdude

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.


15 posted on 03/09/2023 7:54:05 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Opening salvo"?

The Left has been firing point-blank at Christian and conservative culture for decades, already!

This would not even be an issue, otherwise!

16 posted on 03/09/2023 7:58:22 AM PST by marktwain
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If they were serious, this would have been a front-burner item in 2017 and 2018 when they had solid majorities in both houses.

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.

17 posted on 03/09/2023 8:01:21 AM PST by marktwain
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18 posted on 03/09/2023 8:12:30 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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Thank you for referencing that article Oldeconomybuyer. Please note that the following critique is directed at so-called “US conservatives” and not at you.

"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.

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.

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.

19 posted on 03/09/2023 9:36:54 AM PST by Amendment10
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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


20 posted on 03/11/2023 10:22:18 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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