Posted on 02/26/2025 5:08:17 AM PST by texas booster
In this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson discusses a recent heated exchange between President Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet T. Mills at a White House meeting of governors.
The confrontation centered on Trump’s executive order banning males from participating in female sports, which Mills resisted.
Hanson argues that Mills’ stance is not only out of line with public opinion, but also basic constitutional principles:
“[Gov. Janet T. Mills’] wrong on public opinion and she’s wrong on sporting authorization. She’s wrong in the idea that a state law can supersede a federal law.
“Because, if she were right, she would destroy female sports as we know it. …
“Under our Constitution, when a state and federal law are in conflict, the federal law predominates. The alternative is something that caused the Civil War. …
“Remember, women who transition to men, that is biological women, do not win male sports. And that should tell you something. It’s that the idea of genderism, transgenderism, is not a third sex. It’s primarily predicated on whether you’re a biological male or a biological female. If you’re a biological female, you do not do well as a transgendered male.”
00:00 Trump's Meeting with Governors: Key Highlights
00:47 The Maine Governor's Defiance
02:57 Public Opinion and Biological Sports
04:53 Federal vs. State Law: Historical Context
06:21 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Another excellent 7 minute VDH video. Wouldn't he be a great dinner guest? Maybe classical education still has a place in modern America.
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It’s not just Mills: The state merits punishment.
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How did Maine get Mills and Collins? They are both out of touch with the people. Their handlers are a bunch of morons .
Obviously true for sports. Additionally, I often think of Ellen Page -- she was a reasonably attractive woman, about 5 feet tall, starred in a number of successful movies. Then she decided to be a man. She is a very unattractive man, about 5 feet tall, and no one wants to put her in a decent movie anymore because she can't play a man convincingly.
Under Biden, if a red state tried to pull this crap they would have all of their federal funding yanked so they wouldn’t even think about doing it. We wouldn’t need any long-winded VDH political treatise explaining the finer points of the law, the historical perspective going back 150 years. The democrats would use raw power to crush it.
Being right is a very poor substitute for real political power and actual policy victories.
Maine got Mills and Collins after the trust-fund hippie kids bought up coastal real estate and priced working people out of the waterfront from Bar Harbor to Kittery. They then voted in Commies who turned the state into a woke nightmare.
It’s a good distinction and I’m glad you brought it up. We know that our friends on the left believe that they are entitled to all the funding regardless of the strings attached because most of the time they’re the ones attaching the strings.
Could not have said it better.
Term limited. Those are the ‘brave ones’.
She’s FUGLY, so is she a LESBIAN?
She is a very unattractive man, about 5 feet tall, and no one wants to put her in a decent movie anymore because she can’t play a man convincingly.
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Did a quick image search on ELLEN PAGE (did not go past the images) and only one of 50 or so images of her was her as a “male”. You are correct on both points, as a young woman she is attractive, as a young “man” she appears strange looking.
Maybe in time she will decide to go back to way she was. One benefit of a female going male nothing gets cut off which is not the case for males going female.
Not doubting you but why would a trust-fund hippie want the coast of Maine, rather than, say, California? What’s there besides snow, rain, mosquitos...?
I’ve been as far north as New Hampshire and you couldn’t give me a free beach there. The insurance alone is a deal killer.
“The person, most recently, who won a pole vault contest in Maine was a biological male.”
These clowns are really Transvestites. With the 2020s twist of taking loads of estrogen (very cheap these days). Perhaps some minor face sculpting surgery to look more Fem. Zero percent get their genitals cut off. Because they are crazy, but not that crazy.
Loading on estrogen will bump up their breasts.
there are many unattractive women
there are many older women who are no longer attractive
They are not lesbians.
they are just not on the FR scale of beauty.
women who transition to men, that is biological women, do not win male sports.
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There is now another budding problem - women, who transition to men, are now winning in women sports!
Since in many states, they have them compete with women, but they get all that hormonal treatments, so they are now getting some male strengths and they are winning women sports.
Taking steroids had been illegal activity like doping, but now, if you are just transitioning, you seem to be allowed that!?
So a guy can’t take steroids, but a guy transitioning to a female can? Or a woman transitioning to a guy can take steroids?
Never thought of that.
Surely there a rule there somewhere in the Olympics ...
Apparently, they challenged a UK Mens soccer club to an exhibition match. This was not the UK Mens team that competed in the World Cup. This was some middle of the road professional club team.
Twenty minutes or so into into the match the mens team was up 6 to 0. At one point one of the men dribbled from one end of the field to the other passing every woman defender then scored a goal all by himself. They eventually stopped the match when the men were up 12-0.
A less-than-sentient majority of voters.
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