Start screaming because the owner of Twitter is in the Trump admin and he suppresses speech on his platform.
The Biden Admin censored and silenced speech regarding the origins of COVID. Even speech from doctors and scientist. They continued to censor and silence speech regarding Hunter’s laptop story. Of course you know this. Zuckerberg gave an in-depth interview yesterday detailing the pressure the Admin placed on the social media outlets to violate the first amendment rights of Americans. There are also volumes of emails between the Biden Admin and twitter detailing the extent of the censorship. Again….you know all this. The fact Libs are perfectly fine with the suppressing of speech is one of the more remarkable change of political positions I’ve ever witnessed. No one ever argued extremist were logical and reasonable people.
STFU with this nonsense. The party of "Freedom" has a complete dissociation with freedom.
Anyone who supports the government trampling on our fundamental constitutional rights and continues to blatantly lie about the facts of the came isn’t entitled to any opinion on the subject of freedom. You not only have no idea what that word means but continue to lie about the facts surrounding what our federal government did over the last 4 years in trampling on the 1st amendment. Extremist thinking
I'd like to think Trump can't sign an EO and withdraw us from NATO since it was a treaty and the sole approvers of treaties is Congress. Same with all the EOs he signed to undo the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship. Simply stated, he can't. The only thing that can undo a Constitutional amendment is another Constitutional amendment (see 19th and 22nd amendments). Pretty sure 75% of the states aren't undoing the 14th amendment.
. It riles up his base. I was the first poster on this board warning against legislating through EOs. Many here ignored my warnings and supported the act because the supported the actor signing the orders. I saw a larger picture. A picture where activist and extremist Presidents would use the precedent to unilaterally enact laws thus bypassing the democratic process. Sadly I was correct. We would be good to remember precedents extend beyond whose establishing them. Too many extremist on this board who can’t look beyond today for future consequences. Doesn’t matter which party is legislating via EOs to me. It’s bad precedent, bad policy, and violates our lawmaking process.I'd like to think Trump can't sign an EO and withdraw us from NATO since it was a treaty and the sole approvers of treaties is Congress. Same with all the EOs he signed to undo the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship. Simply stated, he can't. The only thing that can undo a Constitutional amendment is another Constitutional amendment (see 19th and 22nd amendments). Pretty sure 75% of the states aren't undoing the 14th amendment.
A lot of the EO signing is performative bull
And don't get me started on Nazi Elon...if you're OK with his Sieg Heil...you can block me now. I have no room in my life for Nazi sympathizers.
I agree with legislating through EOs part...there's a reason why the founding fathers carefully constructed the Constitution and the balance of powers and right now we are teetering very close to that edge of that balance being lost and our government being run at the whim of a tyrannical lunatic whose strings are being controlled by a panel of tech oligarchs.
Yeah, the bishop stuff confused me. She didn't call on Trump to become a LGBT advocate. She asked for compassion and empathy for individuals and families that are feeling targeted.
My wife made a good point on the trans bathroom issue and the fact that the GOP is trying to make this into a giant national security issue when in fact, an individual who identifies as female is likely to dress like a female, have their hair done like a female, and look as female as any other woman...no one is ever going to know they are not a female using the women's bathroom unless someone goes poking around...and it's also possible this person has already had gender reassignment surgery...meaning no one would know.
Then those aren't trans individuals. Those are creepy pervs that Target should ask to vacate the bathroom (and premises) regardless of any law.
Exactly. These are opportunists taking advantage of a store policy. And, if that happens to my daughter and I am there, I am beating the living daylights out of the guy.
No they aren’t. They are taking advantage of the lack of clarity in laws / policies. Unfortunately, many companies and organizations are all too happy to accommodate them. Same thing happened to her in the Seattle airport last year at soccer nationals. I went up to a security guard and was promptly told he couldn’t do anything due to policy. Go figure
There's got to be a happy medium in all of this. Honestly, no policy is probably the best as individuals who identify as female or male would never even be noticed because they go above and beyond to look the gender they identify as.
I agree a lot depends on when/how they started to transition as to whether there is an innate advantage or not. But that is a really complex issue, and if we are talking about someone at age 16 deciding to transition, then some of that advantage is already baked in as you describe. I don't think it is transphobic to acknowledge that and try to deal with or mitigate it somehow. I do think in that case that it is transphobic to completely deny the opportunity of sports without forcing the student to humiliate themselves.
You were hardly the first person to complain about misuse of executive orders. Heck my HS AP US give teacher was complaining about that during the Bush admin. I know that people have complained about that from prior to him as well.
I agree...to an extent. Again the blanket policies are the ones hurting everything and making it seem like a way bigger problem than it is. I'm sure the NCAA and NFHS might have some statistics on the number of trans athletes that are participating (Of course an anonymous response as we've seen people are not able to handle things seeming just a bit different). Handle it on a case by case basis, make the nuanced rules clear. For instance, I am not sure I agree with allowing the trans-female swimmer compete in the NCAA because their transition was way late into their teen years as I understand it. The San Jose St. volleyball player created an uproar in the MWC this year and at no time did that person ever come forward publicly as trans. Of course the school cannot come forward and confirm or deny that the individual is trans (FERPA and I would consider this to fall under a student health record) so the rumor is allowed to persist and pick up steam and since there was no public denial and it was all over the interwebs, then of course the accusations are 100% factual and unbiased.
We'll see what happens in the next 2 months. It appears the Senate is ready to pass on some of Trump's cabinet nominees. I know that Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins have both said they will not vote to approve Hegseth. It wouldn't surprise me if Trump appointed him anyway and called it a matter of grave national security. Trump, at Putin's direction, will likely try to get the US out of NATO and I don't think this is something Congress would approve and by law, only Congress can approve or dissolve treaties, and SCOTUS recently has agreed with this as we are aware around here as they said Congress never dissolved the treaties creating the indigenous reservations with a lot of the recognized tribes. I believe Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion and is the SCOTUS expert concerning tribal law.
Seeing your daughter’s involvement in swimming, I’m surprised your example wasn’t the most publicized example of a male born trans athlete competing against females….Lia Thomas.
That's the one I am speaking of but I don't know enough about Lia's personal life before coming out as trans or when/if they did any hormone therapy, etc. I do know that she won an event and people were up in arms about it yet never mentioned the dozens of races she lost to other swimmers. And usually it only takes is one time where a trans athlete wins something and people go crazy and start gatekeeping like they're some sort of knight in shining armor coming to the rescue and they conveniently leave off the hundred of instances where the trans athlete did not win whatever the sport. Bizarre thing is at my daughter's age the girls actually have higher speed standards for qualifying times than the boys do. Not until they hit HS do the standards for boys become tougher than the girls.
Lia Thomas was/is a biological man. Grew up as William Thomas. He began the transition while in college at Penn in 2019. After the transition he moved from the men’s team to the women’s team where he was allowed to compete. The issue here is as a biological male who went through puberty he has all the physical advantages inherit with the same. He was not allowed to compete in the Paris Olympics as a female. Which was probably the correct call if we have an interest in protecting women’s sports from biological males who transition well after puberty.
I would agree on that aspect. Maybe after a certain time of hormone transition therapy, but I still don't know enough about that to understand how much that would affect previously built muscle mass from regular biological testosterone to that point. In states like Oklahoma, that's the only time a person could start those transitioning treatments though due to state law prohibiting conversion therapy and gender reassignment surgeries on minors.
To me the key question isn’t the plan or psychological. I would focus on when did the male begin the transition. In Lia’s case the transition was started around the age of 20. Lia had already physically benefited from the testosterone associated with being a male…denser and larger bones, muscle mass, skeletal structure, etc.. You can’t really put that genie back in the lamp. Now starting ones transition prior to the benefits of puberty would be a completely different dynamic. The focus should be on the degree of advantage gained over female athletes which they wish to compete against.
I think my point is at what point after the hormone therapy begins, does the benefit of the testosterone wane and you start seeing some of that muscle mass loss? Can they maintain the former muscle mass even after 2 years? 5 Years? Have there been any long term physiological studies where there ceases to be that advantage any longer?
I have my doubts if there will ever be a female who is transitioning to a male post puberty competing in high level (D1) college athletics or at the Olympic level. Would be very interesting to see it but the physical disadvantages of not going through puberty as a male would make it very difficult imo.
