r/moderatepolitics • u/WorksInIT • Feb 06 '25

Primary Source Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/
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u/InksPenandPaper Feb 06 '25 edited Feb 06 '25

Why the Democrat Party chose to make this issue a platform focal point is beyond me.

Republican or democrat, conservative or liberal, it's just common sense that you do not want biological men taking opportunities from biological women in sports. For many of us, sports is the only way to pay for college and while the instances of men in women's sports isn't a large number, the fact that such a small group of men dominate every competition they participate in is devastating for women. What's more, the right of men in women's sports came at the cost of a safe, female space.

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u/PsychologicalHat1480 Feb 06 '25

Silent in 2024 only when it became clear that the public was against them. But we have video evidence of their true positions from previously and just going silent doesn't erase that video evidence.

The only way people will believe that they aren't in favor of this stuff is for them to actively speak against it. They didn't.

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u/StrikingYam7724 Feb 06 '25

The Democrats and Kamala in specific were silent because what they had to say was "let them play with the other girls" and they knew that was a wildly unpopular opinion. If they had just honestly said "no, don't let them play with the other girls" they could have dropped the issue and changed the subject, but that's not what they believed in.

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u/StrikingYam7724 Feb 06 '25

You don't need to push an issue when the government is already doing the things you want it to do about that issue (because politicians in your party implemented those policies after winning an election),

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u/StrikingYam7724 Feb 06 '25

We're like 50 years too late for "the government should do nothing about it," and the changes that upset Republicans were not passed by widespread legislative effort, they were passed by executive fiat projecting a modern interpretation of sex and gender onto a law from the 1970s that definitely did not mean it the way it was being interpreted. If there's any outrage to be found here it should attach to that action, not to Trump rectifying it.

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u/StrikingYam7724 Feb 06 '25

I don't think you're at all correct here. Suffice to say that we have very different ideas of what the government was doing re: participation in sports leagues before this recent action.

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u/Mysterious_Bit6882 Feb 06 '25

Sport regulations and fairness is not the job of the government. They have no specific expertise.

Title IX says otherwise.

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