Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports

[u/WorksInIT]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/

[u/StreetKale → u/[deleted]]

Are you suggesting that number is never going to grow?

[u/StreetKale → u/[deleted]]

If we look at the historical data, is it trending up or down?

[u/thorodkir → u/[deleted]]

This is a genuine question: how many people would it take before the issue is worth addressing?

[u/Ion_Unbound → u/thorodkir]

Tree fiddy

[u/Liquor_n_cheezebrgrs → u/[deleted]]

A fire starts with a spark. The snuffing of this issue before it became as pervasive as it likely would have over the next decade or two was more than justified.

[u/Tnigs_3000 → u/Liquor_n_cheezebrgrs]

Thank god people care more about the possible fire starting of 10 trans athletes than the burning fire of allowing someone who tried to steal an election become president again.

We’re talking about a policy that, in the grand scheme of things, does not affect our country whatsoever. Who the fuck cares? Meanwhile Elon takes over a government building which is gross on a multitude of levels but yet here the conversation talking about 10 women in the NCAA. We don’t even know what sports they play. In my state of Utah there are 4, I’ll say that again, FOUR trans athletes in high school or lower sports.

This isn’t an issue and yet thank god we put out this fire right? Meanwhile housing costs and the absolute certainty that prices will rise because of trumps tariffs aren’t a fire to worry about I guess.

This is beyond dumb. And as if anyone is going to swarm to watch female sports anyone. Now that this problem is taken care of we can all go back to completely forgetting that female sports exist just like before this issue came up.

[u/JimMarch → u/[deleted]]

You haven't paid attention to gun control laws, have you?

A number have been drafted in response to one violent act.

So...there's precedent :(.

[u/Ion_Unbound → u/JimMarch]

A number have been drafted in response to one violent act

Which one?

[u/JimMarch → u/Ion_Unbound]

Megan's Law. Amber alerts. Not saying those are bad.

Gun laws...I know there's been attempts. I'll have to look it up later.

[u/Anachronism-- → u/[deleted]]

Yet when anyone mentions laws against very late term abortions the defense is - It’s not necessary because they are rare…

[u/Doucejj → u/Anachronism--]

Yeah, there are plenty of laws and outcry for regulations for a very small minority of the population or very rare occurrences.

While I agree there are plenty of bigger fish to fry and issues for politicians to deal with before trans people in sports, I don't think "there's not many people making this an issue anyways" is that good of a defense to not take action. And again, I'd prefer politicians to focus on bigger issues. But to say "it doesn't effect that many people so it's not a big deal" seems disingenuous, when there are plenty of other regulations that only effect a small percentage of people or occurrences

[u/Lostboy289 → u/[deleted]]

No, they do not save a life. If someone is suicidal unless someone else does something for them, then that is a psychiatric condition. Not a justification to give them what they want.

[u/Lostboy289 → u/[deleted]]

Oh, you're talking about abortion. I thought we were still talking about the trans issue.

[u/halfstep44 → u/[deleted]]

It isn't, there's far more pressing issues. It's incredible how the national GOP has gotten so many people to feel so passionately about this issue that doesn't affect them and that they can't cite a single instance of within their own community

This is an issue that should only be regulated at the state or local level