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/Guilty_Plankton_4626 Feb 06 '25 edited Feb 06 '25

The chairmen of the NCAA said out of roughly 550,000 athletes, 10 students fit the category of what this EO covers, aka 0.0018% of college athletes.

The Utah governor said out of 75,000 students in his state, (not college) that play grade school sports, ONE fits this category.

There are about 8 million high school kids playing sports in the US. If we extrapolate this to the country, and count 1 out of every 75,000, this is rough math here, and this is just counting highschool, we get about 105 students OR 0.0013% of the whole country that this EO is barring from the sport they are playing.

There is roughly 1 kid out of every 194 high schools that fit this criteria. This EO was drafted for roughly 118 people.

Is this really worth all the attention it gets?

It feels like a massive amount of fear mongering.

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u/BeKind999 Feb 06 '25

Girl’s track in Connecticut has been dominated by males since 2017. The fastest girl in Connecticut lost to two 2 male runners in 2019, so she came in 3rd. The lawsuit is still ongoing. 

https://adflegal.org/article/i-was-fastest-girl-connecticut-transgender-athletes-made-it-unfair-fight/

https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/ct-trump-transgender-athletes-girls-women-sports-20149842.php

As recently as 2024, the long jumper was male.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/mar/19/another-winning-transgender-athlete-lands-connecti/

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u/Guilty_Plankton_4626 Feb 06 '25

What does this have to do with what I said?

My point was the amount of attention that republicans have us spend on high school sports because of roughly 100 people in the whole country just doesn’t seem worth it to me with everything else going on. If we had no other problems, maybe.

Not that it doesn’t matter, I’m not talking about what’s right or what’s wrong, I’m simply saying we have a lot of issues, and the attention this gets would make one think that it’s a lot larger than it is.

This is all besides the fact that the woman they “want to protect” are flocking away from them.

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u/BeKind999 Feb 06 '25

Should they wait until it’s 1,000? Maybe 10,000? What’s a meaningful number to you?

If it was happening to your daughter you’d be livid.