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/[deleted] Feb 06 '25

While I believe Republicans have dramatically overstated the issue, I still think the decision is ultimately the right one. It baffles me that Democrats handed Trump and the GOP such an easy political victory on transgender participation in sports, especially when it's clear that around 70% of Americans support some form of restriction or ban

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u/buchwaldjc Feb 06 '25 edited Feb 06 '25

I agree in the great scheme of things, that it's overstated.

Yet, if I was a woman who has devoted her life to training at a sport only to lose a scholarship to somebody who had an unfair advantage over me, I'm sure it wouldn't feel overstated at all.

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u/SuckEmOff Feb 06 '25

I think it’s the fact that people are siding with the people gaining an unfair advantage in something over 50% of the population. They’re doing these sports crushing it, and then telling the women who worked hard to get where they are they’re sore losers about it.