so if im getting this right, they passed a bill to 'protect girls' which relies upon giving adults the right to inspect the genitals of children so they can play sport? just want to make sure I understand the fucking insane logic at work here pic.twitter.com/wfnMuqZBnU
— Lily Simpson IS the Trans Agenda (@LilySimpson1312) April 6, 2023
This child is the horrifying threat that drove lawmakers in West Virginia to prioritize and pass legislation attacking her ability to play middle school sports. pic.twitter.com/cUh8VN8IGN
— Jack Turban MD 🏳️⚧️🧠🏳️🌈🩺 (@jack_turban) April 6, 2023
If you're wondering if a state really tried to stop a single 12-year-old from playing sports, that is in fact what happened. The lower courts allowed Becky to play while the challenge to WV's athletics ban proceeded, so WV asked SCOTUS to let them kick her off her team. https://t.co/2Ae0CqC0At
— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) April 6, 2023
BREAKING: Supreme Court lets transgender girl remain on middle-school track team. Justices Alito, Thomas dissent. It's the first time the court has acted on a wave of new state restrictions on athletic participation.
— Greg Stohr (@GregStohr) April 6, 2023
joe biden is a fucking chomo y’all we tried to warn you https://t.co/GTRsLaru7p
— CromartieMD (@CromartieMd) April 6, 2023
To put it mildly, this is extraordinarily disappointing and a total reversal from a position the Biden administration has taken since Day One. Wow. https://t.co/L5mQ0t98CD pic.twitter.com/9c1lVbOoNx
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 6, 2023
Like, hey, if you're going to do something like that, maybe, I don't know, try to get at least some sort of concession out of it? Some sort of baseline protections?
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 6, 2023
But nah, nothing, just "Hey, maybe we'll offer a little anti-trans policy as a treat."
These juxtaposed headlines are a thing to behold pic.twitter.com/ECeoHKut64
— Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI) April 6, 2023
The new Biden title IX trans sports regulations feel like a betrayal.
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) April 7, 2023
They allow for birth certificate sex, invasive physical exams, and more.
They regurgitate right wing talking points without addressing them.
Subscribe to support my work.https://t.co/yuHmJ0fLok
BREAKING: SCOTUS denies cert for the West Virginia trans sports ban case. This should not be unusual since this case has still not been heard on the merits at the 4th circuit. Granting cert or striking down the 4th circuits stay would be would be highly out of the ordinary. pic.twitter.com/L1zVbIiMcK
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) April 6, 2023
Honestly, this move by Biden to push a rule on trans kids in sports is not only a backwards betrayal, it force us to have to spend our time dealing with god damn sports instead of criminal bans on our healthcare. He could have just done nothing. This is legitimizing transphobia.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) April 6, 2023
Biden just betrayed the trans community.
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) April 6, 2023
Biden allows trans athlete bans if it is "important to achieving an educational objective" and "minimizes harms to the athlete"
Specifically, allows bans that:
- Use gender markers
- Use physical exams
- Other "sex-related criteria" pic.twitter.com/H39ZlcbUcd
So I’m getting this right, Biden just came out and said, “It’s wrong to say all trannies can’t play sports, but it is totally okay to refuse them one at a time on the basis of them being trans. You know as a compromise. Just keeping it fair.”
— Nic Anstett (@NicAnstett) April 7, 2023
BREAKING: New Biden administration guidance says that the categorical bans for trans youth in athletics passed by multiple states are a violation of Title IX protections, affirms that there is no place for discrimination in sports participation.
— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) April 6, 2023
Big news for trans people!
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) April 6, 2023
The Supreme Court has just denied a request to block an injunction on West Virginia's sports ban, 7-2!
It is a big moment as it's our first supreme court decision over major anti-trans laws being pushed around the country! https://t.co/8eEjO8GRlS
In particular this will enable legislated sexual assault of girls who are aggressive, gifted competitors in youth sports—to enforce conservative ideals of femininity and belittle the talented and the passionate https://t.co/Q8sk1c06f4
— Lacy Crawford (@lacy_crawford) April 6, 2023
The republicans don’t care that your family is starving and/or is one medical bill away from financial catastrophe because they’re too busy obsessing with checking out little kids’ genitalia and banning kids from learning about their genitalia, ok?
— Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI) April 6, 2023
Just to be clear
Let me get this straight.
— A. H. (@a_h_reaume) April 6, 2023
Y’all are so afraid that kids are being groomed by queer people — that you need to take the kids you say are being groomed — and you need to inspect their… genitals? AND also inspect other kids genitals too who look like they might be in that group. https://t.co/hZT1TOD1tJ
Pay attention: Kansas Republicans overrode the Governor's veto & authorized a law that would inspect the genitals of children if they want to play sports today. This is how Republicans are treating children. It's gross. It's despicable. It should outrage all of us.
— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) April 6, 2023
Trans people are a tiny minority. Trans athletes even more so. As with most bigoted legislation in this vein, this abomination will primarily used to punish cis girls for being insufficiently feminine for the standards of the parents of whatever team they defeat. https://t.co/Xjuws8enUE
— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) April 5, 2023
It is genuinely weirding me out how many people are insisting that this is fine and good actually, and much of their logic feels to me as if it’s predicated on us existing in a world where we do not in fact live. https://t.co/YmG5Rz3rXx
— Sunny Moraine (dynamicsymmetry@wandering.shop) (@dynamicsymmetry) April 7, 2023
One comment on this is “We’re all reading this very different” and yeah, what I’m saying is probably the best way to read this rule is like a transphobic Republican lawyer or legislator or judge because those are the people we need to worry about https://t.co/ekuIaCIpYf
— Sunny Moraine (dynamicsymmetry@wandering.shop) (@dynamicsymmetry) April 7, 2023
An update and correction: I read this Washington Post article before I had access to the proposal itself, and trusted the Post to report on it accurately. That was a mistake. The Post's description—and my tweet about it—are not fully accurate. The proposal is far more nuanced. https://t.co/djoZzaAPD0
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 8, 2023
Indeed, the @washingtonpost stealth-edited the paragraph I highlighted to fundamentally alter its meaning, without issuing a correction or update. I would like to hold myself to a higher standard, so I am apologizing and correcting. https://t.co/L5mQ0t98CD pic.twitter.com/coDVMDfPoD
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 8, 2023
I do want to say that I, and many others, have deep concerns about the proposal: It seems well-intentioned, but I fear it could still be exploited by bad actors to adopt discriminatory policies under the pretext of "promoting fairness." I wrote about that: https://t.co/pMdEhtQ6Ml
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 8, 2023
I also recommend @ErinInTheMorn's close-read of the proposal, the first comprehensive assessment that explains the evident gap between how the Department of Education envisions the rule functioning and how it might be exploited by transphobes. https://t.co/N470668ke9 pic.twitter.com/D5PULEXziQ
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 8, 2023
But other advocates for trans equality have spoken in support of the proposal. https://t.co/pMdEhtQ6Ml
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 8, 2023
In short: I would never tweet about a court decision without reading it first. I should, and will, apply that same rule to everything else I tweet about, including agency regs. pic.twitter.com/yad01nzHKQ
Today 14 trans & nonbinary legislators expressed our concern to President Biden regarding the proposed Title IX policy change.
— Rep. Zooey Zephyr (@ZoAndBehold) April 10, 2023
Trans people belong in sports. Policies must begin with the presumption of full inclusion & provide a pathway for participation in all levels of sports. pic.twitter.com/pxlDNHihKD
BREAKING: 14 trans and nonbinary legislators release letter addressing Biden proposal on Title IX, writing "there is no such thing as an acceptable “compromise” that limits transgender Americans access to equal rights. ...Trans athletes belong in sports" pic.twitter.com/x4VopjwLxD
— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) April 10, 2023
That "hopefully rare" is doing a whole lot of work here. https://t.co/PsmeEr448C pic.twitter.com/kqEudKy6c3
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) April 8, 2023
This is the inevitable -- INEVITABLE -- outcome of anti-trans policies in girls' sports. Everyone claiming anti-trans policies are necessary to "protect" girls' sports has set up every. single. girl. (cis or trans) as a possible suspect. https://t.co/b5nPvnl2Cp
— Jessica Luther (@jessicawluther) August 18, 2022
man it's super cool that republicans hyper focus on being creepy fascistic weirdos about trans people is actually costing them elections and the white house response is now "hmmm. let's meet in the middle with them"
— Colin Spacetwinks (@spacetwinks) April 6, 2023
If you’ve got concerns about the importance of “fairness” in sport, I have compiled a helpful list of things you could fight for to address exisiting issues of fairness in sport that will make a hell of a lot more difference than picking on trans & gender diverse people
— Megan Maurice (@meganmaurice) June 21, 2022
"Bans on trans athletes, especially those that focus on trans women and girls, have benefited for years from being framed by their partisans as more reasonable, or perhaps the only reasonable form of anti-trans discrimination. They invoke the platitude of “fairness” in competition, the genuine history of women’s unequal access to participation, and an ostensibly scientific conversation about sex differences and their relationship to athletic capacity. With the exception of the wish to cordon off trans youth’s access to transition as somehow qualitatively different from adults, no subject has seemed to garner more defense from liberal pundits and feminists, some who argue that progressive political movements should side with the far right, if only for a tactical advantage. This might explain why sports bans are the single most successful type of anti-trans bill to date; 19 have been signed into law in the US in three years.
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The proposed policy, housed in the Department of Education, is perhaps superficially bizarre but emblematic of the futility of transgender compromise. On the one hand, the policy forbids blanket bans on trans participation in sports, since to categorically bar trans girls or boys as a class is textbook sex discrimination under Title IX. (In 2020, the Supreme Court’s conservative decision in Bostock v. Clayton, authored by Neil Gorsuch, established that anti-trans discrimination counts as sex discrimination under Title VII, which concerns employment.) On the other hand, however, the policy encourages the development of stronger rationales for anti-trans discrimination."
— "Transgender Compromise," Jules Gill-Peterson, Sad Brown Girl (Substack), May 3, 2023
Journalism in Kansas and West Virginia
"On Friday, Aug. 11 [2023], the entire police force of Marion County, Kansas, was in the entire news operation of the Marion County Record, hauling away computers and wrestling cellphones from the hands of reporters and doing the same thing at the home of Eric Meyer, the newspaper’s publisher and editor, where he lived with Joan Meyer, his mother and co-owner of the weekly. Joan Meyer died the following day, her son said, 'of shock and grief.'"
After Kansas: Putting newsroom raids in context, U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, August 31, 2023
West Virginia House passes bill allowing prosecution of librarians Steven Allen Adams, News & Sentinel (Parkersburg, WV), Feb 17, 2024
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