It continues not to be about sports

As Chase Strangio explains on an Instagram reel:

"This now-deleted comment was posted from the official account of NYC’s Community Education Council, District 2. Last month, the Council voted 8-3 to advance an anti-trans resolution. They claim they aren’t making schools less safe for trans kids but this is what they post publicly from their government account. At core, they want a world without trans kids and they are making that clear."

What happened? "In response to the simple suggestion that trans students be given the opportunity to attend school and participate in activities alongside their peers," New York's Community Education Council District 2 (CEC2) left an online public comment:

"True compassion means not letting children self diagnose their own medical condition. It means letting effeminate boys grow up and find out that they are just gay and having their male genitals intact. It means addressing underlying mental health issues and autism that radical gender medical practitioners ignore that still lead to suicide after 'gender affirming care.' It means not engaging in human experimentation on children that's banned by the Nuremberg Code with unproven sterilizing, mutilating & permanent hormonal & medical castration treatment and surgery. True compassion means teaching and supporting kids to love themselves as they are and letting them grow up unharmed."

In other words, the topic was basic educational inclusion for kids who are trans, and the adults on the Community Education Council immediately began talking about the children's genitals and hormones.

These same councilmembers, Strangio says, have previously claimed to be "just asking questions about girls in sports," not opposing trans kids.

"But here's the thing," Strangio says. "The discourse around trans inclusion in sports always leads to this place." The position ends up being that trans people should not exist nor have healthcare. "Ultimately, their end goal is to push an agenda that eradicates us."

Strangio's action item: "We are organizing to show love and solidarity for trans students and to fight this Moms for Liberty-affiliated council. Join us on May 2nd at 6:30, MS 131, 100 Hester Street, NY. Wear white."

I also direct you to my article: "Oh, It's About Sports, Is It?". It's a 14-minute read on Medium, and I gave you the unpaywalled friend link.

This is not about sports:

[Bluesky]

"The 2024 Music City Open, a notable event in the Disc Golf Pro Tour, faced a significant disruption when the competition was temporarily suspended due to a terroristic threat on Saturday. The threat...targeted transgender athlete Natalie Ryan..."

Terrorist threat stops Nashville disc golf tournament with transgender player, Christopher Wiggins, The Advocate, April 25, 2024

Read up on the Before “Moms For Liberty,” There Was “Daughters of the Confederacy” by Fay Wylde. That's a 7-min read with a friend link too.