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."
In February 2024, a Republican member of the Utah board of education, Natalie Cline, posted to Instagram questioning a 16-year-old girl basketball player. The girl was subsequently "targeted by threats and online abuse, and had to be given police protection," according to The Guardian. Cline "backtracked and apologised," the Guardian says, yet continued to foment transphobia, both for this girl and for others, with these words: "She does have a larger build. It is normal to wonder if people are what they say they are, because of the push to normalise transgenderism in our society." No. It is absolutely not normal for members of the state board of education even to "wonder" if a 16-year-old girl might be a boy, much less to post to social media publicly suggesting that.
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:
Michael Phelps unfortunately hasn’t supported trans people even though he is literally a genetic mutant. One example of many: Phelps’ body produces half the normal amount of lactic acid during exercise. That means he feels far less fatigue than most people. His cis ass should learn solidarity.
— Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social) Aug 1, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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The IOC has had rules about trans athletes & hormone levels for 20 YEARS (since 2004) that are regularly updated. If someone is competing in the Olympics, they’ve already met MANY standards that already exist. So maybe stop speculating on athlete’s genitals ya fuckin weirdos ✌️
— Susan Bridges (@susanlbridges.bsky.social) Aug 1, 2024 at 3:10 PM
My controversial position is that if the Times is going to keep covering controversies around sex and gender its editors and reporters should check and make sure they're not wrong about literally the most basic fact about sex chromosomes
— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) Aug 1, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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Frantically revising the piece to come up with new ways to be wrong
— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) Aug 1, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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[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.
The future of women’s sports is at stake at San Jose State, but trans athletes aren’t the problem, Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, Nov 19, 2024
"I am more worried about how sports threaten children than how people wrongly think trans players could possibly hurt sports."
Anti-Sports (Warrior Culture) but Pro Trans and Intersex Rights in Sports! by Damien AtHope | May 27, 2022
It's vital to remember that sports are a means to an end for the people most actively working to hound trans girls from school athletics. Are you really going to tell me with a straight face that AF&F is filing this litigation because they care about the rights of women? archive.ph/gZfmb
— Jessica Kant (@jessdkant.bsky.social) December 21, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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And then the lawsuit alleges that in a competition where the fastest time wins, they discriminated by declaring the person with the fastest time the winner.
— Jessica Kant (@jessdkant.bsky.social) December 21, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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