Pete Buttigieg, former Transportation Secretary, responding
to criticism of his recent remarks about trans athletes:
“I see this issue being used to divide. I see it being used
to hurt people. It’s especially hurtful for trans people and people with transgender members
of their family who witness themselves or people they love being used as a
political football. We’re talking about one of the smallest, as well as one of
the most vulnerable minorities in this country and in the world. In order to
bring people together on this, we also have to take everybody seriously,
including parents who have questions. Above all... those questions should be
handled by communities and by sports leagues and not by politicians.”
The exchange followed a July NPR Morning Edition interview
in which Buttigieg framed the inclusion of transgender girls in sports as
a matter of “fairness,” while rejecting blanket federal bans. Some
Democrats, Pete supporters and LGBTQ+ advocates criticized his framing as
playing into right-wing narratives.
Buttigieg’s clarification comes as the fascist regime enforces
executive orders banning transgender women and girls from women's sports teams.
Though the policy has national reach, NCAA President Charlie Baker testified last year that fewer than 10 transgender athletes were competing among
more than 500,000 college athletes.
All this for ten athletes … focusing on that rather
than the hundreds who died in the Texas floods, or the countless victims of
Jeffrey Epstein and The Felon, the children shot in schools. Where the fuck are our priorities?
Sidenote: University of Washington endocrinologist Dr. Bradley Anawalt says performance gaps between cisgender and adult transgender women narrow, but
don’t entirely disappear, after several years of hormone therapy. Military fitness
data showed that trans women’s running times aligned with cisgender women’s
after two years, while their push-up scores remained higher for the duration of
a four-year study.
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Hear, hear to all.
ReplyDeleteMost straight people will never understand how coming out takes away so much psychological pressure. That thread of worry and concern is no longer continually running through your head.
ReplyDelete'Mayor' Pete nails it yet again! Is there nothing that can stop this man from spouting plain SENSE? Well, they're still trying their darnedest.
ReplyDeleteThis week I had a argument with ladies at the place I volunteer at about this. Why do they care if someone is trans or gay or whatever? They can live their life the way they want so why can't others?! I was so angry because they were complaining about being "woke" and I just couldn't be quiet about such ignorance. I can't listen to that bullshit without speaking up.
ReplyDeletePete is being raked over the coals by the young'uns for those remarks. Evidently, they hate him now because he's gone too old fogey mainstream. It's ridiculous. If the Democrats don't come together and stop the endless bickering over small issues, we'll never get anywhere. And Trans athletes IS a small issue compared to what we're dealing with right now.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes.
ReplyDeleteI've seen people come after Pete and Sarah.
There is NO keeping the purity tests at bay. There's no way. No matter how people frame their decisions or statements, there's always an outrage machine ready to tear them down.
People annoy me sometimes to no end. Especially 'liberals'. I want to slap them really hard.
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A good post of good quotations!
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Let me provide full context on Pete's remarks-----You provided the aftermath of the fall out----V. Sphere from Under The Desk New provides a good synopsis of his original remarks---
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