The bill extends the state’s current ban to cover intercollegiate sports at the University of Wyoming and community colleges. Laramie Sen. Chris Rothfuss voted against the bill.
There are not "extremists on both sides" of trans rights and trans lives. That's some sickening, regressive, centrist bullshit. It's incredibly disempowering and counterproductive.
There is nothing extreme, unreasonable, oppressive, or hurtful about the "left" position on this issue. When you "both sides" this issue, you hurt people--plain and simple.
It would be nice if the Wyoming legislature would defer to a sport's organizing body rather than injecting themselves into every aspect of life they can get their grubby mitts on. Are the organizing bodies of sports perfect? Absolutely not. But they at least care about sport outside of BS culture war stunts. I wish I could get over to Cheyenne to speak against the bill.
This isn't actually a new issue, though it's in the press nowadays due to the recent trend toward transgenderism. It harks back to the 1970s, when Reneé Richards (neé Richard Raskin, the optahalmologist who fit me with my first pair of glasses) sued to be allowed to compete in women's tennis. Richards, who did not turn out to be a champion after all the fuss but did coach a champion who is now famously opposed to allowing trans-women to compete as women, claimed in her autobiography that she would have had a huge advantage had she transitioned in her teens or 20s instead of later in life.
My take: sports are recreation and entertainment. Why don't we just let the participants, and/or the organization that sets the rules for a particular competition, decide whether a competitor is qualified?
There are not "extremists on both sides" of trans rights and trans lives. That's some sickening, regressive, centrist bullshit. It's incredibly disempowering and counterproductive.
There is nothing extreme, unreasonable, oppressive, or hurtful about the "left" position on this issue. When you "both sides" this issue, you hurt people--plain and simple.
It would be nice if the Wyoming legislature would defer to a sport's organizing body rather than injecting themselves into every aspect of life they can get their grubby mitts on. Are the organizing bodies of sports perfect? Absolutely not. But they at least care about sport outside of BS culture war stunts. I wish I could get over to Cheyenne to speak against the bill.
UW is going to lose their ability to compete at the NCAA level. Maybe they can find some directional "christian" schools to play against?
This isn't actually a new issue, though it's in the press nowadays due to the recent trend toward transgenderism. It harks back to the 1970s, when Reneé Richards (neé Richard Raskin, the optahalmologist who fit me with my first pair of glasses) sued to be allowed to compete in women's tennis. Richards, who did not turn out to be a champion after all the fuss but did coach a champion who is now famously opposed to allowing trans-women to compete as women, claimed in her autobiography that she would have had a huge advantage had she transitioned in her teens or 20s instead of later in life.
My take: sports are recreation and entertainment. Why don't we just let the participants, and/or the organization that sets the rules for a particular competition, decide whether a competitor is qualified?