(CW: Transphobia) Trump's trans sport ban executive order
Trump's sports ban EO is now live. You can find it here. I'm going to, as I have done in previous nights, go line by line and explain it for all of you here. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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This is just vile. It is so difficult to witness a state's whole weight utilized to persecute and disenfranchise the few trans people involved in sports this way.
Entire state wielded just to serve the compulsive thoughts of some who are obsessed about trans people and want to take it out on them by not only stealing joy from the ones who want to participate in sports but also word it in the most insultingly self-satisfied way possible.
The goal isn't just the few trans people in sports, its to use this as a foot in the door for persecuting us more generally. That's always been the plan behind this, and its working.
Of course, the intent and meaning is clear from the wording alone to anyone looking at it in good faith. It isn't just talking about sports but trying to discredit and delegitimize trans people and especially trans women.
However the foot in the door is allowed because there are people whose purpose for being came to be preventing the very few trans people in sports which comes up again and again repeatedly in any competition now including of course against cis people.
