Why Transgender Girls Are Suddenly the GOP's New Target

[riversedge]

The New York Times
Why Transgender Girls Are Suddenly the GOP's New Target



https://news.yahoo.com/why-transgender-girls-suddenly-gops-190422873.html

Jeremy W. Peters
Tue, March 30, 2021, 2:04 PM



The last time Republicans in South Dakota made a serious push to bar transgender girls from school sports, in 2019, their bill was known only by its nondescript numerical title, Senate Bill 49. Its two main sponsors were men. And it died without ever getting out of committee, just 10 days after it was introduced.

But when Republicans decided to try again in January, they were far more strategic in their approach. The sponsors this time were two women who modeled their bill after a template provided by a conservative legal organization. They gave the bill a name that suggested noble intent: the “act to promote continued fairness in women’s sports.” Supporters from Minnesota and Idaho traveled to the Capitol in Pierre to testify that a new law was urgently needed to keep anyone with male biological characteristics out of female competitions, even though they acknowledged only a handful of examples of that happening in South Dakota.

“These efforts appear to be far more slick and far more organized,” said Elizabeth A. Skarin of the American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota, which opposes the bill. “Anytime they give a bill a name in South Dakota,” she added, “you know something’s up.”


Then things took an unexpected turn. Gov. Kristi Noem, who is seen as a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, demanded changes to the bill. The response was swift and harsh: Social conservative activists and Republican lawmakers accused Noem of bowing to pressure from business and athletics organizations, which have been successful at stopping laws in other states that single out transgender people for exclusion and feed ugly stereotypes. On Monday, the Legislature rebuked the governor and formally rejected her changes. She said she hoped to force the issue again in a special legislative session before summer........................................

[jimfields33]

1. One transgender woman in Connecticut won a race and got the scholarship.

I believe that is what started this.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/usatodayhss.com/2017/connecticut-transgender-sprinter-andraya-yearwood-wins-two-state-titles-amidst-controversy/amp


Transphobia is as ugly as the rest of the phobias.

[Ocelot II]

2. They've run out of other targets, maybe?

They've been picking on black people, brown people, Asians, gay people, women, immigrants and Muslims. But they needed to find some people who have even less power to belittle and oppress because all of the above groups have refused to go away.

[mezame]

3. They didn't need to find us...

...we've been here, getting shit on, for beyond-counting too many years. New shiny issue, same racist, misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ bullshit, solving problems that don't exist. Nothing new under the sun.

Lost in the haze: that the human species is evolving (never stopped, duh), and the gender-fluid 'condition' is just us trying to show the rest of you that the future is non-binary. And the only reaction we get from you is fear.