Massachusetts rep blasts Republicans for 'weaponizing' transgender athletes...

[Jessica_Rose]

Massachusetts rep blasts Republicans for 'weaponizing' transgender athletes: 'Politics at its worst'

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Story by Ryan Morik (15 Feb 2025)

U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., ripped her Republican colleagues this week, saying they politicize the controversial issue of transgender athletes competing against girls and women.

The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association is one of at least three state athletic organizations to say they will continue to allow trans athletes to compete against biological females despite President Donald Trump's recent executive order barring them from doing so.

"We're going to say no to those trans kids? You can't be part of a team, you can't learn the camaraderie and be part of your community and feel a sense of belonging? It's just cruel," Trahan said, via the Boston Globe.

The NCAA, despite President Charlie Baker saying in December he knew of fewer than 10 transgender athletes in the association, recently followed Trump's order and barred transgender athletes from competing against females.

"You can't ignore the [NCAA's] data," Trahan said, "but it doesn't stop them. They think it's a political winner for them. Whether they believe it or not, it doesn't even matter. They have set such a dangerous narrative in our country around denying the existence of trans people.

"There are a lot of creeps out there, so now someone gets to accuse a girl who doesn't look feminine enough or doesn't have pigtails in her hair?" Trahan added. "How does she have to prove [her gender]? It's poor policymaking. It's politics at its worst."

[Sephirah]

Of course it's weaponised. Trans people as a whole are a political weapon these days. And people are suffering because of it. And it's only a weapon because people play the injured victim. Because people know how to play to public opinion.

You can have ten women who are so at the top of their game that they dominate everything. But if even one woman gets beat by a trans woman, they play the trans card, and it's a massive issue.

People can be very manipulative. No, scratch that... women can be very manipulative. Men don't generally think that far ahead.

You don't see this with guys. That's all I'm saying.