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Maine Governor Defies Trump on Transgender Sports Ban
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Maine Governor Janet Mills has publicly opposed an executive order by President Donald Trump that aims to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports. The dispute escalated after Governor Mills challenged Trump’s threat to cut federal funding to Maine, leading to a commitment to legal action. This confrontation has sparked a broader conversation on transgender rights in sports, highlighted by social media reactions from various figures, including a notable appearance of Mills at a drag show in Portland, which has stirred both support and criticism.
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The summary repeats the ubiquitous lie because of course it does because the lie is ubiquitous. The issue is men in women’s sports. Women who think they are men are not an issue because of course why would they want to play in women’s sports when they think they are men? The issue is men in women’s sports, but the media uniformly lie about it, because if they said “men in women’s sports” it would be all too obvious why we oppose it.
It’s so dishonest and so manipulative and yet they all do it. And in aid of what? In aid of men systematically ruining sports for women. How very progressive.
Everything else Trump does is apparently fine, or at least not worth challenging, but this is the hill they’re going to die on?
Yeah, while Trump is wiping his ass with the Consitution and flushing it down his gold-plated toilet, Mills’ priority is to protect the “rights” of men like “Lia” Thomas to change among and compete against women. Slow clap.
Yes, this is exactly the hill on which to die, or rather, capture and hold.
Maine’s governor rightly told tRump “See you in court”, not in defense of any trans issue, but in defense of the rule of law.
tRump threatened to withhold funding from Maine, funding that can only be approved by Congress, not POTUS.
tRump told the governor that he is the law, but again it is the role of Congress to write laws and of the courts to interpret and apply those laws.
And that is the issue at hand. One state governor who has called tRump on his bullshit.
Thank you for that Rev… It’s antipathy to the trans issue that has a tendency to blinker clear thinking on what’s at stake here.
That said it’d be much easier to defend in the court of public opinion if it was another issue. If Trump wants to do this shit he should be instructing Congress to legislate it.
@3 I still have to wonder why it’s this particular issue that the governor, or any other public official, has decided to defy Trump over. There certainly seem to be plenty of executive challenges to the rule of law to choose from, and as far as I can tell as an outsider this is the only one that has drawn any measure of public opposition by elected official or government leader.