Objectively terrible

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

MADISON – Assembly Republicans passed legislation Thursday that would ban transgender girls and women from competing on high school and college women’s sports teams and bar doctors from providing gender-transition treatment for minors.

Lawmakers approved the three bills in a 63-35 vote, with all Democrats voting against the measures and nearly all Republicans voting for the measures.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has promised to veto the bills.

Girls’ and women’s sports aren’t for girls and women any more, they’re for girls and women and any boys and men willing to claim they are transgender. Do what I may, I can’t see that as anything but unfair to girls and women.

Democrats pushed back on Vos’ claims during an Assembly floor session Thursday and said allowing transgender athletes to compete in sports that match their gender fosters acceptance and belonging.

Does it? Why is it more important to foster acceptance (on the wrong team) and belonging (to the wrong team) than it is to foster fairness and chances for girls and women? Why is it more important to coddle boys who claim to be girls than it is to be fair to girls? Why doesn’t it bother them that it doesn’t harm boys at all but is terrible for girls?

“The fact that legislators are creating an environment that pushes specific groups of children out of existence and sports teams in service to a political agenda is objectively terrible, it’s discriminatory and it’s cruel,” said Rep. Lee Snodgrass, D-Appleton.

Nobody’s pushing anyone “out of existence.” Stop that. Be an adult, not some screamy idiot on Twitter. And which twin has the “political agenda” here? The no side just has the agenda of keeping female sports for female people as opposed to female people plus a selected few male ones.

H/t J.A.

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