The usual trick
So many outright lies in this CNN piece on getting men out of women’s sports:
President Donald Trump is ready to take his fight against transgender athletes to the International Olympic Committee.
Trump said Wednesday during a signing ceremony for an executive order aimed at banning transgender athletes from women’s sports that his administration wants the IOC to “change everything having to do with the Olympics and having to do with this absolutely ridiculous subject” ahead of the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Liar liar liar. It’s not a “fight against transgender athletes” and it’s not “an executive order aimed at banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.” It’s an executive order banning male athletes from women’s sports.
The order empowers the Secretary of State’s office to pressure the IOC to amend standards governing Olympic sporting events “to promote fairness, safety and the best interests of female athletes by ensuring that eligibility for participation in women’s sporting events is determined according to sex and not gender identity or testosterone reduction.”
Oh look, a paragraph free of lies. Yes: fairness, safety and the best interests of female athletes. You got a problem with that?
The order also calls for the Secretary of State and the Department of Homeland Security to “review and adjust, as needed, policies permitting admission to the United States of males seeking to participate in women’s sports.” There is no evidence that male athletes have competed in women’s Olympics events.
OH yes there is.
It never ceases to amaze me how happy guys like this are to brush off women’s right to fairness as completely irrelevant and insignificant. Easy for you, dude.
I hate this I hate this: WHY have the Democrats–or the “Left” or whatever you wanna call the non-Trump side–why have they ceded this issue to TRUMP and the right-wing fruitcakes??
It’s as if they said, “Hey MAGA! You can breathe oxygen! We, on the other hand, choose to breathe cyanide gas!”
Seriously.
I can’t express in words how much I detest this.
Also, you’d think they’d gotten the memo that this is a political loser and one most unhelpful in the current moment.
Natcons: See why our illegitimate power grab is entirely necessary?