Kansas is banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, from kindergarten through college. The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature on Wednesday overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s third veto in three years of a bill that applies a ban to school teams and the club sports sponsored by K-12 schools and colleges. Nineteen other states have imposed such bans, most recently Wyoming, but also Arizona, Florida, Texas and West Virginia. The ban is the first of what could be several new Kansas laws restricting the rights of transgender people, and came a day after lawmaker passed a broad bathroom bill.
  •  StringTheory   ( @StringTheory@beehaw.org ) 
    4•11 months ago

    All three of them. Two are graduating this year. So, all this to bar one trans girl from playing sports.

    The GOP is pushing the story that trans women are everywhere, taking over everything, pushing women and girls out of activities and jobs and opportunities (playing off the idea that having been born male, they are inherently better at all aspects of life than mere women).

    The lie about the numbers of trans women and girls is one thing, but the depth and strength of the misogyny the whole trans panic is predicated upon is mind boggling.

    •  moralcoffee   ( @moralcoffee@kbin.social ) 
      1•10 months ago

      playing off the idea that having been born male, they are inherently better at all aspects of life than mere women).

      This isn’t about some generic “they think men are better”. Are you saying that you believe there is no physical advantage a biological male has over a biological female? For real?