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Is it insanity? What egregious win did a trans kid have to defile the sanctity of organized sport? Or is it all media outrage being used to distract us from realizing everyone with a 7-digit-or-less bank account all fundamentally want the same thing, which is at odds with those with more?

Explain

Nah, impossible, I was told bLuEmAGa was just as bad as real MAGA and we needed to teach em a lesson!

It's also worth noting that dem house leadership spoke against it explicitly too. For instance, Hakeem Jefferies, the Dem House Minority Leader, wrote against it before the vote too

The House Republican Child Predator Empowerment Act does not promote fairness and safety in sports.

It will unleash horrific child predators on girls and young women throughout America.

Unacceptable.

https://bsky.app/profile/hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social/post/3lfpl3s35v22s

The Dem House Whip, Whip Clark, made similar remarks on the house floor

While I am here, I will say to make sure to contact your senators on HR 28, regardless of party, so they know how strongly people feel about it and ensure it doesn't get past the senate filibuster. It can make more of a difference than you might think

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

When it comes to the military budget last year, which had the transphobic rider, a budget was on the line, they voted for the budget because of how important that was, regardless of how that was incredibly misguided.

We're just seeing how Democrats vote when they can't possibly block a bill, versus how they vote when they can pass something.

Plege of Allegiance looking like: https://youtu.be/H4UHqFoB_5k&t=112

They probably just assume that transmen will always lose to "real men" and won't be a "problem".

It will be fun to watch the conservatives rant and rage when that assumption is disproven, except that it will lead to more bad laws.

Wouldn't ftm hrt violate doping rules already?

I think testosterone is one of the controlled ones

I'm sure they're just confused. They thought their constituents were frustrated by the rise in long-dormant "eggs" hatching into their true trans selves, but really they were bitching about the literal rise in literal cost of literal chicken eggs in literal grocery stores. Understandable mistake to assume a metaphor there. /s

Then they'll just say it's the liberals fault for not keeping women subservient. Somehow it will alway be the liberal/left/woke/[enemy of the day here]'s fault.

I wonder if this bill is important enough to Senate Republicans to be the catalyst for rewriting filibuster rules. I'm sure they'll have no problem doing away with the filibuster the moment it becomes inconvenient to their power grabs, and that would be their right as the majority party, but it's the hypocrisy that pisses me off. Just like when they blocked a SCOTUS nomination in an election year, but had zero hesitation to ram their own SCOTUS nomination through a month before the election four years later.

Or Republicans will change senate rules to do away with the filibuster.