Former President Donald Trump’s first speech on Sunday, twice as deposed since his departure, was a harsh reminder to the Republican Party leading them. His message to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, copied and pasted from the platform that earned him 74 million votes last November, resonated strongly with the acclaimed right-wing audience, most of them unmasked. It is the Americans that the Republican Party hopes to return to Republicans next year.
He also covers his bets on the fact that the divisive problems Trump described in his two-hour speech will remain important to the electorate in 2022 and beyond.
Trump called it “the first disastrous month of any president in fashion history,” and denounced President Biden’s immigration policy, Iran’s nuclear deal, and named all Republicans who had dared to vote for their political judgment as political goals. to run in 2024, but as a third-party candidate. He even suggested that participants be empused against covid-19, which of course gave him the opportunity to take credit for his availability.
And in a much more forceful way than ever as president, Trump has attacked transgender athletes, an issue that has energized the Republican base in recent weeks.
“Joe Biden and Democrats are pushing policies that would even destroy women’s sports,” Trump began his perorata, as the crowd booed. First, she ridiculed cisgender weightlifters, suggesting that they could only lift ounces compared to transgender women. athletes, whom he scoffed at pretending to lift weights on stage.
“Girls and women are irritated because they are now forced to compete with biological men,” Trump said, a non-unusual word among the conflicting parties to inclusion that, according to advocates of trans people, is being used as a weapon of oppression.
“He’s smart for women. She’s smart for women’s football, she’s worked so long and hard to get to where she is. The records that lasted for years, if decades, are now being destroyed,” he said. change, the game of women as we know it will die. They’ll be over. It’ll be over. ” However, his crusade of concern has been completed.
Unsurprisingly, those harsh statements align Trump with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Senator Rand Paul of Ky. et Mitt Romney of Utah, who have denounced policies for the inclusion of trans student-athletes in the women’s game in recent days and weeks. In turn, these politicians are in touch with far-right anti-LGBTQ teams such as Defending Freedom Alliance, Heritage Foundation and Save Women’s Sports, as well as conservative publications such as The Federalist, Breitbart, The Daily Caller and, of course. , Fox News. .
As NBC News reported, these forces have teamed up in coordinated efforts across the country to enact laws in nearly two dozen states, seeking to ban transgender health care, prohibit trans student-athletes from competition, force genital inspections of women deemed suspected of being men. and, surprisingly, criminalizing the gender transition. A list of all the anti-trans legislation that is being thought of transathlete. com, a site created and controlled through our athlete Chris Mosier.
Trump’s resolve to comment on the issue, at a time when the equivalence law is being thought through the U. S. Senate, is redefining lines of war in women’s sports combat, perhaps more obviously than ever. , radical trans-exclusion feminists and right-wing devoted teams are all in the same respect as QAnon’s conspirators, Trump supporters, and those who mistakenly claim that rights equivalent to all Americans erase their constitutional right to practice in the First Amendment. they see it timely. If passed, the amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would not interfere with anyone’s devout freedom, provided they do not discriminate against their fellow citizens because of their identity.
These various teams are now allied with Trump in his fight against liberals, progressives, independents and even some Republicans who have sided with advocates of trans-inclusive feminist equality and leaders for the Equality Act, the Democratic Party calendar, and President Biden. .
Female athletes, cisgender and transgender, are trapped in the middle. An overwhelming majority of them tell THE LGBTQ Outsports sports site that they agree that transgender women are women and continue to compete based on their original gender identity.
These women know that trans athletes do not win, they recognize that no trans woman has mastered a sport without being married, no trans athlete, man or woman, has qualified for the Olympic Games, let alone the competition, in all the years that trans. Athletes have been allowed to try. They know that what earns scholarships and medals is courage, determination and giving the most productive of oneself, not when it has compatibility in a race or what is between an athlete’s legs.
If transgender athletes are allowed to compete is the risk Trump and other parties to the conflict say it is, those female athletes wonder: why hasn’t the NCAA shut down its women’s sports programs?Why do they still exist in 16 states where student-athletes can compete based on their gender identity?Or the 14 states where regulations are strict but not impossible?Also: why aren’t there clinical studies comparing elite trans athletes to cis female athletes?Right if the only studies to date are on average trans women, not genuine athletes, not genuine trans female athletes?Why do almost all the studies used lately to argue against inclusion start from the presumption that women are weak and inferior and that trans women are men?
The way these questions are answered is what will solve the long term of women’s sport, not the statements of a narcissistic criminal and a disgraced former politician living in the denial of reality.
I am an award-winning journalist and host of the communication screen “RiseUP With Dawn Ennis” and co-host of the podcast “The Trans Sporter Room”. I’m the first transgender user in the United States.
I am an award-winning journalist and host of the communication screen “RiseUP With Dawn Ennis” and co-host of the podcast “The Trans Sporter Room”. I was the first transgender journalist in the United States in a television newsroom when I arrived six years ago. The organizers of the NYC Pride March 2018 revered me as a network hero on the main icons of the Stonewall riots. In addition to contributing to Forbes, I am the editor-in-chief of Outsports. com, I write for CT Voice Magazine and I am a member of the editorial’s advisory board. I also report for NBC News, The Daily Beast, Out Magazine, The Advocate Magazine and NewNowNext. I also teach journalism and media writing at the University of Hartford. Bitch Dahlia and our cat Faith and I live in West Hartford, Connecticut.