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    Default This bill had unanimous Democrat support in the House

    The Democratically controlled House of Representatives voted Friday 236-173 in favor of the Equality Act, which would require schools to include male athletes who identify as transgender girls on female sports teams.

    Eight Republicans crossed party lines to vote for the bill, which had unanimous Democratic support.

    The bill amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law.

    Among other things, that would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls.

    Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube introduced a last-minute amendment to the bill that would have preserved Title IX’s protections of female athletic teams, but Democrats rejected it.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dai...-womens-sports
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    Not a single democrat voted against the bill.

    I can’t imagine this going over well with the normies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    The Democratically controlled House of Representatives voted Friday 236-173 in favor of the Equality Act, which would require schools to include male athletes who identify as transgender girls on female sports teams.

    Eight Republicans crossed party lines to vote for the bill, which had unanimous Democratic support.

    The bill amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law.

    Among other things, that would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls.

    Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube introduced a last-minute amendment to the bill that would have preserved Title IX’s protections of female athletic teams, but Democrats rejected it.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dai...-womens-sports
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    Not a single democrat voted against the bill.

    I can’t imagine this going over well with the normies.
    We are living in bizarro world. Biological males competing in female sports. Might as well just make all sports coed so that young women and girls can focus on more important things like being cheerleaders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirthinksalot View Post
    We are living in bizarro world. Biological males competing in female sports. Might as well just make all sports coed so that young women and girls can focus on more important things like being cheerleaders.
    You went there lol.

    Forget the normies, where are the feminists on this?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    You went there lol.

    Forget the normies, where are the feminists on this?
    I hope most of the people on here recognized the sarcasm.
    Eventually when you separate everyone into "grievance groups" they will start fighting one another. Right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirthinksalot View Post
    I hope most of the people on here recognized the sarcasm.
    Eventually when you separate everyone into "grievance groups" they will start fighting one another. Right?
    Inevitably.

    Grievance groups are essentially tribes. Tribalism never ends well. Ever.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    The Democratically controlled House of Representatives voted Friday 236-173 in favor of the Equality Act, which would require schools to include male athletes who identify as transgender girls on female sports teams.

    Eight Republicans crossed party lines to vote for the bill, which had unanimous Democratic support.

    The bill amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law.

    Among other things, that would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls.

    Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube introduced a last-minute amendment to the bill that would have preserved Title IX’s protections of female athletic teams, but Democrats rejected it.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dai...-womens-sports
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    Not a single democrat voted against the bill.

    I can’t imagine this going over well with the normies.
    Looks like the left wants to destroy women's sports.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    Inevitably.

    Grievance groups are essentially tribes. Tribalism never ends well. Ever.
    And, it's exactly the opposite of what the founders wanted. We have a republic, not a democracy.
    Our Constitution is now on the butcher's block.
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
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    Anyone in here know if the House has removed the gender plaques off their restroom doors?
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
    which has begun. To abort life is to end it.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirthinksalot View Post
    We are living in bizarro world. Biological males competing in female sports. Might as well just make all sports coed so that young women and girls can focus on more important things like being cheerleaders.
    And yet female athletes get in trouble if their testosterone is too high.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    You went there lol.

    Forget the normies, where are the feminists on this?


    Martina Navratilova (left) and Billie Jean King attend the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, seated behind the royal box and in 2018. King has given qualified support of Navratilova after Navratilova was pilloried for saying transitioned athletes competing against women was “cheating.”
    https://globalsportmatters.com/cultu...nder-athletes/
    Navratilova tweeted that male-to-female transgenders competing in women’s sports is “cheating” because of an unfair physical advantage. She followed up her tweets with an op-ed in the United Kingdom’s Sunday Times on Feb. 17, reaffirming what she had tweeted.

    Athlete Ally responded to Navratilova’s tweets and op-ed by calling them, “transphobic, based on a false understanding of science and data, and (perpetuating) dangerous myths that lead to ongoing targeting of trans people through discriminatory laws, hateful stereotypes and disproportionate violence.”

    The organization has a history of advocating for equality in sports regardless of sexual orientation, gender identification and gender expression. Prior to her removal as an ambassador, Navratilova advocated for them and was honored with the group’s first action award in 2014.

    Tennis legend Billie Jean King took a more conciliatory tone, tweeting to let science figure out the debate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    And, it's exactly the opposite of what the founders wanted. We have a republic, not a democracy.
    Our Constitution is now on the butcher's block.
    Just as a side note, we have a democratic republic, we elected our leaders democratically to serve in a republican form of Gov't.

    We don't have a straight republic or democracy, but a collation of the two

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post


    Martina Navratilova (left) and Billie Jean King attend the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, seated behind the royal box and in 2018. King has given qualified support of Navratilova after Navratilova was pilloried for saying transitioned athletes competing against women was “cheating.”
    https://globalsportmatters.com/cultu...nder-athletes/
    Navratilova tweeted that male-to-female transgenders competing in women’s sports is “cheating” because of an unfair physical advantage. She followed up her tweets with an op-ed in the United Kingdom’s Sunday Times on Feb. 17, reaffirming what she had tweeted.

    Athlete Ally responded to Navratilova’s tweets and op-ed by calling them, “transphobic, based on a false understanding of science and data, and (perpetuating) dangerous myths that lead to ongoing targeting of trans people through discriminatory laws, hateful stereotypes and disproportionate violence.”

    The organization has a history of advocating for equality in sports regardless of sexual orientation, gender identification and gender expression. Prior to her removal as an ambassador, Navratilova advocated for them and was honored with the group’s first action award in 2014.

    Tennis legend Billie Jean King took a more conciliatory tone, tweeting to let science figure out the debate.
    Who wants to wager ‘science’ comes down on the trans side of the argument lol?

    A male who ‘identifies’ as female is still a male and males have an advantage in most sports. A significant advantage, in most sports.
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    And eight Republicans also voted for the bill which was passed in May, not really new news

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