TV hosts, before you interview a politician who supports bullying bills targeting trans kids and athletes, please inform yourselves about how hormone replacement therapy works so you can explain it to your audience when the bigot yammers about "biological males in girls' sports."
Folks hear them say, "Boys are physically stronger than girls & it'd be unfair for a trans girl with male strength to compete against girls" and think that makes sense.

But after a year of hormone replacement therapy, trans girls' strength is roughly the same as any other girl.
I've seen some TV hosts get fiery hot and passionate while defending trans kids on the basis that it is unfair to discriminate against them and target them.

But you ought to also be explaining that trans girls don't generally actually have "biological male" strength.
Because while for some people "not discriminating" is good enough, for others, they really do need to understand that cisgender girls actually aren't being disadvantaged by being on teams with trans girls.
There's also another point: Hormone replacement therapy also brings trans boys to the roughly the same strength levels as any other boy within a year.

Meaning these laws will require trans boys who DO have significant physical advantages over girls to play on girls' teams.

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Left: Bruce Bartman gets probation for two felony counts after casting a ballot for Trump using his dead mother's name.

Right: Crystal Mason, a mother, gets 5 years in prison for voting as herself while not knowing she'd been disenfranchised due to a past felony conviction.

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Meanwhile, 16% of Black residents in his state are, like Crystal Mason in Texas, disenfranchised due to an 1890 Jim Crow felony voting law.
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