The @GOP at the federal level wants Title IX - which they’ve historically opposed - to used be to keep trans kids off the playing field. What a hateful warping of some of the most important legislation in US history: legislation passed to foster inclusion not exclusion.
Banning trans kids from play is a predictable agenda for this this bigoted iteration of the @GOP. But to see a minority of athletes agitate to keep - often extremely vulnerable - children from the joys of sport, is f***** nauseating.
The message to athletes and administrators in women’s sports by the @gop: “We hate Title IX, but if you want to reap its benefits, you better be prepared to use it as a cudgel against the people we want to ‘eradicate’.” They are using sports as an accomplice in atrocity.
They want the world of women’s sports to be accomplices in marginalization and exclusion. They want to make the sports world complicit in their own hatreds. Any supporter of Title IX should understand that these unjust bans need to be met with a decidedly uncivil disobedience.
I’ll say that as a youth coach, if I’m told the law states that an 11 year old can’t play on my team because of who they are, then the law is getting broken. Bring on the consequences. Coaches talk about sacrifice all the time. It’s time we lived it.
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