The Maine Democratic Senate nominee secured a national transgender rights PAC endorsement while pledging not to abandon LGBTQ+ Americans.

“No one, whether you’re trans or not, wants the federal government digging through your identifiable patient information and figuring out what they like and don’t like,” Hack said. “It’s an absolute overreach, and people are really scared.”

Asked whether Hack’s priorities were measures he could support, Platner agreed. “Yes, indeed. They most certainly do,” he said.

  • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, and a plurality of the people in that study said they don’t want the federal government making the rules for trans athletes:

    In January, a New York Times/Ipsos poll found that 79% of U.S. adults, including 67% of Democrats, think that transgender female athletes should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports. However, Americans are much more closely divided when forced to choose who should be in charge of setting the rules for fair sports participation.

    In this survey, a slim plurality of adults (45%) say that “local school districts and sports associations should set the rules for fair sports participation, not the federal government,” while 42% say “the federal government should ban transgender girls from playing girls’ sports and force them to play on the boys’ team.” (Data for Progress)

    Next time, find an actual analysis of the study instead of letting a right-wing rag like the post tell you the parts you want to hear.

    • panthera_@lemmy.today
      11·
      1 day ago

      But in a debate, the Republican candidate will certainly ask, “Do you believe men who are transgender should participate in women’s sports?”

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        Then they can say, “If there is data that proves trans athletes have a competitive advantage, then having them play in the same league as cis athletes would be unfair, but I trust athletic leagues and school districts to make that determination, and not politicians with ideological agendas.”

        Like, seriously, this is your argument? The Democrats need to support trans athlete bans, even though a plurality of Americans don’t want them to do that, because a Republican might ask a difficult question? Are tou serious?

          • pjwestin@lemmy.world
            1·
            4 hours ago

            Yeah, where did you think the, “data that proves trans athletes have a competitive advantage,” was going to come feom? Or it’s just up to science? Like, the abstract concept of science is going to set the rules for sports leagues? Or is there gonna need to be some authority on sports and athletics to enforce those rules? Some sort of athletic association? Anyway, if ypu think you parse words until I get frustrated and drop this, you are deeply underestimating how petty I am.

            (Also, as I pointed out earlier in this thread, what little science there is on trans athletes has determined that transs athletes don’t have a competitive advantage,.so I guess you support including them!)