U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., ripped her Republican colleagues this week, saying they politicize the controversial challenge of transgender athletes competing towards women and girls.
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Affiliation is one in every of at the very least three state athletic organizations to say they’ll proceed to permit trans athletes to compete towards organic females regardless of President Donald Trump’s latest government order barring them from doing so.
This has led to Trump’s Division of Training launching Title IX probes towards the Massachusetts, Minnesota and California athletic federations.
“We’re going to say no to these trans children? You possibly can’t be a part of a group, you possibly can’t study the camaraderie and be a part of your group and really feel a way of belonging? It’s simply merciless,” Trahan mentioned, by way of the Boston Globe.
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Congresswoman Lori Trahan joined placing St. Vincent Hospital nurses on the 51st day of their picket line to indicate her help April 27, 2021. (Ashley Inexperienced/Telegram & Gazette by way of Imagn Content material Companies, LLC)
Trahan, who mentioned she has not heard a lot of an outcry from dad and mom in her state, added that she believes the difficulty ought to be as much as every particular person sports activities physique, not politicians.
“They’re specialists. They’re devoted to their sports activities and creating honest and accountable guidelines for participation. Lots of them have already carried out adjustments to make sure equity and security,” she mentioned.
“I feel that’s the place the selections ought to be made, however it doesn’t cease my Republican colleagues from weaponizing this challenge, and it has a number of consequence in consequence.”
Save Ladies’s Sports activities advisor Beth Stelzer holds a press convention exterior the NCAA girls’s swimming and diving championships at Georgia Tech in Atlanta March 17, 2022. (Brett Davis/USA At present Sports activities)
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The NCAA, regardless of President Charlie Baker saying in December he knew of fewer than 10 transgender athletes within the affiliation, not too long ago adopted Trump’s order and barred transgender athletes from competing towards females.
“You possibly can’t ignore the [NCAA’s] knowledge,” Trahan mentioned, “however it doesn’t cease them. They suppose it’s a political winner for them. Whether or not they consider it or not, it doesn’t even matter. They’ve set such a harmful narrative in our nation round denying the existence of trans individuals.
“There are a number of creeps on the market, so now somebody will get to accuse a woman who doesn’t look female sufficient or doesn’t have pigtails in her hair?” Trahan added. “How does she need to show [her gender]? It’s poor policymaking. It’s politics at its worst.”
President Donald Trump indicators the “No Males in Ladies’s Sports activities” government order into legislation within the East Room of the White Home in Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
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The talk reached a brand new stage practically three years in the past when Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer at Penn, gained a Division I title. Trump issued his government order as a part of his introduced plan to “ban” trans athletes from competing towards women and girls whereas campaigning.
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