Summary

A Senate bill to ban transgender women and girls from female sports teams failed to advance in a test vote, falling short of the 60 votes needed in a 51-45 party-line tally.

The bill sought to define Title IX protections based on reproductive biology at birth. Republicans argued it ensured fairness in women’s sports, while Democrats called it unnecessary and divisive.

Trump previously signed an executive order aligning federal policy with this view, and the NCAA changed its rules accordingly.

LGBTQ+ advocates condemned the bill as exclusionary.

  • @Drivebyhaiku
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    52 days ago

    The anti-trans community does have a branch devoted to hating on trans men. It just looks different and has different targets. Trans hate in this direction is often quite patriarchal. It looks at trans men as a loss of a valued resource in the form of a reproductive object. It paints them as lost and confused little girls who were led astray by peers and the confusion of existing under patriarchal oppression into taking the easy way and becoming traitors to their category. Trans hate towards Trans men has largely the same hallmarks of homophobia and the social oppression that women will regret any non-natural change to their bodies or that they will regret not having babies. Trans men are framed as “a mistake”.

    The second half of transmisandry is erasure focused on refusing to acknowledge some of the biological realities of Trans men. For example that for some trans men it is still possible to become pregnant or have periods. This second half props up the first half as it erases the fact that the social category of men do get pregnant and when they do resources are often riddled with stigma, services do not support them as frequently and they are treated as less valid a parent.