Transathletes banned in Iowa

Nobody's defending it, we're just not condemning her for it. If you read the story about it, it sounds like she was suffering from Alcoholism - a mental illness. She sought treatment and has been sober since. This also happened almost 2 decades ago, it hardly seems like something that's relevant now. If this was still happening today I would be singing a different tune, but it seems like you're just grabbing at straws trying to tear someone down, most likely out of partisan motivation.

It is disgusting that you woukd condemn someone for an illness that they had 20 years ago. Do you condemn Mary Cain or Allie O? How about someone who had depression 20 years ago? You should be banned for this.

Good.

Sussy, but that's a total red herring

The shame is in the IOC and the NCAA for not getting out ahead of this and imposing strict rules on who can compete in the women's category. They passed the buck so now states have to respond.

I don't have any issue with trans youth competing with the gender they identify with. We take youth sports too seriously anyways. But trans women do have an unfair advantage and elite levels should have taken fairness into account. Now we just have a mess on our hands, and I don't like the idea of kids paying the price.

So is defending a sex offender, but I'm sure you stood up for Andrew Cuomo

Shame on them. These kids live every minute of their lives as the gender of their choice. A teacher refers to a student as him, he uses the boys bathroom, but when it comes to sports, all of sudden we tell him that because he was born a girl, he can’t compete with the boys. It’s illogical and needlessly cruel.

I thought that political party was about personal freedoms, knocking down barriers, being who you want to be, and pursuing the dream?

It is.

You're right, encouraging kids to switch "genders" (I put it in quotes because gender is not a real thing, it's a made up term with no real basis in reality) is illogical and needlessly cruel.

“Alcoholism- a mental illness” lol. This is a joke, right? People aren’t actually calling alcoholism a mental illness, are they? What a f*cking world we live in

Clean and sober are different things. clean means no alcohol, sober means that the lifestyle and choices that lead to the dui’s has been changed. As for trust, well most who seek public office are hardly trustworthy.

What male gets a kick beating his sister/sisters in any sport? Wow ya beat a girl, what a man!

Terrible. This law is right where it belongs in Iowa, which has a rash of new anti-freedom/anti-American laws focused on greater voter suppression, limiting or abolishing abortion, and censoring history. Same category. It will get overturned eventually. Just sad.

I'm not sure if you are impugning her character for having a serious disease or are joking. By all accounts, it appears as if she has worked hard to become a better and stronger person. Did these alleged DUIs (I don't know anything about them, but I trust you checked your sources) cause immediate bodily harm to others? If so, that is awful. You must have checked all of these details prior to impugning her character. I certainly hope that nobody you know or love has to face addiction or opportunistic moral judgment about it.

Not banned, just have to compete against those they were born like. Why is that a problem?

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Direct abortion is a net destroyer of choices and, therefore, freedoms. It is often inflicted with torturous pain on the living unborn. Laws in the USA regarding abortion prior to about 2020 were nearly identical to those in China, N. Korea and Russia - <sarc>those bastions of human rights</sarc> - and far different than those in countries of Western Europe which tend to disallow late-term abortions.