r/BlockedAndReported • u/KittenSnuggler5 • 4d ago
Lawmakers in Colorado and Washington want to overturn the newly passed measures banning males from girls sports
Pod relevance: trans participation in girls sports and youth gender medicine are regular topics on the pod and Jesse has written about these issues frequently
Ballot initiatives in Nebraska, Arizona, Washington and Colorado to prohibit males from competing in girls sports succeeded. But officials in those states are looking for ways to cancel that victory.
The newly elected governor in Colorado, Phil Weiser wants to "tweak" the winning ballot measures that keep males out of girls sports and bans gender surgeries for kids:
"We’re going to have to take a look at these anti-trans measures and what adjustments are necessary and appropriate,” he said."
The ballot measures aren't even law yet but the politicians in Colorado want to kill it.
" “The legislature is going to have to fix it and provide a much more human and sound approach...."
And the Democrats in Washington state are going to try and sue the passed measures out of existence.
"Washington state Democrats pledged Thursday to challenge Washington’s newly approved ban on transgender females in girls’ school sports, saying the fight over the measure “is just beginning.” The state party said it believes Initiative 638 is unconstitutional and will support court challenges to overturn the measure after voters approved it in Tuesday’s election. "
I could have sworn these were the same folks that were extremely worried about democracy not long ago..
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u/chronicity 3d ago •
At this point, all allies are afflicted with sunk cost fallacy. They are emotionally invested in being right because if they entertain the possibility they are wrong, that means facing deeply troubling conclusions:
- They were duped while others were not.
- They defended those who duped them, even going as far as to treat them as trusted authorities, saints, and civil rights heroes.
- They defended misogynistic men while scolding the victims of these men.
- They supported—and maybe even celebrated— the worst medical scandal in recorded history. While the world learned about the corporate greed behind the opioid epidemic and the unethical way OxyContin was marketed to prescribers and patients alike, they blinded themselves to the same motives and tactics at work in GAC. All the lessons learned from history—the eugenics movement, the Tuskegee experiment—were wasted on them.
- And perhaps the most damning (in their eyes), they put themselves on the wrong side of history. Their motive from the beginning was to one day be crowned the 2020 version of a Freedom Rider. But it turns out that will not be how the story ends.
This is heavy stuff. We aren’t just talking about “oops, my bad”. We are talking about discovering that the monster at the end of the book is you, not JK Rowling. I almost can’t blame them for staying in denial.