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Newsom calls trans athletes playing in women’s sports ‘deeply unfair’ - Colibri - Mar 6 2025
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5180521-newsom-trans-athletes-womens-sports/
Quote:Newsom made the comments on the inaugural episode of his podcast, “This is Gavin Newsom,” featuring Charlie Kirk, a conservative political activist and co-founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, an organization that brings conservative politics to high school and college campuses.
The governor announced the new podcast venture last month, promising frank conversations with some of the “biggest leaders and architects in the MAGA movement.” The first episode, which aired Thursday, saw Newsom engage in a friendly back-and-forth with Kirk, at one point asking him what advice he had for the Democratic Party.
“Get better ideas, governor,” Kirk responded. “You, right now, should come out and be like, ‘You know what? The young man who’s about to win the state championship in the long jump in female sports — that shouldn’t happen.’ You, as the governor, should step out and say, ‘No.’”
Kirk was referencing a transgender high school student’s victory in a girls’ triple jump event in California last month. He pressed Newsom to speak out against the student’s participation.
“I think it’s an issue of fairness; I completely agree with you on that,” Newsom said. “It’s an issue of fairness. It’s deeply unfair.”
Newsom, a likely contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, is the highest-profile Democrat so far to explicitly question or oppose the inclusion of transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s athletics.
Eww Charlie Kirk, but at least Gavin admitted that it's wrong.
RE: Newsom calls trans athletes playing in women’s sports ‘deeply unfair’ - Iota Aurigae - Mar 6 2025
I did a writing on this. I wonder if he's trying to adopt a more moderate stance to appeal to centrists and conservatives, which will be especially important if he runs for president in 2028. I don't entirely trust him and even if he does do a 180, he's still directly contributed to the harm of many women, girls, and gay people, especially incarcerated women.
https://rainyseason.substack.com/p/is-newsom-pumping-the-brakes
RE: Newsom calls trans athletes playing in women’s sports ‘deeply unfair’ - komorebi - Mar 6 2025
This guy blows with the wind; I don't feel like he has any principles. That being said, if he's now being blown in a direction that I like, then perhaps it says something good about the wind itself. More people being willing to acknowledge common-sense stances is a good thing.
RE: Newsom calls trans athletes playing in women’s sports ‘deeply unfair’ - Iota Aurigae - Mar 7 2025
Quote:That being said, if he's now being blown in a direction that I like, then perhaps it says something good about the wind itself.
While true, the issue of transgenderism has been made so black and white that people just immediately think it's a liberal vs. conservative issue. They don't realize that leftist feminists have been speaking out about this for half a century. So, I think that we should be asking two questions right now.
1. Will Newsom work to undo the laws that he put his signature on, or is he just saying shit to appeal to a wider audience without actually doing anything?
And 2. If he does work to undo them, will he actually pay attention to the Democrat and other progressive voices that have been shouting about this for years, or will he just go towards a hardline conservative stance on the matter?
I don't want the pendulum to just swing back in the other direction. I don't know yet if this is the cool, refreshing breeze that we need on a hot day, or if the wind carries the putrid smell of sewage on it.
RE: Newsom calls trans athletes playing in women’s sports ‘deeply unfair’ - Elsacat - Mar 7 2025
I hope his stance encourages other Democrats who feel the same way to be more public about it.
RE: Newsom calls trans athletes playing in women’s sports ‘deeply unfair’ - Clover - Mar 7 2025
"Eww Charlie Kirk" was my first thought when I saw this article yesterday lol. But yeah, I think this is good in the sense that things are changing. And I hope this doesn't mean that the Democrat party attempts to court the right as it tried to do in the presidential election with buddying up with Liz Cheney and other Republicans, I hope that this action does enable more Democrats to feel comfortable saying "yeah I don't agree with this trans stuff, it's not fair."
Obligatory shout-out to Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender: https://www.di-ag.org/