This is the best summary I could come up with:
Greg Abbott on Monday signed into law the so-called Save Women’s Sports Act, banning transgender athletes from competing at the collegiate level in Texas — a move activists say represents the latest effort to winnow rights away from LGBTQ people and ostracize them from day-to-day life.
He was joined Monday by several conservative Texas lawmakers and two female former college swimmers who say they were made to feel uncomfortable or put at a competitive disadvantage because of a transgender athlete’s presence in their sport.
The law builds on legislation previously signed by Abbott in 2021 that limits the ability of trans K-12 athletes in Texas public schools to play sports on teams corresponding to their gender identity.
Gaines, who attended the University of Kentucky, has built a media career stemming from her appearance at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in March 2022.
Protesters who identified as transgender or gender-nonconforming said they believed the law was designed to incubate hate against them — not protect female athletes.
“I don’t understand why our governor is focusing on violently suppressing us,” said River Gallagher, a TWU student who is transmasculine and uses they/them pronouns.
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Fuck Abbott, he’s a fucking piece of shit. Never done a single fucking useful thing for Texas.
Fuck Greg Abbott
Good. There’s a reason that almost all sport is separated into men’s and woman’s leagues. Men have a massive physical advantage over women in a lot of sports and it is fundamentally unfair for women to have to compete with men.
Some train their whole life only to have a major victory denied because a man decided to compete in a woman’s category.
If they can’t/won’t compete with other men then trans people should have their own league.
A big thing people complain about is this “issue” is a just a straw man constructed by typically conservative leaders. It says in the article that there are no known openly transgender people competing in collegiate athletics.
Exactly, this is just a reason to oppress trans people and sow hate. It’s not an issue whatsoever
Until there is and many non-trans women are hurt because of it. Being proactive is smart in this case… it’s happened elsewhere and thank god, Abbott spent 30m to get this bill prioritized. Simple legislation that got drawn up in a matter of days, swiftly voted on, then across his desk.
This is nothing about hate, it’s about god damn common sense. Men are stronger, faster, and more agile than women… period. End of story.
Would you rather there not be any separation? I’d be fine with that since Title 9 is a joke.
