As we’ve all noted a million times, they can’t make their case without lying constantly. The Nation:
The Supreme Court upheld anti-trans athlete laws in the recent Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. BPJ decisions, declaring that Title IX, the bedrock of gender-based protections in public schools, does not extend to transgender student athletes.
The laws are not “anti-trans”. The laws are pro-equal rights for women and girls. The issue isn’t trans, the issue is that male people are male and thus can’t be in women’s sports because being male entails many physical advantages. It doesn’t matter what flavor of ideology tries to get around that fact; it’s only the fact that matters. Women have their own sports because otherwise they would have no sports. It is unfair, unsporting, unreasonable for men to try to infiltrate women’s sports on the grounds of being “trans”.
The court’s decisions are part of a global campaign to legislate and litigate trans people out of public life. This was made clear during oral arguments back in January; attorneys and justices alike scrutinized the bodies of trans girls, debating the size and shape of their organs, muscles, and bones. Yet the banality of the scene—procedural buzzwords, shuffling papers, cordial back-and-forths couched with honorifics—almost obfuscated the violence of it all.
Violence my ass. The violence is men slamming into women in the football game.
Alan Hurst, then Idaho’s solicitor general, said transgender girls pose “a real threat” to safety and fairness in women’s athletics. “We cite Your Honors to the U.N. Special Rapporteur’s report that says 600 women have lost 890 medals in 29 different sports,” he said, arguing that ( presumed) cisgender women are losing en masse to transgender ones and that trans women and girls don’t belong in women’s spaces.
The United Nations official in question is Reem Alsalem—the special rapporteur on violence against women and girls. She filed an amicus brief with the court supporting trans-exclusionary laws. This comes after years of pushing reports at the United Nations that painted trans women as a danger to their peers. The court’s final opinion echoed the language in her brief.
Of course “trans women” i.e. men are a danger to women in contact sports. What is the Nation doing publishing this lying manipulative garbage? Why doesn’t the Nation give a damn about women?
Hurst’s comment about Alsalem’s work has a few problems. Among them: The numbers are not particularly meaningful or accurate. But facts have never stopped Alsalem. Through her writings to the United Nations, she has become a leading mouthpiece for far-right propaganda and misinformation about trans people, propelling untruths into policy and law and declaring war, in her words, on the concept of “gender equality” itself.
Bordering on libelous if you ask me. Also rude, tendentious, inaccurate, manipulative. The Nation should be embarrassed.
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