An effort to ban transgender girls from girls school sports in Washington was leading in election results released Tuesday night.
According to the Secretary of Stateās office, 54% of voters said yes on Initiative 638, one of three ballot measures backed by conservative political committee Letās Go Washington. More votes will be counted in the coming days.
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I-638 only applies to transgender girls and not transgender boys, and requires all students on K-12 girls sports teams to provide medical documentation that confirms their ābiological sex,ā according to the initiativeās language.
If the initiative passes, it could throw the blue stateās status as a haven for transgender people into question. If the final vote count indicates the initiative has passed, it will also likely face a legal challenge if approved by voters, several legal experts told The Times.
It should be challenged and I hope it is. Targeting only girls with this initiative shouldnāt pass muster.
Iām deeply disappointed in my fellow Washingtonians.
They only ever focus on the girls š itās such a tell, honestly.
āWhat if the female child Iām trying to rape has a penis?ā
Trans kids are also more likely to have the vocabulary to articulate what they are seeing in locker rooms / practice. Canāt creep as hard if someone who has been advocating for their own rights is witnessing anotherās get violated. That whistle gonna blow.
Just in case anyone wants to twist what Iām saying. Cis-girls can absolutely advocate and do advocate for themselves but trans men / women come into this age already mid battle; one day we should make it so thatās not the case. Just kids being kids not wondering if they are being clocked 24/7.
I guess itās not the case in grade school, but in many professional sports and college, there are technically no āmensā teams. Those teams are open to any and all athletes.
Itās the womenās and girlās sports where the restrictions lie, and hence the focus for transgender athletes.
I guess itās not the case in grade school,
This initiative is specifically about grade school.
Right, but I think that gives some insights. Boys sports in grade schools could technically be open. For very young kids, thereās probably even little difference in athletic ability.
Girlsā sports are what need some kind of sex identification and distinction. Iām not saying it should be based on genitalia or chromosomes, but thatās why the focus is there.
Girlsā sports are what need some kind of sex identification and distinction.
Not in grade school. We have never needed this before.
We have never needed a transgender ban. As long as weāve had activities specifically restricted to girls, weāve needed some sort of distinction. That distinction could be āAny athlete identifying as a girl,ā but one is needed. Otherwise, what does it mean for a team to be restricted?
Remember that the question I was responding to is why does it work one way - restrictions on who joins a girlsā team - and not the other. Thatās the question Iām answering.
No that comment said they only focus on girls. You assumed too much about their statement. They never even asked a question.
What question? I never asked a question
Nah dude itās just misogyny. Donāt overthink it
Is discrimination based on sex
The fact that this passed by so much has me extremely concerned for my future here. I feel sick.
Iām sorry. For what itās worth, it still hasnāt passed yet thereās still enough votes to count that the outcome could change.
Also, Iām not sure if itās much consolation, but WA wasnāt alone on this, a bunch of states passed measures like this last night. Between Republicans desperately looking for some kind of issue to run on and settling on trans folks existence and so many people in the Democratic party just trying to avoid the conversation entirely it was a terrible environment for this bigoted crap unfortunately.
For what itās worth, it still hasnāt passed yet thereās still enough votes to count that the outcome could change.
A lot of those votes are from King County if I remember correctly. Iām keeping my fingers crossed regardless.
Can the state supreme court block it?
It looks like Seattle and Tacoma were overwhelmingly against, but unfortunately Spokane and Olympia went for it. And the rural counties of course.
Reminder that gay marriage failed in California back in '08.
People will come around, but it takes time to overcome ignorance at this scale.
For now, itās on all of us to do what we can to support the community and highlight how these injustices impact real people - hate thrives on ignorance.
Well said
Iām also gonna engage on some baneful magic actually. I know itās because of ignorance and peopleās hearts can change, but at this point if they all died of cancer that would be fine.
Wow, thats stupid. I wonder what other stupidity got approved.
This is an unfortunate setback.
Here in California, Iām pleasantly surprised at one thing. I really thought we were set to pass a draconian voter ID law. It appears to be going down like Lauren Boobert in an NBA locker room.
Ms. Boebert herself was voted out, if I remember correctly
Pretty annoyed we voted down the billionaire tax, though.
I hope weāre still allowed to change a baby in the restroom of the the parentās choosing regardless of the babyās gender.
Also if transgender people arenāt allowed in the girlās restroom or the boyās restroom, maybe they get a new LGBTQ restroom where they can poop in pace while the world grows up and learns that unisex restrooms are a thing on many other countries including mexico.
Like, the need to poop in pace is way more important than filtering what gender goes where.
I-638 only applies to transgender girls and not transgender boys, and requires all students on K-12 girls sports teams to provide medical documentation that confirms their ābiological sex,ā according to the initiativeās language.
If the initiative passes, it could throw the blue stateās status as a haven for transgender people into question.Ā If the final vote count indicates the initiative has passed, it will also likely face a legal challenge if approved by voters, several legal experts told The Times.
We need to finish the civil war.
