{"id":1401147,"date":"2022-03-25T20:29:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T00:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401147"},"modified":"2022-03-25T20:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T00:29:47","slug":"transgender-sports-debate-is-impacting-2022-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgender-sports-debate-is-impacting-2022-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Sports Debate Is Impacting 2022 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftransgender-sports-debate-is-impacting-2022-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401147&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The womens\u2019 advocacy groups that emerged to defend womens\u2019 sports from \u201ctransgender\u201d men are moving into politics, as multiple polls show the public is increasingly rejecting transgenderism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Save Women\u2019s Sports, we\u2019re rallying our team to make a direct impact with our voices in the polls,\u201d said founder Beth Stelzer:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We need to let these [politicians] \u2014 basically the Democrats who are erasing women \u2014 know that women say no, that we\u2019re not going to stand for it. We need to start making our voices heard at the polls. We fully encourage everyone to speak to their local representatives about all of the aspects of the erasure of women, just not not just in sports.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere have to be some edits to the Equality Act, or to Title IX,\u00a0 that will preserve protect sex segregation and sport based on science and biology,\u201d said Nancy Nancy Hogshead-Makar, an athlete, lawyer, and a Democrat who helps to run the <a href=\"https:\/\/womenssportspolicy.org\/about-us\/#working-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women\u2019s Sports Policy Working Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But she declined to say if her wide-ranging group would take the next step of endorsing or criticizing political candidates. She said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n[Male swimmer] Lia Thomas was a turning point for people to hear from their constituents that they didn\u2019t hear before. People recognize what\u2019s at stake with Title IX [laws on womens\u2019 sports]. This is the 50th anniversary of Title IX, and there are some rights that need to stay sex-based \u2014 meaning biology-based \u2014 not gender-identity based.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The two groups may be politically influential \u2013 especially because the Democrats need every vote they can get in the increasingly polarized 2022 election. Stelzer\u2019s group has forged alliances with many groups on both sides of the political divide.\u00a0Hogshead-Makar\u2019s group has won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/champion-women-wspwg-release-results-of-petitions-asking-congress-sports-to-prioritize-fairness-for-biological-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">large-scale support<\/a> from the U.S. swimming sector.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In many prior debates, voter rebukes have been used by party leaders to squash unpopular and damaging demands by party activists.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP, for example, regained power in 2016 by quietly burying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/02\/26\/republicans-obamacare-wars-471691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition to Obamacare<\/a> from wealthy business interests. GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/immigration-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voters<\/a> have also killed the GOP\u2019s business-first support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/09\/politico-harvard-poll-free-trade-trump-gop-228600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free trade<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/01\/25\/580222116\/the-gops-evolution-on-immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labor migration<\/a>\u00a0since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Democratic leaders boosted their votes from swing districts by suppressing demands by urban party activists for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrace.org\/2022\/01\/biden-gun-violence-policy-legislation-mass-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gun control<\/a> after their presidential candidate, Al Gore, lost his home state in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Democrats have abandoned progressive demands for <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/592920-democrats-look-to-shake-off-defund-the-police-as-crime-rises\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defunding police<\/a> forces and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conncarroll\/status\/1506243531937099782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1506243531937099782%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D20308385action%3Dedit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-epidemic masks<\/a>. Also, New York\u2019s Democratic leaders are reversing their prior support for unpopular laws that allow the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/news\/2022\/03\/18\/ny-hochul-bail-reforms-crime-cuomo\/7092736001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">easy release<\/a> of suspected criminals before trials.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the political danger signs in 2022,\u00a0Democratic leaders have not yet challenged the progressives\u2019 growing hostility to single-sex sports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Many progressives have cheered as activists claimed sports is about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2022\/03\/17\/washpost-columnist-transgender-sports-is-a-progressive-weapon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">personal liberation<\/a>,\u00a0not fairness: portrayed opposition to cross-sex athletes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/21\/nbc-op-ed-compares-transgender-swimmer-lia-thomas-to-jackie-robinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as akin to racism<\/a>, insisted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/dont-say-gay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">young children be trained<\/a> in transgender claims, declared their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/23\/first-woman-black-supreme-court-nominee-wont-define-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inability to define women,<\/a>\u00a0and organized high-pressure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/18\/los-angeles-schools-cult-retreat-like-gender-reeducation-targets-teachers-who-disagree\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">re-education campaigns on teachers<\/a> to embrace the ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Surveys and polls show that the activists\u2019 fervent support for transgenderism is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2021\/11\/08\/poll-shows-transgender-ideology-losing-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fueling public support<\/a> for a clear, biology-based definition of women.\u00a0For example, Democrats have enjoyed a multi-decade trust advantage on education issues. But a March 23 poll showed that \u201cForty-three percent (43%) of voters trust Republicans more to deal with education issues while 36% trust Democrats more.\u201d The poll of 1,000 likely voters was conducted on March 17-20 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/march_2022\/education_voters_trust_gop_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rasmussen Reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Amid the transgender advocacy, GOP candidates are now beating Democrats by an average of 3 points in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/2022-generic-congressional-vote-7361.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>\u2018 average of \u201cGeneric Congressional Vote\u201d polls. In 2020, the GOP almost won a House majority even though the Democrats had a three-point advantage.<\/p>\n<p>In the GOP, most legislators are zig-zagging between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/25\/utah-governor-vetoes-transgender-athlete-bill-i-try-to-err-on-side-of-compassion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">business-first Republicans<\/a> who prefer to avoid a fight with Democrats over transgenderism and the GOP\u2019s base of voters who are alarmed at the top-down cultural changes that make it harder for them to manage their families and communities.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP\u2019s voters are winning the debate against the business-first Republicans, partly because the sports issue is particularly important outside the major cities because many GOP-leaning suburban parents want to help their daughters and sons participate in sports. In Virginia, those voters helped an establishment GOP candidate win a come-from-behind race for the Virginia governor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>GOP leaders are responding to voters\u2019 demands.<\/p>\n<p>The injection of men into womens\u2019 sports is \u201cunfair,\u201d\u00a0the GOP\u2019s House leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (RCA), told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/23\/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-house-gop-finalizing-commitment-to-america-agenda-plans-rollout-later-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a> on March 23.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a number of ways we combat that\u2014we\u2019re not just now combatting it, we\u2019ve had a number of pieces where we have through [motions to recommit] and what not from members like Steube,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cWe saw this problem on the forefront coming to it but now the American public is being informed about it. But you see a lot of women athletes standing up and saying time and again that this is unfair. They\u2019ve watched it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFacts are facts, the earth is round, the sun is hot, there are two genders \u2026 To say otherwise is to deny science,\u201d said the\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/rescueamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RickScott-11-Point-Policy-Book.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">campaign document<\/a>\u00a0released February 22 by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who is the 2022 chairman of the\u00a0National Republican Senatorial Committee. In exchange for Americans\u2019 votes, Scott\u2019s document promises to protect the government\u2019s recognition of the two different-and-complementary sexes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No government forms will include questions about \u201cgender identity\u201d or \u201csexual preference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No doctor will be allowed to perform irreversible surgical or gender-altering procedures on any minor child. Once they become adults, they can do what they wish.<\/p>\n<p>We will protect women\u2019s sports by banning biological males from competing. It is hugely unfair and would erase many of the gains women have made in athletics over the last 50 years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republican staffers are also using the transgender issue to undermine President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to the Supreme Court:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SEN. BLACKBURN: &#8220;Can you provide a definition of the word &#8216;woman&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON: &#8220;No, I can&#8217;t&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BLACKBURN: &#8220;You can&#8217;t?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON: &#8220;I&#8217;m not a biologist&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i7Rg83z5Y4\">pic.twitter.com\/i7Rg83z5Y4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1506451123674173443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republican legislators in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/117\/hr426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/251\/cosponsors?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22S251%22%5D%7D&#038;r=1&#038;s=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a> have introduced bills to protect sports from the transgender ideology. No Democrats have co-sponsored the bills.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the GOP\u2019s establishment members are backing away from prior support for transgenderism. On January 9, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/02\/elise-stefanik-drops-support-for-fairness-for-all-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">ended her support<\/a>\u00a0for the pro-transgender Fairness for All Act bill. Reps. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) and Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), also withdrew their support for the bill which would make \u201cgender identity\u201d a judicially-enforced civil right against Americans\u2019 single-sex associations, institutions, and community groups.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News has closely tracked the expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/transgender-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">partisan divide<\/a> as progressives pull the Democratic Party towards the transgender ideology and as conservatives increasingly champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2021\/11\/08\/poll-shows-transgender-ideology-losing-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the reality of the two sexes<\/a>.\u00a0A March\u00a0survey from\u00a0<em>The Economist\/<\/em>YouGov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/17\/poll-majority-of-democrats-believe-changing-ones-biological-sex-is-possible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Most Americans, 56 percent,\u00a0said\u00a0biological sex assigned at birth determines if someone is a man or a woman, although 44 percent believed otherwise.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">However, a majority of Democrats \u2014 66 percent \u2014 believed that someone can be a man or a woman regardless of what \u201csex they were assigned at birth.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0That c<\/span>oincides with the statistic from the poll that 70 percent of Biden voters thought the same way.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">On the flip side, 88 percent of Trump voters said sex is wholly determined by what a person is assigned at birth, and 86 percent of Republicans overall shared that belief.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Of the independents who were polled, a majority \u2014 58 percent \u2014 agreed that being a man or woman is determined by biological sex, compared to 42 percent who thought otherwise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Advocates for transgenderism quietly admit they have failed to persuade the public.\u00a0\u201cRight now, our opposition wins the debate on trans youth in sports against any and all arguments we have tried for our side,\u201d admitted a\u00a0 recent \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/30\/trans-activists-admit-theyve-lost-the-debate-urge-stealth-tactics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Messaging Guide<\/a>\u201d by the Transgender Law Center in California.<\/p>\n<p>But the activists are trying to sideline the public opposition, for example, by denying the existence of the sex-versus-gender dispute in sports:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch how giddy NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Today&#8217; show is about Lia Thomas crushing the competition at the NCAA D1 women&#8217;s swimming and diving championships.<\/p>\n<p>Gross. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wJb8AWBAdK\">pic.twitter.com\/wJb8AWBAdK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1504496907858624515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Progressives are also trying to portray the opposition as bigoted hostility to gays. In Florida, for example, Democrats are denouncing a bill they label as \u201cThe Don\u2019t Say Gay Bill,\u201d even though it only bars gender-and-sex training for kids below fifth grade.\u00a0Yet Democratic voters are still backing the Florida child protection bill, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarcACaputo\/status\/1506992422445797379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-poll-over-60-of-americans-back-floridas-limits-on-k-3-lessons-on-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Poll shows FL DEMOCRATIC primary voters support the GOP Legislature\u2019s \u201cParental Rights\u201d\/LGBT education bill by 52-36%<\/p>\n<p>FL Capitol Dems opposed it &#038; made it a top messaging priority<\/p>\n<p>(This is unmentioned for some reason in the story I QTd. This poll jibes w\/others I\u2019ve seen) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6HBMz2MW4d\">https:\/\/t.co\/6HBMz2MW4d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bfS9ulp58A\">pic.twitter.com\/bfS9ulp58A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarcACaputo\/status\/1506992422445797379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The womens\u2019 advocacy groups that emerged to defend womens\u2019 sports from \u201ctransgender\u201d men are moving into politics, as multiple polls show the public is increasingly rejecting transgenderism. \u201cAt Save Women\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":1897472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}