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 State’s office, 54% of voters said yes on Initiative 638, one of three ballot measures backed by conservative political committee Let’s 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 “biological sex,” according to the initiative’s language.
If the initiative passes, it could throw the blue state’s 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 shouldn’t pass muster.
I’m deeply disappointed in my fellow Washingtonians.
They only ever focus on the girls 😞 it’s such a tell, honestly.
“What if the female child I’m trying to rape has a penis?”
I guess it’s not the case in grade school, but in many professional sports and college, there are technically no “mens” teams. Those teams are open to any and all athletes.
It’s the women’s and girl’s sports where the restrictions lie, and hence the focus for transgender athletes.
I guess it’s 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, there’s probably even little difference in athletic ability.
Girls’ sports are what need some kind of sex identification and distinction. I’m not saying it should be based on genitalia or chromosomes, but that’s why the focus is there.
Girls’ 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 we’ve had activities specifically restricted to girls, we’ve needed some sort of distinction. That distinction could be “Any athlete identifying as a girl,” 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 girls’ team - and not the other. That’s the question I’m 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 it’s just misogyny. Don’t 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.
I’m sorry. For what it’s worth, it still hasn’t passed yet there’s still enough votes to count that the outcome could change.
Also, I’m not sure if it’s much consolation, but WA wasn’t 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 it’s worth, it still hasn’t passed yet there’s still enough votes to count that the outcome could change.
A lot of those votes are from King County if I remember correctly. I’m 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, it’s 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
I’m also gonna engage on some baneful magic actually. I know it’s because of ignorance and people’s hearts can change, but at this point if they all died of cancer that would be fine.
This is an unfortunate setback.
Here in California, I’m 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.
Pretty annoyed we voted down the billionaire tax, though.
Ms. Boebert herself was voted out, if I remember correctly
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 “biological sex,” according to the initiative’s language.
If the initiative passes, it could throw the blue state’s 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.
We need to finish the civil war.
