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multigraincracker

(34,304 posts)
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 04:55 AM Nov 1

All those commercials on tv about Trans kids in sports...

Todays Free Press nails it today.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/neal-rubin/2024/10/31/trump-ad-targets-trans-athletes-michigan-has-almost-none/75920203007/

Given how often the supposed threat of transgender athletes has been surfacing on your television screen, you might be wondering how massive the onslaught actually is.
I get paid to be curious for all of us, so I called the Michigan High School Athletic Association to ask: How many trans girls are swarming our state’s sidelines?
The answer:
Two.

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All those commercials on tv about Trans kids in sports... (Original Post) multigraincracker Nov 1 OP
You mean '2' per every city block, don't you? MyOwnPeace Nov 1 #1
The Florida guy Mike Rogers is playing the hell out of that. gibraltar72 Nov 1 #2
Figured it was just a couple Johnny2X2X Nov 1 #3
Ted Cruz is in trouble and is bringing up that issue. surfered Nov 1 #4
It's four now. Two more kids had the surgery at recess today. :grr: hvn_nbr_2 Nov 1 #5
Plus, despite the parity of athletes' ages, the commercials speak of ... JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 1 #6

MyOwnPeace

(17,280 posts)
1. You mean '2' per every city block, don't you?
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 06:04 AM
Nov 1

I mean, they have to make up at least one half of the millions, er, billions that are coming over the borders, right?

Surely the Repukes wouldn’t lie to us, would they?

(Just in case………)

gibraltar72

(7,629 posts)
2. The Florida guy Mike Rogers is playing the hell out of that.
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 07:10 AM
Nov 1

The 6 foot five chick on whatever AI initiated for them is on my streaming 40 times a day.

Johnny2X2X

(21,880 posts)
3. Figured it was just a couple
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 07:22 AM
Nov 1

Listen, most trans kids have zero desire to play sports as it brings attention and that's the last thing a trans kid wants to ddeal with. The ones who do play trans sports, are doing so without issue, no one is bothered by it.

We can't set policy that effercts the many because of some odd corner cases somewhere that some people don't think is fair. What we are doing in Michigan works. It's a case by case basis, the way it should be. If some 6-7, 225 pound star basketball player transitions to female and wants to play girl's basketball, the system can handle that individual case on its merits, but we aren't seeing anything like that.

surfered

(3,724 posts)
4. Ted Cruz is in trouble and is bringing up that issue.
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 07:27 AM
Nov 1

Trans, DEI, CRT. Rile up the base with all the trigger words from the right wing AngerTainment media.

hvn_nbr_2

(6,612 posts)
5. It's four now. Two more kids had the surgery at recess today. :grr:
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 09:34 AM
Nov 1

But seriously, I worry that those ads are targeting some specific group to get them angry enough to vote, in the same way the Russians used social media in 2016 to get out the margin of victory in a few swing states.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,825 posts)
6. Plus, despite the parity of athletes' ages, the commercials speak of ...
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 02:03 PM
Nov 1

... MEN sharing locker rooms with GIRLS.

That usually doesn't happen, unless Trump is running a teen beauty contest, in which he must visit the changing room.

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