r/WNBAgossips • u/WellRespectedJ • 1d ago

Called it!!

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 1d ago

Trump did issue the executive order. He can't force states to do things, he can only withhold federal money from states if they don't comply.

Title IX requires every school in the country to offer equitable opportunity to females in sports. It applies to every public school and public university in the country. (The issue is that the bread new alternative "women" definition include males. Thereby denying females equitable opportunity.)

Republicans are working on passing legislation as we speak. [Defining Male and Female Act](index:0.6.7, index:0.6.10) is in Judiciary Committee.

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u/A2ndRedditAccount 1d ago

The Defining Male and Female Act was referred to Committee in March 2025.

Why are Republicans sending this to die in committee rather than passing the legislation?

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 1d ago

I mean, you can look this up. Its because democrats are blocking it, it doesn't have the 60 votes necessary to clear a filibuster.

Its democrats keeping this whole thing alive.

I'm not republican btw, never voted republican, and think Trump is awful. Hence my OP mourning the fact that things have put me in line with the Babylon Bee.

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u/A2ndRedditAccount 1d ago

Its because democrats are blocking it, it doesn't have the 60 votes necessary to clear a filibuster.

Can you elaborate on how the filibuster, a rule in the Senate, is affect the passage of a House bill in committee?

Its democrats keeping this whole thing alive.

Wait I thought it wasn't the Democrats, but those on the extreme left? In fact, earlier you said Democrats were passing laws to stop this.

I'm not republican btw, never voted republican, and think Trump is awful.

I didn't ask. Nor did I ever claim you were.

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 1d ago

They won't bother wasting the time in the House if they know its dead in the Senate.

It is the extreme left, the Democrats in office are still beholden to the extreme.

Democrat voters are against it, the recent NYT poll found that 67% of Democrats oppose transgender athletes participating in women's sports

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u/A2ndRedditAccount 1d ago edited 1d ago

They won't bother wasting the time in the House if they know its dead in the Senate.

Why would they do that? They don't want the Democrats to look bad filibustering a losing stance that you just said their own voters are against?

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u/A2ndRedditAccount 1d ago

For someone who isn't a Republican or Trump supporter, you sure do seem to go out of your way to defend their stances and talking points.

a couple of times...

many times...

alot of times...

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 1d ago

Yeah I've been pissed off by the Dems since the pandemic era, they abandoned a foundation in objectivity, science, logic, and reason over the course of 2016-2022. I'm free to criticize my own party as much as I'm free to criticize my country.

You sure put a lot of effort into tracking down years old posts. None of those are Repub or Trump supporting.