Trans people comprise a scant portion of athletes, at all levels, but the drive to bar them from participating in competitive sports has never been about numbers.
It’s a distraction. People won’t care about tax cuts and tariffs if they have something like this to be furious about. Honestly, I’d never really heard of or thought about a trans person until that manufactured bathroom bill all those years ago. I just assumed there were crossdressers and maybe a few people who got sex changes occasionally. Even then I was confused as fuck why it was something to worry about.
It’s a distraction. People won’t care about tax cuts and tariffs if they have something like this to be furious about. Honestly, I’d never really heard of or thought about a trans person until that manufactured bathroom bill all those years ago. I just assumed there were crossdressers and maybe a few people who got sex changes occasionally. Even then I was confused as fuck why it was something to worry about.