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-Great Cultural Revolution
Democrats Give Trump Huge Media Win on Transgender Dispute
2025-02-07
[Breitbart] Democrats are giving President Donald Trump a huge media win on the transgender debate. “Congratulations to every single person on the left who’s been campaigning to destroy women’s and girls’ rights,” author J.K. Rowling quipped.

“Without you, there’d be no images like this,” the Harry Potter author added in her Thursday X post, sharing a photo of President Trump signing an executive order protecting women’s sports from transgender athletes, surrounded by an abundance of female athletes championing his directive.

“We’re here today in the White House to watch as President Trump signs an executive order,” former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines said in a video montage posted to X by the White House.

While U.S. citizens across the country celebrated President Trump’s executive order saving women’s sports, Democrats had a public meltdown.

“You’re a bad mom if you can’t explain that there are people along a gender spectrum and it’s not this binary,” The Majority Report podcast co-host Emma Vigeland complained.

“Like, I mean, I hear this all the time: ‘My daughter plays sports, what am I going to tell her? It’s not fair to her’ — I love sports as much as anyone, [but] trans women should be able to compete without question in women’s sports,” Vigeland lamented.

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Vigeland then tried to justify men participating in women’s sports, arguing, “There’s an unfair advantage all the time in sports, that’s the nature of sports, that some people are physically more gifted or they have, like, a better mentality.”

She went on to bizarrely compare men’s physical advantages over women to basketball players being taller than others on the court.

But there has been a cultural shift in the U.S. and the tide has turned.

Even CNN has conceded to this reality, with the outlet’s senior data reporter, Harry Enten, acknowledging, “There’s such a clear trend among the American public.”

“I think these numbers are really illuminating on this topic,” Enten said, before analyzing the recent polling on the issue of men participating in women’s sports.

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“So, transgender athletes in women’s sports: only 18 percent of the country says that they should be, in fact, allowed to participate in women’s sports. Compare this to the opposition, I mean, my goodness — 79 percent,” Enten said.

“You rarely get 79 percent of the country to agree on anything,” the CNN reporter noted. “But they do, in fact, agree on the idea of opposing transgender female athletes in women’s sports.”

“It’s not just the here and now,” he added. “What we’re actually seeing is a trend on this particular issue, and it’s going in the direction of oppositions.”

Enten then pointed out that in 2021, 62 percent of Americans opposed men participating in women’s sports.

“A clear majority, but not a ginormous majority,” he said. “Then you look at 2025, [and] you see it at 79 percent.”

“So, it’s not just that the majority of Americans are opposed to transgender female athletes in women’s sports, it’s that the opposition has become considerably larger in just the last four years,” the CNN reporter conceded.
Posted by:Skidmark

#7  At the risk of overdoing movie references tonight, and my final:
Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-02-07 21:25  

#6  He's setting the opposition up defending the indefensible so they expend their energy and drama for the next year and a half going into the midterms with the barest of public support.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2025-02-07 18:29  

#5  Carini and Khelif, when the scales fell.

@CBS, unforced as in totally willing to.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-02-07 13:19  

#4  Like, I don't think so, Emma.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2025-02-07 12:05  

#3  defending the indefensable

CBS staffers upset over '60 Minutes' drama, admit Kamala Harris interview edits were an 'unforced error'
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-02-07 10:53  

#2  The whole problem here is defending the indefensable.
Posted by: ed in texas   2025-02-07 09:04  

#1  Archaeologists - when they unearth a body - look at the pelvis (among other things) and determine male /female. Apparently, Mother Nature has given us only two options, the rest is a mental aberration.

Posted by: Warthog   2025-02-07 08:23  

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