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GOP & Policies toward/treatment of Transgender & other LGBTQ Americans

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Although the National Collegiate Athletic Association has already barred transgender women from playing in women’s sports, Texas’ attorney general has accused the group of using loopholes to allow such competition.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking for a temporary injunction that either orders the screenings or requires that the NCAA and its affiliates immediately stop using the terms “women,” “female,” or “girl” to market any of its women’s sports teams or competitions.

… The civil rights group Human Rights Watch, which released a comprehensive report on sex testing in international sports in 2020, says these tests “violate fundamental rights to privacy and dignity,” and that sport governing bodies that implement them create “environments that coerce some women into invasive and unnecessary medical interventions as a condition to compete in certain events.”

… Although Texas’ attorney general does not provide many details of what sex-screening student athletes should look like, the lawsuit suggests screening for the SRY gene as one potential avenue. The SRY gene, which is found on the Y chromosome and is responsible for triggering testes development, requires a laboratory setting to analyze a blood or saliva sample.

However, as BBC Sport reported last year, human genetic variations are so varied that some experts say it’s not possible to establish that everyone with a Y chromosome was born male, and everyone without a Y chromosome was born female.

Comprehensive testing — which includes analyzing the SRY gene and hormone levels — is expensive, requires niche experts and causes ethical concerns, one expert told the BBC.

“This assessment can be humiliating. It includes measurements of the most intimate parts of anatomy, like the size of your breast and your clitoris, the depth of your voice, the extent of your body hair,” Alun Williams, who researches genetic factors related to sport performance at the Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport, told the BBC at the time. …”
 
What a motion. This is the entirety of its argument as to why it deserves a injunction:

Having alleged DTPA violations, the only question for the Court to address here is whether the State has established a probable right of recovery.

I'm unaware of any injunction issuing ever based on mere allegations.

Texas claims that its right of action stems from the Lady vols' expectation of a #1 seed and thus games played in Texas for the NCAA tournament.

Easy way for NCAA to fix: Texas won't get a #1 seed. In fact, exclude Texas entirely. That's normally what would happen in a situation like this.
 
nycfan said:


“…
Although the National Collegiate Athletic Association has already barred transgender women from playing in women’s sports, Texas’ attorney general has accused the group of using loopholes to allow such competition.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking for a temporary injunction that either orders the screenings or requires that the NCAA and its affiliates immediately stop using the terms “women,” “female,” or “girl” to market any of its women’s sports teams or competitions.

… The civil rights group Human Rights Watch, which released a comprehensive report on sex testing in international sports in 2020, says these tests “violate fundamental rights to privacy and dignity,” and that sport governing bodies that implement them create “environments that coerce some women into invasive and unnecessary medical interventions as a condition to compete in certain events.”

… Although Texas’ attorney general does not provide many details of what sex-screening student athletes should look like, the lawsuit suggests screening for the SRY gene as one potential avenue. The SRY gene, which is found on the Y chromosome and is responsible for triggering testes development, requires a laboratory setting to analyze a blood or saliva sample.

However, as BBC Sport reported last year, human genetic variations are so varied that some experts say it’s not possible to establish that everyone with a Y chromosome was born male, and everyone without a Y chromosome was born female.

Comprehensive testing — which includes analyzing the SRY gene and hormone levels — is expensive, requires niche experts and causes ethical concerns, one expert told the BBC.

“This assessment can be humiliating. It includes measurements of the most intimate parts of anatomy, like the size of your breast and your clitoris, the depth of your voice, the extent of your body hair,” Alun Williams, who researches genetic factors related to sport performance at the Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport, told the BBC at the time. …”
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Is Paxton volunteering to pay the billions of dollars it will cost to test every woman in every sport?
 
mpaer said:
I thought they were volunteers interested in Amateur sports -and Peace
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I’m certain that if Avery Brundage headed the IOC today, he’d relocate the 2028 Games from Los Angeles to a nation that more favors civil rights and individual freedom…..maybe Saudi Arabia or the UAE.
 
wmheel1287 said:
Meanwhile, women's sports are more popular in every way than they ever have been....and it isn't even close. Gameday was just in Raleigh last week at Reynolds for a women's hoops game.
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I don’t disagree with you they’re more popular than ever but they didn’t go to Raleigh for that ahead of a men’s game did they? The women’s game was on Sunday. I assume they did their normal Saturday men’s college gameday too.
 

Once a Champion for Trans Workers, the E.E.O.C. Is Now Walking Away​

The nation’s primary regulator of workplace discrimination has moved to dismiss cases that may run afoul of President Trump’s executive order on gender.

www.nytimes.com

Once a Champion for Trans Workers, the E.E.O.C. Is Now Walking Away

The nation’s primary regulator of workplace discrimination has moved to dismiss cases that may run afoul of President Trump’s executive order on gender.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

“When Asher Lucas’s co-workers started taunting him for being transgender, saying he was “born a girl and needed to be a girl,” he figured this type of bullying would not be tolerated at a well-known restaurant.

But after complaining to his manager, Mr. Lucas was fired along with three employees who spoke up on his behalf.

“This cannot be legal,” Mr. Lucas remembers thinking when his boss told him in a voice mail message that he was fired.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agreed with Mr. Lucas. In October, the agency sued his employer, Culver’s, in federal court in Michigan, saying the restaurant had engaged in unlawful employment practices by allowing co-workers to harass Mr. Lucas because “he is transgender and retaliating against those who opposed the harassment.”

… [Since Trump took over, the EEOC]
moved to dismiss the case against Culver’s, arguing it could run afoul of President Trump’s executive order asserting that there are only two sexes, male and female.

Citing that order, the E.E.O.C. also asked judges to dismiss six other lawsuits the agency had brought that accused a range of companies, from a pizzeria at Chicago O’Hare International Airport to a hotel franchise in western New York, of subjecting transgender and nonbinary workers to hostile work environments and then often firing them when they complained. …”
 
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