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After Pushing Anti-Trans Laws to ‘Protect Women’s Sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation Now Wants Women’s Sports Gone to ‘Assist Fertility’ (www.transiticsnews.com)
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Its author, Heritage Foundation senior research fellow and Boise State University political science professor Scott Yenor, chooses to introduce the topic in a familiar way: transphobia. Here, he opens with a nod to the right-wing conspiracy theories surrounding Imane Khelif, writing that “in 2024, a Tunisian man defeated a Chinese woman for the Olympic women’s boxing gold medal.” Already, he gets the facts wrong: Imane Khelif is Algerian, and she isn’t transgender, but regardless, he presses on and uses Khelif to call for laws that “define and uphold the physical differences between men and women.”

However, Yenor is merely using the topic of trans athletes—one that right-wing groups have manufactured as a way to get many Americans comfortable with discriminatory policies—as a springboard for his true target: women’s sports, and more specifically, “the deeper feminist settlement that has governed athletics for decades.” This feminism, he writes, aimed to make women “more independent and even dominant and less deferential and less oriented toward motherhood and traditional female graces,”

I usually post in c/boycottus but this is too angering.

It's worth mentioning that women's pro sports are seeing a surge in Canada right now (eg., Winnipeg expansion team, led by Desiree Scott, set to become NSL's 7th franchise), so show your support!

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[–] 18 points 3 months ago (5 children)

This is why I have never understood how conservative women exist, specifically in MAGA.

It takes a special kind of stupid to know they want to bring the world back to 1800's social rules but to believe that somehow you specifically, despite being a woman, will keep your right to vote, and your career, and your voice, etc. etc.

"Women" are just a little further down the list from "immigrants" for these ghouls. And they've literally already shown you the list.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Because they are allowed to punch down on children and brown people. Often, as long as a person has someone to punch down on, they can tell themselves they have it good. For some reason.

    But also they’re taught from birth that Order and Structure is Very Important; everyone has their specific place and level in society that they need to stay in, or all society will collapse into anarchy and no matter how bad they have it now, things will be infinitely worse.

    So they support that structure with absolute fervor, telling themselves that they’re Saving Society, themselves, and even all those other ungrateful women from the horrors of socioeconomic collapse.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Obligatory Large Big Junknuts quote:

    "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This makes a ton of sense.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    That’s basically one of the two tenants of conservatism, really; that the Natural Order of society is a pyramid, and everyone needs to ‘stay in their place’ to keep the pyramid stable, or society will collapse.

    The second tenant of course is Wilholt’s Law.

    What those two combine into is an almost religious obsession with a tiered in-group out-group layering system, with each level lower down the pyramid Out of the higher groups but In the same-tier or lower ones.

    Until you get to the bottom, which are the ones everyone gets to grind under their heels because they’re in the Lowest Tier and thus the Wicked Useless Dregs of Society only good for slave labor and kissing the feet of their ‘betters’.

    In fact I’m about three-quarters convinced it is their actual religion, as I’ve noticed that if their so-called ‘religious teachings’ or ‘beliefs’ countermand either the Order Pyramid or their/other people’s place in it, they will abandon or twist the teachings of their religion rather than abandon the pyramid.

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    • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    They never gave a rat's ass about women sports.

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    • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I want the heritage foundation gone.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    WHAT ASSHOLES!

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Aaaaaaaaaaand there it is.

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    [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    They’re using trans, and support they have for this trans sports thing, as a pivot point into their plans for knocking women as a whole back into dependent roles and baby making machines.

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    [–] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Transphobia is always misogyny. "Protecting women" always leads to removing all their rights.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I agree, and this is the main reason why I absolutely cannot empathise with nor understand TERFs. I just can’t fathom why any cis woman would be transphobic towards trans women, as that path always ultimately leads to disempowering all women.

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    • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I can't imagine treating fellow human beings so badly.

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    • [–] 11 points 3 months ago*

    If anything, ban MEN'S sports to assist fertility.

    Men can get kicked in the balls and it's over. Women are objectively built better for sports in that regard.

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    [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Women are less aggressive? I would stab that bitch in the neck if he gets his way of leading a nation into regression for women.

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    • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Most women and girls participating in Tile IX sports are not at an age where they are actively trying to get pregnant, and I am not aware of any study showing that sports participation in one's teens leads to fertility problems down the road. I therefore suspect that this is more about forcing ever stricter gender conditioning than anything resembling a health mandate. After all, plenty of women simply have no desire to have children in the first place, so why should they be barred from participating in sports? This obsession with fertility sure sounds like compulsory childbearing is just around the corner.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The Heritage Incel club wouldn't know how to increase the birth rate. They've clearly never heard of post-work out horny.

    They actually make men less appealing to women, most of whom support trans rights.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Because they only want to "Increase the Birth Rate" as like... a second or third order goal at best. They want to take power away from women because women tend to vote against them. They feel like the easiest way to do that is to with shit like this.

    Attacking sports, IVF, family planning in general, that provision in that POS election law Trump wants so bad that would make it hell for a ton of married women to vote. They're trying to pile on pressures that end up saying if a woman ever wants kids she has to have them young, meaning she can't focus on education or a career, meaning she has to settle down with a man that can provide for her, meaning she's trapped.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    They want to take away women's power to ever say "no" to a man. Voting is part of that, but really, they want women as pets.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    To a certain extent, yes. But realistically the people making the decisions? They don't actually care about subjugating women in any real sense. Most of this is just cynical plays to cement their own power using women as the political football. If it was another group that was identified as the obstacle, then they wouldn't be doing nearly this level of stuff against women.

    These moves are aimed at enforcing a demographic shift among women that will trend towards the Republicans. By attacking things like IVF, Abortion, Contraception, you take away the ability of women to wait to start a family, and to start a family late. This ends up pressuring them to start that family early if they ever want to have one. If they have to start their family early, then they can't easily pursue higher education or focus on their careers, which are two of the biggest demographic indicators that tend to correlate with women who vote against the Republicans. Obviously this won't be exactly what happens with every young woman affected by these pressures, but across a whole population? It will work to swell the demographics that support Republicans. When the margins that decide American elections are as thin as they have been in recent decades, they're gambling that it will be enough to cement their power when combined with their efforts at voter suppression.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    The cause is effect. They hate women because they don't vote for them, and women don't vote for them because they hate women. I don't think it's actually possible to disentangle, trying to say which comes first in the feedback loop is pointless.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Y'allQuada at it again.

    Fuck you, scumpig.

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    [–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's always been hilarious how they claim they want to protect women's sports and how no one ever said "Wait a minute; you HATE women's sports, so why are you making this argument?"

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    • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Just wait until you hear thier plan to bring Prohibition back

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    • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Are full head-scarves required next, or are they going to ban women from going out on their own first?

    How scared of women are these people?

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    [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    We shouldn't let the heritage foundation just sit around malignantly growing.

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    [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They want all women locked up and creating babies. Are we there yet?

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    • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    What a fuckin coincidence

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I’m shocked someone meddling in the affairs of trans women also wants to meddle in the affairs of cis women.

    It’s almost like there’s some overlap between trans women’s rights and cis women’s rights.

    Some kind of inter… mingling? Inter… disciplinary? Inter… dependence?

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