11-09-2024, 05:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2024, 05:30 AM by HaughtyFrank.)
(11-09-2024, 05:21 AM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-democrats-speak-out-against-transgender-athletes-after-trump-win.1030611/page-6#post-131408031
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/us/politics/trump-win-election-harris.html
Embiid wrote:This is all stemming from how effective that Charlamagne anti-trans ad was. Saw Morning Joe and CNN going on about this as well. Apparently Kamala's' own team's analysis concluded it had an almost 3% swing in the election… I'm not kidding. It resonated with "white suburban women, black men, and Latino men" leading to a 2.7% swing:
Literally why is this the hill they want to die on when even the studies that support them always end with a disclaimer that the study was limited and there needs to be more research. I think it was somewhere around COVID where they just lost their mind and decided that any kind of implication that a trans athlete might have an advantage is nothing but transphobia. A belief that's just so far removed from any common sense and the public