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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | We're talking about the gender conversation here in the United States. |
0:03.3 | Just a couple weeks ago, President Trump signed an executive order. |
0:07.4 | And this is the headline that came from that. |
0:09.0 | Trump signs executive order banning trans women for women's sports. |
0:12.2 | Now, this concerned federal funding. |
0:14.1 | So it's the power of the purse. |
0:15.6 | They can pull federal funding using this executive order if they're not complying. |
0:19.5 | But that's about all they can do. But there was a bill that was going through the House and it was killed. All Democrats voted |
0:26.0 | against it. Bill to ban trans athletes from girls and women's sports teams failed to advance |
0:31.1 | in Senate. And this was trying to enshrine this into Title IX. Title IX is sex-based |
0:36.0 | discrimination in education programs. |
0:38.3 | So they're trying to basically say that the participation was based on a person's |
0:42.9 | reproductive biology and genetics at birth. And that did not happen. But we look at the New York |
0:48.5 | Times. Really, how big is this conversation? How popular is this conversation? There's a New York |
0:53.1 | Times poll, and we look at, |
0:54.8 | if you really dig into this poll and you look, and they're talking about athletes, the question was |
0:59.3 | athletes who were male at birth, but who currently identify as female, do you think they should |
1:03.6 | or should not be allowed to compete in women's sports? And you can see here, the total 79% said |
1:09.9 | they should not be allowed to compete women's sports. |
1:12.3 | Obviously, there's a split here, 94% were Republican, 67% were Democrat. |
1:17.8 | So that's one of the sub-conversations in this space. |
1:22.6 | But one of the big conversations that we entered into it as was the medicalizing of children, often against their parents |
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