Watching the recent surge of women’s sports enthusiasts clamoring to save female athletes from the transgender rights movement, it’s hard not to feel a little wistful.
So this is what it’s like to matter. This year, lawmakers in more than 20 states have introduced legislation to ban transgender kids from girls’ sports, under the guise of protecting women and girls.
Bills have already passed in Mississippi and Idaho. The quest to block trans girls from competition has some prominent supporters.
Former President Donald Trump embraced female athletes in February, declaring at the Conservative Political Action Conference that it was “so important” to “protect women’s sports.” The former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley wrote an essay for.