To the editor: Whereas I recognize there’s a range of opinion on transgender ladies in sports activities, I’m outraged on the silence of Gov. Gavin Newsom and too many others, as transgender persons are subjected to essentially the most complete assault since Jim Crow days on the human and constitutional rights of a gaggle of Individuals (“Newsom says trans athletes competing in women’s sports is “deeply unfair,” March 6).
Think about you might be transgender and face, nationally or in sure states:
- Being compelled to both break the regulation or threat harassment, arrest and even assault whereas utilizing a public lavatory.
- Being denied the suitable to be addressed by the identify you select.
- Being kicked out of the U.S. army.
- Being denied entry to healthcare that’s the usual of care, at the same time as an grownup.
- Being denied, in Iowa, safety from discrimination in employment, housing, training, public providers and extra since you are trans.
- Being required to listing your delivery intercourse in your passport and driver’s license, which outs you as transgender to everybody, which at greatest might trigger delays while you journey.
- Being unable to freely entry books about your self and other people like your self on the public library.
- Having your very existence denied by the federal authorities and all references to individuals such as you faraway from authorities web sites.
The anti-trans marketing campaign is just not a tradition battle. It’s a civil rights battle. For years, authorities bullies have been test-driving numerous types of authorized persecution on transgender Individuals to see what they’ll get away with. (To this point, quite a bit.) And Newsom, in addition to far too many different Individuals, is panicking over a handful of transgender athletes? Please, get up.
Jane Engle, Culver Metropolis
The author is a former assistant journey editor at The Occasions.
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To the editor: Trans persons are not “poor” individuals deserving of or in search of the governor’s or anybody else’s pity. They want to reside like everybody else — with out bans, harassment or institutionalized cruelty. The supply of trans individuals’s issues originates within the arduous bigotry of the MAGA crowd and the tender bigotry of political sellouts like Newsom.
Jo Perry, Studio Metropolis
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To the editor: Trump wrote in his govt order, “adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle.” That is simply one other instance of Trump’s behavior of attributing his personal failings to individuals he doesn’t know however has determined he doesn’t like.
June Ailin Sewell, Marina del Rey
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To the editor: As a bleeding coronary heart liberal, I say no to permitting transgender athletes to compete in ladies’ and girls’s sports activities. I grew up as a scholar within the LAUSD. I’m now 88 years previous. I cherished taking part in sports activities and competing. Nonetheless do! Sports activities constructed friendships, and my aggressive spirit in athletics helped me get via some robust tutorial occasions. Permitting trans athletes to compete in ladies’s skilled sports activities would carry its doom.
Suzanne Marks, Los Angeles
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To the editor: President Trump and Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth’s obsession with transgender points is only a distraction from their machinations meant to restrict democracy and permit them to pay much less in taxes and keep in energy.
Gerald Orcholski, Pasadena
