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A T-shirt defending girls’ sports was condemned in the San Francisco Chronicle as a “transphobic” contender for the next “MAGA hat.”
SF Chronicle columnist and cultural critic Soleil Ho wrote an opinion piece lamenting the rise of “anti-trans activewear”. ArticleThe headline, “Is this the next MAGA hat? Transphobic apparel is the new hotness,” cited T-shirts reading “Save Girls Sports” and “It’s common sense. XX ≠ XY.”
Two female cross-country athletes at a high school in Riverside, California say they wore the shirts after a transgender athlete, who did not consistently participate in practices or meet major varsity eligibility requirements, was cut from the varsity team. Due to which one of them was displaced. them from his place. School officials in the athletic department allegedly forced students to take off or hide shirts, claiming they created a “hostile” environment and comparing From wearing these shirts to wearing swastikas In front of Jewish students.
The girls sued their school district for allegedly interfering with their First Amendment rights and Title IX violations.
Assembly members Bill Essaly, left front, and Leticia Castillo, right front, take turns speaking at a press conference “about the preferential treatment biological boys receive” and calling for the resignation of the Riverside Unified superintendent . ((Alan J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images))
Ho, previously the creator of the “Racist Sandwich” podcast, argued that the controversy is a “sad, hollow spectacle that degrades us all,” claiming that science says sex and gender are a spectrum.
“On a basic level, not all cis women even have XX chromosomes, so these shirts don’t mean anything. What are we arguing about?” The SF Chronicle opinion columnist wrote. “In addition to terrorizing Riverside’s trans community, one obvious result of this dust-up is a lot of T-shirt sales.”
“This all made me wonder – who and what is benefiting from creating more interest in this decidedly unequivocal anti-trans couture?” he asked.
Ho then called former Levi’s executive turned XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Say, who said among others, “Riverside has been quite vocal about the case – and she owns a company whose sole purpose is anti- Trans activewear gets pumped up and right wing influencers fund it.”
columnist It was also argued that one should not understand the popularity of shirts with similar messages on the Internet as a “meaningful source of transphobia”, but rather, “they are likely sold with the same political beliefs as the shirts on online storefronts”. The proclamation goes, ‘Who needs luck when you’ve got beer?’ Or ‘I’m with the idiots.’
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“Between dropshippers, sellers who want to use real human pain and humiliation as a brand opportunity, and anti-trans influencers whose hatred of trans people constitutes their entire personality, I don’t know of anything more than that.” What a tragedy,” Ho lamented.
The opinion article was swiftly met with ridicule online, particularly from Sei himself.
He wrote on X, “This article wins for dumbest thing I’ve read so far this year.” “Although I agree with the title. Yes truth is the new ‘hotness’.”
Sey quoted the article as saying, “Studies of human genetics show that gender, like sex, is a spectrum, and cases of female athletes like Algerian boxer Imane Khalif show that a woman can look many different ways. “
“No – studies don’t show that sex is a spectrum,” Sei responded. “How do people get away with writing such blatant lies in an actual newspaper? Yes, there are many ways a woman can ‘look.’ In fact, that’s not the trend here, we’d actually love it if this ‘movement’ would stop telling more masculine girls that they’re probably boys.”
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Fox News’ Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.
