To the editor: In a time when transgender persons are seeing elementary rights equivalent to documentation, entry to public life and healthcare, freedom from discrimination and bodily autonomy being viciously rolled again, each in numerous states and on the federal degree, it’s merely jarring to learn Gov. Gavin Newsom being indignant about justified criticism as soon as once more (“Newsom says sharing his beliefs on trans athletes wasn’t ‘some grand design,’” April 1).
Quite a few households have needed to flee to states like ours to maintain their children secure and are justifiably terrified now that there could be nowhere left to run. So it’s no surprise that they might be aghast on the governor of California having chummy conversations with among the architects of their persecution.
Rachel Wild, Oakland
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To the editor: The kerfuffle over transgender athletes in women’ or girls’s sports activities is absurd for at the very least three causes. First, it’s a microscopically small drawback nationwide. Second, it’s solely sports activities: Nearly by definition, there’s nothing actual at stake. And third, the primary argument towards letting transgender athletes compete in women’ or girls’s sports activities is that they could in some instances have a bodily benefit. However that’s already the case in each sport: some members at all times have bodily benefits — greater, stronger, faster, extra naturally coordinated — over others.
The one distinction right here appears to be the rationale. Nobody is complaining that taller, stronger girls shouldn’t be allowed to play basketball as a result of it’s unfair to shorter, smaller girls — until they’re taller and stronger as a result of they’re transgender. So let’s be clear that the one cause this is a matter is prejudice towards non-cisgendered individuals — and the cynical political attraction to that prejudice.
Jeff Miller, Irvine
