Trump's Proposed Rule Would Deny Cisgender Girls Athletic Opportunities

An adaptation of an illustration by R. Crumb, "Women Voting Republican"

A proposed rule by the Department of Energy would limit cisgender girls' athletic opportunities, citing Trump's anti-trans executive orders as rationale.

The proposed rule would deny cisgender girls the right to play on boys' teams when their school doesn't have the same teams for girls. For instance, according to The Hill, 4,000 girls played on boys' high school 11-person football teams during the 2023-2024 academic year.

The Department of Energy is preparing to roll back a portion of Title IX requiring that some sports be open to “the underrepresented sex,” a cornerstone of the federal law against sex discrimination in schools that President Trump’s administration has said conflicts with his executive order banning trans girls from playing on teams that align with their authentic gender.

Schools that don't comply would risk losing their share of the $150 billion in grants the energy department currently gives to public schools, which includes funding for school lunches.

Gender critical TERFs, you remember those executive orders targeting transgender people? Of course you do, you celebrated them like it was 1999. Now, Trump is going to use those to deny your rights.

More on this at the Daily Kos: Inside Trump’s bigoted push to ban girls from school sports

 Don't say we didn't warn you. Misogyny knows no bounds.

We Win! Senate Deletes Paragraph Crowning Trump King

Despondent, friendless, wannabe dictator watches his military parade as millions march peacefully across the USA protesting his fascist policies.

Senate Republicans have quietly removed a provision from the House GOP’s massive tax-and-spending bill that would have allowed President Donald Trump to circumvent the courts and essentially serve as a king.

Late Thursday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the panel’s proposed text for the GOP’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill. The House passed its version of the bill last month, so now the Senate is making its changes. Each committee is tasked with putting together language for its relevant section in the legislation, Huffpost reports.

The text that Grassley released for the bill’s judicial section doesn’t include this jarring, one-sentence provision that House Republicans buried in their 1,116-page bill:

Translated, this provision would restrict the ability of any court, including the Supreme Court, to enforce compliance with its orders by holding people in contempt. Contempt citations are an essential tool for the courts; they allow judges to threaten fines, sanctions or even jail if people disobey their orders. The provision in the House GOP’s bill also would apply retroactively to all temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, leaving courts with no real way of enforcing orders they’ve already handed down.

Yes, this is a win, a major concession by republicans, but it's not over until Trump is out of office and behind bars where he belongs.