Two female cross-country athletes in California were asked to remove 'Save Girls' Sports' t-shirts, sparking a debate about transgender athletes and free speech.
T-shirts defending girls’ sports were condemned in the San Francisco Chronicle as the 'transphobic' contender for the next 'MAGA hat.' SF Chronicle’s columnist and cultural critic Soleil Ho wrote an opinion piece lamenting the rise of what she calls 'anti-trans activewear.' The article, headlined, '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, Calif., say they wore the shirts after a transgender athlete, who didn’t consistently attend practices or meet key varsity eligibility requirements, was placed on the varsity team, displacing one of them from her spot. Athletic department school officials allegedly forced the students to remove or conceal the shirts, claiming they created a 'hostile' environment and comparing wearing these shirts to wearing a swastika in front of Jewish students. The girls sued their school district for allegedly impeding on their First Amendment rights and Title IX violations. Ho, formerly a producer of the 'Racist Sandwich' podcast, argued that the controversy is a 'sad, empty spectacle that demeans 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 make no sense. What are we even arguing about?' the SF Chronicle opinion columnist wrote. 'Besides terrorizing Riverside’s trans community, one clear outcome this dust-up seems to be having is a whole lot of T-shirt sales.' 'All of this led me to wonder — who and what are profiting from generating more interest in this decidedly unfabulous anti-trans couture?' she asked
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