Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, a possible democratic presidential candidate of 2028, used the primary episode of his recent podcast to interrupt from progressive by speaking out against transgender women and girls to participate in female sports.
Newsom made his explanation in an expanded conversation with the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old, who built the influential turn of Point USA organization, which President Donald Trump increased last autumn last autumn amongst the most recent generation of voters. Like Trump, Kirk was a loud opponent in allowing transgender women and girls to participate.
The governor's comments come just a couple of months after the volleyball team for ladies on the San Jose State University in the middle of a hearth storm.
“I think it's a problem of fairness, I completely agree with them. It's a problem of fairness – it's deeply unfair, “said Newsom to Kirk about” This is gavin newsoma “.
“I don't rings with the fairness problem,” drove Newsom, who played as a student Varsity Baseball. “I fully agree with you. … I worship sports. The problem of fairness is completely legitimate. “
The governor's comments are the most recent efforts by the Democrats to reconcile a alternative of 2024, which Trump brought back to the White House and gave the Republicans control over each congress chambers. The disagreements since November have been explaining the losses of the party – in contrast to economic policy and other affairs.
Overall, the surveys indicate that it isn’t popular that transgender athletes in women's teams can play in the ladies's team. Even many of the democrats – about 7 to 10 – reject it after a New York Times/Ipsos survey in January of the New York Times/Ipsos in January New York Times/Ipsos. A 2023 -Gallup survey also showed that the Democrats were divided, whether transgender people should give you the option to play in sports teams that correspond to their current gender identity.
Newsom, which has long positioned itself as a social progressive progressive, pulled sharp lectures from LGBTQ supporters.
“Sometimes Gavin Newsom applies to the profile in courage, sometimes not,” said the MP of California, Chris Ward and Senator Carolina Menjivar, who led the state's LGBTQ legislativ okay. “We are deeply ill and frustrated by these comments.”
Tony Hoang, Executive Director of Equality California, said that he was “disappointed and annoyed” by Newsoms and “to heart pain and fear”, the transgender community under the Trump administration, “to heart pain and fear” was added “.
“At the moment, transgender young people, their families, their doctors and their teachers are exposed to unprecedented politicians who wish to avoid their civil rights and wish to erase them from public life,” said Hoang. “You need guides who clearly fight for them.”
The California law, which became before Newsom, requires schools in the state to enable transgender athletes to play in school sports teams that are in line with their gender identity.
Apart from questions about athletics, there is less public support for broader restrictions on transgender rights and topics such as the medical care of transgender people, especially at Democrats.
According to AP Viewecast, 55% of voters in the 2024 elections stated that the support for transgender rights in the government and society went too far, while about 2 out of 10 said it was roughly correct and a similar proportion said that it was not far enough. It was also a bit more likely that voters prohibit laws, gender -specific medical treatment, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy, for minors who identify themselves as transgender.
But the Republicans nevertheless tried to use the cultural test stone that represents sport in America.
Trump regularly hammered the democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris, the Californian of Newsom, for the support of LGBTQ+ Right. Trump promised to get “transgender madness to the devil from our schools” in his rallies and “to maintain men out of ladies's sports”. His campaign also spent tens of million dollars on television and digital ads with the scale: “Kamala is for her/her. President Trump is for her. “
“Boy, I saw how it was able to weaple it,” said Newsom to Kirk, before he gave up Kirk's protest and as a substitute said that the ads were an efficient “highlight” in the course of the campaign.
Since taking office, Trump has threatened to withhold federal money from schools that enable transgender athletes to participate in women or girls from women. He recently explained the victory on this topic when the NCAA, which the Collegiate Effective Athletics rules within the United States, modified its policy to limit the athletes' athletes to those athletes to whom the feminine gender was assigned at birth. Previously, the NCAA had a sports policy from sports to sport, which was determined by the national or international management bodies of the respective sport.
Ward and Menjivar, the California legislators, said it was not an issue to play in a team that corresponds to his own gender “until Donald Trump began to obsess.”
Kirk, not Newsom, raised the general problem during her hourly discussion, which partially focused on how Democrats can rebuild a wider coalition of voters. Kirk pressed news whether he would speak within the competition against Transgender athletes.
The governor tried to mitigate his comments and said that the discussion was greater than competitive advantage.
“There is also a humility and a grace that these poor people commit suicide, have fear and depression, and the way people speak with endangered communities is a problem with which I also find it difficult,” said Newsom. “So, both things I can hold in my hand. How can we tackle this problem with the type of decency that I think is inherent, but not always deals with this topic and at the same time with injustice. “
Nevertheless, Newsom's approach marks a special political slope greater than twenty years ago. As the mayor of San Francisco in 2004, Newsom attracted national attention for the primary time by leading town clerk with the creation of same -sex marriage licenses.
The step led to legal steps, which led to a choice by the Supreme Court of California in 2008, which legalized same -sex marriage within the country's largest state. This decision was made for seven years before the US Court of Justice arrange same -sex marriage as a national law. –
Barrow reported from Atlanta. Amelia Thomson-Deveaux and AP author Michael Blood, Tran Nguyen and Sophie Austin have contributed the reporting.
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