Newsom says transgender atheletes in women's sports is unfair. Support for excessive trans agenda is crumbling. Updates.
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California Gov. Newsom says trans athletes competing in women’s sports is unfair.
These are the articles saying the largely the same thing.
CNN, March 6, 2025, “Newsom says trans athletes playing in women’s sports is ‘deeply unfair’ in split with Democrats.”
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom said transgender athletes playing in women’s sports is “an issue of fairness” in a break from most Democrats’ position on the topic.
“Well, I think it’s an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness. It’s deeply unfair,” Newsom said in a podcast episode with conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
“I revere sports, and so the issue of fairness is completely legit. And I saw that the last couple of years. Boy did I saw how [Republicans] were able to weaponize that issue at another level,” he said.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/politics/newsom-trans-athletes-womens-sports/index.html
These articles mostly say the same thing.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/democrats-trans-sports-2028-00216585
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz03ye4j8rzo
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5180521-newsom-trans-athletes-womens-sports/
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/gavin-newsom-podcast-charlie-kirk-trans-athletes/
Our LGBTQXYZ+ media is attacking Newsom.
The Advocate is using the usual trick of using LGBTQ+ to obscure that it is just about trans.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/gavin-newsom-abandons-transgender-athletes
Them
https://www.them.us/story/gavin-newsom-charlie-kirk-trans-women-sports-policy-position-fairness
Bay Area Reporter also mashes together different groups. LGBTQ leaders, not Gay leaders.
LGBTQnation
Outsports
Washington Blade. Quotes Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as criticizing Newsom.
Into
It will take a while for all the LGBTQ+ publications to respond. I will add links to the additional stories here.
Pink News.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/07/gavin-newsom-transgender/
Human Rights Campaign as of the evening of 3/7/2025 doesn’t have any mention on its webpage about Newscom and his recent statement about trans in women’s sports.
https://www.hrc.org/search?query=Newsom
They have made a statement on Facebook though.
Leftist publications follow the trans party line.
Evidently transwomen in sports is the hill they are planning on dying on.
The Guardian is critical of Newsome.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/gavin-newsom-trans-people-sports
Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/lgbtq-advocates-condemn-newsoms-anti-trans-stance-on-sports/
Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/gavin-newsoms-maga-drift-is-here/
Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trans-athletes-forum/
The Intercept.
I have no doubt that Newsom’s new political stance is cynical. But it was cynical when he was all in for the trans agenda. This article is an attempt to make the issue a morality play. I have been a donor to the Intercept, I thought of it as a critic of neoliberalism and the Democrats, but they aren’t getting anymore of my money.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/07/gavin-newsom-trans-democrats/
New Republic, March 7, 2025, “Gavin Newsom Just Showed Us His True Colors—and They’re Hideous.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/192457/gavin-newsom-trans-high-school-athletes-white-house
Other publications
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/newsom-calls-male-participation-in-female-sports-deeply-unfair-reflecting-democrats-shifting-stance/
National Review, March 7, 2025, “Get Ready for the Democratic Retreat on Trans Athletes.”
We all suspected Gavin Newsom wanted to run for president in 2028. But the way he’s talking about transgender athletes in women’s sports, he might be aiming for the Republican nomination. Look out for that bus, transgender athletes, because Newsom’s sudden about-face suggests that Democrats are ready to throw you under it.
The article goes on how since 2013, the Democrats and Newsom were fully in support of the trans agenda.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the California governor claimed that for years, he had thought the policy was unfair to women athletes:
Assessment
I think that California Gov. Newsom became governor of California because he carefully calculated correctly his political moves. He has very likely concluded that taking the stance against trans athletes in women’s sports is the path to victory to win the Presidency in 2028 and before that to run the Democratic Party.
Likely the majority of the Democratic leadership is desperately wanting to drop extreme elements of the trans agenda and to them Newsom is the salvation of the Democratic Party and their personal fortunes.
Except for the dogmatic trans activists, it is fairly clear that trans issues cost the Democrats the 2024 elections for the Presidency and worked against them for the U.S. House and Senate.
It is also fairly clear that continuing to support the trans extremist agenda will keep the Democratic Party out of power and discredit the Democrats.
I think that the break will start with a few Democratic leaders and then likely it will be a stampede of Democratic officials racing to drop the extreme trans dogma. If the liberal/left and the LGBTQXYZ+ try to stand in the way, they will be trampled.
For Gays the fall of he LGBTQXYZ+ will be an opportunity to have a Gay community led by Gay leadership.
I have been critical of the excesses of the trans movement since the beginning of this newsletter.
Read online. I will be adding to this list.
I have been a Citizen of the United States of America, A protester from the Stonewall days and a proponent of legal and medical equality among many diverse groups. But the anti-child push that our community has allowed to make its way into the Main Stream has destroyed everyones faith in all of us. To put it bluntly...People played a bad hand and lost and we all loose because of it. The world was accepting more than in any other time I can remember and that was destroyed. FOFO now we all pay for that indiscression. Equal rights ARE NOT MEANT TO CREATE SPECIAL RIGHTS!!!