{"id":35922,"date":"2020-12-14T01:12:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T09:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=35922"},"modified":"2020-12-14T01:12:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T09:12:49","slug":"trans-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/12\/14\/trans-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <strong>Tulsi Gabbard<\/strong>?&nbsp; We haven\u2019t talked about her in months.&nbsp; Perhaps it\u2019s closer to a year.&nbsp; She\u2019s the one <strong>Hillary <\/strong>accused of being a Russian asset (Tulsi filed a defamation suit, and dropped it four months later).&nbsp; She\u2019s currently being labeled as \u201ctransphobic\u201d, due to legislation she introduced last week.&nbsp; The bill, called the <em>Protect Women\u2019s Sports Act<\/em>, would base participation in women\u2019s sports on \u201cbiological sex\u201d.&nbsp; Defending her stance, Gabbard said, \u201c<em>Title IX <\/em>was designed to give women and girls an equal chance to succeed, including in sports.&nbsp; Allowing biological males to compete in women\u2019s sports diminishes that equality and takes away from the original intent of <em>Title IX<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp; She adds, \u201cIt is not a level playing field.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6jrwTS1eP70\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Tulsi is a polarizing figure, it\u2019s an interesting topic.&nbsp; We\u2019ve discussed it many times in our column, and on a particularly fascinating <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> with trans pioneer <strong>Buck Angel<\/strong>.&nbsp; What I learned is that male and female sports are not separated for sexual reasons, but for biological reasons.&nbsp; <strong>Caitlyn Jenner <\/strong>may identify as female, but she still has all of the musculoskeletal advantages of <strong>Bruce<\/strong>.&nbsp; So, Tulsi is right \u2013 it\u2019s not a level playing field.&nbsp; That said, it\u2019s also discriminatory.&nbsp; Ultimately, I don\u2019t have a solution \u2013 that\u2019s well beyond my pay grade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a long and complicated history with trans contestants on <strong><em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; It came to a head in 2018, when <strong>RuPaul <\/strong>said <strong>Peppermint <\/strong>wouldn\u2019t have been cast if she had already started transitioning (Peppermint made her revelation after taping was completed, but before it aired).&nbsp; \u201cYou can identify as a woman and say you\u2019re transitioning, but it changes once you start changing your body.&nbsp; It takes on a different thing; it changes the whole concept of what we\u2019re doing\u201d.&nbsp; In the face of criticism, Ru retorted, \u201cYou can take performance enhancing drugs and still be an athlete, just not in the <em>Olympics<\/em>\u201d.&nbsp; Like the <em>Olympics<\/em>, <em>Drag Race<\/em> is an independent show with its own rules.&nbsp; However, rules are meant to be broken.&nbsp; When season 13 starts on New Year\u2019s Day, you\u2019ll see the first openly transgender male competitor.&nbsp; <strong>Gottmik <\/strong>is described as an \u201cLA-based celebrity makeup artist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Tulsi Gabbard?&nbsp; We haven\u2019t talked about her in months.&nbsp; Perhaps it\u2019s closer to a year.&nbsp; She\u2019s the one Hillary accused of being a Russian asset (Tulsi filed a defamation suit, and dropped it four months later).&nbsp; She\u2019s currently being labeled as \u201ctransphobic\u201d, due to legislation she introduced last week.&nbsp; The bill, called the Protect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35923,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35922\/revisions\/35923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}