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Michele Tafoya: "If you want to play and make money and have opportunities as a person in the WNBA as a woman, it should not bother you to take a cheek swab test to just prove that you've the chromosomes to play in that league"

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Why the hell is this what a candidate for Senate is worried about? This is the issue she's running on? Is this the only R talking point? I would think someone serious about representing Americans would focus on improving lives.

This is always how they try to frame things that will strip you of your rights. "If you're not hiding anything you have nothing to worry about". I'm worried about the next rights you're going to take away.

FFS, just don’t watch WNBA if you hate inclusivity. It’s only these right-wing weirdos that care about chromosomes and genitalia. Just let the women play basketball! 🏀

But it won;t be "just a cheek swab", will it Michelle? Just ask the AFAB Middle/High School Students who face visual genital inspections in an instance of state sponsored Child Sexual Abuse.

To "save" women's sports they want them all to have genetic tests to prove they are women. No one is demanding that men get tested to prove they are men. Plus the SRY test only proves the existence or non-existence of the Y chromosome. There is more to being male than having a Y chromosome.

People born with XY chromosomes where the SRY gene has transferred to the X chromosome will appear female at birth. They will have female reproductive organs, but be infertile. They may also grow facial hair. Who gets to decide what sex they are?

Who the fuck cares about this non issue? People are getting sick from tainted food, dying from preventable diseases, and don't have health care. Trump is stealing billions. Trump started an unnecessary and unwinnable war. These are what Tafoya should be judged on, not this useless bullshit.

How do we know Ms (?) Tafoya is a woman? Has she been tested? Not sure someone should be running for public office with these unanswered questions. Also, does Bluesky support a sarcasm font?

GOP keep finding solutions to problems that don't exist. They should try finding solutions to existing problems like affordable housing, food security, ending Iran War, lowering cost of living. You know...things that actual people care about.

Fine. Then we test every athlete in every sport. Try telling the MLBPA or NFLPA that their players must consent to having their DNA collected in order to play.

How many trans people in the WNBA? Zero. How about those measles outbreaks hmm? How bout those ICE murders? How bout the complete lack of care and respect for women in the United States?? We have a lot of important work to do and this is just another national embarrassment.

This election isn't about culture. It's about people working their asses off and and can't afford to live decently. The lies and lie more tactic isn't gonna work. Money grabbing pols,on both sides, need to be voted out.

So demands a low life Guardians Of Pedophiles, Republican CANDIDATE from Minnesota? 🤡🤣 What'd he wake up in the middle of the night and dream up a way to get his 15 seconds on air? #FOff

I’ve never seen my own chromosomes. I don’t ask to see people’s chromosomes when I first meet them to decide what to call them. And I bet the vast majority of these transphobes have never seen a chromosome either. Why are they so obsessed with them?

It won't, because what they're actually testing for is the SRY gene, which has been known to become detached from the Y chromosome, and also to not even necessarily activate. It's a witch hunt.

As if someone in that cult would accept such a scientific result. Pretty sure they prefer an intense physical examination and will only trust what their hands saw....

GOP fascists have nothing to run on. Hence, they're microwaving old culture wars, hoping voters will forget about explosive inflation & diarrhea, high gas and food prices, and the overall affordability crisis currently affecting Americans.

<toothpick hanging out the side of their mouth> You know, if they're not, uh, illegally being a woman, if they've got nothin' to hide, they've got nothin' to worry about, do they, bruv? How deranged. How entitled. "I'll throw women under the bus to show my fealty."

Cis white male here. I can’t be the only one thinking if they asked NBA players to do the same thing to prove they have the chromosomes to play in that league, most of those players would throw a fit & the response wouldn’t be, “It shouldn’t bother you.”

What is it with GOP and Fox News to talk only about transgender like it was the most important issue? A war with Iran, stupid trade wars with allies, inflation and so many more important issues exist but that is where we are!

I think every talking head chiming in on women's sports should have to take an intensive physical exam and DNA test to prove they are qualified to comment on women's sports.

The right's ability to gin up an issue that has them all entirely enraged out of absolute thin air is scary! Someone should talk about the switch in their heads and how easy it is to flip.

The right is worried about trans people because they need to take our attention off the fact they are a bunch of pedophiles and perverts.

If you want to run in the Republican Party and make money and have opportunities as a fascist it should not bother you to oppress women while demonizing your scapegoats to prove you have the sociopathy to play in the Reich. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Michele Tafoya: "If you want to play and make money and have opportunities as a person in the WNBA as a woman, it should not bother you to take a cheek swab test to just prove that you've the chromosomes to play in that league"

Tafoya has two children. Is she ok with someone checking their genitals before they do anything. Ya know, make sure her son is alpha enough; make sure her daughter isn’t hired for any job (can’t have DEI). Do a genital check before either uses a restroom. In the name of keeping kids safe, right?

These culture war weirdos have no idea how out of touch they are bc it’s a self-fulling ecosystem they can’t break from. Otherwise they’d realize how weird and out of touch they are.

First of all, yes it should. Second of all, are you going to do this for men's sports, too? And third, where do you plan on housing all of these illegally obtained DNA profiles?

Hegseth thinks it's relevant even for men, which is fucking useless. If anyone is truly trans, hormones are part of the transition. Does Mr Fake Macho Man not know that little detail. Trump and his friends are all fucking unbelievably morons.

Don't be so positive. Female athletes are inherently disposable, ones with intersex conditions even more so. Each one that fails a broken test will be turned into national pariahs with the state and the press determined to see them end their own lives, firing moral panics bsky.app/profile/gend...

GenderQueeries 🇨🇦@genderqueeries.ca

A reminder about "sex testing" - it nearly drove a female athlete to suicide. A year after she was disqualified, she had a kid. Americans got their record though. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa_K%C...

So idiots like Michele Tafoya, who blatantly & loudly are anti science are going to use a scientific test to harass women & will claim that they believe in those scientific results? 🤬

Michelle Tafoya did sports commentary for more than 30 years. She’s been in the game long enough to know that’s not how this works, and it irritates me that she sold her soul to repeat bullshit talking points that can and will hurt other people.

The culture wars are anything but; they are a one-sided fascist offensive.

LunchCounterPunch@theultrasecret.bsky.social

I HATE it when people say “the culture wars” or “the discourse” are ruining the WNBA. BE PRECISE. Right-wing fascists are introducing misogyny and bigotry through their narratives and demands, in an effort to delegitimize an organization full of popular black women who vocally champion inclusivity.

It's good to see a candidate for the United States Senate address themselves to the issues of the day that deeply concern constituents. The cost of living (groceries, gas, housing). Access to healthcare. The federal debt. Our crumbling democracy. Climate change.

Republicans continue to advance their Nazi rhetoric supposedly in the name of women. These women athletes shouldn’t have to justify their existence for the Republican patriarchy’s benefit. Of course they got other women to do this dirty work for them.