James Carville's Views on Trans Rights
James Carville sparks controversy discussing transgender athletes, urging Democrats to sway public opinion.
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville opened up about his views on transgender athletes in an interview with Fox News Digital.
What disgusts me is that Carville thinks more Democrats will follow now-disgraced California Governor Gavin Newsom in speaking out against trans athletes. He cites an NY Times poll that only surveyed 1,025 people who identify as or lean towards the Democrats, hardly representative of party as a whole.
I’m sorry, James, but you need to read the room. Now is not the time to be taking away rights from Americans. We’re talking about a populace that the current admin is dehumanizing and denationalizing. Much like all the antisemitism, the transphobia is having a devastating impact on my mental health.
Carville on Newsom’s views: "I think that's a view that most Americans have. I'm not that big into the state track meet, but athletic administrators can figure this out. It's not a major issue to me, and we took on a lot of water for something we weren't gonna [address]."
The athletic administrators had figured it out but then all these Republican legislators decided, no, transgender athletes shouldn’t be allowed. They took their lead from the conservative organizations unhappy about losing their battle on gay marriage. They decided that if gays can marry, transgender people shouldn’t be allowed to use the restroom or play sports. Well, it was more than just that because the bigger picture has always been erasing the transgender population from public life. And look what happened.
Carville continued:
"If you think the issue is that important, then you got to convince people. They're telling people we got to be courageous and be for this. Why don't you change public opinion and win an election, and then you might be able to achieve your goal? But right now the public doesn't want it. And you're asking Democrats to do this. And all you're doing — they are not going to change in the short term for sure. And all you're doing is helping the opposition.
"Newsom said it. [Massachusetts Democratic Rep.] Seth Moulton said it. I suspect you're gonna have more come out with it."
I wasn’t happy with Seth Moulton’s comments either. There were less than ten transgender athletes playing in NCAA competition when they caved into the administration and banned trans athletes from the NCAA. Where are we now? The State Department has been ordered to deny admission to transgender athletes arriving in the US for athletic competitions. Having read some of the recent stories about visa deportations, whose to stop ICE from just taking them away and locking them up in detention?
But after reading all of those views, Carville says Democrats weren’t wrong to block anti-trans legislation.
"I think that this is an issue of the athletic associations. The governor of Utah, all right, Governor Cox — they gave him an anti-trans sports bill. And he said, ‘Look, I have 100,000 high school athletes in the state of Utah. I got four that are trans. This is not my problem.’ Somebody said that 50,000 women athletes in the NCAA and maybe six [are transgender]. Let the NCAA figure it out. That's not a state legislature problem. Let the Olympics deal with it.
"I actually used to run track. So I watch the NCAA track meet. I never think about it! It doesn't cross my mind. I don't think there needs to be a legislative solution to this…That's not a legislative issue. It's an issue for the associations. We don't need to have anything that detracts from the association's ability to determine eligibility rules in any sport."
Well, if it weren’t for Republican legislators taking their direction from anti-LGBTQ organizations and lobbyists, the associations, NCAA, and Olympics would be the ones dealing with it! But no, transphobia just has to rue the day!