To the editor: At a time when transgender people see fundamental rights such as documentation, access to public life and health care, freedom of discrimination and bodily autonomy being viciously canceled, both in various states and at the federal level, it is simply shocking to read Governor Gavin Newsom being indignant at criticisms justified once again (“Newsom says that sharing your beliefs on trans athletes was not “a great design”, which is not a great design “,»April 1).
Many families had to flee to states like ours to ensure the safety of their children and are rightly terrified now that it could remain nowhere to run. It is therefore not surprising that they are dismayed by the Governor of California having copricy conversations with some of the architects of their persecution.
Rachel Wild, Oakland
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To the publisher: The Kerfuffle on transgender athletes in the sports of girls or women is absurd for at least three reasons. First of all, this is a microscopically problem with a national scale. Second, this is only sport: almost by definition, there is nothing real at stake. And thirdly, the main argument against the fact of leaving the athletes transgender competing in the sports of girls or women is that they can in some cases have a physical advantage. But this is already the case in each sport: some participants always have physical advantages – larger, stronger, faster, more naturally coordinated – on others.
The only difference here seems to be the reason. No one complains that larger and stronger women should not be allowed to play basketball because it is unfair to shorter and smaller women – unless they are larger and stronger because they are transgender. Let us therefore be clear that the only reason why this is a problem is prejudice against non -cagile people – and the cynical political call for this prejudice.
Jeff Miller, Irvine
