Nikki Haley said the most important issue facing teenage girls is unfair competition from transgirl athletes.
An estimated ONE MILLION high school girls have been raped based on a 2021 (NBC) report. In 2021, 2590 children under 18 were murdered by guns (Pew). Before age 18, 3.5 Million girls have been stalked. One in 10 girls is a victim of dating violence.(Childrens Hosp of Phila).
Meanwhile, (Apr 21, 2023) Newsweek reports 15 high school transathletes competed in high school sports, of those 15, only THREE are girls.
MAGA will exaggerate and lie about victimization to justify hate and bigotry. Nazis did this, too. It's not harmless.
I have absolutely nothing against trans-men (or women) nor against members of the LGBTQIA+ community in general. However, it seems to be an acknowledged medical fact the level of of testosterone in a baby's bloodstream, even as early as in the womb has a significant effect on the development of bone and muscle mass so even if raised testosterone levels experienced by males in puberty is later prevented by the administration of medication. I fear that girls may therefore be significantly disadvantaged by having to compete against boys who have been "converted" to girls even if the "conversion" is made before puberty.
On the rape question:
unfortunately, much of the output from Hollywood and the US TV studios glorifies rape, violence and male privilege (what might be described as the right to rape). Young people take many of their cues from what they see on TV and in films so it isn't altogether surprising that rapes and other forms of sexual violence are commonplace in the US.
@Paulos_the_fog The "rape question"? So a million raped girls is just not a priority for you because you blame tv, and not the rapist boys and men? It's not only boys who rape girls under 18, it's men your age.
You can stop fearing 3 transgirls, I was a very small Asian American girl, and genetically bigger stronger faster more muscular taller white girls are a fact of existence, I didn't run for President trying to ban white girls from school sports because of biologically unfair athletic advantage. Do you realize how ridiculous that is? Nikki Haley should.
Christ! You're a spiteful bit of work!
No, of course, 1,000,000, girls raped is a massive priority! However, looking at the USA from the outside (I live in Europe in a country where rape is vanishingly rare), I see some reasons why the issue may be greater there, than in some other societies, and to me it is perfectly valid to point that out. Where do both boys and men get their ideas of what is acceptable and their moral values from, if not from the predominant media; TV and films?
Of course it's the fault and responsibility of the boys and men themselves BUT blaming them is not actually going to fix the problem whereas making some adjustments to what is permitted to be shown in films just might!
@Paulos_the_fog @pattykimura you need to give your head a wobble! Saying that rapists shouldn't be blamed and trying to imply that it's somehow the fault of TV/media is a cop out. They all make the decision to rape, that's on them, no one else.
@SarahDelahunty @Paulos_the_fog @pattykimura I do, without any reservations, share your abhorrence of rape.
Because I do so, I try to understand why it happens because one needs to understand the root causes in order to bring about any kind of meaningful change.
You don't need to defend rapists in order to ask why they became what they are. It's surely not the devil coercing them, so there's genetics and our society to put under scrutiny. What's wrong with that?
@zappes @SarahDelahunty @pattykimura
My point absolutely!
The attitude of some seems to be, apart from condemning it out of hand, we mustn't discuss or reason why rape happens or even what to do about it.
No blame must be attached to US society or its attitude toward women as America is the greatest society in the world - the greatest society there has ever been or ever will be and saying or doing anything that contradicts that statement is un-American and clearly just plain wrong and should be illegal.
Something like that?
