Why WA voters rebuffed Dems on I-638, even in blue wave election
www.seattletimes.com
As a blue wave washed across the U.S., Washington voters passed an initiative that the state’s Democratic Party opposed. There are multiple ways to understand why.

Opponents say [Washington state] voters were persuaded at least partly because the initiative and its boosters exploited deep-seated prejudices and misunderstandings about transgender people to erode their rights.

      • dragonlover@lemmy.zip
        31·
        4 hours ago

        Your proof is one article about a political stunt by a guy who doesnt identify as trans making a statement to discredit a trans athlete that transitioned with hormones and surgery 20 years before the event?

        • ryannathans@aussie.zone
          12·
          4 hours ago

          You’re engaging in a very disrespectful manner, with a clear agenda. You are not discussing this in good faith. I will engage with you just once now you’ve moved the debate’s goal posts again.

          Rachel McKinnon (now Veronica Ivy) - Set a women’s world record and won gold at the 2019 Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester. In 2018 set a world record in the women’s 200m sprint.

          Laurel Hubbard - Set masters world records with a 131kg snatch and 149kg clean & jerk at the 2017 World Masters Games.

          Mary Gregory - Four powerlifting records in 2019.

          Anne Andres - Set a Canadian women’s powerlifting national record and an unofficial women’s world record.

          Lia Thomas - swimming records at UPenn (wiped by US govt)

          Sadie Schreiner - a few sprinting records at SIT

          Cortez-Fields - swimming records at Ramapo College

          AB Hernandez - high school track in California. Set a record with a 39-foot-10-inch triple jump at the 2026 winter championships