🚨 Cali Gov Gavin Newsom SPLITS with DEMOCRATS on trans issues & says they wrong WRONG for allowing trans athletes in female sports!
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Those that don't think this issue hurts Democrats are the same ones that probably thought that fighting/superpower clip put out yesterday and this clip will help the Dems..
“Do nothing democrats” more upset over tranny babble and congress members speaking out against a facist than they were about 2 of their own tanking their last presidents entire agenda
fukking losers who like losingDems are struggling to agree even tho they know Newsom is right:
My reaction was a little different: Why the hell has it taken this long for a high-profile Democrat to say what most people in the country are thinking?
This is the core problem with a lot of Democratic neo social and economic issues like EVs, trannie rights, and illegal immigration. There's no debate, just dictates. No one has ever answered the complaints and questions from the base. If you have a debate and answer questions in a good way, you can sway people. When you just tell people this is how it's going to be and if you disagree with Der Party you're MAGA, people turn off.
This is the core problem with a lot of Democratic neo social and economic issues like EVs, trannie rights, and illegal immigration. There's no debate, just dictates. No one has ever answered the complaints and questions from the base. If you have a debate and answer questions in a good way, you can sway people. When you just tell people this is how it's going to be and if you disagree with Der Party you're MAGA, people turn off.
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Gavin Newsom breaks with Democrats on trans athletes in sports
The Democratic California governor made the stunning remarks in his debut podcast with conservative guest Charlie Kirk.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights who decades ago upset leaders in his own party when he defied state law and issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples, suggested Democrats were in the wrong in allowing transgender athletes to participate in female college and youth sports.
“I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness — it’s deeply unfair,” Newsom said in his debut podcast episode of “This is Gavin Newsom.” “I am not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you.”
Newsom’s comments on the issue roiling political debates nationwide came in a conversation with influential MAGA-world figure Charlie Kirk, the campus culture warrior who leads the organization Turning Point USA and is a close ally of President Donald Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr.
Newsom also agreed that the most politically destructive attack ads from Trump’s campaign featured Kamala Harris’ support for providing taxpayer-funded gender transition-related medical care for detained immigrants and federal prisoners.
“She didn’t even react to it, which was even more devastating,” Newsom said, suggesting upward of 90 percent of Americans disagreed with Harris’ position. “Then you had the video [of Harris] as a validator. Brutal,” Newsom added. “It was a great ad.”
Kirk challenged Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential hopeful, to speak out against AB Hernandez, a transgender high school track star from California whose triple jump event in the women’s competition is drawing fierce backlash from the right. Newsom said he has four children of his own — including two daughters — and noted that both he and his wife participated in college-level sports, she in soccer and he in baseball.
“I revere sports, so the issue of fairness is completely legit,” Newsom said. “And I saw that — the last couple years, boy did I [see] how you guys were able to weaponize that issue at another level.”
Kirk challenged Newsom over his use of the word “weaponize,” and Newsom replaced it with “highlight.”
POLITICO last month was first to report Newsom’s new podcast, with the Democratic governor saying he drew inspiration from the likes of HBO provocateur Bill Maher, who regularly finds common ground with conservative adversaries while taking frequent aim at Democratic dogma, including on youth trans issues.
Newsom’s interview with Kirk was friendly, sometimes exceedingly so. He mentioned the influence Kirk and other MAGA-world figures have had on his 13-year-old son, distanced himself from the use of pronouns and the gender-neutral term “Latinx,” called police defunding “lunacy,” denounced “cancel culture” and agreed that there had been some internal issues in the leadership of the Black Lives Matter organization.
Indeed, the 75-minute interview presented Newsom in the opposite light than he appeared in over recent years when stumping as a surrogate for former President Joe Biden and Harris and sparring with ideological foes like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Newsom in the podcast also was self-deprecating — joking that he only eats meals (including grabbing take-out) at the famed three-Michelin star French Laundry where he got considerable heat for attending a friends’ party during Covid lockdowns and conceding that he should have been celebrating at the everyman eatery Applebee’s.
On youth trans sports Kirk drew out a longer response.
There are relatively few transgender athletes competing at the collegiate level. But Newsom said it was “easy to call out” the unfairness, echoing concerns raised by Republicans in Washington and across the country who argue that banning trans women and girls from participating in school athletic competitions designated for female athletes would ensure fairness.
While Newsom has at times touched on his own concerns about the issue, particularly around youth sports, the remarks on his eponymous new podcast are his most expansive on the topic. He went on to express sympathy for trans people, noting “these poor people” have higher rates of suicide and depression and saying “the way that people talk down to vulnerable communities is an issue that I have a hard time with, as well.”
Yet, Newsom said Kirk was right when he contended that Republicans were capitalizing politically by painting Democrats as out of step with a strong majority of Americans on the issue. Earlier this week, Senate Democrats blocked a GOP-led effort to bar transgender girls from female youth sports.
“I agree with you,” Newsom said. “We’re getting crushed on it. Crushed. Crushed.”
Newsom noted his own leadership on issues of LGBTQ+ rights but he said even some of his friends have privately asked him why he’s not been more vocal about trans athletes.
He said the authority for trans K-12 athletes competing in girls’ and womens’ sports came from a 2014 state law — signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown — that also allowed students who identified as transgender to use school bathrooms “consistent with their gender identity.”
Newsom compared his position on trans athletes to conservatives who oppose same-sex marriage on principle — saying he values that Kirk and others are not abandoning their opposition now that gay marriages are both legally and socially acceptable by a majority of Americans.
Newsome going against the trans agenda?! They might take him out like JFK.
So people were really serious in wanting trans to play women sports? That should've been a no go since day one
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Charlie Kirk made Newsom take back the word "weaponize" and replace it with "highlight" 
I don't see Gavin Newsom being a viable candidate in 2028.
Trying to pivot to the right and they still shytting on him
I don't see Gavin Newsom being a viable candidate in 2028.
Trying to pivot to the right and they still shytting on him
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TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?
I walk around a little edgy already
I'm latino and have only heard white weirdos use Latinx
Nikka you mexican
This nikka has awful skin
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DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
So basically Trump forced him to lean back on this issue going into 2028?
If he wins let's see if switches back to his old ways
If he wins let's see if switches back to his old ways
itsyoung!!
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Dems are struggling to agree even tho they know Newsom is right:
he never had an epiphany and switched sides on the subject. He never truly believed in transgenders in women sports ever but it got him votes in California. Hes a politician, hes doing what politicians do. They grift to the wider potential audience.
In california, that was the wider audience to reach (for whatever reason
) in rest of America, that is not the wider audience to reach, so hes switching his stance
but do I believe that Newsom genuinely believed trans men should play in female sports ? Nah
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yeah, it's pretty disgusting. the far left is a fukking clown show right nowSo people were really serious in wanting trans to play women sports? That should've been a no go since day one
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