Yesterday CNN’s Jake Tapper did a segment on the Mid Vermont Christian School girls basketball team choosing to forfeit rather than put their girls on the court against a team w’ith a 6’3” boy. CNN brought a female reporter Brynn Gingras to get the story. Mid Vermont declined to be interviewed almost certainly to avoid the kind of hit piece journalism the network is now famous for and why they have plummeted in the ratings.
One Vermonter who did interview was Windsor County senator Becca White who represents the families at Mid Vermont. Instead of standing up for the girls in her community as well as the religious freedoms protected by the United States Constitution White chose to support the wealthy enclave of Dorset, VT. Dorset has a median income nearly six figures ($92,386) and the white collar to blue collar worker ratio is 172 to 4.
After her interview on CNN the savvy politician decided to share her moment on television via her Twitter account. The feedback she got was overwhelmingly negative. As of this morning with over two hundred responses I could only find two that supported her. Senator White tweeted:
“Proud to be a Vermonter, where while the other parts of the nation fumble, we rise above and stand against discrimination of trans youth. #vtpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights” @BeccaWhiteVT
Here is what the rest of Vermont, the United States and the world had to say:
“I’m a Dem & would love to know why you think 1 male is more important than 100s of girls who lose fair sports when they’re forced to compete against him. What’s the lesson? Girls, it doesn’t matter how many of you this is unfair to, what 1 male wants is more important.” – @SunshineSunnier
“Mediocre male athletes who can’t make the grade in their own sex class have no place in female single-sex sport. There’s no difference between men competing against women & male athletes taking performance-enhancing drugs to cheat against their peers. They’re all #CheatsAndLiars” – @TinCanSquat
“You really like throwing other women under the bus, don’t you? What a good Men’s Right’s Activist you are. You are grovelling to male power and privilege.” – @CatFinola
One account posted a quote from Kara Dansky of the WomensLiberationFront.org:
“Only men could oppress women for thousands of years, then turn around, put on a dress, and complain they are the most marginalized group in society.”
Another woman asked:
Why do you believe that masculine girls and feminine boys are a problem that needs to be fixed? – @Serena_Partrick
@Anne_on_gd, sporting her LGBTQ pride flag support icon was so bothered by senator White’s interview she tweeted twice asking:
“What message are you sending to girls? That the feelings of a single boy matter more than the hard won rights and dignity of 100 girls? That they must prioritize the needs of other’s ahead of their own? How’s that progressive?”
Then demonstrably exclaiming:
“Stop treating girls as state sanctioned sacrificial emotional support humans for males with (claimed) identity issues!”
Mark in California tweets:
“Every student is free to play in his or her sex class. Only a misogynist supports letting boys play in girls sports. Why do you hate women and girls?”
VTcommonsense tweets:
“No one is discriminating. We’re saying that confused kids don’t need to be sexually mutilated. How do you people sleep at night?”
Probably on $400 virgin, organic, goose-down pillows.
Finally, Ginny ads:
“Things like this are making it next to impossible to remain in support of Democrats. Males do not belong in female sports. It’s astonishing that’s even a controversial statement. Shame on you for shutting these young women up. Being pro-woman is not anti-trans.” – @tazerface43
After the 2020 election debacle over 1 million Democrats left the party and registered as Republicans. It appears senator White’s CNN appearance likely added to that number as of last night.
Which raises the adage – how do you make a Republican in Vermont? Keep electing progressives.
