President Donald Trump signed an govt order banning males from ladies’s sports activities the opposite day, and he thought it was good.
However no person from Massachusetts did.
All of them voted towards it. Not the chief order, that’s, though they might have if they may have.
What the Massachusetts delegation to the U.S. Home, all Democrats, did do was to vote towards the companion invoice banning males from enjoying in ladies’s sports activities when it handed on a 218 206 vote.
All 9 Massachusetts members of the Home voted towards it.
In different phrases, they voted to permit males to proceed to compete with ladies in ladies’s sports activities regardless of frequent sense, accidents to women and overwhelming public opinion that they be denied.
That invoice, referred to as “The Safety of Ladies and Ladies in Sports activities Act,” is pending within the Senate and is predicted to go and be despatched to Trump for his signature. Each Massachusetts Democrat Sens Elizabeth Warren and Eddie Markey are additionally anticipated to vote towards it.
No matter Trump is for, they’re towards, it doesn’t matter what.
On this case, in addition to in others, like unlawful immigrant crime, the Democrats, determined to search out relevance, are on the fallacious aspect of the problem, the fallacious aspect of historical past and the worn aspect of frequent sense.
In contrast to a presidential govt order, which will be overturned by the subsequent president, it could take laws and presidential approval to negate this laws. In different phrases, the legislation reinforces the chief order.
However Trump didn’t look forward to the invoice however signed the chief order on the White Home anyway. Titled “Maintaining Males Out of Ladies’s Sports activities,” Trump signed it entrance of a grateful and adoring crowd of women, feminine youngsters and grownup ladies.
Surrounded by younger women, Trump, as is his behavior, signed the chief or with a flourish and gave out a dozen signing pens to the joyful kids round him. And he did it on Nationwide Ladies and Ladies in Sports activities Day
“The battle on ladies’s sports activities is over,” Trump declared.
Beneath the chief order and the pending laws, the federal government can withhold federal funds from public elementary and secondary colleges, in addition to schools, which don’t adjust to the order.
Simply because the Massachusetts progressive delegation to the Home, with one exception— Rep. Stephen Lynch of South Boston— voted as a bunch towards the Laken Riley Act, which permits for the deportation of legal unlawful immigrants, all of them voted towards banning males in ladies’s sports activities.
Voting towards the safety of ladies invoice have been Lynch and Reps. Richard Neal of Springfield, James McGovern of Worcester, Lori Trahan of Westford, Jake Auchincloss of Newton, Katherine Clark of Revere, Seth Moulton of Salem, Ayanna Pressley of Boston and William Keating of Bourne.
What stands out are the votes of Moulton and Trahan.
It was Moulton following Donald Trump’s wipeout of Kamala Harris, who criticized Democrats for being out of contact with the voters and thus dropping the election.
He criticized the Democrat Social gathering’s assist of the problem of organic males enjoying in ladies’s sports activities, which Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Democrats endorsed.
“I’ve two little women,” Moulton mentioned after the election. “I don’t need them to get run over on a enjoying subject by a male or previously male athlete. However I’m not imagined to say that.”
After blowback from progressives for deviating from social gathering progressive coverage, Mouton modified his tune and voted towards the invoice banning males from ladies’s sports activities. He mentioned the invoice was “excessive” in that it undermined “civil rights protections for transgender People.”
Trahan gained a highschool volleyball scholarship to Georgetown College when ladies didn’t compete with males in volleyball or sports activities usually. She launched an announcement on Nationwide Ladies and Ladies in Sports activities Day touting her assist for women and girls in sports activities whilst she voted towards the invoice.
She mentioned the invoice would “impose a federal takeover of sports activities, a transfer that might ban the participation of transgender kids in sports activities.”
Like diminutive Gov. Maura Healey starring in Harvard basketball competing towards ladies solely, it’s extremely unlikely that Trahan would have gotten a scholarship to Georgetown had she performed volleyball towards males, and never women.
Democrats have all of it backwards.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas will be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
