Reject Proposition 1 for the Sake of All the Women
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For the sake of Liberty, the WNBA champions, vote No on Proposition 1.
Under Prop 1, it would be illegal for the Liberty to exclude from their team people who were born as biological males, but subsequently, through surgery or by mental inclination, now identify themselves as female.
If the team won with one or more such players, would actual women be so enthusiastically cheering their success? Recent decades of women’s rights success (“You’ve come a long way, Baby,” Title IX and women’s sports) have become quickly snuffed out by the current wave of “gender uncertainty.”
Despite half-truths and strident political claims this year on both sides of the abortion issue, neither group can force a sweeping “Law of the Land,” which overrides the will of this state’s voters. A vote of No on Proposition 1 is irrelevant on that issue. That’s the way rights are protected by the Constitution of a federal republic. That’s democracy in America.
The broadly sweeping, but sparsely worded umbrella of Proposition 1 contains additional objectionable threats: to young girls’ sports, parental rights on medical procedures and religious freedom of health care workers, among others, but I leave those convincing arguments to other writers. But I strongly recommend a vote of No on Proposition 1.
Thank you.
Nicholas Merriam
Jefferson Valley
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