Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, a potential democratic presidential candidate of 2028, used the first episode of his fresh podcast to break from progressive by speaking out against transgender women and girls to take part in female sports.
Newsom made his explanation in an expanded conversation with the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old, who built the influential turn of Point USA organization, which President Donald Trump increased last autumn last autumn among the latest generation of voters. Like Trump, Kirk was a clamorous opponent in allowing transgender women and girls to take part.
“I think it’s a problem of fairness, I completely agree with them. It’s a problem of fairness – it’s deeply unfair, “said Newsom to Kirk about” This is gavin newsoma “.
“I don’t rings with the fairness problem,” drove Newsom, who played as a student Varsity Baseball. “I fully agree with you. … I worship sports. The problem of fairness is completely legitimate. “
The governor’s comments are the latest efforts by the Democrats to reconcile a choice of 2024, which Trump brought back to the White House and gave the Republicans control over both congress chambers. The disagreements since November have been explaining the losses of the party – in contrast to economic policy and other affairs. Overall, the surveys indicate that it is not popular that transgender athletes in women’s teams can play in the women’s team. Even most of the democrats – about 7 to 10 – reject it after a New York Times/Ipsos survey in January of the New York Times/Ipsos in January New York Times/Ipsos. A 2023 -Gallup survey also showed that the Democrats were divided, whether transgender people should be able to play in sports teams that correspond to their current gender identity.
Newsom, which has long positioned itself as a social progressive progressive, pulled acute lectures from LGBTQ supporters.
“Sometimes Gavin Newsom applies to the profile in courage, sometimes not,” said the MP of California, Chris Ward and Senator Carolina Menjivar, who led the state’s LGBTQ legislativ ok. “We are deeply ill and frustrated by these comments.”
Legislators insisted that “all students earn the academic and health benefits of sporting activities”. They said that playing in a team that matches their own gender was not a problem, “until Donald Trump started to watch.”
There is less public support for broader restrictions for transgender rights and questions such as medical care for transgender people, especially at Democrats. According to AP Viewecast, 55% of voters in the 2024 elections stated that the support for transgender rights in the government and society went too far, while about 2 out of 10 said it was roughly correct and a similar proportion said that it was not far enough. It was also a bit more likely that voters prohibit laws, gender -specific medical treatment, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy, for minors who identify themselves as transgender.
However, the Republicans tried to employ the awards in public opinion on competitive sport.
Trump regularly hammered the democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris, the Californian of Newsom, for the support of LGBTQ+ Right. Trump’s campaign spent tens of million dollars on TV and digital ads with the scorching sum: “Kamala is for her/her. President Trump is for her. “
“Boy, I saw how it was able to weaple it,” said Newsom to Kirk, before he gave up Kirk’s protest and instead said that the ads were an effective “highlight” during the campaign.
Kirk, not Newsom, put on the overall problem during her hourly discussion when the two men discussed how Democrats could rebuild a broader coalition of voters. Kirk pressed news whether he would speak in the competition against Transgender athletes.
The governor tried to mitigate his comments and said that the discussion was more than the rules of the competition.
“There is also a humility and a grace that these poor people commit suicide, have fear and depression, and the way people speak with endangered communities is a problem with which I also find it difficult,” said Newsom. “So, both things I can hold in my hand. How can we tackle this problem with the type of decency that I think is inherent, but not always deals with this topic and at the same time with injustice. “
Nevertheless, Newsom’s approach marks a different political slope more than two decades ago. As the mayor of San Francisco in 2004, Newsom attracted national attention for the first time by leading the city clerk with the creation of same -sex marriage licenses.
The step led to legal steps, which led to a decision by the Supreme Court of California in 2008, which legalized same -sex marriage in the country’s largest state. This decision was made for seven years before the US Court of Justice set up same -sex marriage as a national law. –
Barrow reported from Atlanta. Amelia Thomson-Deveaux and AP writer Michael Blood and Tran Nguyen contributed the reporting.
