{"id":55103,"date":"2025-03-06T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/state-lawmakers-disagree-with-newsoms-take-on-transgender-athletes\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:30:13","slug":"state-lawmakers-disagree-with-newsoms-take-on-transgender-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/state-lawmakers-disagree-with-newsoms-take-on-transgender-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"State lawmakers disagree with Newsom\u2019s take on transgender athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Democrats on Thursday distanced themselves from Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s recent comments on transgender athletes, saying they are committed to protecting equality even as their state\u2019s leader sides with a prominent right-wing figure on inclusion in sports. Newsom said on his new podcast that he \u201ccompletely agrees\u201d with guest Charlie Kirk that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete against cisgender women and girls as a matter of \u201cfairness.\u201d California Rep. Mark Takano, chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, said in response that trans people must be protected. \u201cOver the past two months, the Trump Administration has been weaponizing&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/california-state-lawmakers-disagree-with-gov-gavin-newsoms-take-on-transgender-athletes\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Democrats on Thursday distanced themselves from Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s recent comments on transgender athletes, saying they are committed to protecting equality even as their state\u2019s leader sides with a prominent right-wing figure on inclusion in sports. Newsom said on his new podcast that he \u201ccompletely agrees\u201d with guest Charlie Kirk that transgender athletes should &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}