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Now that the GOP is attacking him as being too pro trans, Newsom is pushing back. Hmm.
Governor Newsom Press Office Y @GovPressOffice X.com Correct. We're sorry your daughter hates you, Elon. America * @america • 7h California Governor Gavin Newsom: "I want to see trans kids... There's no governor that's done more pro trans legislation than I have."
Governor Newsom Press Office • 16h X RT GOP GOP • 1d I WANT TO SEE TRANS KIDS.. -Gavin Newsom
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Here's where that quote that the GOP is pushing came from: yesterday's Ezra Klein podcast. Newsom brought it up unprompted. Doesn't really say what he believes, but seemed to want to get on the record as slightly less antagonistic to trans people. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/o...
We didn't get into trans sports. That's an issue no one wants to hear about because 80 percent of the people listening disagree with my position on this. But it comes from my heart, not just my head. It wasn't a political evolution. Your position being? I want to see trans kids. I have a trans godson. There's no governor who has signed more pro-trans legislation than I have. No one has been a stronger advocate for the L.G.B.T.Q. community. But you have to accommodate the reality of those whose rights are being taken away as we advance the rights of the trans community, in terms of the fairness of athletic competition. And I just think that's not a bigoted position. And it's an example of some of the things I've been saying about being judgmental, dismissing people, throwing that person out of the party. You want to talk about cancel culture? I've lived it on that issue alone, despite a record of 30 years. And people are willing to say: I'm done. I've lost friendships on that position. That position, by the way, came to me two years before, when I had to try to accommodate a trans athlete and another athlete who were in the state finals at track and field. They both dropped out because we couldn't figure out a way to make it fair. It was so unfair to both their families. It broke my heart. I tried for two years to figure out how to do this.
So I was asked: Is it fair? I'm like: I don't know. I don't know how to make it fair, but these people just want to survive. Where's our grace and dignity about this community, at the same time? So this is life. It's not linear. It's circular. It's not just politics. And I just want to bring a little life back to my politics. I've got a year left. I've got an expiration sell-by date. I'm on a milk carton. To the extent I want to hold the line and push back against Trump, I'll take no back seat to anybody else. To the extent you want to throw me into the mix with these 12 other remarkable leaders — they're all friends, I'm going to see them all tomorrow at the D.G.A., half of them governors, the other half great senators and legislative leaders in Congress — what a humble and extraordinary thing. That's something you pinch yourself about — going back to the 960 SAT kid who couldn't read in the back of the class.
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