California Dem Gov. Candidate Tom Steyer Defends High School Trans Athletes
“When you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid”
During a recent appearance on the Jennifer Welch podcast, Tom Steyer, a billionaire Democrat running for governor of California, said that he is ‘totally’ in favor of trans athletes in high school.
I have been saying that Democrats learned absolutely nothing from the 2024 election, and this is further proof. They have every intention of returning to the same issues they supported before losing power.
Not only does the public not support the idea of trans athletes in high school sports, but the very idea of ‘trans kids’ has been soundly rejected.
They just don’t care.
FOX News reports:
California billionaire Tom Steyer defends trans athletes in high school sports as governor’s race heats up
California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer defended transgender athletes competing in high school sports in a podcast posted on Sunday, arguing that excluding transgendered youth from athletics would worsen the emotional and mental health struggles many already face.
“I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school,” Steyer told “I’ve Had It” podcast host Jennifer Welch.
“When you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid, and you understand almost half of them try to commit suicide, then you think, ‘We’re gonna punish those kids, we’re gonna cut them off from team sport.’ It’s like, no we’re not.”
Steyer made similar remarks when speaking to CBS Los Angeles but also branded dissidents for perpetuating a “right-wing attempt” to smear transgender individuals.
“To be clear, this is not some huge epidemic,” he said. “This is a right-wing attempt to victimize and villainize already vulnerable and desperate people, and my heart completely goes out to the people who are so sad, feel so rejected, and so unaccepted that half of them would try to kill themselves.”
Steyer is among a crowded field of Democrats vying to retain party control of the governorship once incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom’s term expires.
Here’s the video:
Tom Steyer: “I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school. When you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid and you understand almost half of them try to commit suicide. Then you think we’re gonna punish those kids, we’re gonna cut them… pic.twitter.com/XyP6vZGSrB
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On a side note, you have to love Tom Steyer, the billionaire, in front of a background that reads, “tax billionaires.”
Someone should let him know that he is free to pay more to the government in taxes whenever he chooses.
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Comments
If you have vulnerability, stress, and danger, maybe you should just stay home instead of forcing your undesirable and nonsensical participation on others.
Leftists would rather punish well adjusted girls by kicking them to the back of the line behind confused boys and their psychotic parents.
Democrats are prisoners of their ideology so of course they are absolutely going to die on this hill.
It’s like Steyer is the idiot stalking horse for all of the democrat candidates. The progressive coastal trans garbage is repulsive to the 30+ year old Hispanic majority.
Becarra appeals to the low information democrat voter; he’s a cipher. He’s a low wit moron just like Harris – minus the alcoholism. And he knows not to run his mouth.
Just another communist idiot who can’t tell the difference between boys and girls
Which matters not at all to the Communist satraps who actually run California. That’s who Steyer is auditioning for.
“They just don’t care.” They dare not care either. They are a sick immoral cult.
I’m in favor of transitioning Steyer whether he wanted to be transitioned or not.
Hey! Who wouldn’t eagerly agree to have their GENDER CONFIRMED?!
You have to read his statement carefully: “I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school.” What he does not say is which teams they should compete on. So with the same statement, he manages to trigger both MAGA supporters and “childless cat ladies” — just in opposite directions. In effect, he is saying almost nothing at all while allowing both sides to interpret it however they want…
Steyer says, “We’re gonna punish those kids [transgendered], we’re gonna cut them off from team sport.’ It’s like, no we’re not.”
He is setting up a straw horse and poking holes in it.
This is not about cutting kids off from competing for team sports or even individual sports. It is about on which team to play and who one is competing against. Simple rule: boys against boys and girls against girls as it has always been (except openly intramural sports and perhaps by the East German Olympics teams).
Billionaire straight white male Tom Steyer, champion of the oppressed trans high school athlete.
Idle-rich trust fund baby Karl Marx, champion of the oppressed laborer.
SSDD.
Trans is the guy who works on your transmission.
You’re referring to gender dysphoria, a severe mental illness
Can we please not cede the language of the debate?
Indeed – the proper terminology is not “Trans”, it’s “Cross Dresser.”
Transvestite.
I think Steyer will say anything to get ahead. I do not know what he believes or if he really believes anything. I think he is looking at Dem views and thinks “I must make this my view” and it does not matter what people think.
More like, “This is the view I paid for, who has a better right to use it?”
These people pushing kids into mental illness will pay someday.
Rob Reiner has entered the chat…
Tragic but true. Suicidal compassion and empathy.
I know Steyer is a billionaire but I wonder just how he did it. You don’t amass that type of wealth by dumping 10’s of millions into something that was a loser from the start. Why is he burning all that money up regurgitating views that Dems hold anyways?
The same investment playbook that created wealth also generated controversy: reporting and student protests linked Farallon to investments some found socially or environmentally objectionable, and Steyer later confronted criticism over past holdings — including fossil‑fuel exposure and backing companies now tied to private prisons — even as he publicly recast himself as a climate advocate [7][4][1].
https://factually.co/fact-checks/finance/how-did-tom-steyer-make-billions-83b558
Steyerrhea is a raving lunatic,
People like Steyer and his supporters are the reason CA sucks.
Setter is a crackpot.
Steyer!