California Governor Gavin Newsom might just have lost any chance he had to become the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nominee. On the other hand, denouncing “trans women” who play in women’s sports might have returned some sanity to the party of abortion, sodomy, and “transgenders.”
During his premiere This is Gavin Newsom podcast, the far-left Newsom said what any normal person believes. Permitting men who pretend they are women to play women’s sports is unfair.
It was a remarkable moment. A top Democrat said what everyone thinks, and swam against the ideological tide that contributed to the crushing defeat of former Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5.
As expected, top party people and far-left tranny activists reacted with fury. Given that such radicals control the party top-to-bottom, Newsom might have wrecked any chance for taking the Democratic nomination a few years from now.
The Interview
Appearing on the maiden broadcast was conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, head of Turning Point USA.
The discussion of men in women’s sports concerned a “trans girl” called AB Hernandez, a junior at Jurupa Valley High School, about 11.5 miles west of Riverside. At a recent event, he smashed his female competitors in the long jump, high jump, and triple long jump.
Hernandez’s triple jump was 40-foot, 8 feet more than his closest competitor. His long jump was 17 feet, 6 inches, and his high jump was 4 feet, 10 inches.
“Wow, what an accomplishment,” commentator Collin Rugg wrote on X. “I’m sure it had nothing to do with being a biological male.”
“You right now should come out and be like, ‘you know what, the young man who is about to win the state championship in the long jump in female sports, that shouldn’t happen,’” Kirk said:
You as the governor should step up and say no. Would you do something like that? Would you say “no men in female sports”?
Newsom answered incorrectly as far as the “trans movement” and its Democratic enablers are concerned.
“I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that. So that’s easy to call out, the unfairness of that,” Newsom said.
While Newsom expressed sympathy for the “vulnerable” community of “transgenders,” he added that he is “not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you.”
Democrats’ Reaction
That’s why the Tranny-Democrat Leftosphere turned lavender with rage.
Politico helpfully curated the fury.
“It’s disgusting,” said Lori Lightfoot, Chicago’s lesbian former mayor who vaguely resembles Beetlejuice:
There are kids waking up today in California with this news thinking that their governor hates them, and rightly so.
Indian immigrant Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington told fellow tranny supporters in her party “not take the bait and give in to their anti trans people rhetoric.”
“She hadn’t seen Newsom’s comments,” Politico observed.
Bad for Newsom and bad for the party’s future, “major LGBTQ+ organizations immediately made clear they’re looking at trans athletes as a litmus test for ambitious Democrats,” Politico reported:
“Our message to Gov. Newsom and all leaders across the country is simple: The path to 2028 isn’t paved with the betrayal of vulnerable communities — it’s built on the courage to stand up for what’s right and do the hard work to actually help the American people,” said Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson.
U.S. Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts explained the electoral math for the Human Rights Campaign and its litmus testers.
Moulton landed in hot water in November when he uttered a heresy.
“I have two little girls,” he told The New York Times. “I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”
He stood his ground for Politico:
The true story is that we’ve seen in opinion poll after opinion poll that a majority of the country (and Democrats!) agree with this idea. More and more are willing to say what they’ve probably always thought — and that’s a good thing.
A swing-state Democratic strategist agreed. “We just stepped too far out of the bounds and let the far left drive the narrative,” he told Politico. “Our own voters don’t agree with trans athletes in youth or college sports.”
Understandably, the strategist spoke on the condition of anonymity, likely because he didn’t want “trans” activists to firebomb his house.
“To have the governor of one of the bluest states come out and say this, saying our party has gone too far left, then it’s a permission structure for other Democrats to do this, too — to start saying publicly what people have been saying privately,” the strategist continued.
Still, some Democrats just don’t get it.
“I just saw the headline. I haven’t read it but I know where I stand,” Rep. Lateefah Simon of California told the website. “We don’t mess with our young people, our young people, we got to bring them in, we don’t want to exclude them.”
California Representative Sara Jacobs, vice chairman of the Congressional Equality Caucus, Capitol Hill’s pro-homosexual, pro-”transgender” lobby, said:
What’s unfair is the targeting of transgender kids and politicians abandoning them for political expediency.
How’d You Do It?
Newsom invited Kirk to discuss his success in moving young Americans to the right, particularly on college campuses.
“I think people need to understand your success, your influence,” Newsom told Kirk.
Kirk told the governor that “we had a goal” of moving “the youth vote 10 points over 10 years,” but that his movement did so in four years. The Democrats helped tremendously, Kirk said.
“This is the first time in America’s history that a 30-year-old is gonna have it worse off than their parents,” Kirk said:
It’s a breakdown of the social compact. But they are the most alcohol-addicted, most drug-addicted, most suicidal, most depressed, most medicated generation in history. And the message that was largely being fed to a lot of young people [from the Democrats] was, “Lower your expectations, you’re not going to have the same American dream that your parents would have.” And we saw this as an opportunity, especially with young men.
As well, Kirk said, Trump “became a cultural phenomenon, where, no matter what you threw at this guy, he rose above it.”
For young men, Trump is “an ascendant rebel attitude against these institutions that have failed them so miserably.”
