In a country where 1 out of 6 women have experienced rape or attempted rape, Republicans believe they've found the real threat to female safety: The slim possibility that a cis college athlete might tie for 5th place in a swim meet with a trans woman. It happened once, and according to Donald Trump and his followers, it's the worst thing that has possibly happened to a woman in all of human history. "We will not allow men to beat up, injure, and cheat girls," Trump declared last week as he rolled out an executive order banning trans women from sports.
In terms of Trump's lies, this one was especially obnoxious, as Trump himself was found by a civil jury liable for sexually assaulting journalist E. Jean Carroll. His Cabinet nominations have been a murder's row of men accused of rape, sex trafficking, and other abuses of women. The lies are layered upon each other because his speech was about trans women in sports. That has nothing to do with injuring women, as trans women are women and there's no evidence that any of them are hurting cis women.
