Newsom draws heavy criticism after saying transgender athletes in women's sports is 'deeply unfair'

Governor Gavin Newsom is drafting dense disapproval Thursday from the LGBTQ+ assemblage aft hosting a arguable and blimpish activistic connected his caller podcast and saying information of transgender athletes successful women's sports is unfair.

Newsom interviewed Charlie Kirk for much than an hr and 20 minutes connected his podcast, "This is Gavin Newsom."

During the conversation, Kirk brought up the Democratic Party's enactment for transgender athletes competing successful women's sports.

"So similar you close present should travel retired and beryllium like, 'You cognize what, the young antheral who's astir to triumph the authorities title successful the agelong leap successful pistillate sports, that shouldn't happen.' You arsenic the politician should measurement retired and accidental no," Kirk said.

Newsom responded by saying those situations are "deeply unfair."

"Well, it's I deliberation it's an contented of fairness," Newsom said. "I wholly hold with you connected that... It's casual to telephone retired the unfairness of that. There's besides a humility and a grace. You cognize that these mediocre radical are much apt to perpetrate suicide, person anxiousness and slump and the mode that radical speech down to susceptible communities is an contented that I person a hard clip with arsenic well. So some things I tin clasp successful my hand. How tin we code this contented with the benignant of decency that I deliberation you cognize it's inherent successful you?"

Newsom's connection rapidly spurred the nation's largest LGBTQ+ civilian rights group, the Human Rights Campaign, to nonstop a informing changeable crossed Newsom's bow successful respect to a imaginable tally for the presidency.

The radical released a connection that reads successful part, "The way to 2028 isn't paved with the betrayal of susceptible communities... it's built connected the courageousness to basal up for what's close and bash the hard enactment to really assistance the American people."

The governor's connection marked a spot of a U-turn for Newsom, who, arsenic Mayor of San Francisco 20 years ago, defied authorities instrumentality and allowed same-sex couples to marry.

Current California instrumentality allows transgender athletes to play connected schoolhouse teams that are accordant with their sex identity.

Crowds surrounded Kirk arsenic helium spoke connected the Cal State Northridge field arsenic portion of his "American Comeback" tour.

Supporters of his and protesters against him packed the quad adjacent the University Student Union.

Some pupil demonstrators were unhappy with Newsom's transgender shift.

"I deliberation astatine the extremity of the day, Newsom is simply a politician, and I deliberation that politicians are going to bash what's champion for them. I deliberation that him siding with Charlie Kirk is the champion for him successful his mind," CSUN sophomore Madeline Burton said.