Arizona law blocked my daughter from playing high school sports
Today there is a national attempt to ban trans students from sports.
My daughter attends a small school that has always encouraged students to try new things, so it makes every effort to have a wide variety of sports, arts, music and other extracurricular activities.
School officials strongly feel that a desire to try something is all that’s needed, and any skill can be learned along the way.
Last school year my daughter wanted to try track. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough interest at the time to be able to field a team. It was her junior year, and she could always try again her senior year.
Except she cannot. Arizona passed a transgender sports ban. Any opportunity she had to try something new was taken from her.
She’s not trying to “steal opportunities” or any other phobic garbage. She’s not some elective athlete who was going to get scholarships or awards. She is just a teenager who was trying to step out of her comfort zone and try a new thing to see if she even liked it or not.
Those opportunities are forever lost to her.
I urge my elected officials to vote no on this sports ban and be loud so our children hear you.
Nancy Ray, Phoenix
Do Dems support women's sports?
The U.S. House voted to protect girls and women’s sports by passing legislation that prevents transgender women from participating in women’s sports.
Sadly, not one Democrat voted in favor of this. Are our state’s Democrats anti-women?
Are our state’s Democrats in favor of men dominating women’s sports?
Please ask your elected Democrat officials for a real answer.
Ron Heimer, Show Low
Tucker got canned? What a gift
It’s like an early Christmas gift!
Tucker Carlson is gone and it’s the best news that’s come about in recent news cycles. The master purveyor of fake news himself may go the way of Glenn Beck.
I’ll truly miss his insane rhetoric, such as comparing Jan. 6 with tourists visiting the Capitol and his frequent dog whistles regarding race. Yes, he’ll be missed. Not!
Now, let’s see what transpires with the remaining clowns at Fox.
Louis Gardella, Sun City
Budweiser did this to itself
As a retired corporate marketing guy, I can’t believe the Budweiser debacle actually happened.
The executives who OK’d the idea should quit or retire because you have to try real hard to be foolish enough to think it was a good idea.
More letters: Cities drag their heels on pickleball courts
In my lifelong association with an iconic brand, any such attempt to include a political comment into a product would have resulted in early end to a career.
Jim Peterson, Sagewood
Let's not finish the job Biden started
The latest is that Joe Biden is urging us “to finish the job.” That’s scary.
The “job” he has started, despite first-term declarations of unity, has been one of bowing to his progressive puppet masters for DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), ESG (environmental, social and governance), drag queens, CRT (critical race theory), and ESL (English as a second language).
Given the abominable withdrawal from Afghanistan and his incoherent statements in public, can any allies, let alone the American people, want to “finish the job” he has started?
Jim Thomas, Florence
Reauthorize the Child Tax Credit now
Millions of low-income households who just filed taxes this month did not receive refunds or received much lower ones than previously because Congress failed to reauthorize the expanded Child Tax Credit for 2022.
The 2021 expansion of the CTC allowed all low-income families to receive the credit as monthly payments, and as a result, the nation saw a major drop in child poverty rates.
But now the families of 19 million children will receive a much smaller benefit, including 2 million who will receive nothing at all. Meanwhile, families earning $400,000 per year will receive their full CTC.
In other words, the children of the wealthiest families benefit at the cost of those in the neediest families. Our tax code must work for all, not merely the wealthiest Americans.
Congress must act immediately to reauthorize the expanded CTC for low-income families.
Barbara Rodman, Phoenix
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