20 things we have more of than transgender NCAA athletes: From Trump felonies to measles cases
03/26/25
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For how much Republican lawmakers focus on them, the number of transgender athletes in the NCAA is laughably small.
When NCAA President Charlie Baker was asked by a Senate panel in December how many trans athletes were competing in the organization, he replied, "fewer than ten." That's out of over 500,000 athletes who compete in the NCAA.
That didn't stop Donald Trump's executive order banning trans athletes from competing in sports that align with their identities, nor the NCAA's subsequent compliance. Neither did the scientific consensus — a comprehensive review of several studies on trans participation in sports under their gender identity found that trans athletes, post transition, are "more similar to their gender identity." It noted that both transgender and cisgender athletes show great variations in ability.
With that in mind, here are some things that the U.S. has more of than trans NCAA athletes.
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Trump has been convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, stemming from payments he made to bisexual adult film actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an alleged affair.
E. Jean Carroll arrives for her civil defamation trial against former President Donald Trump at Manhattan Federal Court on January 25, 2024 in New York City.
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At least 26 women have accused Trump of sexual harassment and/or assault, including groping and rape. He was found liable in 2023 for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
Attorney for the President, Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media at a press conference held in the back parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping on November 7, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Trump has been defended by (and fired) dozens of lawyers since 2016, with the total number of attorneys who have worked for him landing just below 60.
JD Vance Donald Trump campaign rally in Atlanta, GA (August, 2024)
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So far, 127 legal cases have been filed against the current Trump Administration since he took office in January, according to NPR. These include challenges to his gender-affirming care ban, trans military ban, and other anti-trans executive orders.
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Minnesota Republican State Senator Justin Eichorn mugshot after being arrested for soliciting sex from a minor.
(photo) Bloomington Police Department; (background) shutterstockNo official number on this one, but it's way more than ten. Three of Trump's initial cabinet picks alone were accused of sex crimes.
Stand up for science rally against President Donald Trump's proposed scientific research funding cuts in Minneapolis, Minnesota (March 07, 2025)
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The current outbreak of measles, which was previously considered eliminated in the U.S., now has over 300 reported cases in Texas and New Mexico, according to the the most recent estimate via CBS. This surpasses the total number of cases in all of the U.S. in all of 2024.
Elon Musk averages around 100 tweets per day, many of which are either agreeing with white supremacists, or spreading white supremacist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
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cristiano barni/ShutterstockMusk has 14 children with four different women.
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Tesla stock has lost over half of its value so far in 2025, dropping more than 50 percent over eight consecutive weeks, according to the most recent estimate via Commerical Appeal. Musk has since earned the Guinness World Record for worst loss of fortune in history, losing $182 billion since November, 2021.
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There have been at least 232 confirmed cases of Tesla vehicles catching fire, according to the Tesla Fire tracker. Carjunkya reports that there are an estimated 16 Tesla cars that catch fire per year. And that doesn't even cover recent arson cases.
Tesla Cybertruck, which have mostly been recalled.
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Nearly all Cybertrucks, over 46,000, were recalled recently because exterior panels have been detaching while driving and hitting other cars.
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New documents filed by the Justice Department, via Business Insider, reveal that roughly 25,000 federal workers were terminated across the government during Trump's first 100 days in office.
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There's no telling exactly how many products have been impacted by Trump's tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico, but the taxes impact roughly $800 billion worth of imports, according to the Washington Post.
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PEN America has recorded over 15,940 instances of book bans across 43 states and 415 public school districts since July, 2021.
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This meme is all over the internet. The Guardian says there's at least 1,000, but there's probably far, far, more.
A 3D illustration of the now debunked competing conspiracy theory that the Earth is flat
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About 10 percent of the 1,134 respondents in a 2022 University of New Hampshire online survey said they think the Earth is flat.
"RuPaul's Drag Race" host RuPaul Charles
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There are nearly two dozen spin-offs of RuPaul's Drag Race. Not seasons, franchises.
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Remember when it was just Netflix? There are over 200 streaming services around the world today.
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There are currently 12 flavors of Absolut Vodka, almost as many as Elon Musk's kids.