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The volleyball captain feels
effect of the controversy

Re: “Judge: a transgender player can play in a tournament” (Page C1, November 26).

Brooke Slusser, the talented San Jose State women’s volleyball captain, fomented a spurious “emergency” in women’s sports and became the darling of MAGA nation and its Fox News enablers.

After claiming, without any shameful evidence, that transgender female athletes were taking over women’s sports and endangering cisgender female athletes, Ms. Slusser reportedly said she was surprised “at the amount of hatred people could have at my regard “.

If she needs a shoulder to cry on from someone who truly knows hate, may I suggest she talk and commiserate with her transgender teammate.

Barry Goldman Hall

San Jose

The state follows the nation
moving to the right

California voters displayed far-right values ​​on propositions in recent elections.

They voted to keep slavery in California prisons. They voted to fill our prisons with people convicted of minor crimes. They voted against raising the minimum wage for the poorest Californians. They voted against affordable housing for the poorest among us.

Clearly, we have been infected by the same love of authoritarianism that has infected our nation and so many other countries around the world. We have chosen fear and cruelty over love and compassion.

John Pritchard
Watsonville

Democrats should follow the trend
towards the center to win

Clearly, Democratic leaders have grossly misread the mood of the electorate, in a titanic way. While the Republican Party has boldly defined a concrete set of conservative problems, real or imagined, the blue party has failed miserably to address them effectively, if at all.

Republicans’ outreach efforts toward minorities further strengthened their united march to victory, rejecting a presidential candidate for the second time in recent history. This election highlights the fact that charisma, no matter how corrupt, distorted and dangerous it may be, trumps competence and experience every time.

The final message to Democrats should be that a decidedly aggressive move toward the center to win the hearts and minds of the vast silent majority living between the two coasts is most needed. New populist leaders who can move the heart of America are needed to have at least a chance of winning.

Michael Alvarado
San Jose