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A Mother’s Plea Over Transgender Athletes in Women's Sports
Hotair ^
| 10/14/2019
| Jazz shaw
Posted on 10/14/2019 4:03:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There was a rather heartbreaking op-ed in the New York Post on Sunday that’s probably worth your time to read. It was written by Cheryl Radachowsky, a Connecticut mother of a daughter, Alanna Smith, who is a rising star in high school track and field competition, particularly the 100, 200 and 400-meter sprinting events. But like too many parents of promising young female athletes, she is watching her daughter’s collegiate dreams be derailed by a pair of boys who “identify” as girls, though they have never had hormone therapy or surgery.
Cheryl first goes through all of the studies that have been done saying that no amount of hormone therapy or other “corrections” fully remove the inherent advantage males have over females in competitive sports. From there, the emotional overload is on display.
While such studies are crucial evidence in the debate over biologically male athletes competing in girls sports, I dont need to list all of them here. You can Google that yourself. But you cant Google my front-row seat as a mother of a high-school athlete who has been beaten out by a biological male athlete who identifies as a female one who hasnt undergone hormone therapy or gender-reassignment surgery and who competed a year earlier as a male…
As a parent, it is gut-wrenching to know that no matter how hard my daughter works to achieve her goals, she will lose athletic opportunities to a pernicious gender ideology. Left unchecked, this ideology will in the long run eliminate fair play for all biological females in all sports. As we are seeing in Connecticut, a biological boys subjective sense of his gender doesnt cancel out his physical advantage over girls.
Lest I be assailed by the PC crowd: This has nothing to do with white privilege. My daughter is a beautiful young woman of color. Nor is it about lifestyle I believe love is love. It is about fairness of play, about women not being spectators in their own sports, about a level playing field.
We’ve discussed those two male athletes here before. For the past two years they were wiping out the field in girls track and field meets in Connecticut. It’s a disgrace and something that’s having a real-world impact on actual girls across the state, robbing them of chances at scholarships that could lead to acceptance in better colleges.
It’s not easy to stand up publicly against the social justice warriors and the collective madness that has seized the modern American liberal movement. Cheryl and the rest of the parents signing a massive petition demanding fair play in women’s sports will likely be pilloried or doxed in their own communities by the LGBT mobs. But what they are standing up for is important.
As Cheryl points out, efforts to redefine sex to mean “gender identity” as is being done at both the state and federal levels is madness. And if Democrats in Congress win back total control and pass the so-called Equality Act,” this insanity will be enshrined in federal law. It will also essentially mean the end of competitive women’s sports in America.
I’ll close with one more quote from Cheryl. And everyone who is still on board with having boys competing in girls’ sports should really take this to heart.
“Our daughters deserve better than to have their athletic opportunities stolen from them. My daughter deserves to compete, to achieve, to earn the opportunity to advance to the next level of competition, to earn a college scholarship and to enter into adulthood with all the confidence of a fierce, proven champion a champion who knows she won fairly.”
Well said, Cheryl. And I hope there’s still time to derail this train before it drags everyone off a cliff.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: athletes; sports; transgender
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To: Obadiah
There are exactly two sexes. Gender is a different word and has been used to take over the use of the word “sex”.
JoMa
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:24:56 PM PDT
by
joma89
To: SeekAndFind
This is not fair to the REAL girls.
Might they have a class of their own?
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:26:44 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Alberta's Child
Sure it’s legitimate, but must be recognized as such - there is a difference in general ability, hence the categories.
I guess they could have a black category too, for various academic endeavors. ;-)
BTW, we have categories by other aspects, too. There is age category, professional level, etc. All are legitimate.
Wish we’d start recognizing these lines are perfectly fine.
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:26:51 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: joma89
Yes, because liberals (who are generally huge on “libertine”) are so delicate when it comes to the taboo subject of sex.
Hence they refuse to call “sexes” exactly that, and also refuse to use “tranSEXUAL”, etc.
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:28:26 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: Pox
It does not matter whether that is the stated goals of the “trans” male atheletes or not. The result will be the same.
Nothing shocks the system into a clear focused sense of reality faster than an obvious but shocking absurdity!
I hope we come to our senses before we begin bring female bodies home in body bags wearing Ranger Tabs.
(Note the use of the exact opposite but parallel construct!)
I hope people come to their senses before their daughters start losing in the ultimate “Sport” in more significant numbers than they already have.
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:31:36 PM PDT
by
lurked_for_a_decade
(Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
‘The Title IX chickens have come home to roost, lady.’
yep, the truth hurts...
To: Captainpaintball
Your comments are what the Left drool over. Congratualtions.
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:37:26 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(America finally has an American president again.)
To: SeekAndFind
It is up to the officials involved, or people above them, to change the rules so that competitors are determined by birth gender only.
Fair is fair.
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:40:29 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Democraps say the President is out of control. They mean the President of out of THEIR control.)
To: SeekAndFind
College sports are paid for by male football and basketball. Girls sports have to have an equal number of sports scholarships. That means there are limited number (if any) of scholarships available for male athletes in other sports at smaller schools. There was a softball coach on the radio that noted if your girl was athletic, she could obtain the skills to earn a softball scholarship at a small college by attending one summer camp for softball. For the males, it was much more difficult and competitive to obtain a baseball scholarship.
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:40:40 PM PDT
by
alternatives?
(Why have an army if there are no borders?)
To: Captainpaintball
Maybe theyll find renewed joy in doing things that girls are good at.
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:41:31 PM PDT
by
Trailerpark Badass
(There should be a whole lot more going no than throwing bleach, said one w)
To: DesertRhino
Thats bullying, to make fun of homos and other assorted weirdos.
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:42:46 PM PDT
by
Trailerpark Badass
(There should be a whole lot more going no than throwing bleach, said one w)
To: SeekAndFind
DemocRATS and liberals (but then I repeat myself) are against cultural appropriation, where white kids may throw a Mexican themed party and dress the part. This is a big no-no to liberals. They think only Mexicans should be able to serve tacos at a party and wear sombreros.
This here is gender appropriation and liberals are for it. Their ideology is not guided by a moral compass but who is more "woke".
I am a male and I think this is so wrong. To girls and women in sports where lousy male athletes decide they can compete and win against the girls, where they couldn't against the boys. Just self-identify as a girl and bingo, you get all of the trophies.
Where are the adults in leadership who should be stopping this gross injustice?
Whether this woman votes liberal or conservative makes no matter to the poor girls themselves who have lost their dreams and chances at winning.
Here's my rule: If you have a penis, you are a boy.
If you have a vagina, you are a girl.
Our culture is sliding into a dangerous place if someone in authority doesn't put a stop to this insanity.
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:44:16 PM PDT
by
HotHunt
(Been there. Done that.)
To: Enterprise
‘and for places in medical and nursing schools’
yeah, that’s what I want in the hospital, a guy pretending to be a girl...come to think of it, a guy being a nurse at all is kind of revolting...
To: SeekAndFind
Keep voting Democrat. Thats the ticket.
I betcha this Mother is a Democrat who finally is feeling the pinch of those she empowers.
To: SeekAndFind
I live in Connecticut,sorry if I have no sympathy,this state is infested with the left wing lunatics,they get elected election after election,therein lies your problem,your talking to deaf ears.People that can change this for you are to busy trying to remove a sitting President by a coup so they are not listening
To: SeekAndFind
I live in Connecticut,sorry if I have no sympathy,this state is infested with the left wing lunatics,they get elected election after election,therein lies your problem,your talking to deaf ears.People that can change this for you are to busy trying to remove a sitting President by a coup so they are not listening
To: SeekAndFind
Here is too the worship of narcissistic empowerment of females, trannies, and trolls who are rap artists.
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:50:47 PM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
To: DesertRhino
".... What the hell is in it for the boys?...."You're kidding, right?
The boys are losers in the boys' competitions and now by calling themselves girls, they're winning all of the trophies.
Not hard to figure out.
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:51:24 PM PDT
by
HotHunt
(Been there. Done that.)
To: DesertRhino
What the hell is in it for the boys? In my high school, they would have been laughed outta the lunchroom for pretending they were big time winning track stars after what they did.That is indeed a good question, but it's one to be treated carefully because we are dealing with mentally ill teenagers (mostly).
The number of trans invaders of girls' and women's sports remains extremely small. (That's what makes it possible for so many people on the left to simply ignore the issue.) The same cases come up again and again. Once in awhile, a new one crops up, but it is not an avalanche. So what's going on?
In general, serious athletes have a good deal of pride involved in their performance. Almost all boys and men, even those with gender confusion problems, know that they look foolish -- in anything other than casual co-rec play -- competing against the girls and women. And they know that they will be regarded with contempt if they cross over, compete unfairly against the girls and women, and crow about winning. Clearly -- at least to date -- very few are willing to do it. Most, even among the trans kids, have enough pride to respect their opponents and value fair competition.
So: my provisional guess is that each of the notorious cases of athletic cheating on gender may be unique and that there is something else going on aside from the gender confusion per se.
In the Connecticut case, I've always wondered if there might be a racial angle involved. That wouldn't apply to the other trans cases with which I'm familiar, but it kind of stands out in the Connecticut situation.
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:51:25 PM PDT
by
sphinx
To: SeekAndFind
Liberal Karma
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:53:20 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(This Space For Rant)
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