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A Mother’s Plea Over Transgender Athletes in Women's Sports
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| 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: upchuck
‘to change the rules so that competitors are determined by birth gender only.’
get with the program; haven’t you paid attention to the thousands of posts reminding us that the word is ‘sex’, not ‘gender’...?
To: Alberta's Child
Feminists who constantly whine about a so-called “pay gap,” “glass ceilings,” and institutional “gender inequality” fail to see the blatant inconsistency in having women’s sports function in any form whatsoever.
If women want to be considered equal to men, then that doesn’t mean they’re just “equal” on THEIR terms. They must compete with men on EQUAL terms ... which means they’ll just have to accept losing every Connecticut track meet to a bunch of hairy dudes.
= = = = = = = = = = =
This is a ‘two headed monster’ basically brought to earth by the feminists - who for years - have been saying women are equal to men in ALL aspects.
To go ‘against’ this latest movement, 20 years or BS will be forced down the drain, so it just isn’t going to happen without a MASSIVE uprising by those getting ‘screwed’.
Go back to an R Senator accused of calling secretaries etal ‘dear’ and patting them on the head or back, getting dragged from pillar to post, while WJC gets ‘serviced’ under his desk and nary a whimper and the parents of the young lady being squired around the White House and acting like the daughter made them proud.
Another poster mentioned ‘old time boys’ would never get away with it because of peer pressure BUT I believe it is much like open ‘gays(?)’ in the military, would have been disastrous in ‘my day’ but more or less accepted today because of the way the kids were raised - more to accept ‘different’ people...
I had always stated that had the desegration of the schools started in K or 1st grade, it would have worked much smoother - the way ‘they’ did it was to disrupt the kids when they were just settling in to their teens and now the Government comes along and buses them 20 miles away to a ‘new school’ and forces people to ‘get along’ THEN get upset and wring their hands when it doesn’t go as planned...(well maybe the ‘unrest’ was planned)
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posted on
10/14/2019 4:56:20 PM PDT
by
xrmusn
(6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
To: Obadiah
Science explains to all humanity that there are exactly two genders SEXES, male and female.
Gender is a linguistic term. Please stop using the language of the left when you are referring to sex.
ML/NJ
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:00:04 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
(eeter hope ther are no statue)
To: xrmusn
Yep, feminists cannot concede that men are stronger and faster than women when they have declared for decades that men and women are the same, even interchangeable.
So stupid.
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:08:15 PM PDT
by
Jvette
To: HotHunt
‘Not hard to figure out.’
I graduated high school in 1967; had I participated in a female sport and then demanded recognition, not only my comrades, but most of the faculty and administration would never let me live it down; the opprobrium would’ve had me considering suicide...I believe that is the point of the post to which you responded...
To: SeekAndFind
You don’t get to have gender equity only when it is convenient with your agenda. For decades, they have been pushing to tear down men’s sports, men’s clubs, and men’s activities.
Ten years ago, a site I used to frequent said that the next fight was between trans and lesbians, as the trans were invading womyn’s areas.
So while I understand the outrage, it is at least 30 years to late. You reap what you sow. If this ends up making people realize that sex is biological, not imaginary, it is a good thing long term.
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:13:03 PM PDT
by
redgolum
(If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian.)
To: SeekAndFind
This has nothing to do with white privilege. My daughter is a beautiful young woman of colorSo, if it were a white girl, it would be OK?
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:13:12 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
To: SeekAndFind
A biological boys subjective sense of his gender doesnt cancel out his physical advantage over girls.
To: DesertRhino
Scholarships. Recognition (be a LQBT what ever gets a lot of fame in school). The coach gets a raise.
Lots of things.
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:14:16 PM PDT
by
redgolum
(If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian.)
To: ml/nj
‘Gender is a linguistic term’
every single word that exists is a ‘linguistic term’; and clearly you weren’t confused as to the poster’s meaning...so lecturing about said term because it defies some vague political purity is utter nonsense...
To: IrishBrigade
Well, I graduated in 1966 and this would have never happened back then either.
But this is not back then. It is now. The culture is not static. It is dynamic. Like it or not, the world has changed.
That said, I think it is disgusting that someone in authority is not putting a stop to this.
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:28:57 PM PDT
by
HotHunt
(Been there. Done that.)
To: joma89
Leftists are like viruses. They destroy their host and then move on to the next host and destroy it.
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:37:20 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
To: HotHunt
DemocRATS and liberals... are against cultural appropriation... They think only Mexicans should be able to serve tacos at a party and wear sombreros.
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:42:33 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
To: Alberta's Child
“If women want to be considered equal to men, then that doesn’t mean they’re just “equal” on THEIR terms. They must compete with men on EQUAL terms ... which means they’ll just have to accept losing every Connecticut track meet to a bunch of hairy dudes.”
Here’s a solution. Let the biological female athletes take steroids.
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:44:22 PM PDT
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(The attempted coup against President Trump is/was TREASON.)
To: SeekAndFind
The pretender boys are thieves, no more no less.
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:46:42 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
To: IrishBrigade
clearly you werent confused as to the posters meaning...so lecturing about said term because it defies some vague political purity is utter nonsense... I'm also not confused when some a$$hole refers to Jerusalem as Occupied Territory. But when fools on our side use the language of the left it helps to advance the objectives of our enemies. The late, great Bob Grant used to recommend reading the Tyranny of Words to understand this better.
ML/NJ
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:48:53 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
(eeter hope ther are no statue)
To: Jim Noble
"This has nothing to do with white privilege. My daughter is a beautiful young woman of color"So, if it were a white girl, it would be OK?
Look, the lady is just signalling her intersectional virtue, okay?
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:50:11 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
To: IrishBrigade
yeah, thats 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...
Actually, male nurses can be good. A large male nurse can handle a weakened cancer patient and other patients by himself while it generally takes two female nurses, unless very large and strong, to support under each arm to get them to the bathroom.
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:55:21 PM PDT
by
angry elephant
(My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)
To: Brooklyn Attitude
Mentally ill male high school athletes or trolls hoping for Title IX MANDATED scholarships competing in women's athletics would still have a physical and mental advantage due to bone density and other biological factors.
Testosterone (That will screw up the female in her 40s for the worse if taken at will) or PHDs might have side effects such as being more prone to injuries and such because the joints can't keep up with the muscle mass for one example. Psychological affects would be issues as well.
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posted on
10/14/2019 5:58:11 PM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
To: IrishBrigade
every single word that exists is a linguistic term BTW, I own a complete 2nd Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. (Do you even know what that is?) Here's what they say about the usage you seem not to care about:
In mod. (esp. feminist) use, a euphemism for the sex of a human being, often intended to emphasize social and cultural, as opposed to biological, distinctions between the sexes.
As Rush frequently points out, words mean things. I suggest you learn how to use them.
ML/NJ
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posted on
10/14/2019 6:10:53 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
(eeter hope ther are no statue)
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