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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: E. Pluribus Unum
BINGO! Girls invading and demanding inclusion into boys sports getting a taste of their own crap sandwhich, and complaining how it tastes!
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posted on
10/14/2019 6:21:30 PM PDT
by
Bommer
(2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
To: SeekAndFind
I hope the 2020 Olympics puts this crap to bed once and for all. I actually hope 100 percent of all medals go to the men including gymnastics. I dont particularly care which countries but that is the only thing thats going to slap reality into people.
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posted on
10/14/2019 6:32:29 PM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
To: IrishBrigade
That is not what I want, and you clearly missed my intent.
To: SeekAndFind
If I am correct, i believe she lives in Cromwell, CT. Cromwell is a town that is a swing town - Went for Bob Stefanowski (Rep) over LaMont (Moron) 50 to 43.
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posted on
10/14/2019 6:52:30 PM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: DesertRhino
In my high school, the boyfriends of the girl athletes would have handled the situation. Could have gotten messy.
65
posted on
10/14/2019 6:56:11 PM PDT
by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: SeekAndFind
Meh....True females dont belong in athletics anyway.
They belong home in the kitchen fixin daddy a sammich...
66
posted on
10/14/2019 6:58:05 PM PDT
by
rhinohunter
(Dear Mr. Trump: I'm still not tired of winning)
To: joma89
I’ll bet this won’t change her worldview in the least.
To: SeekAndFind
I have just finished reading the comments. Some of them are outright hateful to all women and girls. To state that there is absolutely no reason for girls sports is an idiotic thing to say. Please pause a moment before posting just stupid and hateful statements. You sound a bit like stupid liberals who are always shouting out hateful things.
Let’s get serious. Not all women are radical feminists, but nearly all have a bit of feminism within them. It’s no different than boys who are masculine and proud to be boys. That is how it should be.
I do agree that radical feminism and the stupid exaggeration of equality in sports from the Title IX law are most of the reason for the problems here. Some sports ought not be offered to girls just because boys have them - like boxing, wrestling etc. Nor should the Title IX law be read to force equal money given to girls programs & common sense ought to rule. Football is a popular HS sport for boys. Trying to limit funds for football so as to equal funds for girls is silly.
Girls sports are very important to those who participate and there IS NO JUSTIFICATION TO ALLOWING BOYS TO COMPETE AGAINST THEM. To express that it is OK because some of you do not like girls sports is myopic. Others of us do enjoy women in sports. I have nieces and nephews who are into track and are good runners. Why should the girls not be able to compete against each other without the boys entering their races?
Finally as to classifications of competitions - consider this: In wrestling and boxing there are weight classifications - it is obviously why. Should we eliminate these classifications? It is a matter of allowing those who are not as big to compete within their peers = not to be battered by heavyweight boxers or wrestlers. This too is common sense.
It’s getting late. Thanks for letting me voice my opinion.
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posted on
10/14/2019 7:16:41 PM PDT
by
Gumdrop
To: Gumdrop
Your common sense is unfortunately getting very uncommon in today’s world where the radial left thinking dominates academia and the government,
69
posted on
10/14/2019 7:25:47 PM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: xrmusn
"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."
you do know that a large percentage, maybe even a majority of "feminists" are men, don'you ?
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posted on
10/14/2019 7:32:22 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: cherry
NOT in MY world!!!! <: <: <:
Like I know of but do not associate with LIBERALS, they just aren’t in my ‘circle’.
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posted on
10/14/2019 7:43:49 PM PDT
by
xrmusn
(6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
To: SeekAndFind
We've heard of the Age Of Enlightenment. The Renaissance. The Technological Age. The Industrial Age.
This current era is going to be known as the Age Of Stupidity.
What happens when you give the controls of an airborne 747 into the paws of a dozen dogs? The same thing that happens when America gave herself into the hands of 60s "flower children." I.e. we're going down in flames.
72
posted on
10/14/2019 7:47:36 PM PDT
by
LouAvul
To: SeekAndFind
State and local school officials who authorize this wickedness should be tried, convicted, and sentenced to be publicly flogged for child abuse.
To: Obadiah
My first thought too was that, but for this topic, she will support every other destruction of US society the extremist have brought on.
74
posted on
10/14/2019 7:54:05 PM PDT
by
Sgt_Schultze
(When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
To: Pox
Yep. The only way at least some of the typical suburban women voters who frequently lean left are going to come to their senses and start to actually question any of the woke/PC dogma is unfortunately, to see their daughters miss out by having to compete with boys.
Is it unfair and pure BS? Of course it is. And no, it doesn’t make you a “hater” for saying so.
75
posted on
10/14/2019 9:31:21 PM PDT
by
FLT-bird
To: yarddog
This will be the final straw that will finally change a lot of liberals minds and realize that the Democratic Party is pure evil scum
76
posted on
10/14/2019 9:49:13 PM PDT
by
Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
To: DesertRhino
“What the hell is in it for the boys? “
_______________________________________________
Scholarships.
The scholarships go to the winners; because it was assumed the winners would all be biological girls there would be no way to keep the fake girls from getting the scholarships.
The feminists really should have seen this coming.
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posted on
10/14/2019 10:42:37 PM PDT
by
Notthereyet
(NotThereYet)
To: Obadiah
What exactly do you mean by that science considers there to be two genders? Gender and sex are viewed as two different things. Biological sex is what we are born. But Gender is viewed as socially constructed and a personality spectrum.
We are not born in very rigid boxes. If that were true than every single girl would like Barbie dolls and every single boy would like action heroes. But it doesn’t work like that. There is some fluidity in that sense. Have you never heard of a “tomboy?”
Now that is a far cry from transgenders who feel they are the wrong biological sex. That’s a different type of ballgame there. But no two people are alike. Some boys are very masculine. Some are not. Some girls are very feminine. And some are not. There is fluidity there.
To: Brooklyn Attitude
Then the males(fake females) will take them also. Then what?
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posted on
10/15/2019 6:47:33 AM PDT
by
US_MilitaryRules
(I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
To: US_MilitaryRules
“Then the males(fake females) will take them also. Then what?”
First of all my comment about letting biological females take steroids was meant as a joke. BUT, if it was implemented, the mentally ill males who think they are women could be drug tested. The xx-women would be given a pass.
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posted on
10/15/2019 8:11:00 AM PDT
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(The attempted coup against President Trump is/was TREASON.)
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