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Who could have guessed this?Not me. I bet you couldn’t have guessed it either.Shockingly, British and American researchers have published a study in the British Medical Journal that shows that, according to their statistical analysis, biological sex has a greater impact on athletic performance than gender identity.Astonishing newshttps://t.co/MXa9hhk2Ih pic.twitter.com/jWspZ4lYx1— Fiona (@DerryBanShee) December 21, 2023As far as I know, Lia Thomas had no comment.AbstractObjectives To test the hypothesis that, controlling for age, natal-sex differences in running performance are lower among non-binary athletes than in the rest of the population. To test the hypothesis that natal-male non-binary athletes outperform natal-female non-binary athletes.Methods...

A professional female powerlifter announced she is facing a two-year suspension after making remarks about transgender athletes in the sport. "'BREAKING: I now face a 2-year ban by the CPU for speaking publicly about the unfairness of biological males being allowed to taunt female competitors & loot their winnings," professional powerlifter for Canada, April Hutchinson, wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "Apparently, I have failed in my gender-role duties as 'supporting actress' in the horror show that is my #sport right now."

The “horror” of a field hockey player being struck in the face by a shot from a male on the opposing team has one local superintendent calling on the MIAA to revisit its guidelines that allow boys to play a girls’ sport. Dighton-Rehoboth Superintendent Bill Runey is making the push after a male member on the Swampscott High girls’ field hockey team took a shot that hit the face of a female player competing for his regional district. The brutal injury, coming from a corner play in the third quarter during Thursday’s state tournament matchup in Swampscott, caused the D-R...

Charlie Kirk show today on RAV mentioned a Trans "girl" field hockey player in white uniform knocked two teeth out of a girl playing for opposing team. Here's the video he showed during his program.

A biologically male “transgender female” athlete has removed the championship title from a 14-time female fencing champ at the 2023 FIE Veteran Fencing World Championships. American Liz Kocab beat 14-time champion Marja-Liisa Someroja of Finland in the Women’s Epee in Florida on Oct. 15, Fox News reported. “I wanted to support USA Fencing,” Kocab said after the win. “I really did. Otherwise, I was actually thinking of stepping away. But the fact that it was in America, I thought that was important to support the USA. This is my way of saying thanks to USA Fencing.” Sunday marks the eighth...

Two transgender female cyclists dominated the podium at the Chicago Cyclocross Cup series last weekend after finishing first and second in a women’s event. Tessa Johnson, 25, took home gold in the CX Women SingleSpeed event in the Jackson Park race on Oct. 8, after finishing with a time of 38:48, according to race results from USA Cycling. Evelyn Williamson, 30, came in second with a time of 40:20.

Two transgender cyclist proudly throw their arms with apparent glee on the podium after conquering the competition in the women's races at the Chicago CycloCross Cup. Tessa Johnson, 25, won first place in the Women's SingleSpeed and Cat Half categories while Evelyn Williamson, 30, placed second in the SingleSpeed at the October 7 contest. The transgender pair made headlines earlier this year for sweeping the competition at several women's races amid fervent debate over the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports.

Katie Barnes, an ESPN writer who conducted one of the first and only in-depth on-camera interviews with transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, has finally answered the question people have asked them for years: What does a fair and trans-inclusive athlete policy look like? Barnes, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, has covered transgender athletes for seven years and women’s sports for eight. During that time, they have never publicly shared their own opinions about policies governing trans athletes’ participation and what they believe would ensure fairness for everyone involved. However, as they wrote articles about Thomas, who set off an...

The White House said Tuesday that “there is no yes or no answer” when asked whether it is fair that transgender athletes take part in sports designated for biological females — an issue the Biden administration labeled as a “complicated” and one that contains a “wide range of views.” The comments came after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked by Fox Business correspondent Hillary Vaughn whether President Biden agrees with GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley that biological boys participating in female sports is the “women’s issue of our time” and whether he believes the matter is a “women’s...

A record number of out LGBTQ athletes will compete in this year’s Women’s World Cup, which starts later this month in Australia and New Zealand. At least 87 out athletes will compete this year — more than double the 38 out players who competed in the last Women’s World Cup, in 2019, according to the LGBTQ sports website Outsports. Outsports noted that the number of teams has grown by a third, from 24 to 32, but that the jump in the number of out competitors “reflects the growth of acceptance.” The number of out players at the Women’s World Cup...

The body that governs world cycling, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), has reversed course and decided to ban trans athletes from women’s competitions. The announcement was made today by UCI in a press release.From now on, female transgender athletes who have transitioned after (male) puberty will be prohibited from participating in women’s events on the UCI International Calendar – in all categories – in the various disciplines.For international Masters events – races on the UCI Cycling for All International Calendar and UCI events (UCI Gran Fondo World Series, UCI Gran Fondo World Championships, UCI Gravel World Series, UCI Gravel World Championships...

Motion for Court to suspend the injunction it issued: “By the State’s count, B.P.J. [male identifying as a girl] displaced over 100 different girls in competitive rankings this spring track-and-field season. Worse, B.P.J. denied two girls the chance to compete in conference championships. The displaced girls will never be able to recover those opportunities.” In early April 2023, wrote about efforts in West Virginia to keep high school boys who self-identified as girls out of female sports, A District Court Judge had denied an injunction against the law in a suit brought by “B.J.P.” (a male athlete who wanted to...

Here are 10 of the most prominent individual women’s competitions men have co-opted.So many men who claim to be women are forcing their way into women’s sporting competitions these days, it’s becoming hard to keep track of all the athletic institutions that sacrifice fairness and the dignity of their female athletes to avoid offending sexually deviant men.Here are 10 of the most prominent individual women’s competitions men have co-opted — not counting team sports like basketball, in which a 50-year-old, 6-foot-8-inch divorced man named Gabrielle Ludwig played on the women’s team at California’s Mission College in 2012, just half a...

A recent Gallup poll finds that a majority of nearly 70 percent of respondents oppose allowing men who claim to be transgender women to play women’s sports, and 55 percent say changing one’s gender is “morally wrong.” The poll released on Monday seems to show that the radical transgender movement is not achieving its desired goal of normalizing transgenderism. Indeed, it seems to be backfiring. Two findings, in particular, seem to show that many are pulling away from trans acceptance. A previous poll from 2021 found that 51 percent felt changing one’s gender is “morally wrong,” but this year’s survey...

An NCAA athlete has claimed she was scolded by ChatGPT when she asked the bot to shorten her tweet advocating against allowing trans women in women’s sports. “I was trying to explain [in the tweet] that I’m an NCAA athlete, and that it’s important to champion the voice of female athletes and to stand up against this ideological war that’s going on that’s putting women in danger and taking away the opportunities for scholarships,” Macy Petty, a volleyball player at Lee University, told Fox News Digital this week. MORE ON: TRANSGENDER Trans extremists refuse to face facts: Men are stronger...

Dozens of athletic competitions for women and girls have been upended by the participation of males identifying as transgender women, who benefit from a host of biological advantages over female competitors, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found. Transgender-identified males have competed in a variety of women’s athletic competitions, from school sports for young children to top college events and Olympic competitions. Differences in an average woman’s strength, stamina and physique compared to the average male are sustained even when a male undergoes testosterone suppression, according to the Sports Councils’ Equality Group. “There is no equity, fairness, sportsmanship or opportunity...

The House Judiciary Committee is having a hearing today on Special Counsel John Durham's report on the FBI's involvement in the Great Russia Collusion Hoax of 2016. Meanwhile, their Senate counterpart is having a hearing on the importance of "Protecting Pride: Defending the Civil Rights of LGBTQ+ Americans." Especially young LGBTQ+ Americans, whose very lives are at risk as we speak thanks to all the evil anti-LGBTQ+ laws that state legislatures are passing to keep little boys and girls from being psychologically and physically and chemically transformed into little girls and boys and to keep women who are biologically male...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott extended the state’s ban on male-born competitors in female scholastic sports by signing legislation to include collegiate athletics. Flanked by state lawmakers and female athletes, the Republican signed Senate Bill 15, which builds on the state’s 2021 law prohibiting biological males from participating in girls’ sports in K-12 public schools. “Today is an important day for female athletes across the state of Texas, including little girls who aspire to one day compete in college sports,” Mr. Abbott said. “The Save Women’s Sports Act protects young women at Texas colleges and universities by prohibiting men from competing...

Texas is suing the U.S. Department of Education for threatening to withhold as much as $6 billion in federal funds from schools that don’t adopt “transgender” ideology. The Office of the Attorney General filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Biden Administration’s interpretation of Title IX, a federal statute enacted in 1972 to protect girls and women that prohibits discrimination “on the basis of sex” in educational institutions. In 2021, Biden’s Department of Education issued guidance to schools expanding “sex” to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” According to the lawsuit, the new interpretation of Title IX seeks to “radically transform...

A controversial transgender female cyclist won a North Carolina cycling event, beating her crestfallen rival by five whole minutes.