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Orlando Sentinel has to put 'female' in quotation marks to describe swimmer Emma Weyant
Twitchy.com ^ | 3/22/2022 | Brett T

Posted on 03/23/2022 7:02:06 AM PDT by NetAddicted

As Twitchy reported earlier, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made even more liberal heads explode by signing a proclamation declaring Emma Weyant the best women’s swimmer in the NCAA 500-yard freestyle, a race that was awarded to transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. That’s made the news, and it presents quite a conundrum for headline writers. As Christina Pushaw notes, the Orlando Sentinel had to put “female” in quotation marks when describing Weyant, who is a female.

Gov. Ron DeSantis waded further into gender politics today, issuing a proclamation that said a swimmer from Sarasota is the nation’s best “female” in the 500-meter freestyle after she finished 2nd to a transgender athlete at the NCAA championship. https://t.co/pVSAUVn92a pic.twitter.com/c9zNgaaWtU

— Orlando Sentinel (@orlandosentinel) March 22, 2022

Uh, why is 'female' in quotes here? Emma is female; it is an undisputed fact. Florida media is truly going off the deep end this week. pic.twitter.com/Pd8GpSXIDH

— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) March 22, 2022

I'd put the "competition" in quotes before "female".

— Mike Rathbone (@MikeRathbone86) March 22, 2022

Good point.

It’s not hard to see why Democrats can’t win statewide elections in Florida.

— Squirrel! (@Team_Squirrel) March 22, 2022

An actual female is questionable and a pretend female is legit. It's an upside down world

— David Biddle (@davidebiddle) March 22, 2022

Because they are unable to accurately define female

— Karin (@PugLuVR06) March 22, 2022

Bc they can’t define “female” or else their worldview collapses 😃

— Andrew Washburn (@AndrewW27398232) March 22, 2022

Ironic, isn't it?

The real woman gets female in quotes, but the other thing is unequivocally female.

Big yikes.

— Scottie Binyons (@B82Scottie) March 22, 2022

So we’re supposed to refer to trans women as “women,” but to biological women as “cisgender women” to differentiate.

Stop being sexist, @OrlandoSentinel.

— Julian (@JPpoliticsFL) March 22, 2022

Mind games. It’s ALL mind games.

— Robbelah (@MissRobin61) March 22, 2022

Moderates be like pic.twitter.com/nEoGhLpWso

— Caroline Melear (@CarolineMelear) March 22, 2022

It's like these people never owned a pet.

— InTheRightColumn (@TheRightColumn) March 22, 2022

They consider us fake females because we were not born with a penis.

— LibertyJ (@LibertyJen) March 22, 2022

The media sucks

— Dskj (@Don83231101) March 22, 2022

The fact that the word "trans" need to be used to describe a "woman" is evidence they aren't the same. Emma is a woman

— Ronaldo Reagano (@ReaganoRonaldo) March 22, 2022

All the leftist propaganda media shills are long gone off the deep end. Today just happens to be "trans" week.

— Danilo F. Pacheco 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 (@DaniloF06848421) March 22, 2022

It would be considered hate speech if you referred to Lia Thomas as “female.”


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KEYWORDS: christinapushaw; desantis; emmaweyant; fakewomanswimmer; liathomas; ncaa; transgender; twitchy; willthomas
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To: Paladin2

LOL

Twister being an intellectual exercise is not really a sport. :o)


21 posted on 03/23/2022 7:46:13 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: super7man
I can see allowing women to compete against men if they want to, say maybe golf?

That's already been tried. She came in dead last.

22 posted on 03/23/2022 7:52:33 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: NetAddicted

“...the Orlando Sentinel had to put “female” in quotation marks when describing Weyant, who is a female.”

Did they EVER put quotes around either female or woman when describing the mentally ill “transgenders”?


23 posted on 03/23/2022 7:53:40 AM PDT by euram
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To: NetAddicted

Mockery is the sincerest form of insult...


24 posted on 03/23/2022 7:54:02 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: WKUHilltopper
. . . It’s a Mickey Mouse Perverted Fun Land.

Indeed-a Charlie Crist stronghold.

25 posted on 03/23/2022 7:56:06 AM PDT by DaBroasta
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To: KrisKrinkle

OK. I couldn’t resist. I did some research and found this.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068418/

Men DO perform better in pistol shooting than women by a small margin. BUT the number of male competitors is way larger than women. And drawing from a lager of pool of competitors may be the reason.

Now, what about Curling?


26 posted on 03/23/2022 7:56:50 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: unixfox

Yup. Did she even make the cut?


27 posted on 03/23/2022 7:58:03 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: super7man
I can not think of one common sense reason to allow males to compete against females in sports.

Oh, I can. To end this travesty for once and all. The power is in the hands of the females to end it if they stick together. They should all show up, all line up and when the whistle is blown - just stand there and cheer on the fake female. Once or twice of this and the show is over.

28 posted on 03/23/2022 8:17:47 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Instead of Build Back Better, how about put it back the way you found it?)
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To: I want the USA back

2 + 2 = 5


29 posted on 03/23/2022 8:25:47 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: NetAddicted

I’m not playing their games.
A MAN is a MAN and a WOMAN is a WOMAN.


30 posted on 03/23/2022 8:30:29 AM PDT by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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To: NetAddicted

Reminds me of what happened about forty years at a local Dairy Queen.

This feminine young thing came up to the window and I placed an order, then paid for it.
A short time later this feminine thing motioned to me and I picked up my order and said “Thank you mam!”

Response from the feminine young thing was “HEY! I’M A GUY!”

My response: “Oh sorry about that. I couldn’t tell.”
Back then boys were dressing so feminine you really could not tell!


31 posted on 03/23/2022 9:11:51 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (No dog in the Unraine war, but we still root for the underdog.)
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To: NetAddicted

Someone should start a give-send-go for this Emma Weyant gal who has been so wronged!

A million bucks and the acknowledgement of the donors that she is indeed the rightful winner couldn’t hurt.

:-)


32 posted on 03/23/2022 9:16:08 AM PDT by Bobalu (The Deep State is the new Soviet Union)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Michelle Malkin started Twitchy. She sold it, but they still have her conservative flavor. They choose Tweets for their articles.


33 posted on 03/23/2022 9:52:26 AM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: euram

If they put quotes around transgender “woman,” they’d be mercilessly attacked by trans-activists.


34 posted on 03/23/2022 9:56:04 AM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: I want the USA back

I saw a tweet today, saying something like “Mao: construction is destruction. Beware of them.”


35 posted on 03/23/2022 9:59:35 AM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

Liberals and their fake phony mentally deranged bubbles don’t even know the difference between a real man and real woman 🤪

They should be shunned and castigated for the complete ignorant morons they are.


36 posted on 03/23/2022 10:22:41 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: super7man

“Now, what about Curling?”

The “woke” crowd would just complain that women are being made to sweep like housewives.


37 posted on 03/23/2022 10:30:17 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: NetAddicted

WTH?

A person is born with XY and thus born with frank & beans, decide at some point the person decides they don’t want the frank & beans. That makes them XY without the frank & beans (but not in this case as the transgender swimmer still has frank & both beans). XY = MALE. XX = FEMALE.

Now, if you’re XY, cut off your frank & beans, and get a garage made for you, but you still don’t want to be called FEMALE?

What the hell do they want to be called, mutilated dudes? Cuttadickoffame’s? Addadicktome’s? What?


38 posted on 03/23/2022 12:30:58 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Joe Biden is the dementia riddled, no-filter grifter he's always been - just now, we get to see it.)
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