Posted on 12/13/2022 12:04:32 PM PST by upchuck
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 for women to succeed at an elite level without sex-based categories. It is crucial that as a society we open our eyes and recognize the irrefutable damage that is being done to women’s sports and everything Title IX was created for,” Riley Gaines, Stand with Women spokeswoman at the Independent Women’s Forum and former collegiate swimmer, told the DCNF.
Gaines tied for fifth place in a race against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at the NCAA Championships this year.
Thomas, a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, competed on the men’s team for three years before coming out as transgender and swimming on the women’s team. Thomas had ranked 462 while swimming on the men’s team but was ranked first in the nation while competing against women.
Thomas competed against women in dozens of swim meets, including the 2022 NCAA National Championships in which Thomas swam in eight races and placed in the top eight in six of them, winning a national title for the 500-yard freestyle by nine seconds.
CeCe Telfer, a transgender athlete at Franklin Pierce University, won the NCAA Division II outdoor track and field championship title for the 400-meter hurdles in 2019.
Laurel Hubbard, a transgender weightlifter, won two gold medals at the Pacific Games in 2019 while competing in the women’s division and went on to join the women’s Olympic team, becoming the first biological male in Olympic history to compete in a women’s sport. While Hubbard did not win any medals at the Olympics, the transgender weightlifter’s presence on the team necessarily meant that a biological woman was denied her spot on the Olympic team in favor of a male athlete.
Biologically male Brazilian volleyball player Tifanny Abreu was the first male-to-female transgender athlete to compete in the Brazil Superliga, the country’s highest-level volleyball competition. Abreu was featured in an Adidas campaign which included footage of the athlete spiking a ball over two women.
These high-profile cases grabbed headlines, but the inclusion of males in women’s sports is changing the landscape for ordinary female athletes in younger age groups and lower-level divisions without gaining the same public attention and outrage.
“There is a common misconception that born-male athletes participating in women’s sports is a non-issue because it’s not happening often, but that’s a false narrative,” Gaines told the DCNF. “There are numerous examples of young women of all ages and sports being directly impacted by transgender athletes competing in the women’s category.
“This issue matters because women deserve equal opportunities to achieve and succeed through fair competition. We do not need to give up our consent in places where we undress and we do not need to give up the awards we have earned simply to validate men or make males feel better about the insecurities their dealing with,” she said.
High school runners in Connecticut sued the state athletic association in 2020 after two biologically male athletes swept a total of 15 state titles. The litigation is still ongoing, and the girls are being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
“Males will always have inherent physical advantages over comparably talented and trained girls,” ADF Senior Counsel Roger Brooks said in a statement. “When our laws and policies fail to recognize the real physical differences between males and females, women and girls bear the brunt of the harm. It’s our hope that the 2nd Circuit will give the young women we represent the right to pursue their case and put women’s sports back on a level playing field.”
“Allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports, as we see happening in Connecticut and elsewhere, deprives girls of the opportunity to be champions, showcase their talents, and potentially earn college scholarships,” ADF Senior Counsel Christiana Kiefe said in the same statement. “All female athletes deserve to compete on a fair playing field, and we are urging the court to ensure respect for their right to equal treatment and opportunity in sports.”
yes
i have been very very bad
spank me mommy
Nazis did it first when they allowed Henrich Ratjen to run as Dora Ratjen, a woman in the 1936 Olympics.
Not my problem. You broke it, you fix it.
There is a new religion of equal results. This religion believes that there are no differences in any ability by race and sex. Any difference in results is proof of the existence of racism or sexism if the underrepresent group is not a white male.
They need to change the nomenclature to transtomale and transfrommale. It is too confusing otherwise.
I predict that real women will never prevail in court. The courts only concern is discrimination against women. The courts will not want to get involved in the definition of “women.” It has always been the case that competition favors the strongest and fastest. The fact that the strongest and fastest are former men is irrelevant. Eventually the womens sports teams will be made up exclusively of trans-women.
““There is no equity, fairness, sportsmanship or opportunity for women to succeed at an elite level without sex-based categories. It is crucial that as a society we open our eyes and recognize the irrefutable damage that is being done to women’s sports and everything Title IX was created for,” Riley Gaines...”
Title IX was not created to increase women’s sports, it was created to increase women’s equality. And if you want to create anything then make it mandatory for men and women to compete at one level or at this point, currently women’s programs that are not available to men need to be made so.
See any boys in girl’s softball they are calling little league? And in older women sports like softball and field hockey are not available to men. And all men’s sports are available to women but there are sports that would be no problem to joint compete that the NCAA doesn’t do like bowling, rifle, fencing, and archery (in some locations).
So until all sports that do not require a physical limitation or difference are put into the loop, the intent has nothing to do with anything but politics one sided.
wy69
This will end when American courts stop forcing men’s athletic gate receipts to pay for women’s athletic programs.
LOL great one so true.
Yep!
And the East Germans in the 1950’s and 60’s had it down to a (literal) science. Using a testosterone-based steroid, they came as close to turning biologic women into men as anyone ever got. The DDR won 40 medals in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. They dominated the swimming and weight events (weightlifting, shot put hammer throw, etc.), right up until they got caught.
But they started with actual women.
NCAA are a bunch of chickens to ignore this maltreatment of women.
Agree.
they wanted equality via Title 9 and didn’t realize that Frankenstein in the form of men declaring as women was about to leave the castle and wreak havoc .....
The courts will not want to get involved in the definition of “women.
Especially when congress let Kinjta get away with the “i’m not a biologist” scam answer
Why would any REAL woman participate in any game that included male players?
Just REFUSE to play.
Actually, yes!
The East Germans identified children with certain physical characteristics early on. The kids were offered a life that the normal East German could only dream of in terms of housing, access to high-grade food, and social status. In return for their ‘dream lifestyle’ the kids were coached and drilled to the extreme in whatever sport the DDR authorities thought they were suited for. As long as they were performing, the gravy train rolled on. The cost of defeat in the arena was that they were no longer eligible for the benefits and were returned to the drab life of the normal DDR citizen.
Check of some of the photos from that era. The women swimmers and weightlifters are physically developed well beyond the limits of the bell curve.
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