Posted on 05/31/2024 4:35:11 AM PDT by Morgana
West Virginia middle school girls have said they felt unsafe getting undressed in a locker room with a trans boy-to-girl athlete.
The track and field mates from Lincoln Middle School in a podcast said it was uncomfortable to share a bathroom with Becky Pepper-Jackson, 13.
The five girls, who are aged 13 and 14, shot to fame last month when they protested having to compete against Pepper-Jackson because she is a biological male.
Four of them spoke with women's rights campaigner Riley Gaines in her podcast this week about the competition protest, a video of which went viral.
They say school district officials treated them poorly and that biological boys should not be allowed into girls' washrooms or on their sports teams.
'It's kind of scary, actually, that he's allowed to be in the same bathrooms,' said one of the four girls in the podcast.
'What about real women? We're scared, but we have to let him feel okay, because we don't want to be transphobic.'
Another of the young athletes said changing rooms are 'supposed to be a place where women can change and feel safe without men being around.'
The five girl athletes refused to compete against Pepper-Jackson in the shot putt event of Harris County Middle School Track and Field Championship on April 18.
They stepped up to the circle for their turn, then refused to throw the ball.
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To use the left’s own words against them, “Women deserve a safe space”. Where are the pro-women’s groups in this controversy? This issue shows that the National Organization of Women (NOW) is not pro-women, it is just another pro-left, anti-capitalism, anti-western movement which cares nothing about women.
WV’s AG is a republican. Freaking turncoat and carpetbagger.
The school banned the protesting girls from further competing.
The AG sued the school and had the ban overturned.
There's a lesson to be learned here and these girls aren't learning it.
“They stepped up to the circle for their turn, then refused to throw the ball.”
This is very brave, especially for girls this age. Peer pressure and popularity, are huge in this age group. They took a big stand, and will be persecuted to some degree or another for doing this.
Messed up headline.
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The only reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.
WV’s AG is Deep State.
You can interpret that two ways. An alternative interpretation is the girl is wryly quoting the leftist dogma and disagrees with it; she is throwing it back in their faces.
“Messed up headline.”
No kidding. “Vile” should be describing their own headline.
Perhaps read what happened again and see that the GOP AG overturned the Leftist school district banning the girls from future competition.
Reading is fundamental.
You may want to read that again and more slowly this time before foolishly smearing the WV AG.
One day in high school, before males could take Home Ec. and before it had even been thought of, I was walking down the hall during classes when I smelled food, real food, I poked my head into the classroom and saw that it was full of girls cooking food, pretty high school girls, when I saw that I started a fight to get into Home Ec., although I did everything I could think of the principal would not let me into that nest of girls and food.
If I would work so hard to get into a class where I would be the only boy among all that food and pretty girls how far would I have gone to get to shower naked with them?
The girls don’t have to compete. They can simply walk away and start their own private intramural sports club for girls only.
Inauthentic one gets affirmed, actual females don’t.
Riley said there should be a hashtag taken from what the girls said..#whataboutus?
The problem is parents exhibiting Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome. When saying parents, I mean mothers who almost exclusively manifest the mental illness. Makes me wonder how many of those households are fatherless or have a weakling husband. Most I suspect, as a strong and present husband & father likely would not permit such child abuse. Note only the mother is quoted in the article; no mention is made of the child’s father.
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