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NY high school students will participate in statewide walkout against trans athletes competing in girls’ sports (Oct 24)
NY Post ^ | 10/08/24 | Carl Campanile

Posted on 10/08/2024 5:36:21 PM PDT by Libloather

High school students across New York plan to participate in a walkout later this month to protest transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports.

The statewide demonstration, set for Oct. 24, is being organized by The Coalition to Protect Kids, a group that has strong backing from the Catholic Church and the New York Republican and Conservative parties.

“It’s not right for boys to compete against girls in sports. It’s a huge disadvantage for girls,” said Hannah Pompeo, a 16-year soccer player at Eden High School near Buffalo, who is participating in the “Walk Off for Fairness Day.”

Millie McCormack, a student dancer at Somers High School in Westchester County said she and her sister, Beatrix, would also be taking part in the protest.

“I don’t think it’s right for men to be in our safe spaces. We worked hard for places on our teams,” she said.

“Boys have physical advantages we don’t have.”

The groups supporting the walkout oppose the controversial Proposition 1 measure on the ballot in the Nov. 5 election. Prop 1 — also called the “Equal Rights Amendment” — would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.

New York already has among the strongest abortion rights laws in the nation and critics claim the ballot measure is unnecessary and just a ruse to try to boost Democratic turnout in competitive congressional and state legislative races, as well as for the White House.

The proposal also asks voters whether they support or oppose adding language to the constitution stating that people cannot be denied rights based on their “race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, creed, religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, reproductive healthcare and autonomy.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science; Sports
KEYWORDS: athletes; failedmaleathletes; ny; savewomenssports; sports; transgender; walkout; womensports
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
Yes, I realize there have been some fairly serious injuries, I guess I should have said before someone gets permanently disabled or killed because of this total nonsense. Trans should be competing with their biological sex, other trans, or not at all. It's totally wrong to destroy women's sports over this.
21 posted on 10/08/2024 7:41:11 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Libloather

That’s what needz to happen to end this madness.

And it would end in a microsecond if all the girl/women teams did this.

Enough with catering to the delusionals!


22 posted on 10/08/2024 9:00:10 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Libloather

” adding language to the constitution stating that people cannot be denied rights based on their “race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, creed, religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, reproductive healthcare and autonomy.” “ ... but your political beliefs we’ll put you in jail for, and take everything you and your family have, and take away every right you learned you had in 4th grade Civics class.


23 posted on 10/08/2024 9:15:47 PM PDT by _longranger81
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To: aquila48

The Dems are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Either they upset the gay lobby or they upset the female athletes -


24 posted on 10/08/2024 10:17:39 PM PDT by phil00071
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