Posted on 05/11/2025 5:05:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
OPINION: What are the chances?
That thing that “never happens” happened yet again last week: A biological male competing against females won first place in two track events.
It happened in (surprise!) Maine, which so far has held firm against President Trump’s executive order banning biological men from competing against women in interscholastic athletics.
In what appears to have been a tri-meet, North Yarmouth Academy junior Soren Stark-Chessa won the girls 800 meter and 1600 meter (mile) runs, the latter by almost 20 seconds.
As noted by Outkick, the 800 event was a closer race with Yarmouth High’s Lilah Connor finishing second by one-and-a-half seconds. In a video (below) you can see Connor shaking her head in dismay after crossing the finish line.
The hilarious thing about Stark-Chessa’s victories is that his winning times suck. He won his events with a 2:43.31 and a 5:57.27 respectively.
Given that the meet appeared to have been a local one between three schools, I had a sneaky suspicion he did “just enough” to win … without making it look too lopsided.
Lo and behold it appears I was right: Last year as a sophomore, Stark-Chessa won the state “Class C” girls 800 championship with a time of 2:19.72 (ten seconds ahead of the second place girl, which is rather substantial for that distance), and finished 3rd in the 1600 with a 5:10.08, both substantially faster.
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But even those (girls’) championship times are at best mediocre for high school boys. Had he run in those boys’ championship competitions, Stark-Chessa would have finished 19th in the 800 meters and 22nd in the 1600.
(Disclosure: Yours truly was a track guy who ran the 400 and 800 meters in high school — best times 49.8 and 2:03.00 respectively — but I ran a 5:03.5 mile in 8th grade. My younger sister would go on to heights of much greater magnitude.)
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Stark-Chessa (pictured) apparently began identifying as female sometime between his freshman and sophomore year as he competed on the boys’ track team in 9th grade, according to Outkick.
Stark-Chessa also has been an all-state “girls” cross country runner and an all-conference “girls” Nordic skier. In the fall of 2023, a parent of two girls who raced against Stark-Chessa in cross country said her kids were in a “lose-lose situation.”
“They don’t want to pretend Stark-Chessa is a girl and congratulate him on beating females,” the parent said according to The Lion. “But they fear they will be seen as ‘hateful’ or bad sports otherwise.”
Oddly enough Stark-Chessa’s parents are both college professors. Soren’s dad, Frank Chessa, is a professor of medicine and associate course director of ethics and professionalism at Tufts University School of Medicine.
He also serves as director of clinical ethics at Maine Medical Center the Gender Care Clinic of which provides “treatment to patients of all ages with both pediatric and adult services.”
The Lion reported the Gender Care Clinic offered “surgical consultations to both children and adults”; however, the clinic’s website currently states such is offered only to those over age 18 (and with a “mental health letter of referral”).
Soren’s mom, Susan Stark (pictured), teaches philosophy at Bates College where she’s at work on a pair of projects, according to her faculty page.
The first is “a defense of the moral and social imperative of making reparations, not only for institutionalized slavery, colonialism, and genocide, but also for ongoing racist policies and white supremacy.”
In a 2022 paper, Stark notes one reparative approach is returning “stolen” land to descendants of original indigenous inhabitants (“historical injustices must be acknowledged, addressed, and repaired—that their significance overrides any harm caused by returning the stolen land”).
The second project deals with “reproductive ethics” for which Stark argues that “reproductive justice […] requires that midwifery and obstetric care address structural racisms and other forms of oppression in their practices and in the education of their practitioners.”
I think it’s time for the general public to sneer and point out that these “males” can only beat the girls.
I want to ask a leftist, that if my opposition to men playing in womens sports is based on bigotry against mentally ill transvesties, then why do I have no issue with mentally ill women playing in men’s sports?
I some mentally ill person wants believe they are a tree, or a dog, or another sex. It is no skin off my back, but I start caring when their rights to be mentally ill in peace start interfering with others to enjoy their rights. Like the right of women to compete against other women and no mentally ill men.
They are leftwards beyond redemption. You can’t change them, but you could strangle funding for these so called universities they work for.
Commie trash raise trash. They know nothing else.
Very well said.
The people who vote for the dems, including the majority of women, are also saying this.
One begins to wonder whether these individuals are being paid off to end the freedom of women in the public square.
Lewiston has a giant percentage of Moslims. Bates is a third rate private college. The rumor is that they are pretty broke.
This father is a tufts guy with an agenda. Money is a good motivation.
Could be a mixture of whatever.
There were 4-5 I worked with almost 5 years ago. Two of them were women pretending to be men. One, I had no idea for at least 4-6 months.
The guys were fairly obvious and one was especially kooky.
I kind of feel bad for the kid.
He looks like he could have been a normal nerd in high school if not for
his parents.
This is like a bad tattoo - what is this going to look like in 30 years.
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