Posted on 05/19/2021 5:25:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The NCAA was threatening states that if they didn’t allow men to compete in women’s sports then they would pull tournaments from those states. The entire issue even caused a once-loved Republican governor, Kristi Noem, to lose her support within the party after she bent the knee and refused to sign a bill banning biological men from declaring themselves women and signing up to compete against them out of fear of losing the revenue.
As it turns out, the NCAA was totally bluffing and picked three states for their tournaments to happen in. According to Breitbart, the NCAA has announced that Alabama, Arkansas, and Tennessee will be host to the Women’s College World Series softball regionals:
But now, only a month later, the NCAA announces that despite its saber-rattling in April, it will allow events in states that have already passed laws limiting transgender athletes to birth gender categories, Yahoo! Sports reported.
Over the weekend, the NCAA named Alabama, Arkansas, and Tennessee host schools for softball regionals. It has also been confirmed that Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, will host the Women’s College World Series once again. Though, all these states now have laws that put limits on transgender athletes, banning players born as males from playing in girls’ sports regardless of their claimed transition status.
The Women’s World Series generates $20 million for Oklahoma City, but the NCAA warned that it would take the games from the area over the state’s new law. That punishment, though, appears to have been scrapped.
CNS News reported that the Concerned Women of America consider this a victory, hoping that the NCAA has learned that it’s not going to win this battle:
“Perhaps the NCAA is finally getting the message that discrimination against female athletes is NOT fairness. Maybe the NCAA has finally read the scientific research that proves male athletes cannot become female athletes. It could be the NCAA is finally recognizing that their policy allowing transgender males to compete in women’s sports is an affront to women’s equality and rights.
“States are passing laws because Joe Biden is repealing Title IX and erasing women’s sports. It’s about time that the NCAA back off its woke agenda and stand up for female athletes. There is much more the NCAA needs to do to regain its sorry track record in women’s sports. Let’s see if they are really serious about getting out of the starting blocks.”
To be sure, the introduction of men into women’s sports is an insult to women who still have a biological disadvantage when it comes to strength, speed, and endurance with men’s bodies having denser bone and muscle structure, as well as greater lung capacity. Attempting to inject the political idea that men and women are interchangeable is an affront to women and far from fair.
One lesson needs to be learned from this, though. It’s that if you stand firm in the face of threats from the left, chances are that you’re going to win in the end. As you can see, the NCAA’s bluff was proven to be just that, and any state still worried about being punished by the organization for making it clear that a woman is a woman and a man is a man, especially in sports, should now move to do the same as Tennessee or Alabama.
But they shouldn’t do it out of reassurance that nothing will happen to them, they should do it because it’s the right thing to do.
well, at least the NCAA exposed the cowardliness of Kristi Noem ... the last thing we conservatives need are more cowardly “leaders” who fold at the first sign of media “controversy” ...
Oracle also tried to bully the Tennessee governor into vetoing a bill disallowing biological males from competing in women’s sports by threatening to not move their headquarters to Tennessee. The governor stood firm and just a week or so after the attempted bullying Oracle announced that they were moving to Tennessee. It seems that the money they saved in state income taxes outweighed their pretend outrage (Tennessee doesn’t have a state income tax).
Trannies vs. feminazis.
Gentlemen, we should take our cigars and brandies to the parlor.
But we also need popcorn.
Most of the time all you have to do is stand up to this idiocy and call their bluff.
Oh that more would.
RE: Most of the time all you have to do is stand up to this idiocy and call their bluff.
South Dakota could have been one of those states. Unfortunately, Gov. Kristi Noem decided not to join...
I really liked Kristi Noem. Too bad that she caved.
They’re pretty woke. My guess is they will cave.
The NCAA is run by college presidents so they’re bitches.
I have seldom seen a politician cave and ruin their chances at national office like Kristi Noem did. She couldn’t stand up to the NCAA - how would she stand up to Russia or China?
Kristi Noem showed she wasn’t up to the task.
RE: She couldn’t stand up to the NCAA - how would she stand up to Russia or China?
Better to know about her character now than in 2024 when the GOP Presidential primaries begin.
The NCAA knows that the colleges and universities don’t need the NCAA; the NCAA needs them.
The NCAA could be replaced within 12 months, and nothing would change. The schools could simply create a new organization and eliminate the monetary cut the NCAA has been taking.
The way to end this insanity of unfair competition between females and males that pretend to be females is very simple.
All female athletes from grade school to the Olympic level should refuse to compete against males that say they are female. They can not win against a male if it is speed and body strength. Our musculature is different, our bone structure is different, our muscle fiber density is different, lung capacity is different, etc. All of which favor the male. This insanity would die in one year if real females refused to compete against males that call themselves female.
Each sex has it superiorities and inferiorities to the other. Thank god. We are different but simply complement each other into a whole.
RE: All female athletes from grade school to the Olympic level should refuse to compete against males that say they are female.
What about Doubles in Tennis?
I think CHESS is a good “sport” for Men to compete against women ( even Transgenders ). That is, if you consider CHESS a sport.
RE: The schools could simply create a new organization and eliminate the monetary cut the NCAA has been taking.
I’ve been saying this to those who were trying to defend Kristi Noem.
I would guess that Kristi Noem actually support this insanity. Whatever, she revealed that she is will support at least some of the extreme left wing agenda.
She is the Chamber of Crony capitalist nominee .
Her chief of staff is a big player in that evil group .
Bye .
I would think the ncaa and other “sports” organizations would have learned from the pandemic that we don’t need you. We especially don’t need the woke.
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