Posted on 12/26/2020 8:26:44 AM PST by EdnaMode
Megan Rapinoe, Billie Jean King, and 174 other female athletes signed an amicus brief in support of transgender girls and women playing sports as their gender identity.
“As women and LGBTQ+ athletes,” says their brief, they “submit that all youth deserve an equal opportunity to participate in sports alongside their peers. Such equal opportunity benefits the entire sports community.”
The brief was filed in Hecox v. Little, a lawsuit brought against the state of Idaho, which passed a law this year banning transgender girls and women from competing in school sports as girls and women.
The law also allows for a female student-athlete’s gender to be “challenged” and requires the athlete to undergo medical exams to “prove” it. A doctor, the law says, will have to examine the athlete’s genitalia, hormones, and DNA and make a determination of their gender, something that Democrats pointed out is not recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Boise State University athlete Lindsay Hecox, who is transgender, and the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit against Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) to overturn the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at lgbtqnation.com ...
“...alongside their peers...”
Letting men compete in women’s sports is far more popular than letting women compete in men’s sports. This is an implicit admission that women who think they’re men aren’t the equal of actual men.
Why not just legislate that all people compete in the same league? But, of course, that would establish a sports meritocracy, which the left cannot have.
Start with women’s boxing.
“Send our male kids into those sports? Most male kids would be horrified at doing that.”
Perhaps some would join-in when they understand it’s for political purposes. This is a standard Alinsky tactic - which is to hold the other side to THEIR RULES - make them live by those rules. RUIN girls/women’s sports, until they come over to our side and help us stand up to the radicals.
There is literally NO REASON our side should be fighting this alone...other than the fact that we are, in effect, helping the Left by keeping out boys out of these sports - and thereby the Left gets to bash us for opposing trannies, while, in most case, the parents of the girls do not suffer one bit (since the number of boys doing this is quite low without our side engaging in some civil disobedience, for once).
And how will they “feel” when all the “records/wins” accomplished by actual, fully biologically females are eradicated by “fake females?”
Billie Jean King is about 80 years old and played tennis against a man...she never ran or did anything else with men that would have caused her to be handicapped/penalized by her smaller or weaker body...
What do young females, teenagers and in their 20s have to say about men competing against them in sports such as running etc ???
Those nut jobs better not go to Russia.
By all means we’ll have the mentally ill make public policy. Iran does some things right, they cure the LGBTQueer problem
Celebrate perversity! (Even if it means discarding common sense and norms).
King fought against the tranny tennis he/she/it from playing on the womens tennis circuit when it mattered....Renee’ something or other
Willims “sisters”? lol
The hardcore feminists want this. They are so determined to prove that women are just as physically strong as men, that if it takes a man in a dress to prove, so be it. It’s not about individual achievement (where biological females will lose out big time). It’s about proving women are equal. The feminazis know that biological women are not physically equal — so they are redefining “woman”.
Who cares what these sexual perverts do? If these women choose to do things that are against nature, that is their right, but to try to spread their wrongdoing is not right.
Rapinoe is 35. She is still an excellent player but is probably in her last cycle for the USWNT. I wonder if her take might be different if she were younger and still had a long future to consider.
I think there must be an underlying assumption among the pro-trans lobby that very few men will make the jump to top level women's sports. If that's the case, there will be a continual stream of one-off situations, but few enough in number that they can be brushed off as incidental disturbances in the force. Many of these will occur in girls' youth sports or in minor sports without a large following and with very little money involved.
This may be a safe assumption, at least for a time. World class athletes, male or female, are a tiny fraction of the overall player pool. Most of them are straight. The usual percentage will be gay. Vanishingly few will be trans, and most trans people don't want to call attention to themselves in the first place. The number of trans people who can play at the professional, national team and Olympic levels will be very small. And in truth, there is a lot of pride involved in top level athletics, and a lot of gender confused men who might be potential crossovers are probably too proud, as competitive athletes, to go that route. They would view it as cheating. All of them will have played informally and socially with women from time to time in sports like golf, tennis or soccer, and they will all know the difference in performance. If they have any pride at all, they would not want to beat up on the women in a serious competition.
HOWEVER: sooner or later, a transwoman will show up in a sport that matters. At this point, just to clarify the issue, I hope that an aspirational female with XY chromosomes and a beard shows up in golf or tennis and proceeds to sweep all the grand slam events and every tournament he enters for five years running. Or perhaps some fleaspeck country with no soccer chops whatsoever will recruit half a dozen competent gay men to run up the trans flag and dominate the next Women's World Cup, destroying the proud women's teams from the U.S., France, England and Germany by 10-0 scores. Or a couple of gay male players of D1 college caliber -- pretty good players who aren't quite up to MLS levels -- are considering life after soccer once they graduate and decide to take a chance on the USWNT, which would give them a way to keep playing and earn a low-six figure income doing it. Then watch the reaction when Julie Ertz, Lindsay Horan, Rose Lavelle, etc. get cut to make way for them. The debate would change really fast.
Right now, the trans influx is so small that it can almost be ignored by the general public. (Though I don't want to forget the girls and women in the affected events who are being cheated, even though the public isn't paying attention.) But if the women succeed in dramatically increasing them salaries and prize money in women's sports, the incentive for large scale male invasion would be huge.
I don’t think i’d want the Rapping Ho to sign my briefs!
The Left will, always, be for cheating, and they continue to dominate with the total Cheating Vote.
With Trans women allowed, none of those women would be of note in sports. They’d have never even have been seen even in high school.
https://www.marca.com/en/more-sports/2017/06/27/595296da468aeb99218b464c.html
No video, but check out the scores between Venus and Serena Williams against Karsten Brasch (#203 on the men’s list at the time). They did not have a chance - 6-1 and 6-2.
Wait. Wasn’t Billie Jean against it before she was for it?
Billie Jean king in her prime took three sets to bear and old male tennis player who was never top tier in his prime
That would be interesting to see!
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