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.
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Most road races, from 5k to the Marathon, have men and women running the same course together. When I was a semi-serious runner one of my goals was to beat or finish near the top women. They usually finished in the top 10% of the field, so I was guaranteed a respectable finish. Sometimes they'd even push or pull me to an age group trophy!
I’ve seen the look on the faces of women that have been beaten by men competing where they don’t belong.
To have all their training and hard work destroyed by men that should know better.
It’s crushing, heartbreaking, and completely unfair.
“I’ve seen the look on the faces of women that have been beaten by men competing where they don’t belong. To have all their training and hard work destroyed by men that should know better. It’s crushing, heartbreaking, and completely unfair.”
Couldn’t agree more, hence my post. Today, you’ve got a radical 10% demanding this crap. The people trying to really fight it are another 10%, on our side, and the relative handful of people/parents directly affected. Most people, the 80%, aren’t affected and aren’t involved. They agree with us, but know better than to speak up, given what’s become of this country.
So what does the Left do? They frame the argument as a bunch of Evangelical Neanderthals trying to go back to Victorian times. And as long as it stays that way, WE LOSE, as always happens in the culture wars.
Hence my suggestion that we take it to the next level and make those 80% deal with it...as they, and ONLY they, can end it. But right now, the ‘easy’ approach is to do nothing and ‘tolerate’ it.
Yes, that’s right, it was Martina who was against it. They should all be against it.
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