Posted on 12/13/2022 12:04:32 PM PST by upchuck
Dozens of athletic competitions for women and girls have been upended by the participation of males identifying as transgender women, who benefit from a host of biological advantages over female competitors, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.
Transgender-identified males have competed in a variety of women’s athletic competitions, from school sports for young children to top college events and Olympic competitions. Differences in an average woman’s strength, stamina and physique compared to the average male are sustained even when a male undergoes testosterone suppression, according to the Sports Councils’ Equality Group.
“There is no equity, fairness, sportsmanship or opportunity for women to succeed at an elite level without sex-based categories. It is crucial that as a society we open our eyes and recognize the irrefutable damage that is being done to women’s sports and everything Title IX was created for,” Riley Gaines, Stand with Women spokeswoman at the Independent Women’s Forum and former collegiate swimmer, told the DCNF.
Gaines tied for fifth place in a race against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at the NCAA Championships this year.
Thomas, a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, competed on the men’s team for three years before coming out as transgender and swimming on the women’s team. Thomas had ranked 462 while swimming on the men’s team but was ranked first in the nation while competing against women.
Thomas competed against women in dozens of swim meets, including the 2022 NCAA National Championships in which Thomas swam in eight races and placed in the top eight in six of them, winning a national title for the 500-yard freestyle by nine seconds.
CeCe Telfer, a transgender athlete at Franklin Pierce University, won the NCAA Division II outdoor track and field championship title for the 400-meter hurdles in 2019.
Laurel Hubbard, a transgender weightlifter, won two gold medals at the Pacific Games in 2019 while competing in the women’s division and went on to join the women’s Olympic team, becoming the first biological male in Olympic history to compete in a women’s sport. While Hubbard did not win any medals at the Olympics, the transgender weightlifter’s presence on the team necessarily meant that a biological woman was denied her spot on the Olympic team in favor of a male athlete.
Biologically male Brazilian volleyball player Tifanny Abreu was the first male-to-female transgender athlete to compete in the Brazil Superliga, the country’s highest-level volleyball competition. Abreu was featured in an Adidas campaign which included footage of the athlete spiking a ball over two women.
These high-profile cases grabbed headlines, but the inclusion of males in women’s sports is changing the landscape for ordinary female athletes in younger age groups and lower-level divisions without gaining the same public attention and outrage.
“There is a common misconception that born-male athletes participating in women’s sports is a non-issue because it’s not happening often, but that’s a false narrative,” Gaines told the DCNF. “There are numerous examples of young women of all ages and sports being directly impacted by transgender athletes competing in the women’s category.
“This issue matters because women deserve equal opportunities to achieve and succeed through fair competition. We do not need to give up our consent in places where we undress and we do not need to give up the awards we have earned simply to validate men or make males feel better about the insecurities their dealing with,” she said.
High school runners in Connecticut sued the state athletic association in 2020 after two biologically male athletes swept a total of 15 state titles. The litigation is still ongoing, and the girls are being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
“Males will always have inherent physical advantages over comparably talented and trained girls,” ADF Senior Counsel Roger Brooks said in a statement. “When our laws and policies fail to recognize the real physical differences between males and females, women and girls bear the brunt of the harm. It’s our hope that the 2nd Circuit will give the young women we represent the right to pursue their case and put women’s sports back on a level playing field.”
“Allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports, as we see happening in Connecticut and elsewhere, deprives girls of the opportunity to be champions, showcase their talents, and potentially earn college scholarships,” ADF Senior Counsel Christiana Kiefe said in the same statement. “All female athletes deserve to compete on a fair playing field, and we are urging the court to ensure respect for their right to equal treatment and opportunity in sports.”
Maybe the NCAA are a bunch of chickens to ignore this maltreatment of women.
Duh!! This is so stupid.
They are also winning in “beauty” contests, and “woman of the year” awards. Clearly, men are better at everything.
“Maybe the NCAA are a bunch of chickens to ignore this maltreatment of women.”
This is the end result of letting women vote.
My military is ruined.
Now I’m supposed to give a shit about sports no one cares about?
Kick rocks...
Shocking 😱
#patriarchysocrafty
Outside of the award winnings, games and competitions are sometimes resulting of injuries to real women, faced with much stronger “women”.
“There is no equity, fairness, sportsmanship or opportunity for women to succeed at an elite level without sex-based categories.”
You know, that sounds logical, but then I remember that women brought us the wonders of feminism and all that it has wrought on society. So eff ‘em.
You want your sports back? I want my sane world back. Your move, ladies.
Maybe demented Joe could protect women for being women as part of the respect of marriage act.
Yeah, I saw the photo with that ugly, overweight guy who dressed up in women's clothes and won a "beauty contest". He was surrounded by the other contestants --- all of which were lovely young women.
These "judges" who voted for an ugly, overweight man as a "Miss" anything should be sent to jail.
Again, these contests normally involve scholarship money for the winners. He took that money away from an actual young woman.
It could if the NCAA had the desire and the will to do it. Apparently they don't.
Stupid political policies have stupid results. Enjoy diversity and equality!!!!
Women, by and large, ASKED for equality with men. Even with their prayers answered, they STILL are not proving to be “equal” to men and are now asking for “special privileges”? Too much Whining makes one a “karen”. Sucks it up ladies... you asked and now you got.
so you're stronger and more athletic....
big deal...
as of now you can't make babies nor breast feed them...
you're lousy at many things that women excel at....
and you should be okay with that....
and women should be okay in not trying to be on the football team....I'm okay with that...
but no....
.some men are still just so insecure, so wimpy,so small and so afraid of any competition....
that beating down women is all they have to resort too....
I don't think any woman wanted to be competing against men in sports. They wanted to compete with other women in sports and get the same kind of scholarship opportunities that male athletes have gotten.
This circus is a joke. These perverts are doing this as a way to cheat actual women out of scholarships; or, as a mockery of women.
As an actual woman, I am pissed that they have been allowed to do this. It is cowardice on the part of the officials who run these contests that this has not yet been stopped. A simple DNA test requirement would straighten this out.
"Identifying" as a woman, is NOT being an actual woman.
Some trannie was talking about going to the WH to see the POTUS and that POTUS gave hime a cookie. Dementia Joe can give you a cookie; but that doesn't change the FACT that you are a man. He did another video about how many weeks he was celebrating being a "girl".
I went through 22 hours of labor to give birth to my first child. And, no one gave me a cookie.
When one of these people does that, let me know and we can have a converstion.
Speak up, Ladies. If you don’t like this trend, now is the time to make some noise, before laws lock this in as ‘normal’.
Yep, shockeroooo. I recently read where ‘the science’ has figured out a way for a dude’s sperm and a donated egg are invitro fertilized and glued in behind the dude’s large intestine and feeds off some organ, hence needing no uterus. Pump the dude with all kinds of hormones and 9 months later, cut it out and go on Oprah. Nothing shocks me now. We need another flood.
Yes, created equal in the eyes of God. Yet created very different by the same God.
I am very pleased with my equal yet very different wife.
transgenderism continues to confirm male supremacy
if you repeat that line within earshot of a woman
be prepared to duck
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