Posted on 11/24/2019 2:49:48 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Several members of Columbia Universitys 2019 championship fencing team wanted to hand deliver a letter to President Trump Friday, accusing his administration of having perpetuated a culture that conditions women and minority gender identities to be silent.
Elise Gout and three of her teammates planned to hand the letter to the president during a White House visit for athletes and coaches from 22 collegiate national championship teams. Gout said that the letter argued that the Trump administration has perpetuated a culture that conditions women and minority gender identities to be silent to sacrifice the space they have every right to take up. The letter also criticized the administration for proposing changes to federal rules that would affect campus sexual assault survivors and for implementing new regulations that prohibit groups that receive federal grants from referring patients for abortion.
But Gout was later informed by a Trump aide that she could not bring the letter with her into the East Room. White House spokesman Judd Deere said the Columbia fencers visit with Trump was cordial, and White House staff extended an invitation for the athletes and coach to come back to the White House at a later date to discuss any policy concerns they have. The four signatories noted in the letter that it only represented their views - fencers who competed on the 2019 championship team and graduated earlier this year - and not Columbia University or the fencing team.
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Yes, it is a martial art. It should be kept alive and practiced carefully.@@@@
Perhaps time for an NFA? Don’t know how this was missed after the Revolutionary War to keep alive the requisite skills necessary for great swordsmanship!
Cool sport, i suspect limited opportunities.
Our right or his right?
OUR right or HIS right? They’re both rather attractive and I have a choice to make.
Naah; I checked on Gout and found her to be quite homely. These Wisconsin Hockey ladies are quite lovely.
Thanks for posting this.
My apologies for mischaracterizing your sport. God bless you.
He should grab them by the p***y.
I fenced in High School. Its a serious strenuous sport.
A heck of a lot of fun, too.
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However, she shouldn’t bring a knife to a gun fight...
My late husband, who was about as straight as it is possible for a man to be (and Army ROTC, active and then Reserves, rifle team, combat pistol, competitive skeet shooter, and dart team captain extraordinaire) was a fencer with the Atlanta Fencers' Club (Gene Gettler, Maitre d'armes). The whole lot of them were just ordinary American males.
Don't go slinging names just because a couple of idiot kids at Columbia decide to act in an immature and discourteous way. Their professors encourage it.
(proudly posting w/o reading the thread since some time in the 1990s)
Women and “minority gender identities”?
Since there are slightly more women than there are men, that makes men the only minority gender identity.
I do not want to be mean but it we do need a baseline for "plain."
Since when are fencers concerned about proper grammar?
Theres the students problem right there: ..... minority gender identities ..... Ha! Poor mixed- up , spoiled kids
Why are they wearing Wisconsin jerseys?
It looks like this girl is arguing mentally ill men and scammers should be able to claim to be girls so they can win ... never mind the privacy rights of other women in the locker room or the risk they’ll be raped by men using the showers.
This is how misplaced compassion enables evil.
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