Posted on 05/26/2023 5:50:52 PM PDT by DallasBiff
A former University of Arizona swimming star said Wednesday anyone born male should not be able to compete in girls’ sports, no matter what the age.
Marshi Smith, the 2005 NCAA and Pac-10 Conference women’s backstroke champion, already was on record as opposing the NCAA policy of allowing those born male to compete against females. At an event in January, she read a letter from 45 current and former female athletes and coaches threatening action against the organization which regulates intercollegiate sports if they do not rescind the policy.
But on Wednesday, Smith said this goes beyond college and even high school level sports.
She said her own experience convinces her that boys as young as 4 have an inherent physical advantage.
Smith expressed her views at a press conference Wednesday to support a bid by state schools chief Tom Horne to defend a 2022 Arizona law that forbids transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports. More to the point, he is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed in federal court on behalf of two transgender girls who want to compete.
One is an 11-year-old who attends an elementary school in the Kyrene School District and is set to attend Kyrene Aprende Middle School in July where she would like to try out for girls’ soccer and other teams. Her lawyers say she has “lived her life as a girl” since she was 5. They also said she has not started puberty.
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Either that or just call it trans women’s sports, since men pretty much dominate it now.
It might just be me, but I see few -if any - females competing in male sports.
That says a lot about the biological differences between the genders.l
I suppose I’m a libertarian on the whole tranny thing. If some guy wants to dress up as a gal, I won’t get all worked up. I won’t object. I think it’s harmful to society, and to the person involved. But it’s a free country. So I won’t stand in the way.
But wait. There is a saying, a very wise saying. “Your rights end where mine begin.” A guy can dress up like a gal. But he cannot then infringe upon the rights of real women in sporting events, in shower rooms, etc.
Unfortunately, that’s what’s happening today. The rights of real women are being trampled upon.
And I'm sure the next item on the agenda for normalization will be at least as bad, or twice as bad. Maybe even liberals aren't ready for it yet.
It doesn't matter one bit how much the boy pretended to be a girl...He is STILL A BOY.
I have no problem with so-called “transgender” person participating in mens and boys or in womens and girls sports, provided it is with those who share their biological sex. If their biological sex is female, they should be participating in sports with other biological females, or if their biological sex is male they should be participating in sports with other biological males; but bilogical males should not be paticipating with biological females.
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