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Trans Athletes, The New York Times, and the Ivy League
Townhall.com ^ | February 1, 2022 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 02/01/2022 4:01:09 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 02/01/2022 4:01:09 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Not to make light of this but at this point in the conversation the women need to play along until the season openers and leave en mass. It would take courage, but it would send a message. Heckuva way to send a message, but any athletic aspirations flew out the window the day the cuckoo birds flew into the nests.


2 posted on 02/01/2022 4:09:25 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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Lia Thomas is FORCING the country to deal with something that was much easier to deny and ignore, which is where the gay movement is going (which is towards pedophilia, as they’re already testing the waters there).

So if people do rise up (a little transgender woman lingo) to stop him, then he will have done a GREAT SERVICE to the country...as literally NOTHING ELSE was being done to stop this crap before him. If not, then just business as usual...and the girls at Penn can thank their ‘sisters-in-arms’, and probably themselves earlier, for empowering this these people.


3 posted on 02/01/2022 4:14:00 AM PST by BobL (Money is the most important thing in my life.)
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To: Kaslin

Satan at work.


4 posted on 02/01/2022 4:14:29 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Kaslin

Feminist/Feminism movement is dead. Confirmed.


5 posted on 02/01/2022 4:16:54 AM PST by cranked
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Lia Thomas' UPenn teammate tells how the trans swimmer doesn't always cover up her male genitals

The fact that, despite some naked dude hanging his figs in her face, she still refers to "her male genitals" means she's either drank the koolaid herself, or is too cowardly to state the obvious truth - that the dude is a dude.

Going along with the lie is worse than telling the lie.

6 posted on 02/01/2022 4:19:37 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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Unfortunately, these girls on the team have a tough decision to make. They can either go along with it, or sacrifice their personal careers by refusing to swim or practice.

For everybody else, it's theoretical. For the other members of the swim team, it's their career and their life. It's not easy being Jackie Robinson.

7 posted on 02/01/2022 4:46:10 AM PST by Bernard ("The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision." Fulton Sheen)
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I find this whole story hilarious, because it is the ultimate ridicule of modern feminism.

If women are supposed to be equal to men, then they have no business competing in segregated sporting events.

My prediction all along has been that this idiocy will ultimately bring about the demise of ALL scholastic sports. The women's events will be dominated by men and then disappear, and the schools will be in the uncomfortable position of having to explain why they only have men's sports. So rather than face up to their own fundamentally flawed world view, they will simply drop sports entirely.

8 posted on 02/01/2022 4:53:54 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Bernard
In this particular case, there are no "personal careers" to sacrifice. Ivy League schools have no athletic scholarships, so there appears to be no downside to quitting a sports team. A smart alumni of UPenn would already have gone out there and secured the copyright for a generic name such as "Quakers Collegiate" or "Pennsylvania Quakers" to give women on UPenn's sports teams an avenue to pursue amateur athletics outside the university.

You're going to see collegiate sports go the way of club teams in the not-too-distant future.

9 posted on 02/01/2022 4:58:15 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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In this particular case, there are no "personal careers" to sacrifice.

I disagree. My brother played for an Ivy League basketball team, and that played a direct role in his landing his first job.

10 posted on 02/01/2022 5:08:47 AM PST by dirtboy
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I think for an amateur athlete, the pride of completion and accomplishment would be the primary reason these people continue to participate in college sports even if they have no plans or opportunity to go on. And that sense of pride is very important to them.


11 posted on 02/01/2022 5:09:56 AM PST by Bernard ("The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision." Fulton Sheen)
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Fair enough -- but he played one of the two sports that actually generate a lot of interest even for Ivy League teams.

Do you think it would have been the same case if he had been an Ivy League swimmer or cyclist?

12 posted on 02/01/2022 5:14:08 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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I agree with that, which is an even bigger incentive for them to get over their attachment to the collegiate aspect of it. I would never put myself in a position where I had no control over the conditions of competing.

My first adult amateur hockey team was in a league that made a big deal about ensuring that the competition was fair and reasonable. They had five tiers of teams, and went to great lengths to make sure that players -- and teams -- were placed in the appropriate tiers. That was a big part of their sales pitch when they charged registration fees for the league.

13 posted on 02/01/2022 5:18:37 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Alumni bonds can be pretty powerful no matter what the sport.


14 posted on 02/01/2022 5:20:46 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: cranked

Western feminism is dead. I suppose that feminists in other non western countries fighting trafficking, prostitution, porn, genital mutilation, forced hijab and such are still trucking along to some degree.


15 posted on 02/01/2022 5:20:46 AM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Eat the Rich)
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To: cranked

This is the result of feminism and women voting.


16 posted on 02/01/2022 5:24:00 AM PST by EEGator
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Quote: “The 35 of us are just supposed to accept being uncomfortable in our own space and locker room for, like, the feelings of one.”

First: Woman and men are conceived as either female or male. A person is not assigned a random sex at their birth. It is the miracle of nature and the speed of dad’s swimmer that decides whether mom’s egg is conceived a male or a female. When a child is born the results of a conception being either male or female is noted and recorded.

Regarding: “The feelings of one.” Feelings? What are these feelings? The feeling of power that a male chauvinist gets from dominating and demeaning females? What is the need, feeling or desire, not only of male claimants of womanhood, but of those who support and insist that men should be allowed to claim to be just as good at being or better at being a female, a woman, then those conceived as female?

Something is wrong. Too many are trying to demote conceived female to a lower status then that of those conceived male who claims female status. It feels to many that a conceived male’s claim of having a conceived female’s birthright of and to femininity and womanhood are a way for some conceived males to dominate, demean and lower the status of conceived females. Are they actually chauvinists?

Second: A separate subject is females who claim masculinity and to be male as it has always been men, males, that have the power to dominate conceived females.

Just my rambling thoughts....


17 posted on 02/01/2022 5:53:44 AM PST by This I Wonder32460 (Communism = Greedy Desire to Steal from Others, rather than Earn One's Own.)
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To: Alberta's Child
there are no "personal careers" to sacrifice...

They would be targeted for being "transphobic" and anti-LGBTQ.

LGBTQ activists and their fake news lackeys would gleefully intimidate employers against hiring them.

This is what these young women are, rightfully and unfortunately, afraid of. It's why they won't come out publicly and on the record against this outrage.

18 posted on 02/01/2022 6:13:49 AM PST by LuxAerterna (/)
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"The school released a terse statement last month that it was offering mental health services to student-athletes."

They are giving the wrong person mental health services.

19 posted on 02/01/2022 6:17:06 AM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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I haven’t heard a peep out of any feminist women. Wonder why?


20 posted on 02/01/2022 6:31:18 AM PST by Kharis13
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