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Humans are essentially herd animals, finding safety in numbers. Most fear standing out and can easily be bullied into either silence or complicity. I don’t say this as an insult. It’s just a fact. For a long time, Americans have been socially bullied or economically coerced into accepting the “transgender” fiction. However, the tide seems to be shifting and, as brave people make a stand, others are learning to be brave. That’s the case with Paula Scanlan, who has gone from shy anonymity to open-faced, raw courage regarding UPenn’s psychological warfare against women swimmers who didn’t want to compete with...

While most trans women aren’t winning major titles, here are almost two dozen athletes who have found success. With so much recent public conversation about trans women in women’s sports, I was struck by a post by trans advocate Schuyler Bailar — a trailblazing former NCAA athlete — claiming three trans women who have ever won national or international competitions in the women’s category “don’t exist.” Off the top of my head I could name several, and some digging has found at least 23 trans women who have earned national or international victories. No out trans woman has won an...

Podcasting proggie, Emma Vigeland, took on the ‘TERFs’ of Twitter by stating what she considers to be a simple truth: ‘trans girls and trans women are girls and women, so they get to participate in girls’ and women’s sports’. Uh, no. It’s amazing how brazen these folks are. There’s a sizeable segment of the population who now see it as truth that a person can feel they are a thing they’re not, and that earns that person a membership right in whatever groups they imagine themselves to be in. What if we all woke up tomorrow feeling like NFL football...

A San Francisco Chronicle health reporter says there’s a shortage of evidence for what for others is something that’s incredibly obvious: Experts say a paucity of research on transgender athletes makes it difficult to determine if trans women actually are faster or stronger. The science is even murkier for young athletes.https://t.co/IL7A5qPWZB — San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) May 27, 2023 This is something else: Two female runners competing in a state high school championship this weekend have come under attack because people believe they are transgender and therefore may have an unfair advantage. But the science is far from clear as...

Two California high school athletes are facing attacks by anti-transgender activists, including Caitlyn Jenner, after qualifying for next week’s California Interscholastic Federation State Track & Field Championships. Last weekend, Sonoma Academy junior Athena Ryan, who is reportedly trans, placed second in the 1600-meter run at the North Coast Meet of Champions of California finals. Members of the anti-trans group Women Are Real showed up to the meet in Dublin, California to protest Ryan’s participation, holding a banner that read “Protect Female Sports.” The group later posted video showing protesters being escorted out of the event by a security guard. Video...

Trans women athletes possess multiple physiological advantages over biological females even after they transition medically, Government-published research suggests. A major review quietly re-shared by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) last August suggests that early exposure to testosterone means trans women possess at least eight physical and mental attributes that could give them an advantage in sports — even if they make the change relatively early. Findings showed trans women had greater muscle mass and bone density, which aid strength, power and durability, plus bigger lungs and higher oxygen levels, which help with endurance, as well as increased connections in...

A transgender athlete took home a second-place medal in a crucial high school track and field competition in California over the weekend, sparking fierce backlash — as the fourth-place medalist appeared to give a thumbs-down at the podium. Athena Ryan, a junior from Sonoma Academy, claimed the silver medal in the varsity girls’ 1,600-meter run during the North Coast Meet of Champions of California finals on Saturday. Ryan, a transgender female, now qualifies for the California Interscholastic Federation State Track & Field Championships next week after finishing in the top three. The high school track star who claimed fourth place...

A transgender cyclist won the female category at a gravel race but stood alone on the winners' podium after the event. The second- and third-place winners refused to appear at the medal ceremony after Lesley Mumford won her age group in the 100-mile Desert Gravel Co2Ut. Mumford was born a male and transitioned to female in 2017. Mumford posted a picture on Instagram of her standing at the podium alone but smiling and holding the first-place medal "I have no idea why so many people bailed before the podiums, but they did," Mumford wrote after finishing ahead of 43 female...

A female cyclist who gave up her dream of competing at the Olympics after losing to a biological male has said the experience 'hurt on a million different levels'. Hannah Arensman, 24, quit cyclocross after also receiving abuse from a left-wing, Antifa gun club which protested at her final race after claiming 'there's a massive TERF [trans-exclusionary radical feminists] problem in cycling'. Arensman is a 35-time winner on the national cyclocross circuit and previously opened up in heartbreaking detail about her decision to leave the sport, saying the inclusion of trans competitors meant she would 'lose no matter how hard...

In the grand-scale of ‘what the heck did we just read’, The Nation takes the cake with this piece blaming everything and everyone (including women themselves) except climate change for women’s desire to compete against other women: Women’s swimming is, in some ways, uniquely anti-trans. It’s a sport whose culture created the perfect conditions for trans-exclusionary beliefs to take over.https://t.co/m9PXus07Tr — The Nation (@thenation) May 13, 2023 We’re not kidding, they really do check almost all of the boxes when it comes to the blame game. From the article: The World Aquatics policy was the culmination of a long-simmering anti-trans...

The Disc Golf Pro Tour was pushed into the spotlight over the weekend after Natalie Ryan, a transgender female competitor, saw her chances of possibly winning a California tournament disappear due to an appeal of the court ruling. The Professional Disc Golf Association tightened its rules on transgender participation in December, which would have kept Ryan out of the women’s division. She filed a discrimination lawsuit in February, saying the tour’s decision was based on “prejudice,” according to OutSports. On Thursday, US District Judge Troy L. Nunley granted Ryan a temporary restraining order to allow her to play. “It appears...

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the governing body for cycling, may revise its transgender athlete policy days after it defended the regulations when a male-bodied athlete won a women’s race.Townhall covered this week how UCI issued a statement defending its policy allowing male athletes to compete against women. This came after Austin Killips, 27-year-old a biological male, took home the overall win in the Tour of the Gila race in New Mexico this week.Breaking News:MAN wins WOMENS Prize 🏆 pic.twitter.com/0Kp6J5GvRe— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 1, 2023“The UCI acknowledges that transgender athletes may wish to compete in accordance with their gender identity,”...

Lia “Man Hands” Thomas continues to put himself out there to defend HIS position of taking a female title. In fact, women are “using the guise of feminism to push transphobic beliefs”, he says.Thomas joined fellow trans swimmer Schuyler Bailar on an episode of the Dear Schuyler podcast to air his grievances. Take a look at this segment from The New York Post...f you were to close your eyes and listen to the clip, you would hear a man‘s voice. Now, watch that clip with open eyes, you would not only hear the voice of a MAN, you would see...

A law group is 'demanding actions and answers' from a Wisconsin high school after a transgender student allegedly 'exposed their male genitalia' to four freshmen girls in the locker room showers after a swim class. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) claimed Sun Prairie Area School District provided an 'inadequate response' to the alleged incident in March. It said Sun Prairie East High School administrators 'failed to comply with basic protections afforded by federal law' following a 'violation of girls’ locker room privacy'. 'The girls were caught off guard and shocked, closed their eyes, and tried to hurry...

My lame tablet won't copy right now, so I can't post clip of article. Article starts with "Transgender people are at the center of the GOP's crosshairs". Article estimates about 100 transgender athletes nationwide. "Of the estimated 332 million citizens living in the United States, 1.3 million adults and 300,000 youths ages 13-17 identity as transgender, equaling half a percent and 1.4% of the population respectively, according to report published by Williams Institute, a think tank of UCLA's law school in 2022." Percent of kids 13-17 is 3 times number of adult transgenders?

A girl who was injured on the volleyball court by a transgender “woman” athlete told a group of state lawmakers Tuesday that she is still both physically and mentally traumatized by the incident. Payton McNabb, a senior at Hiwassee Dam High School in Murphy, North Carolina, told lawmakers at a state hearing on fairness in sports that she has suffered since she was brutally struck in the face by a volleyball smashed toward her by a boy claiming to be a transgender girl on an opposing team last September. “I suffered a concussion and neck injury that to this day...

We’ve seen many companies go woke recently, particularly on the issue of transgender ideology. All things being equal, we would prefer if most companies just stayed out of controversial politics, but if they are going to get political, we would prefer it to be our politics, thank you very much. So that brings us to the Egard Watch Company, which we never heard of until today, and this ad is amazing: #erased Our ad response to woke corporate America. We are a company that believes in truth. @elonmusk @TuckerCarlson @libsoftiktok @benshapiro @MattWalshBlog @stillgray @piersmorgan @alx @JackPosobiec @Malcolm_fleX48 @carolinecwilder @OliLondonTV @RealSaavedra...

The House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to protect women’s sports leagues by banning male athletes who identify as females from competing. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 would amend Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 such that recipients of federal financial assistance which operate sports leagues cannot “permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.” The legislation passed with 219 affirmative votes, all of which came from Republicans, and 203 negative votes, all of which came from...

Bud Light really and truly screwed up when they made Dylan Mulvaney a spokesMAN for their beer. Like, a monumental mistake. Especially now that we know Dylan is only doing this whole ‘I’m a woman thing’ to get rich and famous. Poor guy couldn’t make it as a man so he’s pretending to be a woman. And Bud Light fell for it. Ouch. Right? Speaking of ouch, check out this new ‘beer’ commercial from Team DeSantis: The Desantis team has a new commercial honoring real men who are dominating women’s sports in a play on the old real mean of...

White House: 'If the President were presented with HR 734, he would veto it.'The White House vowed Monday that President Biden will veto a bill that would prevent biological males from participating in women's sports should it pass both houses fo Congress. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, or H.R. 734, was introduced by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., and is expected to come to a vote on the House floor sometime this week. "The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 734," the White House said in a statement. "For students nationwide, participating in sports and being...