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Unsure about the trans/sports debate?
Please take a look at (or thread 👇)
Then consider that we are relying on hormone therapy to account for *all* male advantage in *all* sports, without first having data showing *all* of that
USA's top high school boys🟦of 2016 vs the Olympic Women's🟥Finalists of 2016
100 Meters (Track & Field)
Is it fair for males to compete in the girls' or women's categories?
More & Sources 👉
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Vermont high school girls' basketball team "forfeits playoff game rather than compete against team with transgender player"
"We believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players"
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"One of the world's top ranked women pool players is refusing to play against anyone who is not biologically female in professional competitions"
This comes after the gov. body reversed course and allowed males to compete as women
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@KeithOlbermann
@Riley_Gaines_
World Aquatics, the governing body over swimming updated their policy in the months following Thomas' race to exclude swimmers like Thomas, citing (un)fairness.
She's right. It was unfair.
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Seb Coe:"It was the right decision then. It's the right decision now. Those regulations are here to stay. If we have to defend them we will. We will defend them on the basis that it's absolutely vital that we protect, defend & preserve the female category"
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When athletes from
@Penn
raised concerns about fairness re: Lia Thomas, they were threatened with removal from the team & being made unemployable.
Compare their anonymous statement to FINA's experts' statement - they express the same concerns.
These women are owed an apology.
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@RepAdamSchiff
The bill is not a ban.
It requires athletes to compete in the category associated with their sex.
Competing according to sex is the only way to guarantee equality of the sexes in 🥇🥈🥉.
By opposing this bill, you are opposing the level playing field for women & girls.
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"A man who identifies as non-binary said he felt 'dehumanised' and accused [Zara] of being 'transphobic' after he was refused entry to a women's changing room"
Perhaps
@britishlibrary
could compare Giorgio to a fish to offset this dehumanization?
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A Florida school that violated FL's Fairness in Women’s Sports Act by allowing a trans identified male student to compete on the girls' volleyball team has been fined $16,500.
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@scarlett4kids
@sunprairiek12
Why are we teaching young males that there are exceptions to respecting females' privacy/sexual boundaries?
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“Half of England ladies' angling team quit after trans woman 'with hands like shovels' and who used to be a rugby player is selected to join their squad for physically demanding fishing championship”
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“Norwich trans woman had indecent images of children”
This is a man. Obfuscatory language should not be used in the context of child sexual safety.
The vast majority of those who are convicted of possessing child porn are male (>99% in some cohorts).
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@playthegame_org
So we've gone from:
"In the absence of evidence, trust me bro, it's fair"
to:
"In the absence of evidence, trust me bro, it's not that unfair"
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"Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women’s sports in general" - head of school Vicky Fogg
In Vermont, male students need only self-id as girls to compete w/girls, a bad precedent indeed
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The Oregon High School coach that was fired after writing a letter to state officials opposing males competing in the female category, has filed a lawsuit against the school district asking for his job to be restored.
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Fencing: “trans competitor, Eden Philpot, previously competed in men's events before transitioning to female”
“Philpot has scooped up four gold medals, two silver and one for placing fifth and eighth in a matter of months.”
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A woman is suing New York City, alleging that a trans identified male was placed in a prison cell with her, and shortly after sexually propositioned her, then groped her in the bathroom, and then "[began] to rape her" "while [she] was sleeping in her bed"
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“The president of the Cheyenne Tennis Association board has resigned in protest over the organization’s decision to let a transgender player compete in the women’s open division of this weekend’s annual Wyoming Governor’s Cup tournament in Cheyenne.”
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@libsoftiktok
Of the 161 trans identified male inmates in Wisconsin DOC prisons, 81 have been "convicted of at least one count of sexual assault or sexual abuse" according to a 2022 public records request.
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@KeithOlbermann
@Riley_Gaines_
If you compare the 2016 High School Nationals male finalists to the 2016 Olympic Women's finalists in swimming - the boys would take all but one bronze medal.
See this thread 👇
USA's top high school boys🟦of 2016 vs the Olympic Women's🟥Finalists of 2016
50 LC Meter Freestyle (Swimming)
Is it fair for males to compete in the girls' or women's categories?
More & Sources 👉
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Quite an image:
According to speakers, a violent male is using girls' bathrooms
An educator(?) asks the school board not to be distracted by "transphobic language" as a woman holds up sign saying "Stop allowing biological men parading themselves as 'women' into women's spaces"
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If this were true, we’d see rich women outperforming poor men.
Instead, males start surpassing women’s world records by age 14 (track and field).
@EqualityOhio
@LGBTCleveland
@HRC_OH
@Honesty4OhioEd
@ProChoiceOH
@abortionfundOH
@EquitasHealth
@TransEquality
@TheOhioChannel
The largest disparities in sports fairness come from the socioeconomic disadvantage of marginalized populations, not trans participation. Proximity to privilege predicts success in sports, not testosterone levels or biological markers.
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@scarlett4kids
@sunprairiek12
Creating carve outs for certain favored groups which allow them to overstep boundaries & safety guidelines does not help anyone in the long run, be they priests or trans identified individuals.
Males shouldn't be in female only spaces.
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"Many of them are sex offenders, [...] When the males arrive they cease hormone injections and continue living their lives as men. [...] I personally have been threatened with violence and multiple false allegations for speaking up'"
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"World Aquatics [...] announced Tuesday it will start an 'Open' category that includes all transgender athletes, after the body joined several other sports organizations and issued restrictions on transgender women last year."
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👀
Caitlyn Jenner: "This is a question of fairness. That's why I oppose biological boys who are trans competing in girls sports in school. It just isn't fair, and we have to protect girls' sports in our schools"
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@ACLU
Segregating sport by sex is the only way to guarantee equal 🥇🥈🥉 for males and females - equality of the sexes
Male advantage is not trivial, by age 14, males' records outpace females' world records in 7 track and field events
Boys' World Records by age🟦 vs the Women's World Recorder Holder🟥
200m (Track and Field)
Is it fair for males to compete in the girls' or women's categories?
More & Sources 👉
(WR data from 2019)
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Op Ed by Oberlin Coach Kim Russell
"A male [...] should not be allowed to compete in a women’s sporting event"
"my opinion, based on biological truth that I’m well aware of as a former D1 two-sport athlete [...] with over 27 years of coaching experience"
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@ACLUofAlaska
Requiring students to compete in sex based categories isn't a ban - and it is the only way to guarantee equal 🥇🥈🥉 for males and females.
Working towards the equality of sexes in sport is not "harmful".
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"NCAA official resigns in protest of transgender policies that ‘discriminate against female student-athletes’"
“I have watched the NCAA double down on regressive policies which discriminate against female student-athletes.”
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@LambdaLegal
I use pronouns that correspond with what I observe a person's sex to be.
I will not be required to pretend I observed something which I did not. This isn't 1984.
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"Transwomen may have sporting edge even after years on hormones, study suggests"
"Transgender women are stronger and have better heart and lung capacity than women, even 14 years after taking hormone therapy, a study suggests."
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“If the transgender athlete is allowed to play on a girls' sports team this fall, […] their daughters won't be participating.”
“in summer practices and games, the parents say girls are leaving with welts and bruises they've never received before”
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The question “how much does a male need to be hobbled in order to compete in a category exclusively for females? 10/5/2.5nmol/L, etc” is a silly question.
It’s like asking how many ankle weights an 18 year old needs to wear to be 13 years old.
It doesn’t work that way.
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@Riley_Gaines_
Title IX:
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of **sex**, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Sex. Not gender identity.
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USA's top high school boys🟦of 2016 vs the Olympic Women's🟥Finalists of 2016
100 Meters (Track & Field)
Is it fair for males to compete in the girls' or women's categories?
More & Sources 👉
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10 former varsity athletes at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill:
“Will NC stand up for women’s sports?”
“In the world of competitive sport, single-sex categories are the only way to achieve equality for women and girls.”
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"More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners in British jails are serving sentences for sex offences and violent crimes, government figures have revealed."
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Seb Coe, president of World Athletics:
"I'm elected to protect the female category. If I don't do that, no woman will ever win another sport [event] again" (The last bit was hard to understand)
"If you are being realistic about it, a third category is still a male category"
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ALASKA: “Board of Education votes to ban trans female athletes from competing in girls’ sports division”
Alaska will be categorizing sport by sex, not gender identity - the 24th state to do so!
Previously, each school district could set its own policy.
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Some good news: "The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit reinstated the case of four female athletes deprived of honors and opportunities at elite track-and-filed levels by male athletes permitted to compete against them."
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This isn't to suggest that mitigation "works". Only females should compete in categories that are only for females. A hobbled male is a male
But the unfairness self-ID in the context of sports is obvious, no need for studies on effects T suppression, etc.
"Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women’s sports in general" - head of school Vicky Fogg
In Vermont, male students need only self-id as girls to compete w/girls, a bad precedent indeed
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From an early age, males hold an insurmountable advantage over females in most sport.
For example, the average age at which males' records surpass the corresponding Women's World Record in track and field, is 15 years old.
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@nwlc
"this notion that trans girls have an overall competitive advantage in sports also implies that every single cisgender woman is physically inferior"
Set aside the issue of gender ID - not all males outperform all females - can you justify why we should segregate sport by sex?
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“If trans athletes can compete in female events, then women's sport is finished, writes Olympic gold medalist” |
@Daley_thompson
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Great Britain: "the proportion thinking someone who is transgender should be allowed to have the sex recorded on their birth certificate changed [...] has fallen from 53% in 2019 to 30% in 2022."
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The White House has released a statement saying it would veto the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act if it made it to President Biden's desk.
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Another girls’ high school team refuses to play against a team with a male player.
Good for them!
Tonight in the Bay Area, a girls’ high school basketball team, consisting mostly of Muslim girls, forfeited a game against a team with a male player. The girls refused to play against the boy or share a locker room with him.
You will not see this story in the news.
Of course
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“I was wearing men’s clothing but I had two gowns on my shoulder, it was obvious what I wanted to try on."
So, sex is ("obviously") determined by the clothes one is carrying (on one's shoulder)?
Were they supposed to infer that he would go in a man and exit a woman?
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@greg_price11
@Riley_Gaines_
The witness was later unable to answer if males hold advantages over females in sports.
She is the head of an org that meets with the White House on a nearly daily basis on this, and other matters.
@Riley_Gaines_
President of the HRC not sure if males have athletic advantages over females - eventually deflects to ~"not all males have advantages hold advantages over all females" - an entirely different and irrelevant point. (not all 15 year olds are faster than 11 year olds - but a 15 year
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UPDATE: “Trans anglers banned from women's competitions by world sporting body Decision that it is ‘absolutely discriminatory’ is a victory for gender-critical feminists”
“Half of England ladies' angling team quit after trans woman 'with hands like shovels' and who used to be a rugby player is selected to join their squad for physically demanding fishing championship”
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“Female military recruit, 18, considered quitting after she was forced to shower with transgender women who had not undergone full medical reassignment surgery - and was too afraid to complain in case it harmed her career”
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CNN on the International Cricket Council policy:
“Mainstream science does not support the claim of athletic advantage in trans women over cisgender women.”
This simply isn’t true.
“A 2017 report in the journal Sports Medicine that reviewed several related studies found ‘no
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The IOC has released updated Portrayal Guidelines for media outlets w/help from GLAAD
The IOC calls for the media to avoid terms like "biologically male" because it can be "dehumanising and inaccurate"
Also "identifies as" is out, and should be "is"
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@TheAtlantic
@maggiejmertens
By age 14, males hold 7 records in Track & Field that surpass the Women's World record.
The average age at which males' records surpass females' World records in Track & Field is 15.
data & sources:
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The White House Press Secretary was asked today if President Biden agrees that the issue of "biological boys plays in girls sports" is a "women's rights issue"
KJP didn't give a direct answer, deflecting with "It's a complicated issue and there a wide range of opinions on this"
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@jk_rowling
Also, we should not be teaching young females that they should allow (& make feel included) some males in changing rooms and other areas of privacy.
Similarly, we should not be teaching young males that some males can expect to be made to feel included in females' changing rooms
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“Californians Are Terrified To Say What 'Everyone Knows' About Trans Athletes in Girls' Sports”
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This is queued up to a part of the video where 3 students speak.
The last student asks why the male students' violence is being recorded as person-on-person violence instead of male-on-female violence.
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@ACLU
Top males begin to outperform women's world records at age 14 in Track and Field.
You are advocating for girls to compete against a class of athlete that the best women who have ever lived would not outperform.
Completely unfair.
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@BenFordhamLive
That the athlete is transgender isn’t the issue.
The problem is that the athlete is male and competing in an event for girls.
By age 14, males’ records surpass Women’s World Records in 7 track and field events. (see: ).
If this was a female who IDed
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@PressSec
Categorizing sport by sex (instead of gender identity) is not an "[attack] on transgender kids"
Males and females are different when it comes to peak athletic performance. Categorizing by sex guarantees equal 🥇🥈🥉 for both sexes - equality of the sexes.
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Another article that suggests we don't segregate by sex, but asks what if "we imagined sports in other ways?" (weight categories, creating new sports)
These types of articles share a few hallmarks:
1. They say something vague about categories that would replace sex, w/no
Swimmer Lia Thomas has sued swimming’s governing body for discrimination because it has barred her from competing as a trans woman in elite women’s swimming events.
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This male athlete now has another Girls championship win - yesterday "Bidwell won the triple jump (36 feet, 8 inches) at the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Class LL girls’ outdoor track and field state championship"
🧵Male athlete, Lizzy Bidwell wins GIRLS high jump below ⬇️
Had the male jumper competed in the boys' high jump event, he would have underperformed last place (21st) by 4 inches. The winner of the boys' event jumped over 7 feet compared to his 5'9" performance.
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@jessesingal
“We must listen to experts! They have special scienfitic knowledge, not like those angry social media users and Harry Potter author”
The experts:
“We looked at the passport and it says female, so there you go”
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‘I raced Lia Thomas – and I still feel the burning injustice’ |
@oliverbrown_tel
"Riley Gaines intended to pursue a career as a dentist after graduating, but she is now consumed by the quest for fairness for women in sport"
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In a paper published today in BMC Psychology, researchers recommend that "until there is direct and consistent scientific evidence supporting the notion of transgender competitors having an advantage, transgender individuals should be allowed to compete [...] without restrictions
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Pro surfer & motivational speaker
@bethanyhamilton
is scheduled to speak at a Women's Fund event, and trans activists are attempting to have her canceled as the speaker, and are requesting an apology - due to her stance on transgender athletes.
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The US House has passed the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act".
219 - 203
The vote was along party lines.
It now goes to the Senate.
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“FINA ruling on transwomen ends 20-year fantasy that sex is not real”
“No serious scientist disputes that maleness confers a sporting advantage”
-
@HJoyceGender
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UPDATE:
“Transgender tennis athlete Brooklyn Ross has dropped out of the […] tournament”
Ex-Board Pres. who resigned:
“Regardless of the withdraw, I stand firm on my belief that biological men do not belong in biological women’s sports.”
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@NPR
*limited scientific advantage that advantage has been completely mitigated.
These are male athletes, males have obvious athletic advantages over females. By age 14, males records outpace 7 women’s world records in Track & Field.
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In 2021, Rep
@skeesderek
asked an ACLU rep: "Would you support an all women's team having all biological males?"
ACLU: "Transgender women are women, transgender girls are girls. We are going to support bills that [..] protect their civil rights"
That hypothetical is now reality
A team of two males -- Evelyn Williamson and Tessa (Michael) Johnson -- won the Illinois state women's championship title last week in the Madison (a relay type race) at
@edrudolphvelo
in Northbrook.
Men are just so good at track cycling!
#dudesrock
, right
@usacycling
?
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Reaction to Hubbard's qualifying from former NZ weightlifter Tracey LamBrechs
“I’m [...] quite disappointed for the female athlete who will lose out on that spot. We're all about equality for women in sport but right now that equality is being taken away from us.”
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A woman (& former D1 scholarship athlete) in Massachusetts was pressured to withdraw as a candidate for school superintendent over a social media post (pic) supporting females athletes.
She is being protested again while seeking work at another school.
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@KeithOlbermann
@nypost
@Riley_Gaines_
Pursuing the equality of the sexes in sport is not "hatemongering" or "transphobia".
Segregating sport by sex is essential to guarantee equal 🥇🥈🥉 for males and females - and that is what Gaines is advocating for.
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43 athletes in New Zealand expressed concern that Sport New Zealand is about to draft a policy that “would give transgender athletes the right to play sport in the gender of which they identify, with no explanation or transition required.”
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This is, of course, a lie from the Biden administration:
"deny access to sports for many families by establishing an absolute ban on transgender students"
No one is absolutely banned.
Students can compete according to their sex.
The White House has released a statement saying it would veto the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act if it made it to President Biden's desk.
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New Polling. Of 1,000 US voters:
73% say "biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to compete in women’s sporting events"
10% believe they should.
Below is a scatter chart of opposition from 33 polls from 2016-2024, the new poll is highlighted in red
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Federal appeals court: There is no fundamental right to change one's sex in birth certificates
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"[
@Riley_Gaines_
] has become a prominent opponent of transgender people participating in competitive women’s sports"
No
@Bencjacobs
- She opposes males competing in women's sports.
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"UN experts" issued a policy position on trans/intersex athletes.
- It criticizes "The categoric or blanket exclusion of trans and intersex women from sport" - which isn't happening, males can compete in Men's category (
#11
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- It criticizes restrictions as focusing "only on
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@KeithOlbermann
@Riley_Gaines_
TRA playbook for responding to female athletes' concerns about males competing as women:
Female athlete:
-Wins against male -> "You won, stop complaining!"
-Ties -> "You sucked, stop complaining!"
-Loses -> "Try harder!"
For non athletes: "We should listen to female athletes"
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“Basketball Australia rules transgender athlete Lexi Rodgers ineligible to play”
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@NPR
*Limited research showing male advantage has been mitigated-in the absence of evidence, we are asked to assume mitigation!?
By age 14, males' records surpass the corresponding women's world record in 7 track and field events
'Trust me bro' doesn't cut it
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@wordfalcon
She's an incredible athlete, but the periodic win in wrestling at the state level by a female competing against males does not mean males do not hold an advantage.
And it certainly doesn't mean we should include males in determining who the top female wrestlers are.
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Lia Thomas has lost after taking World Aquatics to court.
WA changed is policy, which (now) bars Thomas from the female category and allows Thomas to compete in the male category (which is fitting, since Thomas is male). Thomas argued this is “invalid and unlawful”
Breaking: Lia Thomas, who was the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college title, has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport.
WA say it is a “a major step forward in our efforts to protect women’s sport”.
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NXXT Golf: "Effective immediately, competitors must be a biological female at birth to participate [in the NXXT Women’s Pro Tour]"
Stuart McKinnon, CEO of NXXT Golf, announces a key policy update for the NXXT Women’s Pro Tour. Effective immediately, participation requires competitors to be biological females at birth, a move to maintain the integrity and fairness of the competition.
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In this thread I will be posting the visualizations from
The tweets are repetitious so each tweet can stand alone when retweeted.
For sources & more information for each event, please refer to the website👉
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@Riley_Gaines_
"One activist was seen dressed as a shark to mock Hamilton, who survived a 2003 shark attack."
🙄
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@acluohio
@EqualityOhio
@LGBTCleveland
@HRC_OH
@Honesty4OhioEd
@ProChoiceOH
@abortionfundOH
@EquitasHealth
@TransEquality
@TheOhioChannel
If this were true, we’d see rich women outperforming poor men.
Instead, males start surpassing women’s world records by age 14 in track and field.
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"Standing up for the rights of women and girls should not be solely a Republican or conservative position"
by
@bindelj
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