Carilyn Johnson
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MOTHER, attorney, ultrarunner. 4 x Team USA 🥇🥇🥈 24 Hour Team. #SaveWomensSports . NO DMs.
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Next project:
#Walk6240
With my “bone on bone” knee diagnosis, I’ve decided to recreate my first Project - 6240 miles in a year - but ALL walking.
Happy July 4th! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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For those upset with me for highlighting the unfairness of this man competing in the women’s hurdles because they think I’m being “unkind,” I would ask, “And is his insistence on competing in this category not unkind to the woman standing next to him?” Selective kindness is not
Not only does this man get the benefit of racing women in the hurdles, but he gets the benefit of jumping over the women’s sized hurdles.
It’s like they are in two different sports.
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Boy demands to play in girls’ league. His wants are the most important of all important wants ever wanted.
Girls: “NO! This is our league. You have your own league that you can play in.”
Football Association: “You won’t let the boy play in the girls’ league?! His desires are
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#SaveWomensSports
I have avoided wading in on this topic because I don’t want to cause anyone harm. But, as a former professional athlete, and an attorney who focused on civil rights law, I feel the need to speak out.
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Weird situation in a hotel lobby bathroom tonight. Went in, only woman. Another woman entered after me and went into the stall next to me. Then, heard a man’s voice. WTF? Left my stall, and man quickly existed, hiding his face.
Can only guess he followed the other woman in,
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I used to tiptoe around the men-identifying-as-women issue. I believed I was “being kind”. But, then, the more I researched it, the more I realized it had NOTHING to do with protecting a few people from abuse and everything to do with an absolute hostile takeover of women for the
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At some point, we have to all be willing to see this for what it is. Please stop pretending like this is anything other than telling young female athletes they don’t matter.
🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 🚨
A trans-identified male just dominated the Girls 200m Varsity at the Sherwood Need for Speed Classic in Sherwood, Oregon.
Aayden Gallagher, a boy who "identifies" as a girl, set a new record after easily defeating his female competitors.
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I’ve “literally” spent almost my whole life training.
I started training very, very young - and sacrificed my childhood, my adolescence, and my legal career to be a pro athlete.
Telling me that I should just “shut up” and “be kind” because entitled boys and men deserve “more”
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I did 3 posts yesterday highlighting the story of a football association that is disbanding a league because a team refused to allow a boy to play on the girls’ team.
I repeated my argument: STOP BLAMING THE GIRLS who don’t refuse to play because so far, when the girls HAVE
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Wearing a “Save Women’s Sports” shirt is sexual harassment against men, but men undressing in the women’s locker room is perfectly fine. Women need to just shut up and take it. Where have we heard this before? 🤔🤔
Evie Edwards was reported for “sexual harassment” by 2 male cyclists in the women’s division for wearing a shirt that said “Save Women’s Sports.” 🤯
@DexterSaxapahaw
is fighting to
#TakeBackTitleIX
for young female athletes like her daughter.
#OurBodiesOurSports
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Women were not allowed to compete in ALL sports in the Olympics until 2012.
They were not allowed to run the Marathon in the UK until 1975.
They were not allowed to run the Boston or NY Marathon until 1972.
But, yeah, let’s just give back our categories to men. That seems like
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Watching a female coach come on this thread repeatedly to post “women and girls just need to train harder” has been one of the most depressing and anger-inducing things I’ve seen.
A common refrain many of us heard as young female athletes going through puberty, with all the
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For those who believe that the rewriting of TitleIX s no big deal because, meh, sports, please understand it applies to EVERY protection your daughter has at school, and any other federally funded program. Bathrooms, locker rooms, housing, accommodations on school trips (for
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Planet Fitness has revoked a woman’s membership after she complained about a man shaving in the women’s restroom with a 12 year old girl present. The man defended his actions simply by claiming he identified as a woman.
Women’s Rights are Human Rights.
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When the most prominent women’s rights organization tells women to sit down and shut up so that a group of entitled men can appropriate women’s identities for their own benefit, the group has devolved into a men’s rights organization. Shaming women for speaking out is the very
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The lawsuit against
@KappaKappaGamma
caused me nightmares last night about living in the sorority house when I was a member of KKG - 4 girls to a room, connected bathroom to another 4 girls (8 girls sharing a bathroom/shower/changing space). No locks except on the toilet room.
I
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I know this doesn’t directly affect those of us in the US, but I want to express my deepest concern for the women in Scotland who will potentially be affected by the Hate Crimes Act as of Monday. What an Orwellian piece of legislation. Simply stating scientific reality could lead
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I find it ironic that I’m getting responses saying that when I argue for the rights of women and girls, I am somehow FOR limiting boys’/men’s rights of association, fair sport/educational opportunities, etc.
For the record, I am the mother of 2 sons - I have no daughters - and
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I absolutely don’t expect everyone who follows me to agree with everything I post. But I know, without a doubt, I would have never made four US National Teams if men were allowed to compete in the women’s category. Every man competing at the “same place” (4th woman compared to
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Can’t believe my last couple of tweets went viral. Let me be clear: I just want to run. I love running. But, and this is a big but, I will not be silent about men encroaching on hard-fought women’s rights in sport and safe spaces. Come at me. I can take it.
#SaveWomensSports
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Watching a fight on my TL where a Trans Rights Activist is arguing that because it is “Women’s Sports” and not “Female Sports”, it naturally means that anyone simply identifying as a “woman” is allowed to compete in the Women’s Category.
See how they did that?
First, change
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The ENTIRE school was banned because the young female athletes stood up and refused to play! Stop going after the girls for being afraid to stand up. Go after the cheaters!
#StandUpForTheGirls
#SaveWomensSports
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Women: A male identifying as a female does not belong in the female category in sport. Needs to compete in Male or Open category only.
Them: But “she” IS a woman!
Women: If he was born male he retains inherent male advantages.
Them: Hate speech! Ban them from speaking!
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I started competing very young (age 6), and I still remember every sleepover/birthday party, etc., I had to turn down because I had 6 a.m. swim practice every Saturday. One time, my twin neighbors were having their 10th birthday, and I just absolutely didn’t want to miss it. I
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I was one of those “bright eyed” law students of the 90s, empowered by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Condoleezza Rice, believing we were at the very forefront of making all their hard work and sacrifice a reality.
Then something happened. We took a U-turn, where
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For the last time: It doesn’t matter if he won by a considerable margin - which he did. It is a girls’ race! Period. He does not belong there! Getting glory at the girls’ expense is just base level cheating simply to appease one boy. Stop saying this is “kindness”!
🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 🚨
A trans-identified male just dominated the Girls 200m Varsity at the Sherwood Need for Speed Classic in Sherwood, Oregon.
Aayden Gallagher, a boy who "identifies" as a girl, set a new record after easily defeating his female competitors.
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To all of you who respond with the “this happens so rarely, why do you care?”: What exactly is the tipping point where this will seem unfair to you? We’ve posted over 800 examples of records and podium placings being taken away from women and girls by males, and that isn’t
Male athlete Lazuli Clark of KIPP Academy excels as a 3-sport athlete in girls' sports:
🏀 Girls' basketball: playoff bound
🏐 Girls' volleyball: League All-Star led the team in kills, aces & digs
👟 Girls' track & field: set meet records in 400m hurdles & shot put at the Lynn
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For the thousandth time, lowering testosterone does not magically erase all inherent physical advantages (height, lean muscle mass, power expression, wingspan, hip to shoulder ratio, etc.) a man has from being born a man and going through male puberty. He is still competing with
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I’d like to take a moment and thank
@ripcurl_usa
@ripcurl
for unintentionally bringing women from all over the world together to say, “Enough is enough.”
#WomenAreReal
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I keep thinking rational people will come together and say, “Enough is enough!” A 50 year old man should not be able to “identify” his way into a girls’ swim competition, let alone their locker room, and yet, there are still people claiming his “right” to their competitions and
50-year-old 'trans'-identifying male prevented from competing at kids swim meet
Host team tells Orangeville Otters: don’t come with middle-aged male swim team member
Watch:
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I’m still gobsmacked at the number of people who keep coming on my posts and saying, “They should just refuse to compete!!” despite every bit of evidence we show you about what they risk - suspension, banning from sport completely, loss of scholarships, “re-education training,”
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This Girl Can selection committee:
“We need to highlight awesome girls doing awesome stuff to inspire other girls.”
“Great idea!”
“Let’s start the week with four boys! That will REALLY inspire girls!”
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I can’t believe how many people are still going after girls who are afraid to stand up against boys competing in their sports after seeing this. You do realize that, by the state banning the ENTIRE school from participating in ALL extracurricular activities (band competitions,
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I will help.
@jk_rowling
has gotten fed up with diatribes about how women should just shut up and let any entitled man who claims he is a woman take over all spaces and sports he feels he is entitled to, as enabled by publications like
@RollingStone
. And, it is only getting
J.K. Rowling's diatribes about trans people here on X have completely taken over her timeline — and they're only getting worse
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I’m an early riser - it’s 3:18 a.m. I like to be out by 4:00 for my first run. Usually my husband goes with me, and if he can’t, I run on the TM. I used to run alone, but I don’t anymore because of too many scary situations.
I posted a story just last week of getting followed,
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A male is the new
#NCAA
All-American woman. But, women are just being paranoid.
“It never happens. Quit complaining!”
Oooookay. When, exactly, should we be concerned?
Trans Flag Flies High on NCAA Women's Podium
Rochester Institute of Technology spotlights MALE athlete Sadie (Camden) Schreiner honored as new
@NCAA
WOMEN's All-American
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Today has been exhausting trying to respond to those who don’t “believe” men have inherent physiological advantages over women (despite overwhelming, and blatantly obvious, evidence to the contrary).
Why is it OUR duty to prove men shouldn’t be allowed to cheat by competing in
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Men who are appropriating women’s identities keep coming on my TL trying to coerce me into “explaining” why women deserve their own categories. We don’t have to explain it. YOU need to explain why you feel entitled to dominate absolutely everything you desire. Why are your
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As many others have said, women and girls are expected to be emotional support humans for some entitled men. Our needs matter not at all to them.
This is another part of that elevator ad that tells women to ignore their instincts. This time it is telling women that they must accept men on their teams to be good people.
“We’re all in this together.”
“We’re glad you’re on the team.”
“You belong with us.”
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This is simply an untrue statement. He is not banned from competing. Every athlete is absolutely able to compete in the category that aligns with their biological sex (or the Open category) because sports are contested with bodies, not feelings.
In addition, your statement
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This is why many of us keep saying, “Stop blaming middle and high school girls for not standing up.”
The adults are to blame. They are in charge, and they are the ones letting this happen.
JUST IN: The 5 girls from Lincoln Middle School in West Virginia who protested a trans student participating in shot put by refusing to participate, have been banned from school sports.
Harrison County Board of Education made the decision, and now they’re being sued by the
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Retired from law (kept my license, thank god), but now considering opening a practice focusing solely on women’s rights, (Can’t believe this is still an issue). I’m angry. I thought I was done with this. But, clearly I was wrong.
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separate from boys and men who have significant physical advantages. I’m speaking up now to support young women and girls who may not go get a chance at all unless we
#SaveWomensSports
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“Why don’t the girls stand up? “Why don’t the coaches stand up?”
Enough!!
Why don’t the people in charge stand up and stop this! Enough is enough!
We are being controlled by a bullying, coercive system.
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This is why I disagree with those who keep telling girls and women to just not compete.
Not competing doesn’t end with, “Oh, there’s no one to compete with. We made a mistake. We’ll send the boys back to the correct category.”
It ends with NO GIRLS SPORT!
The reality is, they
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She was given a ONE YEAR suspension for speaking out about men competing in the women’s category - after a long “temporary” suspension period while they “investigated”. Please don’t come at us about “why don’t female athletes stand up? Why don’t they protest men in their sport?”
A lot of you are asking me if I am happy with the one year suspension.
Of course, I don't feel I should have been suspended in the first place. But, it is what it is. I can walk around with resentment and be angry all day. Or I can push forward, except it and keep being a
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It is, in fact, discrimination against girls. Pretending that one boy’s feelings matter more than the safety of, and fairness for, girls is the exact definition of discrimination.
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Woke up to a lot of men responding to my post yesterday saying, “You wanted equal rights, this is what you get, b*#@&!s!”
I guess they fail to see that the creation of separate categories in sport was the result of fighting for equal rights - women and girls needing an equal
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Another male pushing four young women down in placing, but he is the one who is “stunning and brave”. Tell me how this isn’t simply about thinking women have less value.
#SaveWomensSports
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No. We will not tolerate this lie to be perpetuated any longer. Men, regardless of how they identify, are welcome to continue to participate in sport in the category that matches their sex. They are not being “prevented from competing.”They are simply being told they can’t cheat.
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@mcuban
@jordanbpeterson
The problem, Mark, is that every day, women are facing the real threat of losing rights to fair sport, safe spaces, bodily autonomy, and even the real definition of who we are as humans.
I’ve watched you as a public figure and leader for many years, and I don’t believe that in
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Watching female politicians gleefully give up the rights of women and girls just to appease the few has been one of the most depressing elements of this entire debacle. We used to be so proud of strong women who ran for office, regardless of party affiliation. Their betrayal now
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This is the type of regressive thinking posing as “progressive” that women athletes are being subjected to. Saying that a strong female isn’t “female enough” for their approval, while simultaneously saying that a man can “become a woman” to play in the female category by donning
@Martina
@Bakari_Sellers
Martina you look like a man and you were waaaay more muscular than ANY of the female tennis players you competed against. There is no difference between you playing tennis with women and a trans male to female player.
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Please know that I am aware of the typos, etc., in my tweet thread, but since Twitter doesn’t allow editing without deleting and reposting, I’m leaving it as is (if you were following in real time, you saw what a hard time I had just figuring out how to post a thread 😂😂).
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“Mother” is now a bad word. Please, please stand up and speak out. This is government-sanctioned hate for women.
Stigmatizing Words to Avoid:
❌Mother
❌Mother-Infant Pair
❌Breastfeeding
2024 update of the HIV Language Guide published by the US Dept of Health & Human Services
This guide will heavily influence how scientists write grants, publications, presentation & press materials.
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This. They don’t want an Open category. They want to dominate women and be validated. It isn’t about fair competition, or inclusion, in sport. It just isn’t.
#SaveWomensSports
"WA introduced a new 'open' category inclusive of transgender swimmers... However, the category was canceled after nobody signed up to enter the field."
Because the slogan that trans-identified male athletes "just want to play" is a lie. They just want to play against women.
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People think it doesn’t matter, but it does. It matters to the people who it directly impacts, and in this scenario, it is any girl/woman who competes with the body she was born with.
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Just heard that they weigh competitors in climbing competitions so there is no unfair advantage.
Funny how sporting bodies just ignore the 6’ tall man playing rugby or volleyball against significantly smaller young women because, “checks notes”, the men’s feelings are more
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Continuing yesterday’s thread…
Women were not allowed to get a business loan without a male co-signer until 1988.
Women were not protected from being fired for getting pregnant until 1978.
Women were not allowed to get a home mortgage until 1974.
Women were not allowed to
Women were not allowed to compete in ALL sports in the Olympics until 2012.
They were not allowed to run the Marathon in the UK until 1975.
They were not allowed to run the Boston or NY Marathon until 1972.
But, yeah, let’s just give back our categories to men. That seems like
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This is where we are. A group of young women are traveling the country, speaking out about what it felt like to have to compete against men, and have them in their showers and locker rooms. Their bus was vandalized.
And then, this person writes this. The lack of self-awareness
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“It won’t lead to girls and women leaving sport,” they said.
“Women and girls should just be kind,” they said.
“No woman or girl is hurt by letting men compete in their category,” they said.
Just stop. Your arguments have become ludicrous lies.
#SaveWomensSports
🚨NEW🚨
At least 20 women have dropped out of an Australian football club to avoid being forced to compete against a team with FIVE trans-identified male players.
According to the club's president, one of the women suffered a severe leg injury.
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I’ve been thinking about this all day.
We keep being told to ignore reality and “include” men in our sports and spaces because it is “kind”.
We are simultaneously being told that, because we have to “accept them as women,” we can no longer talk about our bodies - our
Objecting to men in women’s sports, Kim Russell removed from her job as the head women’s lacrosse coach During her disciplinary process, she secretly recorded conversations, administrators said that teaching players about the female menstrual cycle was an “an attack on trans.”
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It is so interesting to me how, after I posted that my 92 year-old MIL killed a rattlesnake single-handedly after finding it in her bathroom one morning, there are people who are angry she didn’t figure out how to “relocate it”. She is tiny - 90 lbs - and I was proud of her for
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@MrRypod
@KemiBadenoch
@jk_rowling
@Glinner
@IndiaWilloughby
@Cougarmania
How magnanimous of you. Men platforming another man while chiding women for defending women’s rights.
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I support every human’s right to identify as they wish. We are autonomous beings. But just like free speech is not absolute (line is drawn when your speech harms others - shouting fire in a crowded theater, defamation, etc.), one’s personal choices should not be amplified at the
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The feelings of ONE boy matter more than every other girl competing. This is their so-called “kindness” agenda. Clearly not kind to girls. Discrimination, much?
👟Male track runner Veronica Garcia won the WOMEN's varsity 400m on Saturday in Washington.
@wiaawa
He's currently ranked 1st in the League & 4th overall for girls in the state. This is the teenager's 2nd name change (Donovan Brown ➡️ Davina Brown ➡️ Veronica Garcia)...🧵
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As a young female swimmer, it had a HUGE impact. Why compete when it clearly would be impossible to do so against such a force. So many young girls I knew just quit swimming. There was a lull in US swimming for many years after.
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I was preyed upon as a young woman (as almost every woman on the planet can attest to) - as an athlete, and in school. Counselors, coaches, and teachers.
I was preyed upon in college by professors.
I got a law degree specializing in “women and minority rights”. I learned
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Decades later, after years and years of “talk” that the East German team had clearly been doping, all the women were vindicated. But it was too little, too late. They are now seen as heroic figures, but to what end? A couple of documentaries?
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You know how many top female athletes would LOVE to get a book deal? Just watching the Olympic Marathon Trials made me want to hear every one of their stories. But, being great at something isn’t enough if you are “just” a woman. You can be a mediocre male athlete in college,
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Several people are coming on my TL to say the TitleIX rewrite isn’t “that bad”. After slogging through all 1577 pages, not only is it “that bad,” it is much worse than many anticipated.
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@archer_rs
My 91 year old father had a similar situation. Went outside his house to find his tire flat. Called
@AAACares
(an American auto service company one pays for). They would not send assistance because he did not have a “smartphone”, claiming they couldn’t “find” him without a GPS
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I was lucky that I was able to end up as a professional runner as an adult. Many girls/women never get a “second chance”. Title IX was created to protect girls and young women in sports, and allow them the fair opportunity to compete in a space
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Yes, I did. And, after doing robust research, I learned:
1. HRT does not significantly decrease male advantage in sport. There is no way to erase inherent physiological advantages of males simply by lowering T and/or introducing estrogen/progesterone.
2. Even with limited T,
@TudorRoseVideo
@CarilynJohnson
Sure you did.
You “researched” … did you get your research peer reviewed to ensure it was comprehensive, balanced, and well thought through?
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And when exactly are we allowed to protest? When ALL records in female sports are held by men? When every safe space is male-centered? When the word “woman” doesn’t even include us anymore?
This argument is so harmful to women because it implies that we are required to accept a
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We are being punked. This guy just “claimed” he was a woman, competed in the women’s division, and won first place.
It isn’t about inclusion, no matter how many times they say it is. It is about dominance.
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So, two of the greatest female athletes are not in a position to opine on fairness for women in sport, but a male journalist is? Okey dokey.
@sharrond62
@Martina
If there was ever a more evident example of mansplaining, I haven’t seen it.
The new BBC Director of Sport,
@AlexKayJelski
,a man who said
@sharrond62
@Martina
weren’t experts & compared excluding men from women’s sports to excluding Jamaican or Ethiopian women
(btw - he knew what a woman was when picking a surrogate)
#DefundTheBBC
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We are no longer allowed to speak about ourselves as women because it might offend men. Unbelievable.
Objecting to men in women’s sports, Kim Russell removed from her job as the head women’s lacrosse coach During her disciplinary process, she secretly recorded conversations, administrators said that teaching players about the female menstrual cycle was an “an attack on trans.”
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Was just called “mean” by a man (with no skin in the game) for my posts defending young women’s and girls’ right to fair sports.
I’m not reposting him because he comments on most of my posts with similar sentiments. He seems to be using my TL to position himself as some sort of
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Their shoulders were significantly broader, and their entire physique had almost doubled in muscle mass. They absolutely slaughtered every other female swimmer. When the other women cried foul, they were harassed, belittled, and called sore losers.
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And now they’ve come for the darts. And for those claiming “sex doesn’t matter in darts”, then why do they need to play in the women’s category? Hint: because they couldn’t win in the men’s.
#SaveWomensSports
VICTORY FOR VAN LEUVEN! 🇳🇱
Noa-Lynn van Leuven clinches her maiden PDC Women's Series title in Wigan! 🏆
Van Leuven overcomes some late double trouble to defeat Irish youngster Katie Sheldon in the Event Two final!
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How do people not yet understand that there is a HUGE civil liberties chasm between…
“Live and let live”
and
“You must give up your rights to Free Speech, Safe Spaces, Sports, and Identity so that I am ‘affirmed’”?
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I get quite a bit of abuse for speaking out in support of girls’ and women’s sports, and I expect it, and am not bothered by it, but I have been truly shocked and dismayed at the vitriol spewed simply because I expressed disdain for those harassing and abusing the 20 year old
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We are finally seeing reality return to sport. Women deserve their own category.
#SaveWomensSports
Appeals court sides with USA Powerlifting in defeat for transgender athlete JayCee Cooper
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I was a competitive swimmer growing up, training up to 6 hours per day. My heroes and role models were Shirley Babashoff, Jill Sterkel, et al. They dominated international swimming - until the 1976 Olympics. At those games, the East German women showed up completely transformed.
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Aaaaaand here we go again.
And DO NOT come on here and say the girls should just refuse to compete. The ADULTS are the problem, and we all know it. Stop telling kids that one boy’s “feelings” matter more than every other girl they compete against.
🚨BREAKING🚨
A trans-identified male dominated the Girls Varsity 400m at the Portland Interscholastic League Championship Semi-Finals yesterday.
Aayden Gallagher will now compete in the finals as a “girl.”
(Joint release with
@ThePublicaNow
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This lie is so insidious. If facts were on their side, they wouldn’t need to lie to the public to get support. NO ONE is banned. Sport is separated by biology because we play sports with our bodies, not our feelings. A male body belongs in the male category, or a third category
NAIA's decision to ban trans women from sports is unacceptable. It's blatant discrimination that harms not only trans women, but all women.
Trans athletes deserve a chance to play.
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When I first entered the “men taking over women” debate, I was focused on sports. I was like, “This is insane! Who could support this?!”
But as censorship of women slowly diminished (still a LONG way to go), and I was able to see what is happening on a global scale, my
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For decades, they were made to feel ashamed for having seen the situation as unfair. Many of them never competed again, ending some very amazing careers prematurely.
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A BOY wins the GIRLS’ state championship, and some are still defending the unilateral rewrite of TitleIX. It was “literally” written into law in 1972 to prevent this from happening. If girls don’t have their own category, and if boys can just “identify” as girls, then the entire
It's time to TAKE BACK TITLE IX! A high school male track athlete won the Oregon Girls’ 6A 200-meter state champion by two-tenths of a second. Female athletes deserve better.
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And what about the girls who lost out? Do their feelings, and years of training and hard work, mean nothing? It is lovely that you celebrate any young person doing well at something, but the virtue signaling simply for political clout, while so blatantly ignoring every girl
Congratulations to Verónica on her win and for having the bravery to compete and tell her story.
She’s one of the many kids who just want to be able to play the sports they love. Politicians with cruel agendas have no place trying to stop them.
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This is so disingenuous, from a legal standpoint, and from a civil rights standpoint. Please be honest. The unilateral rewrite of TitleIX, circumventing legal channels as prescribed by law, is a blatant override of female rights, regardless of how you spin it. If you choose to
You're going to see a lot of takes about this new Title IX rule, but everyone deserves a safe, welcoming place to go to school and that includes LGBTQ+ students.
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I will never not be shocked that women are called “bigots” and “Nazis” for fighting against their appropriation, the appropriation of their sports, their private spaces, and their very ability to define themselves in medicine and law (ovary haver? chest feeder? vulva owner?)
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I have been a licensed attorney since 1993. I practiced with the “good ol’ boys” in Texas, and, I think, held my own. Then, after having kids, I became a pro runner. I have faced all sorts of “competition”, but, I have never faced the inherent unfairness of women and girls being
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It is deeply discriminatory and deeply dangerous to allow boys and men to compete in the female category and enter their safe spaces - bathrooms and changing rooms - due to a misguided belief that women and girls are not entitled to fair sport and safeguarding by the state. Boys
This is deeply transphobic and deeply dangerous.
In New York, we have laws that protect our diverse communities from hate and discrimination of any kind.
We always stand up to those who break our laws and threaten our communities, and my office is reviewing our legal options.
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I’ve thought about this post all day. Yes, I celebrate a mom rejoicing in her daughter’s glorious acivements.
But…but…how easy it must be to be so condescendingly magnanimous when your child is always on top of the podium.
What about all the other girls who don’t have the
@fem_mb
My daughter won 15 state championships and it was fun for sure but it wasn’t just about winning. She loved to compete, be with her teammates and have fun. If she had competed against trans girls it would have been okay. Let’s be nice to kids.
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Why even bother to have a women’s category? This is the definition of entitlement. It is impossible to believe this is about “kindness” anymore, or that it “never happens.”
Male Athlete Niko Cole-Johnson Set WOMEN's 5000m Record, Appears on Both Men's AND Women's Cross Country Record Boards at New Hampshire School 🧵
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Sue Bird pulling the ladder up, ensuring that young women are cut off from the opportunities she had in sport by being able to compete on a level playing field. Our job as former pros is to give a hand up, not close the hatch.
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