.@iChampionWomen and the WSPWG submitted these comments to the @usedgov - asking them to promulgate clear rules: girls and women’s sports should be for girls and women.
No athlete gets to pick their competitive category. Facts, biology, science …not GI
The proposed regulations don’t provide clarity. Neighboring schools would undoubtedly. The physical safety risks to athletes, the school’s liability safety risks, would be untenable. #SportsLaw#SportsBiz
Instead, all eligibility rules must be easily understood and enforced nationally.
Allowing Trans-Identified Male Athletes into the Girls’ and Women’s Category is Sexist.
Sport is a multi-billion-dollar industry, yet the Biden Administration seems to believe that girls’ and women’s competitive sport is less significant than men’s sport.
Second, the inclusion of males into women’s sports sends the message that females are not deserving of their own sport category, that their teams, their wins, their accomplishments are not as inviolable as we had presumed.
Third, it is supposed that female physiology is akin to weakened males, rather than being celebrated for their own unique, perfect physiology. There is nothing wrong with women’s physiology.
Finally, “trans inclusion” only disadvantages girls and women; it never disadvantages boys or men, because girls who want to play on boys’ teams never pose a competitive threat.[16] This means men’s sports are left to operate unchanged, while women are being threatened with the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sports teaches strategic thinking. But weirdly, the @NCAA is not listening; it’s doggedly pursuing a losing strategy: people are LESS empathetic to transgender athletes after they see males compete in our sports, denying female opportunities. #LosingStrategy@coachblade
NCAA leadership says the stated goal in policy-making is “not if transgender athletes are included, but how.”
We agree - of course those with diverse gender identities should compete in sports!
‼️Just not males in female sports‼️#OurBodiesOurSports 1/
“We want to have an environment that is fair, welcoming and inclusive for all of the athletes,”@IvyLeague’s Robin Harris said at the NCAA transgender session.
-Well then, allow science/ fact-based perspectives to present.
If that’s the goal… get males out of female spaces.2/
@CoachKiwi@lolobrollo@gwpurnell Oh @CoachKiwi - you’d have been so proud of @DukeU’s caring treatment of me - better than I was to myself. #Duke believed two things that altered my life: 1) THAT it happened. 2) THAT I was more emotionally broken than I was letting on. 1/
@CoachKiwi@lolobrollo@gwpurnell@DukeU •Duke allowed me to red-shirt from my full-athletic scholarship for a year.
◦I received full tuition, room, books, meal plan and student fees; I did not swim from the fall of 1981 until the start of fall 1982.
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@CoachKiwi@lolobrollo@gwpurnell@DukeU My dorm room required me to walk through woods, so Duke admin moved me onto the most desirable, most central location on campus, “Main West.”
•couldn’t sleep; Duke found me a single – again, on Main West.
•Duke allowed me to drop two classes immediately …
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Sally Jenkins @washingtonpost: July 27th, the same date #Simone got the twistes, 6 years ago @USAGym, Steve Penny and Scott Blackmun started actively #Gaslighting her.
— “If you think conduct like this is past tense for these organizations, think again. Throughout 2020 and 2021, the USOPC and USAG have perpetuated their coverup with civil court motions. They have hidden from accountability with bankruptcy proceedings.
…”They have demanded that in exchange for any civil settlement, Biles and others who suffered Nassar’s assaults issue blanket liability releases that would protect a rogue’s gallery of well-known abusers, as well as Penny.” 😱
I support @Simone_Biles 100%-protecting her emotional health & physical safety in a very dangerous sport. I'm in awe of her voice for Nassar survivors n the call for @USAGym transparency n reform - and grateful. And competing during #Covid19...1/ #Twistiesnytimes.com/2021/07/28/spo…
All the athletes are suffering from a year of lock-down #COVID19: "... the lack of regular competition for many athletes was the equivalent of a muscle atrophying, said Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a lawyer who won three gold medals and a silver in swimming at the 1984 LA Olympics." 2/
“It’s not that they’re choking; it’s not that they’re out of shape,” Hogshead-Makar said. “Almost no athlete goes for a year with no competition. There is no replacement, when all eyes are on you and you need to be able to perform when the time is right.” 3/