When I post photos like these people say, “why don’t the women just refuse to compete?” It’s not that easy. Often their entire scholarship is tied to their athletics. They can be threatened with expulsion. They can lose out on med school or law school. 1/
They can lose a job that is promised but dependent upon graduation.
People don’t realize just how much power is being wielded against these women. It’s enormous. So much so that college women got naked in front of man due to the threats. 2/
Can you fight the entire school, the DEI requirements in businesses, the President of the United States? He signed an executive order on day one that effectively ends women sports by being inclusive of men. If men are included it isn’t women’s sports any more. 3/
I don’t know if people know just how much power is in play. Students will shout at you, threaten you, mob you if you dare step out of line. It’s not like what you remember school to be. And the administrators will be behind the students doing the threatening. 4/
Women are being brave beyond brave and speaking out. They have people threatening to murder them when they do. Just for saying women should have their own sports. 5/
This common memes have made the rounds. 6/
And this is an academic publication where the professor on the cover is holding a fake? gun, finger on the trigger, in an obviously threatening manner. This was published by Duke University Press years ago. 7/
Now imagine being on campus and facing all THAT.
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Remember when I said that the sport’s half of Title IX was scrapped. Well, this half wasn’t. Yet. The teacher is right, this is the law. In some places. The Biden Admin demanded this in an executive order on day one.
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So then the Department of Education wrote proposed rule changes to Title IX. The part of that change that was made into law says boys can expose themselves to girls if they claim to be girls. That’s all. Just say the words. And bam! You get flash the girls. 2/
Nvm that it used to be considered a crime. Nvm that the victims of it suffer a lifetime. Nvm the boy gets a thrill. And certainly nvm the girls get trauma and pain. It’s “inclusive!”
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They did it!! We did!! We all did it!!!! We stopped them from taking women’s sports away with Title IX!! Give yourselves a gigantic whopping enormous WOOHOO!!!!!
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The department of education had issued a notice of proposed rule making and tried to make Title IX sports open to anyone who claimed to be a girl. Then they asked for comments.
People sent in 150,000 comments!!!!!! That is huge! 2/
To make it clear, Title IX has two parts. One half is devoted to treating people equally in schools. The other half was for making sure girls have sports. See my highlights section for threads I’ve written about lawsuits ongoing for that first half. 3/
Step one. You try to be nice. You say over and over how you respect everyone. You are sure if they understood that women sometimes need their own spaces this would all go away.
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Step 2. So you explain. And explain. And explain. And explain. You give examples. Only somehow it is all turned against you. You are accused of weaponizing trauma. Huh? Weaponizing?????
No. You were just expecting a modicum of understanding. You did not find it. 2/
Step 3. You go to higher ups. You expect them to back you. Surely a shelter will understand why women need a private shelter. Right?
What do you MEAN you force homeless women to shower with men?? Are you an overripe turnip? Say what??
THREAD Reposting Ted Cruz is rare for me but when a man has it this right, you have to give him credit.
Watch as the witness is squirming from answering bc it backs her into a corner. Her ideology prevents her from making this admission. 1/
Notice how she claims that sex and gender are different. But she acts like that is some kind of gotcha as to why men should play in sports.
Lady, YOU have it backwards. We separate sports by sex not by gender. Gender just refers to the social expectations of the sexes. 2/
How would it even work to separate sports by gender
stereotypes? All those who like pink should be in this race and those who wear army boots should be in a separate race? No. That is silly. What matters is your body. Are you male or female? 3/
In five days it will be five years since JK Rowling wrong this rather innocuous tweet telling people to live their best life. It changed the course of history.
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She was standing up for Maya Forstater who was being forced out of her job for simply stating that men aren’t women. She sued and won a judgement of £ 91,500.
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JK Rowling said that it was at this point that she just had to say something. She couldn’t watch women be harmed bc they stated that human six is real.