🧵In light of the recent news on Eddie “Addie” Ruter, I think it’s pertinent to address the myth that male advantage goes away if males block their puberty.
Male and female bodies are fundamentally different. This is not simply due to differences in hormone levels. All of our growth and development is affected by our genetics, and males and females are equipped with an entirely different anatomy.
Brute strength is not the only factor in athletic performance, as evidenced by the fact that humans are able to throw much faster than gorillas and other apes, who out-muscle us by a mile. theconversation.com/how-humans-bec….
I have been told over and over by activists that boys who block their puberty are no different than an average girl.
Aside from their lack of every single female sex organ (and therefore female health conditions like menstruation and pregnancy that greatly affect physical and mental condition) and their possession of every single male sex organ along with male genetics and a male body that, in fact, make them different from an average girl in the same way that every other boy on earth is different from an average girl, let’s see how their athletic performances actually hold up to those of an average female athlete when they stunt their sexual development.
For reference, the average height of white males aged 20-39 in the United States is just under 5’10” while the average height of white females aged 20-39 is 5’4.”
In the United States, high school sports typically have three separate teams: Freshman, Junior Varsity (JV) and Varsity.
Freshman teams are for first-year students, JV teams are typically comprised of sophomores and some of the more talented freshman, and varsity spots are reserved for the best athletes in the school. This means that varsity teams are most often comprised of upperclassmen (juniors and seniors), a few sophomores, and in rare cases, very talented freshman.
While we cannot confirm whether or not these athletes have actually blocked their puberty, I’ll be listing them here based on the claims their parents and the media have made along with the age at which they started pretending to be girls.
First up: Eddie “Addie” Ruter – Basketball/Track and Field
Ruter is reportedly 6 feet 3 inches tall (some sources have him at 6-foot, but he certainly looks taller than that). He has been on the varsity team since freshman year, and has been a starter since at least his sophomore year when he was a key player in Foxboro’s state championship tournament run, achieving double-doubles in every game.
With Ruter leading the team in rebounds and sometimes scoring as many as 30 points in a game, Foxboro has been the undefeated conference champion and MIAA state champion two years in a row and are now going for a third.
Ruter is described as the “secret weapon” of the team and head coach Lisa Downs says she hasn’t seen a player like him in her 12 years as a coach.
He’s taken multiple honors including Hockomok League All-Star, HockomockSports Second-Team and All-Underclassmen Team, The Sun-Chronicle All-Star Team, and a Globe Honorable Mention.
Despite standing at 6-feet 2 inches tall, Mackenzie claims that he’s actually at a disadvantage compared to female athletes.
Even so, he was named North Island MVP in high school and was able to make a collegiate team where he received PACWEST All-Rookie Team, CCAA First All-Tournament Team, and VIU Rookie of the Year honors his first year of play.
His sophomore season, Mackenzie led his team in points, rebounds, blocks, free throws, and field goal percentage, and he led the entire PACWEST conference in points per minute.
His team won the PACWEST conference, and he led them to a CCAA national championship title with an overall 20-2 W-L record, taking the following awards along the way:
VIU Player of the Year
CCAA National Tournament MVP
CCAA First Team Tournament All-Star
CCAA All-Canadian
MVP of the PACWEST Provincial Tournament
PACWEST Player of the Year
PACWEST Female Athlete of the Year (an award that covers all sports)
This year he’s back with VIU and they currently have a 13-1 record while Mackenzie leads the team in points by almost 100 more than the next highest player.
Now standing at 6 feet tall, Drageset has been playing against girls several years older than himself since elementary school, earning the nickname “Kite” due to the way he “flew” around the court, already setting him apart from his actual female teammates and opponents.
Not only was Drageset a varsity starter as a freshman on the Buckley Sherman Oaks girls’ volleyball team, but he was also dubbed the Liberty League Conference MVP while leading his team to a conference championship title.
He took Liberty League MVP honors again the next year, this time taking his team all the way to the state championship finals, a first in school history, while also taking the CIF Division 5 Player of the Year honor, an award given to the best volleyball player in the state of California in Division 5.
In club volleyball, Drageset competed since elementary school with the Actyve Volleyball team always playing in higher age groups.
As a 16 year-old, he was placed on the 18s team where he led them to win the USAV Girl’s 18s Junior National Championship (Drageset was given USAV Girl’s All-Tournament Team honors). Then, that same year, he was moved down onto the Actyve 17s team where he led them to the USAV Girl’s 17s Junior National Championship title.
Drageset also took a second place finish in a TEQVOLY world tour stop, playing against seasoned pros. He was allegedly in line to receive one of just a few scholarships to play volleyball on the University of Washington women’s volleyball team.
5’10” Clark has also played with older girls as he was allegedly moved up a grade in school. He played for the North Georgia Aces club team since he was in middle school, leading them to several national championship tournament bids and at least 10 major tournament titles including a first place finish at the SRVA Regional Championships.
Clark was also active in the beach/grass volleyball scene where he took a bronze medal at the BCVA National Championships and a silver medal at the Grass Nationals tournament in 2021.
Playing for the Highlands High School girl’s team in North Carolina, Clark has been on varsity since at least sophomore year, where he led the team to a second place finish in the conference, after which Highlands were back-to-back conference champs his junior and senior season.
Clark made First-Team All-Conference all three years, and while stats are not available for his junior and senior seasons, he was leading the team in hitting percentage and total kills as a sophomore.
Clark also received national attention when he hit an opposing female player so hard in the head with a spike that she suffered severe head and neck injuries that resulted in partial paralysis, impaired vision, and long-term affects on her health. wlos.com/news/local/vol…
Here he slams 7 aces in a row. Average power for a female athlete I’m sure!
Lucas “Lizzy” Bidwell – Track and Field
At 5 feet, 10 inches tall, male athlete “Lizzy” Bidwell competes against girls instead of boys in track and field at Conard High School in Connecticut.
His first year in track (sophomore season) Bidwell placed third at the CIAC Class LL Girls State Championship meet and 11th at the New Balance Nationals Outdoor meet.
Sophomore year, he placed 3rd at the CIAC State Open Girls Indoor Track and Field Championships, but his jump of 5’9” at the New England High School Indoor Track and Field Championship not only gave him the gold medal, but put him at the third highest jump in the entire nation at the time.
While there are no official records publicly available, as the Connecticut girls indoor state record for the high jump is 5’10”, I think it’s safe to say Bidwell has both the Conard High School and SCC conference records.
In 2024, Bidwell placed 1st in the triple jump at the CIAC Class LL outdoor state championships. He has taken 9 top three medals at the state championships and finished in first place at least 35 times in two years.
This season, Bidwell is already undefeated in the high jump after four meets and recently hit a mark of 5’6” which moves him up from number 2 to number 1 in the state and tied for 19th in the entire nation. hecheated.org/trackandfield_…
Stratton “Becky” Pepper-Jackson – Track and Field, Cross Country
Pepper-Jackson was at the center of an ongoing lawsuit in West Virginia but was allowed to participate in girls’ cross country and later track and field anyway with the judge using the excuse that he deserved to because he’d put in so much effort to pretend to be a girl.
Pepper Jackson did not excel in cross country or track as a 5th and 6th grader (likely because that’s still when girls are close to boys in physical ability and Pepper-Jackson suffered a heart condition when he was younger which could have affected his endurance) but by 8th grade, he was already outclassing the girls in both size and strength.
His 8th grade year at Bridgeport Middle School, Pepper Jackson was undefeated in the shot put in all but the Harry Green Statewide Middle School Invitational where he placed second. He also never placed lower than third in the discus. His throw of 35’3” in the shot put him tied for first in the Bridgeport MS all-time best list.
Pepper-Jackson has also been accused of sexual harassment by female teammates, telling multiple girl’s to “suck my d*ck” and even telling one girl “I’m gonna stick my d*ck in your p*ssy.”
But per the judge, apparently threating to rape your "friends" with your penis is just typical girly behavior. reduxx.info/west-virginia-…
Vardeny was also at the center of a lawsuit, this one in Utah. Like Pepper-Jackson, Vardeny has been allowed by a judge to compete in girls’ swimming despite a law banning males from girls’ teams.
At 13, Vardeny claimed to be smaller than the other girls on his team (ignorant of the fact that that’s because boys hit their growth spurts later; girls are typically done growing at 13 while boys don’t start until around 15) and that even though he was smaller and still winning medals, it was simply because he “worked hard” to get them.
He tells girls, “If you’re scared of going up against other girls, then maybe you should practice harder.”
In club swimming, Vardeny has taken at least 11 top three medals at Utah Age Group State Championships including at least 1 gold medal.
In the 2023-2024 season, he was on the varsity swim team at Cottonwood High School as a freshman where he not only qualified for the Utah 4A State Championship meet, but won a silver medal with the 200 yard medley relay team and had an individual 12th place finish in the 100 yard fly.
Vardeny is still growing, so we have yet to see how tall he’ll get and how many more awards he’ll steal from female athletes. sltrib.com/news/2022/04/1…
According to his recruiting profile, “Sarah” Huckman is listed as being only 5 feet tall. While at first glance it may seem out of the ordinary, it isn’t so odd when you consider the fact that he was adopted with his identical twin brother from Cambodia where average male height is only 5’4” and where he may have experienced some malnourishment as a baby.
What is odd, however, is that despite being only 5 feet tall, he still managed to excel in cross country and track and field events including the hurdles, where height gives a large advantage.
Huckman participated on the Kingswood Regional track and field, cross country, and Nordic ski teams. He qualified for the NHIAA Division II Cross Country State Championship meet as a freshman where he was the fastest on the Kingswood Regional team.
He was consistently in the top two finishers for Kingswood throughout high school and qualified again for the state championship meet both junior and senior year where he placed 26th out of the best 133 female runners in the state in division II.
In track and field, Huckman often placed in the top three in his events and even placed 6th at the NHIAA Division II Indoor State Championship meet in the 55 meter hurdles his senior year. ncsasports.org/womens-track-r…
Benjamin Tidd began going to the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital clinic from the age of 9 because his mother noticed he wanted to do the things that she did and he liked to dance, meaning he must actually be a typical 9-year old girl because young boys hate dancing.
Despite his young “transition” Tidd still grew to be the size of an average boy, 5’8” and 155 lbs, by his senior year. He participated in both girls’ soccer and basketball at Portland High School in Maine, and while his teams did not do particularly well, Tidd still managed to make the varsity basketball squad from at least sophomore year (possibly freshman). hudl.com/video/3/173079…
Jennings is famous for starring in the televised child abuse program known as “I Am Jazz.” Many details of his school life have been kept private, so the extent of his athletic participation is not known at this time, but it appears that Jennings has been moved up in age groups (like other boys on this list) and has boasted on his social media about scoring against “older girls” on his varsity team, indicating that he likely was on varsity as a freshman.
Ben “Rebekah” Brusehoff – Field Hockey
Like Jennings, Brusehoff has also been paraded around by his parents as a public figure, (using their 10-year-old son to argue that adult men pose no threat to women and girls) and as such, his participation has also been largely kept private.
The most information I have at the moment is an article describing how his team had been undefeated in 2019 and that Brusehoff played midfielder, which is considered to be a more difficult position in field hockey and typically where a team would put its most versatile players. self.com/story/youth-sp…
Dorian “Daisy” Norton - Volleyball
Norton is known for violating state law and sneaking onto the girls’ team at Monarch High School in Florida with the aid of his mother. As he was caught at the beginning of his sophomore year, he didn’t get much of a chance to showcase his male advantage, but it is notable that he (predictably) made the varsity squad as a freshman.
Norton was also the only freshman to do so. In fact, aside from Norton, there were no other underclassmen on the varsity squad his freshman year. maxpreps.com/fl/coconut-cre…
So we not only have boys blocking their puberty and excelling against female opponents, they are excelling at such a degree that, despite being so few in number, we're seeing several who are among the best in the entire nation, a statistical impossibility if not for the fact that they're just boys competing against girls.
I've also heard that blocking puberty can also affect the fusion of growth plates, causing males who do so to in fact grow taller! If this is true, than puberty blockers should, in fact, be looked at as a performance enhancing drug.
There are a few other athletes who have allegedly "transed" young but they were not included here based on the fact that they appear to not have been put on drugs before the start of puberty (and yes, they are all excelling as well)
If you know of any other athletes you feel should be on the list (or "Sarah" Huckman's given name), please comment below!
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🧵The NCAA believes that it’s perfectly fine to promote more male inclusion in athletics by allowing female exclusion in women’s sports on the basis that male athletes who block testosterone apparently have no advantage against female athletes.
At this point, I’m not even sure what sort of evidence they’re relying on to make this claim, because they certainly haven’t looked at the actual performances of the male athletes who have competed in NCAA women’s athletics.
Let’s take a look at these athletes and see how the claims the NCAA has made actually pan out in the real world by simply observing male performance against female athletes and comparing it to male performance against male peers.
(it's so long, I had to break it up. This thread is part one of two. Please make sure to check out part two!)
1. Will “Lia” Thomas spent three years on the men’s swim team at UPenn without winning a single conference title or placing first in an invitational meet. He set one pool record in the 1000 Free, an event that most swimmers don’t put time into as it isn’t an official NCAA event.
Switching to the women’s team he set 26 records in a single season including school records in almost every event he swam and three conference records, was an All-American in three events, and won the NCAA Division I National Championship title in the 500 Free. He was also nominated for the NCAA “Woman” of the Year award.
He went from an average male swimmer on the men's team to the best “women’s” swimmer in UPenn school history and the best “women’s” 500 free swimmer in the entire nation. swimcloud.com/swimmer/314430/
2. Nolan “Natalie” Fahey swam for three years on the men’s swim team at Southern Illinois University. In three years he placed 1st only five times in smaller meets and never placed in the top three at conference championships.
His senior year he switched to the women’s and was “eligible” per NCAA standards to compete in the conference championships at the end of the season. It was the only meet he competed in on the women’s team.
In this single meet, Fahey placed first in all three individual events he swam (since he was a non-scoring member, these finishes were unofficial and did not count towards team scores) and he broke the school record in the 200 Free (also unofficial as he was not entered in the meet as a scoring member)
Within a single meet, Fahey went from a nobody on the men’s team to the fastest in school history on the women’s. swimcloud.com/swimmer/262215/
Let’s take a look at some of these so-called “women” with high testosterone who parade themselves around as both victims and heroes at the same time.
Turns out, they’re actually all male! Who would have guessed?
These athletes are not “intersex” as there is no such thing. Rather, they have disorders in their sexual development. Male-specific disorders. Because they are male.
And yes, that means males with CAIS (complete androgen insensitivity syndrome) as well. Female human beings are not insensitive to androgens. Female human beings are not humans that lack testosterone. Our sex is not determined by our hormone levels.
While males with CAIS are certainly very different from males with healthy development and therefore warrant different treatment in some areas of life, CAIS is also a male-specific condition and confers any advantage that is awarded through male genetics. Genetics that female athletes do not have.
So let’s take a look at what should be one of the greatest scandals in athletics (males participating in women’s sports) but is actually cheered on and encouraged because it only hurts women.
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, sixteen athletes attempting to compete in the female category failed sex testing (were shown to have an SRY gene). In the following Olympics, 1996 Atlanta, eight athletes failed sex testing.
While I don’t have further info on the 1992 athletes, of the eight in Atlanta, seven are reported to have had androgen insensitivity syndrome and one athlete had 5-alpha-reductase deficiency. This means that all eight athletes were, in fact, male. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC25….
I know almost everyone knows how ridiculously unfair it was for William aka "Lia" Thomas to swim on the women's team at UPenn, but I don't know if anyone realizes just what a farce it was from a coaching standpoint as well. They knew exactly what they were doing... 🧵
Before we look at Thomas's performance, there are a few things you need to understand about swimming. I'm not a swimmer, but similar concepts apply to track and field (one of my former sports).
The first is about "tapering." In swimming, athletes build up their fitness with heavier, more intense workouts in the beginning and middle of the season. This puts their bodies under constant stress and fatigue.
At the end of the season, it is common practice for coaches to beginning reducing workout intensity for athletes to give their bodies the ability to "peak" right when they need to in championship meets.
The lessened load allows athletes to recover and their performances figuratively explode. (I have seen and experienced it myself). This is often when records and personal bests are set.
🧵1/ Here's a glimpse into the huge gap in athletic performance between male and female.
I've catalogued 4 men swimming on women's collegiate teams. Between them, they have swum 89 races (non-diving)
Of those 89, 45 were wins and 60 were in the top three.
Of the 29 races not in the top 3, 17 were relays. Only one event (a relay) finished outside the top 10.
There was only one event were a swimmer came last, and that was out of 5 participants.
This means men finished 1st 50.5% and in the Top 3 67% of the time.
Taking out the relay finishes outside the top 3, they won 62.5% and finished in the Top 3 83% of the time.
I've catalogued 6 women swimming on men's collegiate teams. Of the 151 races (non-diving) there were exactly 0 victories. Zero. None. Not one.
There were 2 races where a female swimmer finished top 3. Those races only had 4 and 5 participants in each.
"Where are their parents at?" is a common question I hear being asked by those dumfounded at parents allowing their sons to bulldoze their way over female athletes and cheat to wins in women's competitions.
Where are they? Well, here are a few...
Erik Cole-Johnson, father of "trans"-identified male athlete Niko-Cole Johnson who participates on both the girls' ski and cross country teams at Proctor Academy in New Hampshire, is, in fact, the head coach of both the girls' and boys' Proctor Academy cross country teams.
Erik seems to have only his son's best interests at heart while disregarding the other athletes on his team, maybe even including the male athletes. (Niko was given a "coach's award" before he even switched to the girl's team.)
Sara Baker, mother of "trans"-identified boy Parker Tirrell, is the treasurer of the Pemi Baker Soccer Club, the team Parker played on when he first started pretending to be a girl in 8th grade.
Sara has campaigned aggressively to get her son on the girl's team, including a stint of writing a letter a day for around 60 days to the New Hampshire governor.