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Feb 1

🧵In 1972, the United States passed a federal law that prohibited sex-based discrimination in educational programs. This law, called Title IX, revolutionized sport for women and girls.

Prior to the passage of Title IX, schools were not required to offer any sort of programs for girls, including girls' sports teams, so naturally, they didn't. Most schools did not even have a team for girls, and when they did, they did not offer funding for uniforms, locker rooms, or other expenses.

In 1971, only 310,000 women and girls participated in high school or collegiate sports compared to 3.6 million men and boys. The NCAA did not even offer women's teams, and their first women's championship did not occur until 1982.

While the language of Title IX broadly addresses sex-based discrimination, the only athletes who had ever been discriminated against in sport were female, and it's understood that Title IX was created largely for the benefit of female athletes and students.

It did not even last 5 years before coaches abused this legislation to benefit male athletes at the expense of female instead...

2/ In 1972, after the new Title IX implementation, the Indiana Supreme Court immediately ruled that boys had a "right" to try out for girls' teams if no boys' teams were offered at a school (as a counter to the fact that they allowed girls to do the same on boys' teams).

When IHSAA commissioner Phil Eskew tried to appeal the decision, telling the court this could damage girls' athletics, he was ignored. "They said no red-blooded American boy would try out for a girls' team," Eskew said.

Eskew would ultimately be proven right and the courts very, very wrong.

3/ The South Bend Clay High School girls' volleyball team, in South Bend Indiana, was 3-14 in the 1984 volleyball season.

That all changed the next year when high school junior Brian Goralski, with the encouragement of his father Mel, who was nicknamed the "godfather" of men's volleyball in the area, decided to join the team.

Goralski's stated reason for playing was so that he could get visibility to get a scholarship for a men's team, and because of the Indiana court ruling in 1972, he was more than welcome to do so.

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Jan 24

🧵Meet Ally Cleveland. Cleveland is currently 61 years old and plays women's "professional" tackle football.

(Although there is no actual paid women's professional league, athletes at the highest level in the WFA and the WNFC are considered "pros" by both the leagues and the athletes themselves)

Cleveland grew up with football, and that, coupled with the fact that a 61-year-old is still playing at the highest level of the game for women seems quite remarkable.

That is, until you learn that "Ally Cleveland" is actually a man formerly named Bill Getty.

Most who are familiar with sport are aware of the phenomenon of fathers who were high school football stars who then go on to try and relive their "glory days" through their sons, but when men are allowed into women's sports, those men can relive the "glory days" themselves.

Women and girls have very, very few opportunities to participate in tackle football in their youth, which is why it is even more egregious when men and boys who have played throughout their lives then steal those precious few positions from women on adult teams, women who have perhaps been waiting their entire lives for a chance to try out the sport.

Cleveland has played in the WFA and WNFC for years on teams including the Los Angeles Legends, the Los Angeles Bobcats, the Utah Falconz, and most recently, on the Maine Mayhem.

This past season, Cleveland was named a WFA Second-Team All-American. Maine Mayhem said this of their captain: "Ally’s versatility is unmatched—whether offense, defense, or special teams, [he] stepped up wherever needed. Wearing #8, [he] played with heart, grit, and an elite level of skill every snap."

In 2024, Cleveland was named to the 2024 WNFC All-Pro 1st Team, leading the Utah Falconz team in tackles despite being the oldest person on the team at 60 years of age.

I'm not sure if there are any 60-year-old women playing at the highest level of men's tackle football, but Cleveland certainly isn't the only man on a women's team.

Let's have a look at a few more...

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Jan 20

1/ A couple weeks ago, I posted about an American man who had moved to Korea, changed his name to a Korean women's name, Yong-Ja Hong (or Hong Young-Ja 홍영자 in Korean) and had been stealing basketball prizes and awards from Korean women.

Some new information has come to light, and it turns out that "Yong-Ja" is none other than Zebulon (Zeb) "Zorgon" Benbrook, author of the "Welcome to Loud City" blog and Oklahoma Thunder "superfan".

2/ It appears that Benbrook first began identifying as a "woman" at 24 after he was "diagnosed" with "gender dysphoria."

Under the name "Marina Mangiaracina" Benbrook ran for a spot on the Oklahoma City Council in 2017 (in order to "protect trans rights"), but was ultimately defeated.

3/ Benbrook also wrote an article on himself for Outsports, describing how hard it was for him to be a 6'5" man trying to play basketball "as a woman" in Oklahoma.

Perhaps that's why he decided to move to South Korea, change his name again, and join a women's basketball team.

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Jan 18

🧵1/ A little bit more background on the stars of the BPJ and Hecox cases, because as we know, details that actually might be important always seem to be conspicuously left out and are never mentioned.

When Heather Jackson demanded that her son should be allowed on the girls' cross country team in middle school instead of the boys,' Pepper-Jackson's presence on the team was repeatedly defended with the excuse that because he wasn't winning and because he wasn't very good, it was then fair and 'harming no one.'

The claim had also been made that because he was blocking his puberty, he would never develop the advantages that other males had over female athletes.

2/ Heather Jackson never mentioned that before he became "Becky," her son Stratton Pepper-Jackson had survived a heart-related issue, as described in a local news outlet.

The specific condition was not mentioned, but we can assume that if it were related to his heart, then that might affect his aerobic abilities.

Should all boys with heart conditions be allowed to run against girls?

3/ Looking at Pepper-Jackson's middle school results, he wasn't the slowest boy in the races. In his 6th grade Mountain Hollar Middle School Invitational, Pepper-Jackson would have beaten 10 boys, several of them older than himself in 7th and 8th grade.

Why was it being argued that Pepper-Jackson had no advantage but these boys did? If we're judging 'advantage' based entirely on how an individual compares to girls, shouldn't all of these boys be allowed into the girls' race as well?

Children develop at different rates. Some boys enter puberty earlier than others. If we base male advantage solely on puberty, wouldn't it be unfair to allow the boys who had entered puberty earlier to compete against boys who hadn't?

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Jan 13

1/ More notes on the SC hearing.

The athletics exception exists in Title IX because it does actually serve the original purpose of Title IX and prevents larger sex-based discrimination.

When girls are forced to compete against boys and there are no female-only teams, female athletes have much less opportunity to succeed and participate in sport, as sex-based differences advantage male athletes, who would almost always be getting the roster spots and awards.

These sex-based differences are observable and immutable traits that we do not choose.

2/ While differences do exist between individuals, categorical advantage exists for ALL males, even those who are actually worse at sport than female classmates.

What male advantage means is that even if a male athlete is overweight or slow or handicapped in some way, even missing a leg, they are still performing better because they are male than they would be if they were in the same exact same circumstances but had been born female instead.

3/ Justice Jackson's questions/objections during the SC hearing rely on the idea that reasons for sex separation don't apply to "trans" identified males, but there is absolutely no evidence for this claim because there actually is no way to prove this at all.

Again, male advantage means that a male is performing better than he would if he had been born female, and the claim that "trans" identified males are not different than females in terms of "feelings" and "behavior" is entirely self-reported and unverifiable.

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Jan 11

🧵And here we have CNN, yet another 'news' outlet putting out a puff piece glorifying a boy trying to force his way onto a girls' sports team.

No mention in the article of the accusations towards this boy of making inappropriate sexual comments and rape threats towards his female teammates.

Let's take a quick look...

"Becky Pepper-Jackson, the high school sophomore at the center of the Supreme Court appeal on transgender sports, flashes a grin when asked to describe the basic technique of the shot put, one of her favorite track and field events."

"'It’s just throwing something that’s heavy,' the 15-year-old West Virginian said. “Far.”"

Boy confesses that he doesn't have any technique in the shot put (a heavily technique-driven event) because he has the muscles to simply throw it farther than the girls who train for years.

"While Pepper-Jackson sounds like any teen navigating school assignments, friends and a demanding practice schedule, the transgender girl has also been carrying the weight of a national cultural and political battle that will reach a crescendo Tuesday when the Supreme Court debates two appeals dealing with state bans on trans girls playing on women’s teams."

Pepper-Jackson doesn't sound like 'any teen.'

Pepper-Jackson is a teenage boy who pretends he is a girl, demands use of the girls' locker room, and has cheated female athletes out of medals in sport along with harassing them in the locker room, telling them "I'm going to stick my d*** in your p*****." I've never actually heard a teen girl say anything like this in my life.

There is no 'cultural battle' going on. This is a battle for women's rights, which transcends 'culture.'

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