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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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Jan 6

1/5 As the Supreme Court hearing approaches, here are a few sobering facts regarding boys participating in girls' sports in the United States:

At the collegiate, high school, and middle school level in the United States, at 105 least unique institutions bound by Title IX regulations have allowed male athletes to participate in competitions and on teams meant for female athletes.

At least 179 males have been reported, and of the 143 who are known by name, they have participated in over 2,971 events, winning at least 1,558 and placing top 3 in 889.

They have won 5 national championship titles, 43 state championship titles, 141 conference championship titles, 37 regional and sectional titles, and have taken over 242 invitational gold medals.

In all, they have stolen at least 855 top three medals at major championship and invitational meets and large tournaments. They have disrupted at least 2,029 top three medals, meaning up to 2,029 female athletes did not fairly receive their rightful gold, silver, or bronze medal or trophy.

As many state and national championship events award medals to 8th place, the total number of disrupted and stolen medals is much larger.

These men and boys have qualified for 42 national and 217 state championship events, depriving a female athlete or team their rightfully earned opportunity to compete in each.

They have set and reset "female" records at least 166 times and currently hold at least 125 unique records.

They have stolen at least 280 honors and awards meant for female athletes.

These numbers do not count the large number of male athletes who do not identify as "trans" who have participated in girls' sports in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, who have also stolen awards, state championship medals, and have broken records.

To date, there has not been a single female "trans"-identified athlete participating in boys' sports who has been known to have won a medal, let alone a state or national championship title.

2/5 Some of the males participating on these teams include a 41-year-old man who was the star pitcher of a junior collegiate women's softball team, a 50-year-old man who set records on a women's community collegiate basketball team, several men in their late 20s and early 30s competing on women's collegiate teams, and at least 3 boys and men who competed on teams in direct violation of state law or regulations.

Several of the male athletes had competed on teams for men and boys prior to their identification as "women" and "girls."

Not a single one has won an equivalent conference, state, or national championship medal against male peers.

3/5 The earliest case on record of a male athlete on a girls' or women's scholastic team in the United States was in 1991.

The number of males joining female teams since that time has increased exponentially.

Excuses given for allowing them onto the women's teams are that they want to have fun with friends, it helps their mental health, they can't win against male peers, and they will quit sport if they are not allowed.

None of these reasons takes into account the inclusion, fairness, or mental health of the female athletes they replace.

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Jan 3

🧵If you thought 6'6" male athlete Robert "Gabrielle" Ludwig was the first middle-aged man in women's collegiate athletics when he joined the Mission College women's basketball team at 51 years of age, think again!

Another man had done the same over 20 years prior.

In 1991, the 'top pitcher' on the Hagerstown Junior College women's softball team was a heterosexual 41-year-old man who went by the name "Debbie" Keefer.

Keefer described himself as a 'a typical beer-drinking, head-busting type of guy' before he gave in to a transvestic fetish at 37 years of age and decided to mold his body to his 'female soul.'

Keefer spent between an estimated $60,000 to $70,000 on surgery and electrolysis (which would be around $150,000 today), and decided to return to college to study nursing (naturally).

From the article:

"When Reefer decided to play softball this spring, there were a lot of questions. Was she eligible? Did her past give her an advantage over other women? Was she too old to play against 19-year-olds?"

"College President Norman Shea eventually gave her the OK to play. George Rillian, director of the National Junior College Athletic Association in Colorado Springs, Colo., said Reefer is the first transsexual to play at the junior college level."

Reefer was predictably the best pitcher on the team, and acted as a designated hitter, batting .353.

"[He] does not think her past gives her a physical advantage, but some of [his] teammates disagreed."

"'I personally think it is an advantage because being a man before a woman. Men have big, broad, strong shoulders,' said teammate Ratie Hahn."

"As Hahn talked during a batting practice, Keefer smashed a ball over the outfielders’ heads in deep center field into a small clump of trees."

"'See. [He’s] hitting everything out to the forest,' Hahn said. 'That’s an advantage right there.'"

"Keefer said, however, that the estrogen [he’s] been taking since 1983 has a softening effect on [his] muscles. And Hahn, not Keefer, was the best hitter on the team this season, finishing with a .492 batting average.

“'There have been comments, but we keep them to ourselves,' Hahn said."

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Jan 2

🧵A very interesting case from the past has been brought to my attention. This is another reminder of how long men have been forcing their way into women's competitions and how the many women who have always been against it have been ignored.

In the 1980s and 1990s, a male bowler named Joseph Steven Sanchez changed his name to "Caren Park" and proceeded to win numerous women's competitions, set women's records, and stole an estimated $12,000 in prize money (equivalent to $30,000 today).

The USBC nine-game women's record Park set in the 1991-92 season was not broken until 2015 by Jessica Aiezza. She said this, seemingly unaware that Park is actually a man: "I was taken back by the longevity of the previous record."

Here is an article about Park (written out in the thread):
"Grumbles grow over gender-bending bowler"👇

"The question and the controversy have followed bowler Caren Park to every tournament."

"At lanes from Albany, Ore., to Seattle, members of the Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour have for years muttered privately that Park should not be allowed to participate in women's tournaments, even though [he] holds the state women's record for highest one-year average (228) and is the first woman to roll back-to-back 800 series in league play."

"Park is one tournament away from qualifying for a spot on Team USA, which represents the country in many top international events. Competition takes place Sunday through Wednesday in Akron, Ohio.

Now backroom whispers have turned into heated and public discussions. Competitors say Park has an advantage over other women bowlers on the tour. [He] is bigger, they say, stronger and tougher."

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