I was raped when I was inarguably among the strongest women in the 🌎… and he was just a guy.
When he grabbed my wrist, I quickly realized – in that slow-motion-adrenalin-awareness phenomenon – that I couldn’t move my arm in any direction: not even when using my lats in a downward motion, where swimmers excel.”


In law school, I learned to evaluate when the law considers women to be like men (“sameness feminism”), in an apples-to-apples comparison popularized by its famous proponent, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: places like the classroom and employment, generally.
open.substack.com/pub/strongerwo…

Nonsense from non-athlete @feministgadfly, who confuses sex w gender identity, and argues that downplaying male/ female biological differences will address sexism:
#1: “We don’t really have much research-based evidence to say definitively that trans women have a disproportionate advantage in sports.”
— Yes we do, because TW are men, with or without testosterone suppression or surgery; both pre & post puberty. See citations:

@hoovlet
@BrowngaGreg @DrMJoyner @FondOfBeetles @Scienceofsport @SwipeWright and on….championwomen.org/wp-content/upl… #2: “Right now, we’re mostly working out of our deeply-held and rather largely unexamined assumptions about biology and gender”
— I graduated from Duke w a certificate in Women’s Studies in 1986, and the first class was the biology/ culture distinction. It’s examined.

.@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

championwomen.dm.networkforgood.com/emails/we-appl… 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

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
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@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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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.

#TheBodyKeepsTheScore
#WomenInSport #MentalHealth #SexismInSport #BecauseGirls washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic… @hrw — “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.

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/ #Twisties nytimes.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/