Posted on 05/06/2019 9:02:54 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
When two high school athletes who were born male but identify as female took first and second place at Connecticut’s girls indoor track championship this year, it wasn’t just a local news story.
To some, it was a story of triumph and courage. The winner, a junior from Bloomfield High School, set a girls state indoor record of 6.95 seconds in the 55-meter dash, and went on to win the New England titles in both the 55-meter dash and the 300-meter dash.
To others, it was a story of shock and disappointment: Is this the end of women’s sports?
To Selina Soule, a 16-year-old runner from Glastonbury, it was personal.
A junior, Selina missed qualifying for the 55-meter in the New England regionals by two spots. Two spots, she said, that were taken by biological boys.
Had the boys who identify as girls not been allowed to compete, Selina would have placed sixth, qualifying to run the 55 in front of college coaches at the New England regionals.
Instead, she placed eighth, watching the 55 from the sidelines after qualifying in only the long jump, an event in which the transgender athletes didn’t compete.
“It’s very frustrating and heartbreaking when us girls are at the start of the race and we already know that these athletes are going to come out and win no matter how hard you try,” Selina told The Daily Signal. “They took away the spots of deserving girls, athletes … me being included.”
While the debate over transgender athletes and fairness is complex, the situation in Connecticut has brought forth another complicating layer: Plenty of parents and high school girls appear to object to the participation of biological boys in girls sports, but fearing public bullying and backlash, they’re not speaking out.
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Here's a good article on the subject:
https://quillette.com/2019/05/03/a-victory-for-female-athletes-everywhere/
This is a good thing. Woman’s place is home in the kitchen — not participating in athletics!
Girls should just stop participating in these races and have their own private races with girls only. Then the boys pretending to be girls can have the field all to themselves for “drag races.”
We need to tell everybody that is the Left’s new message. :)
Object to this? You must be a bigot. You must be a homophobe or transgenderwhateveritisphobic. You are defective, therefore no one has to hear your voice.
Liberals haven't shut down debate, they've demolished it, and enforce it with ‘hate speech’ laws. You're free to speak your mind so long as your opinions exactly match ours.
There's but one solution, don't permit yourself to be silenced. The school won't let you compete against other girls, then stop playing their games. Represent your town in contests against other budding women. Of course, if you want that scholarship, well... Guess what newly discovered woman's going to have your spot (and naturally discover that they're actually guys after all..)
Yep. Or just remain in the starting blocks and tell the judges they will race when the field is all girls.
Just shut up and forget about it.(/s)
These perverts can also get in the female locker room, where they walk around butt naked, grinning from ear to ear. There has already been rapes all over the country. It’s insanity through and through.God made man an woman and no other gender. Anything else is a mental disorder and that was exactly the way it was only a few years ago, then everyone and their brother caved to the homosexual lobby and this country is going through absolute hell as a result. Normalizing sodomy will lead to the end of this country.
What’s the Selective Service status of these people?
“What Happens If You Don’t Register for Selective Service. If you are required to register and you don’t, you will not be eligible for federal student aid, federal job training, or a federal job. You may be prosecuted and face a fine of up to $250,000 and/or jail time of up to five years.” (https://www.usa.gov/selective-service)
I recall as a teenager the uproar over East Germany and other Soviet satellites entering males as female and getting busted for it.
Now, I am sure the IOC is being massively hounded to allow this.
What was a local U.S. political stunt will corrupt the Olympics.
A nation whose parents won’t speak out in defense of its daughters is doomed.
Sadly we are at a point where people are fearful of speaking out.
It wasn’t too.many years ago that liberal Democrats were willing to say that marriage was a man and a woman. How many politicians, even conservative, are willing to say that today? Now that they have instituted homosexual marriage, they have moved on to all this transsexual business.
How much did we hear about transgender issues before the court decision on homosexual marriage? I believe that the liberals move the goal posts as they gain ground on their issues. You need marriage was decided their way, they moved on to the T in LGBT people.
the top female in career earnings in WSOP (poker)... is #145 on the list.
The top female in career earnings in Esports (video games) is #294, at $296,000 (Sasha “Scarlett” Hostyn)... the second-best female is ranked #755, and has earned only $122,000. There are 70 males over $1million. I don't think the issue is that women do not like money.
the top female chess player in history, Judit Polgar, never ranked higher than 8th in any individual year, and ranks around #35 in history. (Her father was adamant about men and women being on an even playing field for chess).
Even in auto-racing, Danica Patrick has the only win ever in F1 or NASCAR or IndyCar... out of her 362 starts (plus many more by other women over the years). Shirley Muldowney (NHRA) and Michele Mouton (Rally) each won 3 season titles, but the last one for them was in 1986... 33 years ago.
Even when you take out the physical aspects, males STILL out-compete females by a wide margin. The differences are not just physical.
Liberals ruin everything they touch.
Maybe girls ought to not turn out for Boys sports.. Football and Hardball baseball!!
This whole gender thing is getting old. Until people start standing for righteousness the insanity will continue.
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yup.
serena williams got whupped by a guy ranked around 200 in male tennos players. easily. 6-1, 6-2.
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