Thursday, March 07, 2019

Too Late, The Damage Is Done

They used her words to hurt us and now it is too late to take back those words.
Martina Navratilova apologizes for transgender 'cheating' comments
CNN
March 4, 2019

(CNN)Martina Navratilova may have apologized for using the term "cheating" when describing transgender athletes but the issue received further attention over the weekend with former UK Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies saying trans women had unfair physical advantages.

In a lengthy blog post Sunday, former tennis star Navratilova said she had "stumbled into a hornets nest" and been labeled as transphobic after speaking about the subject in recent months.

While she said she was sorry for "suggesting that transgender athletes in general are cheats" she also added that there was no "perfect solution" to this issue and that if "everyone were included, women's sports as we know them would cease to exist."
The hurt was done…
The 18-time Grand Slam champion wrote in The Sunday Times last month that it was "insane" and "cheating" that "hundreds of athletes who have changed gender by declaration and limited hormone treatment have already achieved honors as women that were beyond their capabilities as men."
Her words were used by all the far-right news media… Fox News, Breitbart, the Daily Caller, and by the Heritage Foundation.

And they have been used to spark anti-trans legislation and anti-trans articles around the country and the world.

The following are from conservative media on trans sports.

South Dakota bill to keep gender-confused boys out of girls’ sports fails by single vote
Lifesite News
By Calvin Freiburger
February 27, 2019

PIERRE, South Dakota, February 27, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The South Dakota House narrowly failed Monday to pass legislation that would have barred gender-confused [This website uses these derogatory words to means trans people] students from competing with members of the opposite sex in high school, leaving a statewide pro-transgender policy in place for the time being.

The South Dakota High School Activities Association’s current policy states that “All students should have the opportunity to participate in SDHSAA activities in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on a student’s records.”
[…]
CNN noted that Linda Thorson of the conservative Concerned Women for America testified in favor of the bill, arguing the current policy undermines federal Title IX protections meant to give actual girls a level playing field in athletics.
I am concerned that the conservatives are going to try and use Title IX against us. This might be the opening volley in a legal move to say that Title IX on protect ciswomen.


More and more transgender girls are competing in high school sports, a troubling denial of basic biology
The Washington Examiner
By Nicole Russell
February 13, 2019

Even though USA Powerlifting has banned all transgender women from competing as women, powerlifter JayCee Cooper, a Minnesotan, recently won a state championship with the U.S. Powerlifting Association, setting a state record. While there’s no need to single out or vilify Cooper, the insistence of the transgender community to play sports as the gender with which they identify, even when it provides unfair advantages to transgender women, is a troubling trend.



In Defense of Women’s Sports
The National Review
By Rich Lowry
March 5, 2019

We’re going to need the cisgendered Olympics.

The state of Connecticut has offered a dismaying picture of the future of female athletics, with two transgender runners routinely outpacing the competition at the state track championships.

The two biologically male students, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, finished first and second respectively in the 55-meter dash this year, crushing the competition. Miller set a new girls indoor record, and also won the 300-meter. The year before, the two finished first and second in the 100-meter state outdoor championships.

Connecticut allows students to compete in sports as the gender they identify as, with no further requirements. If fashionable opinion has anything to say about it, this will be the universal trend. Everyone is supposed to ignore the madness of it.

In an e-mail to Cooper about the transgender ban, USA Powerlifting Therapeutic Use Exemptions Committee Chairman Kristopher Hunt clearly identified logical, rational reasoning for the ban: “Male-to-female transgenders are not allowed to compete as females in our static strength sports as it is a direct competitive advantage.” A follow-up email read in part, “ Transgender male to female individuals having gone through male puberty confer an unfair competitive advantage over non-transgender women due to increased bone density and muscle mass from pubertal exposure to testosterone.”
Sorry Ms. Navratilova but your words have already done damage to us.

1 comment:

  1. This has fueled the toxic "debate" on this side of the pond as well. There is so much ill informed opinion being given equal weight with informed specialists that it is frightening. How do these people think they can understand this better than the IOC and other governing bodies, properly qualified sports scientists and those who actually still compete.

    I have got quite angry over this as people I thought understood accepted my situation have revealed that they still think of me (and others in my situation) as men who should be excluded from certain situations. Personally I'm way to old to compete at my preferred sport now, if I conform to the rules (well actually in Rugby Union they're laws) why should I be excluded?

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