Our Arch-Nemesis

There is one legal non-profit organization that is the main culprit in spreading the hate against us, it is a Christian legal firm that specializes in key anti-LGBTQ+ cases that go to the Supreme Court, they are the Alliance Defending Freedom.

They lead the legislative attack against trans athletes, the only thing is they have a habit of twisting the truth.

Conservatives want to ban transgender athletes from girls sports. Their evidence is shaky.
USA Today
By Rachel Axon and Brent Schrotenboer
June 30, 2021


As the Arizona Legislature considered barring transgender students from girls and women’s sports last year, the bill’s sponsor zeroed in on the testimony of one high school softball player.

Grace Waggoner told lawmakers in February 2020 that her team had lost the first state tournament game it had played in decades to an opponent with a transgender player.

She blamed an “unfair” Arizona Interscholastic Association policy that allows students to join teams consistent with their gender identity after going through a review. Waggoner offered few details on the athlete’s impact on the game, but bill sponsor Rep. Nancy Barto accepted it as evidence of a problem in her state.

“I had read stories about this happening in other states,” Waggoner told lawmakers, “but I never expected it would happen at my school.”

Only, it hadn’t.

The game Waggoner referenced in her testimony turned out to be a state tournament play-in game in 2019 that Scottsdale Christian Academy lost to Heritage Academy, 16-6. Heritage Academy coach Steve LaDrigue said his team did not have a transgender player.

What Waggoner didn’t say is that she’s the daughter of Kristen Waggoner, general counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom – a conservative, legal nonprofit that has pushed transgender sports bans in states across the nation.

When pressed for details about the game, an ADF spokesperson said in an email, “The widespread understanding on the team – including the coach, parents, and players – was that the athlete was male.”

LaDrigue guesses the suspicion fell on the team’s catcher, his daughter, because she has short hair.

That’s how they do it, with innuendo… not facts. It is designed to stir up hate.

Across the nation, state lawmakers supporting transgender athlete bans have painted a picture that girls sports teams will be overrun by athletes with insurmountable physical advantages. But a USA TODAY investigation of the lobbying effort shows that narrative has been built on vague examples that have been overstated or are untrue, and lawmakers have accepted them as fact with little effort to verify their accuracy.

The more than 70 bills lawmakers have offered in at least 36 states would suggest a bigger problem facing girls sports, but that didn’t check out either. Instead, USA TODAY could find few transgender athletes participating and even fewer complaints about them.

Fear and hate that is what this Christian law firm wants to do and as Christians they let their hate blind them. They don’t care who they hurt when they wave their flaming Christian sword of vengeance against the evil transgender sinners.

In South Dakota, the sponsor of a bill said a transgender girl who played basketball was “consistently scoring 25 points above females” in high school and that the Sioux Falls district alone had three transgender athletes competing in 2019. But the state association responsible for approving participation of transgender athletes says only one transgender girl has competed since 2013, and she was an average athlete who didn’t live in Sioux Falls.

In Connecticut, the cases of two transgender runners who won 15 state titles has been the primary, and often sole, example cited by lawmakers around the country. But legislators leave out context that those athletes did not win all their races and are not competing in college, counter to the claims that the runners took recruiting opportunities from other athletes.
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One of the plaintiffs, Chelsea Mitchell, went on to beat Miller three times after the lawsuit was filed. Indeed, each of the three original plaintiffs beat either Miller or Yearwood – or, in Mitchell’s case, both – in state championship races.

Mitchell, who herself won 10 individual state titles, and another plaintiff, Selina Soule, have since graduated. Soule opted out of her college’s track and field season, and Mitchell is competing in college. Miller and Yearwood, who the lawsuit claimed took away recruiting opportunities from the plaintiffs, are not.

Lies… Lies… and more lies.

In Connecticut Republicans have jumped on the anti-trans bandwagon and introduced three anti-trans bill this last session, two of them targeted trans athletes.

Arizona’s bill is part of a push by conservative political groups to exclude transgender girls and women from participation in sports teams consistent with their gender identity. Alliance Defending Freedom has spearheaded the effort, filing lawsuits, writing model legislation and providing hearing testimony.
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But in states around the country, ADF pushed the bills.

For a Christian legal fund they twist the truth and omit the facts an awful lot.

And the Republicans are working hand in hand with them and are introducing the bills… they see it as building their base and a way to distract the voters from the violent anti-government that they stirred up.

The Republicans use us as a smokescreen to block their voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering of voter districts, and their false accusations of voter fraud.