Long overdue update prompted by Navratilova herself speaking up last evening on STV.
stv.tv/news/scotland/1440660-navratilova-tricky-to-include-trans-women-in-women-s-sport/
By including transgender women in women's and girls' sports, now the women and girls that are playing, it's like 'wait a minute, I'm looking at someone that is much bigger, much stronger than I am, how is that fair?'
twitter.com/thetimesscot/status/1171404315870806016
www.dailywire.com/news/50065/womens-groups-trans-athletes-males-competing-james-barrett
With the Tokyo Olympics looming, women's groups in New Zealand and the U.K. are sounding the alarm over the threat posed to the integrity of women's sports by biological males who identify as females being allowed to compete against females.
Speak Up For Women NZ petition here,
www.ipetitions.com/petition/speak-up-for-womens-sport?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=&loc=view-petition
www.samoaobserver.ws/category/street_talk/45812
www.samoaobserver.ws/category/letters/45790
For a transgender to be allowed to compete with women is beyond outrageous, only a fool will believe that a man who has undergone surgery for a sex change will fully become woman in bone structure and muscle mass.
Welsh Rugby - epic fail.
twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/08/25/sit-down-blue-check-tries-shaming-women-who-are-not-joyful-about-transgender-women-taking-part-in-their-sports/
Women should not be expected to ADAPT to being clobbered by dudes in their sports league!
The comments on this fluffy piece are all about FACT!
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/29/juniper-eastwood-transgender-runner-compete-agains/
Eastwood is a Belgrade High School graduate and has been competing in men’s cross-country and track since middle school. She was a standout athlete in high school and won state titles in multiple men’s races.
www.bendirs.co.uk/single-post/2019/08/29/Transwomen-in-womens-sport---stunning-and-brave-or-a-problem-that-needs-addressing
if that sounds discriminatory, then so is refusing to allow adults to compete against children or able-bodied people to compete against disabled people
Male coach speaks up.
www.dailywire.com/news/51023/girls-volleyball-coach-rejects-school-districts-paul-bois
In my opinion, it's very irresponsible for the league to place these young women, who are minors, in an elevated level of risk
twitter.com/fairplaywomen/status/1161947878870396928
twitter.com/HJJoyceEcon/status/1160586695542280192
distincttoday.net/2019/08/18/kent-transgender-cricketer-reignites-row-over-who-should-be-allowed-to-play-womens-sports/
sacrificing the women’s game is not the answer. If you were born male you can’t play female sport – it is as simple as that.
www.dailywire.com/news/50743/prager-meanwhile-what-lgbtq-organizations-are-dennis-prager
Because the Western world cowers before LGBTQ demands, no matter how unfair they are to women athletes, men who deem themselves female must be allowed to compete against women. They almost always win.
Again the comments tell a truer story.
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/03/back-school-day-arlington-va-includes-gender-neutral-sports-uniforms-preferred-pronouns/
Keffler also questioned how these policies would influence Title IX protections for female athletes.
www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?559704-Feds-to-probe-whether-Conn.-transgender-athlete-policy-violated-girls-civil-rights
www.dailywire.com/news/50501/feds-probe-whether-conn-transgender-athlete-policy-amanda-prestigiacomo
theconservativemom.com/2019/08/12/feds-investigating-connecticuts-transgender-athlete-policy/
The Office of Civil Rights, under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will finally begin investigating whether Connecticut’s transgender athletic policy is willfully violating the civil rights of female athletes.
twitter.com/SaveWomensSport/status/1169247009435508736
Check out this transgender cycling team that consists of all biological males that proudly race against women.
An important and very contrived case to watch here,
townhall.com/columnists/marinamedvin/2019/09/03/if-anyone-can-be-a-woman-then-no-one-is-a-woman-n2552516
The Independent Women's Forum filed a brief discussing the consequences that the Supreme Court's ruling in this case will have on female sports and female athletes.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/olympic-star-mary-peters-charges-into-trans-athletes-row-mn5fb6nch
Lady Peters, who won gold in the women’s pentathlon at the 1972 Olympics, said she did not agree that “people who had changed their gender” and still had high levels of the sex hormone testosterone “could compete on equal terms” with biological women.
Davies named ambassador for The National Emergency Services Memorial, whilst recovering from hip fracture!
www.nesm.org.uk/staff?uid=sharron-davies-mbe
twitter.com/TScholesFogg/status/1171354861969006592
twitter.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1171203319915843584
male advantage is derived from a physiological process that females cannot physically access. That makes it an ‘unfair advantage’.
Magdalen Berns, warrior.
twitter.com/Glinner/status/1169285110526611456
“This is hard,” she said, meaning, her cancer, dying. “Speaking out isn’t hard, compared to this.”