I’m absolutely sick of the whole “no trans Olympian” argument, which completely fails to acknowledge the hundreds of women and girls already disadvantaged at non-Olympic levels. This post is a more detailed, more researched variation of a post I’ve made before and is not extensive.
Terri Miller and Andraya Yearwood
When these two athletes were allowed to compete in Connecticut state high school athletics, every girl who participated had their place lowered by one or two in every competition these in which athletes took part.
These are the results from 2018:
www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=458&do=news&news_id=534718
Note the names of all the girls whose places were lowered, not just those whose places were lowered from the winners’ podium. Note also the names Shanea Calhoun and Shayla Wallace, the record holders for the 100m and 200m respectively.
Here are the 2019 results:
www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=458&do=news&news_id=578633
A few things to note here. Note the new record holder who has erased those names from above...
Also note that by good fortune, Chelsea Mitchell won the final because Terri Miller false-started. Some justice there.
A special mention to Selina Soule whose name appears and has been brave enough to speak out against the injustice:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3DsejTFZQ7k
This list of affected girls is not comprehensive. It doesn’t include qualifying meets, lower school events, indoor events etc.
CeCe Telfer
Telfer competed in the women’s 400m hurdles in the Division II (two) NCAA Championships in 2019.
Here are the results from 2018 where Telfer doesn’t appear:
fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/track_outdoor_champs_records/2018/D2Women.pdf
Note the name Minna Sveard who finished 8th with a time of 1.02.54. Now look at the results from 2019:
fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/track_outdoor_champs_records/2019/D2Women.pdf
All of these women had their places lowered by one. And look at Minna Sveard. Worked hard over the year to knock 3 seconds off her time to come 2nd...behind Telfer.
Hannah Mouncey AFL
Aussie rules has 18 players on each side. When Hannah Mouncey was allowed to play in the lower leagues, one of Mouncey’s teammates sat on the bench each game. Maybe another didn’t make the squad because their place on the bench was taken. All of Mouncey’s teammates were disadvantaged by having to share changing facilities. All of Mouncey’s opponents were disadvantaged by having to tackle Mouncey. Then multiply that by how many teams are in that league. Then add the umpires who were placed in a compromising legal position should any serious injury had happened to a woman. This is hundreds of women. There are too many to find to acknowledge individually.
Hannah Mouncey Handball
When Mouncey switched to handball, a woman didn’t get selected to represent Australia at the 2018 Asian championships because Mouncey was in the squad. A woman who made the squad didn’t get to start, because Mouncey started all 6 games. All of these women were disadvantaged by having to share changing facilities with Mouncey, something they complained about, according to Mouncey. Mouncey also played handball for a club in Melbourne.
I have found some of the names of the Australian women’s handball squad that played in the Asian Championships in 2018 but it isn’t comprehensive.
Rachel McKinnon/Veronica Ivy Track Cycling
When McKinnon (as was known then) won at the Masters cycling championships, every woman below had their place moved down by one.
www.cyclingmasters.com/site/results/450-f35-39-sprint-final-result-2019
Dawn Orwick missed out on gold. Kersten Herup Sovang missed out on silver.
www.cyclingmasters.com/site/results/385-f35-39-sprint-qualifying-round-result-2019
Amber Walsh didn’t get the chance to race for bronze.
Laurel Hubbard Weightlifting
When Laurel Hubbard, a middle aged transwoman whose wealthy family owns a cereal company in New Zealand, won weightlifting gold in Samoa, Feagaiga Stowers, an 18 year old indigenous Samoan woman, a survivor of abuse, was denied gold at her home games. Every other woman who finished below Hubbard had their place lowered by one.
www.oceaniaweightlifting.com/Portals/0/results/owf-results/2019PG.pdf?ver=2019-07-18-123626-010
The women affected were (page 41): Feagaiga Stowers, Iuniarra Sipaia, Charisma Amoe Tarrant, Mamuel Mwareow, Helen Anastasia Seipua.
The New Zealand team took 8 weightlifters to those games, 4 men and 4 women. Hubbard was counted as one of the latter. Which meant there was a woman left home back in NZ who didn’t get the chance to compete at the Pacific games. Weightlifters have to compete at a number of certain events to qualify for the Olympics.
Maxine Blythin Cricket
When Maxine Blythin won Kent Women’s cricketer of the year, someone else didn’t. When Blythin plays on the women’s team, either local or county, a woman is relegated to 12th woman. When Blythin smashes a smaller, lighter ball over a closer boundary rope, the women who are bowling to Blythin have their bowling averages increased. This is scores of women. It’s hard to find all of these women, but I found one match summary of a game when Blythin scored 152 not out. The bowlers all had very high runs scored against them.
www.play-cricket.com/website/results/3863705
These bowlers had their bowling averages and likely their confidence blown out by Blythin hitting 22 boundaries. So an acknowledgment of Ellen Burt, Megan Belt, Eleanor Monk, Naomi Woods, Bethan Harvey, Natasha Sole, and Hollie Young of St Lawrence and Highland Court first XI.
I can’t find who was runner up in Kent Women’s cricketer of the year.
Please feel free to add examples of ANY level of sport. This is hundreds of women and girls negatively affected by just a handful of non-Olympian trans athletes.
These women and girls matter.
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NotBadConsidering · 24/02/2021 10:08
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NotBadConsidering ·
26/02/2021 22:44
@ahagwearsapointybonnet
That's a very important point TheInebriati - it's affecting girls'/women's life chances and careers well beyond sports in this way too.
Even just being able to describe themselves accurately is affected.
Feagaiga Stowers cannot say “I am the Pacific games weightlifting champion.”
Bridget Lalonde cannot say “I’m the Connecticut State High School 100m champion.”
Instead she has to say “I came 3rd in the Connecticut State High School championships....” then wait to gauge people’s reactions of explaining how she didn’t win, whether people will be sympathetic or call her an evil T*rf for qualifying how she lost to two males
.KC Grady and Nikki Xiarhos can’t describe themselves as state finalists, which is still a big deal and a great achievement, because they didn’t make the final because two biological males were ahead of them.
And so on, and so on. All of these women and girls matter. We should always point out who has been negatively affected and why, not just name the biological males.
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MedusasBrandyButter ·
21/05/2021 13:02
The splendid Dr Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles posted this graph of an "outlier" in women's heavyweight lifting. Who could it be, whose lifts were so extraordinarily out of line with the others?
twitter.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1395103093444993024
NotBadConsidering ·
21/06/2021 07:18
Now that it’s confirmed that Hubbard will definitely be going to Tokyo, it seems the woman to miss out is a Tongan woman called Kuinini Manumua. I’ve looked, there have only been 43 Olympians from Tonga EVER. Kuinini Manumua cannot add herself to that list because a rich white privileged male has been enabled by the IOC and the NZOC to take her place 
:
mobile.twitter.com/mar_vickers/status/1406769907258335234
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