Man steals first prize
Another one. (You’re ok with this, ACLU? This is what you want? This is what you consider a civil liberty?) Another man wins a women’s race. I hate having to cite The Federalist, because I really do not like their politics on any other subject, but nobody else is reporting on it.
Sherry Mix puts in 10 to 15 hours a week training for elite-level mountain and fat-tire bike races in the region. The Verona, Wis[consin] woman says it’s hard work but rewarding to the women who ride.
But as “equity” politics are further infused into just about every aspect of life, including competitive sports, cyclists like Mix are forced to compete on an unequal course. Last month, Mix finished third in a Snow Crown Fat Bike Series event in De Pere billed Fattyshack. The winner of the USA Cycling-sanctioned event was Kenzie Statz, a cyclist who was born male and now identifies as a transgender woman.
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Statz has been finishing in the money in a number of races. Before transitioning and competing in the women’s events, it appears Statz didn’t fare nearly as well in the men’s competitions.
Mix said Statz is a really nice person, and she has nothing against transgender people wanting to compete in a terrific sport. But Statz, like other men who identify as women, often have a distinct physiological advantage over their fellow female opponents that cannot be denied.
“We’re just trying to figure out what we can do. You get these guys actually training, they’re just naturally faster and stronger than women. It’s just science, how bodies work,” Mix said.
I doubt that Statz truly is a really nice person, because a really nice person would be sharply aware of how unfair it is for someone with a male body to compete against women in most sports. A really nice person wouldn’t do it.
Also…I don’t think the competing against women is just happenstance, just an odd little exception in an otherwise decent guy’s life. The reason I think that is that Statz has to know what an advantage he’s giving himself, and that that advantage is exactly why he shouldn’t dream of doing it. It’s unfair and selfish and a bully move, so no, however pleasant he is in person, I don’t believe he’s really nice.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden vowed to use the Department of Education to investigate and address any violations of transgender students’ civil rights, including removing federal funding or risking legal action. Sure enough, one of President Biden’s first acts in office was to issue an executive order that, in part, demands transgender students be allowed to compete on opposite-sex sports teams.
One of his first acts. I didn’t post about it because I wanted to ignore it for the time being, but I sure as hell wondered what the big fucking hurry was.
A few weeks later, Montana’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter used Biden’s executive order to threaten the state’s federal funding if it passed legislation protecting women’s sports by banning men who identify as women from participating.
So that’s how “I apologize for not answering the question” woman got to recite the mantra.
“I understand they’re [transgender athletes are] looking for a place to belong, but I don’t think putting them in the women’s category is the right answer,” Mix said.
She said other cyclists feel similarly, but they’re afraid to speak out for fear of being labeled bigots and the threat of losing their licenses to compete. USA Cycling-sanctioned races require a license to enter.
“People are scared to say anything. It’s deemed bullying,” Mix said. “They can tell you you can’t race. They can kick you out of a race. I could have my license taken away.”
It’s another twist in the left’s conflicted culture wars. The losers, critics say, are the women who have worked so hard to advance the rights of women to compete.
“Most of us are riding 10 hours a week, easily 15 hours a week in the summer. We train every day for this,” Mix said. “To have a guy come in and take that away, that’s why women fought so hard to protect our equal rights. It’s like taking those equal rights away.”
That’s exactly what it is.
I’m not sure. If such a person is constantly bombarded since childhood with messages of “TWAW, TWAW” and “You are a woman” and “There’s no definable difference between so-called ‘male bodies’ and so-called ‘female bodies'”, and you end up believing this shit, he might really be utterly clueless about the actual unfairness of it all in fact. I’m not saying that that’s necessarily the case regarding Statz, but we’re heading in that direction.
Meh, something I realized years ago is that anti-science is partisan. It’s possible to guess with a high degree of certainty someone’s political affiliation from their preferred anti/pseudo-scientific bullshit. This, of course, means that a rational, consistent person will be allied with the blue against the red on some topics and with the red against the blue on others.
Nullius, fully agree. If I made my choice on the Publisher alone (Regnery) I would not have read Abigail Shrier’s “Irreversible Damage”. And I suspect there are quite a few issues Abigail and I would disagree on.
But that book awakened me to how similar the trans craze is to Anorexia, Satanic Panic, Y2K, UFO’s, even Tulip Bulbs and South Sea Bubbles. A mass panic that will pass, but not until enormous damage has been done to many lives.
“Their” “fellow” female athletes, eh? They are not females. At all.
Inasmuch as it’s now connected to major political parties, it’s more like climate change denial. (Caveat: I haven’t read Shrier’s book, and perhaps there are other aspects in which trans ideology is more like those other phenomena, as you say.)
@GW;
I’ve read Shrier’s book. It focuses on one particular aspect of transgenderism: the unprecedented rise in teenage girls suddenly declaring themselves to be boys. Thus the comparisons to other forms of social contagions and mass delusions — she’s trying to understand and explain the psychology.
TRAs have placed the gender critical in a bind. First, they shut down any attempt by mainstream or liberal media to deal sympathetically or even neutrally with the gender critical position. Then, they gloat over how conservative that position is, because hey, look who’s supporting it.
Apologies for the sidetrack but it appears that the TRA mob have a new target with a small revenue stream to disrupt.
Yep, 15 years mocking religion: no problem. A cartoon poking gentle fun at pronouns: J&M’s Author feels the wrath.
For the love of ….. Well, you know who.
https://www.jesusandmo.net/comic/pretty/#comments
Its like reporting on the Ukraine Famine or the Show Trials during the 30s. If you dare to mention them, you’ll find yourself with ‘allies’ like White Russian anti-Semites, Nazis, Henry Ford etc. You can’t object to jihadism without ‘giving fuel’ to anti-immigrant racists. You can’t mention Karen White, or Jessica [whatever this week] without being equated with knuckle-dragging Republicans pushing ‘bathroom bills.’
@7 Wow, I guess that’s what happens when you ‘punch down’ on a poor oppressed marginalised powerless group…. /s
AoS, guess it’s time for me to invest actual money in Jesus & Mo stuff, instead of just reading free on the internet. Of course, I could do like I do hear, and give a pledge of regular support…I see nothing wrong with paying for the things that entertain or enlighten me.
Depends on whose ox is being gored.
Maybe Cafe Press is run by the same inverebrates who snivel and cringe at Readings Books.
Snivel and Cringe sounds like a law office out of Dickens.
My partner, a strong and fit petite woman, used to spend more than 10-15 hours a week training for triathlons, and that wasn’t at elite level. A trans woman claiming to be competing at that level on that amount of training is frankly mailing it in, which makes sense given the disparity in innate physical ability.