Fundamentally unjust
Pink News sneers at female athletes for wanting fair competition.
An athlete declaring herself the “fastest girl in Connecticut” is suing the state after she lost a race to a trans athlete.
A male athlete. She doesn’t care that he’s trans, she cares that he’s a male competing in female races. Pink News would care too if it had any sense, because there would be less resistance to trans ideology if it gave a damn about fairness to women.
A reference guide for the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) policy states that it would be “fundamentally unjust” to prevent trans athletes from taking part in gender-specific sports categories.
Again. Never mind about trans athletes, just keep males out of women’s sports.
Since filing the complaint, [Chelsea] Mitchell has said on multiple occasions, including in an opinion piece for Fox News, that the lawsuit is about “decrying the unfairness” she claims occurred due to transgender competitors being able to run against cis women.
Again. Not “transgender competitors”; male competitors. The issue isn’t transgender, it’s male. It’s trans ideology that has so many people deluded that men in women’s sports is fair, but the lawsuit is about male competitors.
Defending both Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood is the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut (ACLU), which has said the plaintiff’s arguments are “filled with hypotheticals”.
ACLU LGBTQ+ and HIV Project staff attorney Joshua Block said: “The facts are that these plaintiffs repeatedly outperformed Andraya and Terry, and won an impressive collection of first place trophies in the process.
“There is enough room on the victory podium for transgender girls too,” Block continued. “Under Title IX, all girls, including transgender girls, should be able to participate fully and equally in athletics, in accordance with who they are.”
But transgender girls aren’t girls, which is the whole point. Yes they should be able to participate fully and equally in athletics in accordance with who they are, but who they are is young men.
“An athlete declaring herself the “fastest girl in Connecticut””
Andy Kaufman declared himself the women’s world wrestling champion, but he wasn’t being serious.
Mitchell didn’t “declare herself” the fastest girl in Connecticut. Mitchell said in her article, “I was the fastest girl in Connecticut”, echoing press statements about her, such as this one from February 2020, Mitchell, the fastest girl in Connecticut, wins State Open title in 55 meters. Those press statements, were, in turn, based on facts, not self-declarations.
I listened to an interview yesterday with Jenny Nguyen. She’s a chef who has opened a bar in Portland called the Sports Bra, that plays only women’s sport on the screens and is billed as inclusive. Jenny is a lesbian and played basketball as a youth. She says the bar is not a lesbian bar, but it is designed for lesbians, but anyone can come.
During the interview she was asked about trans women in women’s sport. She replied that it was her, and the bar’s, position that TWAW. When pressed about the advantage that TW retain, she said she didn’t know anything about that, but given what TW and ‘others in that space’ tell her about the difficulty in being trans, she was sure that any claimed benefits would be negated by those other difficulties. Frankly I wanted to scream at the wilful ignorance and obvious grovelling deference to trans. Also, 5e way she referred to terfs you could feel the disgust and contempt, so clearly gender critical women, even if lesbian, are not welcome in her inclusive space.
It is though possibly symptomatic of the position of many non-trans supporters of that movement. They so desperately want to be kind and include these poor downtrodden most victimised people, that they blind themselves to any contrary information, refuse to process the arguments against the claims, ‘other’ those who are gender critical (all while imagining that they are committing genocide). People like that are unlikely to be peaked anytime soon. It was unsaid, but I think pretty obvious that in the cause of supporting trans women, if that means a few girls and women have to be thrown under the bus, well, that’s the price to pay for a good cause.
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In one of his videos, Arty Morty (with his usual perspicacity) described the mindset as believing in the ‘archetypal transwoman’; who, of course, doesn’t actually exist. However, the belief is so strong that believers won’t accept any facts which contradict it. Since the ‘archetypal transwoman’ of their imaginations is one who passes for female in all circumstances, is a delicate, timid and shy creature who just wants to live her life anonymously like any other woman, who obviously would be in danger if forced to compete against, or go to the toilets with, men, they are obviously actually thinking about women, not men claiming to be women. Without a trace of dissonance wafting through their thoughts, they can accept the idea of boys like ‘Terry Miller’ and ‘Andraya Yearwood’ (and men like Adam Graham and other violent convicted sex offenders) invading women’s lives by resolutely refusing to take a close look at them and actually think about real-world ‘transwomen’, none of whom ‘pass’ in the flesh, so to speak, and all of whom (whether or not they’ve been doping or had extreme plastic surgery) remain male in every cell and organ in their bodies and retain all the advantages of their sex.