Boys Running In Girl's Track

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• Women's rights are being trampled. Title IX, designed to protect women from discrimination in education, including athletics, is being shredded.
  
  
• High school girls in Connecticut are fed up with being forced to compete against biological males and are speaking out. Two of these girls are profiled below. Good luck lecturing them how transgendered females should be allowed to compete against them. Let's examine what running in their shoes looks like.

 

 

Selina Soule

• is a female student athlete in Connecticut who lost her place to advance in track because she competed against transgendered females -- boys who identify as girls. Her lawyer, Christiana Holcomb, commented: "To underscore the inequity here ... one of these male athletes now holds 10 records* inside the state of Connecticut that were once held by 10 individual girls and were established over the course of about a 20 year period. So, it's fundamentally unfair to allow biological males to step into women sports and frankly dominate them and take away opportunites not just to medal but to be at the podium, to advance at the next level of competition and even compete for scholarships."
  
  * Imagine being an adult female still holding an unbeaten state record a decade after leaving high school, only to find out your record (and nine others) were not only beaten, but blown away -- by a boy who was allowed to compete as a girl. So much for your glory days.
  
  
  1. YouTube (3:15) "I'm just trying to bring back fairness to my sport and trying to make sure that young girls won't be in the same situation that I have been and feel the same pain I have felt."
     
     
  2. YouTube (3:52) "Fair is no longer the norm. The chance to advance, the chance to win has been all over for us who are 'just girls'." "I missed the opportunity to compete in the New England championship this past season because of this." "I decided to speak up for every girl in Connecticut who lives every day in hurt and disappointment and who are afraid to speak up ..."
     
     

 

Alanna Smith

• is another female student athlete in Connecticut who also lost her place to advance in track because she competed against transgendered females (boys). "So, even before I get to the track I already know that I'm not going to get first place or maybe even second place. And it's really hard knowing that because I know that no matter how hard I work, I won't be able to have the top spot ... A lot of people think we're going against transgenders when really it's about fairness in track and field."
  
  
• Alanna's mother comments: "As a parent, it's like a punch in the stomach to know that she had worked really hard to get where she was and because she had to compete against boys that opportunity to win was being taken away from her... Competing against boys in a female sport, that's just not fair."
  
  
• Alanna's lawyer, Christiana Holcomb, comments: "It's not fair that this issue is resting on the backs of young 15 and 16-year-old girls. This is something the adults in the room should be speaking into, should be pushing back against, and to say: 'Look, this is not something we're going to stand for as a society' ... Biology, not identity, is what matters in athletics."
  
  
  1. YouTube (3:50) On her way to a track meet in NYC, her mother asked about her strategy for the upcoming match. Alanna replied: "Mom, it really doesn't matter because I'm running against the boys today."
     
     
  2. YouTube (6:35) Alanna and her lawyer being interviewed
  
  

 

• The two boys pictured on the left were allowed to compete as girls because they identify as female, leaving the girls, as Selina said, "in the dust". As an additional slap in the face, the left stands and applauds. Meanwhile, the girls are left disappointed and bewildered -- and those who dare disappove get accused of transphobia. I point out these boys weren't even in transition**.
  ** Don't get me started on the fallacy of that notion. However, student athletes are not required to be in transition. That's right. All a boy has to do is identify as female and he is allowed to compete as such. The fun will really start when that standard is imposed at the Olympics and professional sports. Stay tuned -- it's coming.
  
  What we see pictured here is what happens when liberalism and reality collide.
  
  As a result, I predict some if not many female athletes, realizing the deck is stacked against them, will either transition to other sports where boys are not currently competing, or give up on athletics altogether -- and most of them will do it quietly. So, we will never know the scope of how policies like these are affecting women's athletics. Calling this unfair is an understatement. It's outrageous and it staggers my imagination that anyone thinks allowing boys to compete as girls is the right thing to do -- and yet, here we are.
  
  Watch a one-minute video of one of their races. The first two across the finish line in a girls' track meet? Boys. Good idea? You decide.

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