NCAA backs biological males
competing in women’s sports,
as showdown looms with Florida
over pending law
American Thinker,
by
Thomas Lifson
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
4/14/2021 6:10:46 AM
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, a cartel controlling the multibillion-dollar college athletics business, may be painting itself into a corner. Probably because it is a creature of the higher education industry that has gone off the deep end in its commitment to far-left politics, the NCAA is taking an extreme position on transgenderism and apparently seeking a confrontation with the State of Florida if it passes a law currently under consideration that would limit participation in women’s sports to biological women. (snip) Florida’s Governor Rick Scott is not cowering in fear as 2 tweets yesterday demonstrate
Reply 1 - Posted by:
5 handicap 4/14/2021 6:19:36 AM (No. 754134)
It's apparent that the time for women's sports has passed... When the NCAA is willing to destroy the entire structure of women's sports to mollify lewer than 1% of the populace, the time has come to let them do it! A rational congress :-) needs to rework title 9 in hopes that it will constrain lunacy like the NCAA.
28 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
pgsulli1701 4/14/2021 6:24:02 AM (No. 754138)
Does the American Thinker have editors? Anyway, it's very heartening that Senator Scott is standing up to these bullies.
40 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
pixelero 4/14/2021 6:24:33 AM (No. 754140)
Real insanity. Are there no reasonable common sense people in the NCAA.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/14/2021 6:25:59 AM (No. 754141)
What we clearly need here are three leagues: Men’s Sports, Women’s Sports and Confused Sports.....
46 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/14/2021 6:29:31 AM (No. 754142)
They need to have a Tranny Athletic Association. There are certain absolutes even if you don't like it. Yes, a man can play dress up, have things added to his body, have things cut off or rearranged. He is still a man no matter what the people in his head tell him. To destroy girl's/women's sports to appear to be woke is wrong. I'm sorry ladies. I don't know what to tell you but millions of us are on your side.
35 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 4/14/2021 6:44:34 AM (No. 754155)
Yeah, a third league for the confused would work, except there may not be enough participants for any sport. How such a small fraction of the population commands so much attention is beyond me.
30 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/14/2021 7:13:33 AM (No. 754168)
This issue - not paying athletes - will be the end of the NCAA.
17 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/14/2021 7:22:12 AM (No. 754175)
We do have states that can set their own laws. The left does not recognize states, but they are here. Frankly, I do not care for the NCAA. Sports has become unwatchable under their rule.
23 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
RockiesFan 4/14/2021 7:30:54 AM (No. 754184)
The left endlessly talks about sexism but always backs men over women. Now they think men are better at being women.
16 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
jinx 4/14/2021 7:32:12 AM (No. 754185)
Where are the MeToo women? They seem to have disappeared all together. We should boycott any group that allows biological men to compete with women. It is no longer a woman's sport. It is time to protest with your vote if you have one left.
9 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
downnout 4/14/2021 7:44:19 AM (No. 754191)
Rick Scott is the FORMER governor of Florida. Our current governor is the wonderful and feisty clear-thinking Ron DeSantis.
26 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lake Dweller 4/14/2021 7:47:43 AM (No. 754194)
Stand up to the bullies Florida. Texas and Florida are passing common sense laws based on ‘science’. Pretty soon the NCAA nannies will run out of states to ‘punish’. If all good states do the same, we will surely win!
11 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 4/14/2021 7:56:40 AM (No. 754204)
America has become Caligula's Rome. So corrupt in evil his own guards eliminated him, his wife and daughter.
15 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Krause 4/14/2021 8:00:31 AM (No. 754207)
Have transgenders compete against other transgenders. At the rate we're going, we'll have lots of them. Of course, nobody will go and watch them play.
9 people like this.
Silly debate for silly people.... Woke is USA's #1 export.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/14/2021 8:19:22 AM (No. 754227)
Actually, there is one team of women which I would like to see taken over by trannies - the US women’s soccer team. I’d enjoy seeing that anti-American purple haired lesbian team captain lose her position to a guy in drag.
31 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/14/2021 8:22:30 AM (No. 754231)
The NCAA thought it was being brave - - when it was bullying a small state like South Dakota - - which has a craven, gutless governor - - Kristi Gnome.
But let's see how brave it is - - when the second and third largest states - - which both are major collegiate sports powerhouses - - stand up to them. When that happens - - all of the NCAA board members are going to be looking to change their sex.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/14/2021 8:36:48 AM (No. 754254)
FTA: "(A) transgender male athlete is allowed to participate in NCAA men’s competitions if they (sic) have received a medical exception for treatment with testosterone." A woman athlete "transitioning" to male--there's no such thing in reality--is a pitiful character, destined to finish last in every event, by a long margin.
I'm amazed that the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and the NCAA make such a deal about amounts of testosterone (both men and women have testosterone, as well as estrogen) when a simple XY or XX test is all that's necessary. Let's stop splitting hairs about amounts of testosterone. All that we need is a test to determine whether the athlete has a "Y" chromosome. If he does, he can't compete against women. And if he tries he should be driven out of decent society as a cheater who likes to pick on women.
Sen. Scott has my admiration for coming down so forcefully in favor of real woman athletes, who should not ever have to compete against men in competition where speed and strength are paramount. As I said in another thread yesterday, the NCAA can go away forever. We'll find another parent organization that hasn't been fatally infected by LGBTQ propaganda.
If a man calling himself a woman manages to make the Olympics, he should have his gym shorts pulled all the way down on worldwide television. Hey, that's not a woman! Duh. I'm losing patience with this foolishness.
15 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 4/14/2021 8:44:03 AM (No. 754263)
Frankly, I don't care if the NCAA goes out of business. They are the farm teams for the pros anyway and a cash cow for the schools. Maybe universities will be focused again on academics. I can only dream. As to the women's sports, the feminazis wanted to be equal to men. Well, now they have their chance.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
janjan 4/14/2021 8:45:45 AM (No. 754265)
My money is on DeSantis. He won’t back down. He will call the NCAA’s bluff and let them move out of Florida. The blowback will be severe.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/14/2021 9:11:37 AM (No. 754311)
Women sports are gone.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 4/14/2021 9:12:48 AM (No. 754314)
What is wrong with the NCAA? Why can they accept Common Sense Tranny laws?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 4/14/2021 9:16:41 AM (No. 754316)
God 'I AM' is right when He said......
Genesis 18:20-21
20 And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
Genesis 19:28
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Deuteronomy 29:23
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
5 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/14/2021 9:17:05 AM (No. 754317)
I'll be glad when the associations and the cartels finally do their worst and wipe professional sports from the landscape. Maybe then it can again be ''just a game.'' Bring back the gridiron and the peach baskets and the guys playing for fun. The rest of them can go get real jobs.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 4/14/2021 9:28:57 AM (No. 754328)
The NCAA - single-handedly turning Americans against collegiate sports.
9 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
justavoter 4/14/2021 9:32:09 AM (No. 754333)
In car racing they have a thing called the "funny car" class. Just sayin.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
reefdiver 4/14/2021 9:38:23 AM (No. 754343)
Looks like the new definition of NCAA is "Not Competent to Administer Athletics"
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/14/2021 9:48:14 AM (No. 754360)
Words have meaning like Boy Scouts is just boys being scouts. NCAA Women's Sports sports just for women if you mingle something else like males it's no longer 'women's sports' it become Mangled Sports then let the true women decide if they want to participate or not. This is all so stupid debating something that should never have begun.
4 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
moebellini3 4/14/2021 10:07:03 AM (No. 754388)
When are democratic voters going to wake up. Now they come after your daughters and you still don't get it. The NCAA, the organization that controls college sports is now a political arm of the democratic party. Your daughter means nothing to them, its all about political correctness, diversity and their sick agenda. Where is the outrage, where are the women's groups, where are the voices of every family with daughters. SILENCE. fact is, they sacrifice their own for the party, the freaki nazi party. A bunch of sick people.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/14/2021 11:01:38 AM (No. 754476)
Frankly, the state has no business telling NCAA or anyone what the rules of their games are. The NCAA is a sanctioning body, and for those schools who disagree, they can join others, like the NAIA.
Do you know what the International Olympics Committee rules are in this matter? Essentially there are none. Why? Because the international sports court says "the science" in these matters is questionable. And it was a "natural" woman who brought the suit to that court because she has an unnaturally high level of testosterone that failed to meet the "standard" for being female.
Like or not, the NCAA is a private association of schools. They put on competitions, but are also conscious of the bottom line in the entertainment business. Professional sports, from NFL to MLB to PGA/USGA are invariably open to all "genders" based on their merits. Frankly, college and high school sports should adopt the same standard. Women demanded EQUALITY...give it to them.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
DVC 4/14/2021 11:38:35 AM (No. 754539)
Time to form another college sports league, push the NCAA aside.
Do it "for the ladies". I'm thinking that all the south eastern states could join together and ban the NCAA from their states for fraud in pushing men into women's sports.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/14/2021 11:56:04 AM (No. 754572)
#30 is referring obliquely, tacitly to South African middle distance runner Caster Semenya, who has a male android pelvis--one of the straightest pelvises I've ever seen--several times the testosterone of a "natural" woman, which Semenya isn't. Semenya has run afoul of international track and field foundations' illogical testosterone limits--just test for X or Y--and was ordered to get that level down nearer that of a real woman, maybe down to double what a real woman has instead or four times. Semenya protested that if required to reduce his testosterone, his times in the 800 meters would be ten seconds slower! (Semenya, who had run 1:54, had come within a second of the women's 800 meter world record. (The women's world record for 800 meters is 1:53.28. The men's record is 1:40.91.) Now Semenya can't run under two minutes without his naturally occurring testosterone. Tough noogies. You're a guy. And you weren't any faster than some high school boys I've seen.
Semen-ya! It should have been obvious.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
red1066 4/14/2021 12:56:57 PM (No. 754688)
Is there a Title 9 and a half in the future?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 4/14/2021 3:36:12 PM (No. 754810)
When this stupidity first started I said it would be the end of women's sports. This should do it unless the colleges band together and form a new association. I can see the Southeastern and flyover country states actually doing this. I can also see a male college golfer eyeing the money on the LPGA tour and deciding that it would be more lucrative than going head to head with Dustin Johnson and the other greats on the PGA circuit. Most of those college guys are pounding out 300-yard drives now and those shorter courses the ladies play might look very attractive to someone just in it for the money.
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