Title IX’s next battle: The rights
of transgender athletes
Associated Press,
by
Eddie Pells
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
6/20/2022 11:24:41 AM
When the gender equity legislation known as Title IX became law in 1972, the politics of transgender sports was not even a blip in the national conversation. Today, it is one of the sharpest dividing points in American culture.
As the transformational law heads into its second half-century on the books, the Biden administration wants transgender athletes to enjoy the same protections Title IX originally gave to women when it was passed 50 years ago. That stance is at odds with efforts in states across the country.
(snip) the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group, which seeks a “middle way” to be inclusive of transgender athletes while also not “forcing”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MDConservative 6/20/2022 11:29:43 AM (No. 1191413)
This recent revision of swimming rules to effectively bar male trannies from competing against the girls is headed into the courts...and that's going to be ugly. Notice the LGBT+++ community is so-far silent in all this. This is really a fight between the lesbian and tranny camps.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Daisymay 6/20/2022 11:30:37 AM (No. 1191414)
If Trans Athletes win the right to compete against Women, eventually, the women will drop out and it will simply become the Transgender League! Why would women even try to compete. We saw what happened when they did, they were roundly beaten, every time, buy a Trans! So, they will simply stop competing! Is that what the Sports World wants to happen?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/20/2022 11:49:10 AM (No. 1191435)
I'm so sick of seeing the word "gender"!!!
We cannot allow the commies to define our language! "Gender" is a grammatical term - - and oddly enough - - English is one of the few languages which doesn't use gender.
The correct word is "sex." They are not "transgender" - - they're pretending to be transsexual. They are not "gay" - - they're homosexual. They are not seeking "gender equality" - - they're trying to claim that the sexes are equal.
Please don't ever use the word "gender" - - unless you are teaching grammar. Don't let the commies define they way you speak or write!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/20/2022 11:56:31 AM (No. 1191441)
Rights are for natural sexes, male and female. Not for freaks, except general civil rights applicable to all citizens. If a “right” can be imposed or revoked, it’s not a right, but a privilege.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jasmine 6/20/2022 12:12:07 PM (No. 1191457)
FTA: “Then, to have the legislature pass a law that singled out me and kids like me to keep us from being part of a team, that crushed me, it hurt very much. I just want to play, like any other kid.”
The notion that doctors and nurses make "guesses" and then "assign" a sex is ludicrous. Luc Esquivel was born female and therefore has every right to try out for the female competitions. No one "singled her out" to keep her from being part of a team. What she doesn't get to do is compete on the boys team. She can still learn from them. Just not as a team member.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/20/2022 12:20:28 PM (No. 1191470)
And do we really expect that real women and their supporters will win in our courts when a soon-to-be Supreme Court member can't even define what a woman is?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 6/20/2022 12:34:08 PM (No. 1191483)
Eliminate all gender separations at sports. Let players weed themselves out. Why do we separate them in the first place? (I know why - but why should we continue?)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
paral04 6/20/2022 12:46:08 PM (No. 1191498)
If 1% of the population can cause such an uproar, just add a third category and put all the transgenders into it and let them figure it out. The rest of the normal males and females can get on with their lives.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 6/20/2022 2:29:31 PM (No. 1191604)
There ARE NO TRANSGENDERED people. NONE. Zero. There are a few men pretending to be women, and a few women pretending to be men.
Notice that there are no women-pretending-to-be-men who are trying out for ANY of the major sports? I wonder why?
Only failed male athletes who are so mentally unstable and desperate for "a win" at ANY COST, who will pretend to be a woman in order to "win".....except it isn't winning, it's cheating. And it's INSANE.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Stencil 6/20/2022 2:30:13 PM (No. 1191605)
To follow on 3's important point, from M-W dictionary:
Engender comes from the Latin verb generare, which means "to generate" or "to beget." Generate, regenerate, degenerate, and generation are of course related to the Latin verb as well. As you might suspect, the list of engender relatives does not end there. Generare comes from the Latin noun genus, meaning "birth," "race," or "kind." From this source we have our own word genus, plus gender, general, and generic, among other words.
Most peoples of the planet love their native language and those that utilize gendered nouns are no exception. That, I think, is the major reason why Latinx is not acceptable to most Hispanics.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
AltaD 6/20/2022 3:20:52 PM (No. 1191655)
No one has lost any rights, male athletes still have the right to compete, against other male athletes. A mature person learns to deal with life's disappointments if they don't make the team or win in their chosen sport, they don't claim to be a woman to better their odds.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
NessunDorma 6/20/2022 3:54:12 PM (No. 1191679)
Dear AP: People are not "assigned" a sex at birth. Any reporter going along with that fallacy is not worth our time.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 6/20/2022 5:04:15 PM (No. 1191730)
First, prove there's such a thing as transgender, not just some body dysphoria, then we'll talk.
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Stop with the “rights” business. All of this assumes that the ability to change one’s sex to the opposite is legitimate; It is not. Biden doesn’t know what he’s doing and the media push it anyway. There is no way that they can come up with anything that will make something based on a fraudulent concept work so that competition is not unfair. They should give it up and recognize that these are either sick men or men who who couldn’t make it competing as biological males.