Mayor sends 98.5% AI-written response to women's right to single-sex sports that's 100% counterfactual

She's running for a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives

This is a photo of the Mayor of Columbia Heights, Minnesota, Amada Marquez Simula, for an article entitled “Women Winning.”

Minnesota resident, former Democratic voter, and sex realist Tom Ruen attended a DFL school district candidate forum with the intent of conducting a survey of the attendees about sex segregated sports and their awareness that the Minnesota Human Rights Act makes female-only sports and spaces illegal.

Mayor of Columbia Heights, Amada Marquez Simula, who was there, took a printed copy of his survey, but didn’t respond immediately. Simula mentioned that she has a “non-binary” son and a daughter dating a “trans woman.” Simula is running as a Democratic candidate for a Minnesota House of Representatives seat.

Simula responded to Ruen via email. It’s important to note that this response was judged 98.5% AI written by ZeroGPT:

Thank you for sharing your survey and the follow-up information. I took time to read through your message and the questions carefully.

After reviewing it, I want to be clear that I won’t be participating in or sharing the survey.

The questions are framed in a leading way that assumes particular conclusions and uses language that characterizes transgender athletes as “males.” That framing does not reflect Minnesota law, the Minnesota State High School League policies, or the inclusive standards many schools and athletic organizations follow. Because of that, the survey does not appear to be a neutral or methodologically sound way to understand community perspectives.

It is also important to keep the scale of this issue in perspective. Research estimates that about 0.5–1% of people in the United States identify as transgender, and only a small fraction of those are student athletes. Across the country, among millions of students participating in school sports, only a few hundred transgender athletes are estimated to be participating, and some states report fewer than 10 statewide. Despite the very small number of people directly affected, the topic is often amplified in ways that do not reflect the reality most schools and athletic programs are navigating.

Conversations about athletics should center the voices of people who are actually involved in sports — athletes, coaches, athletic directors, and the organizations that govern competition. These groups have spent years developing policies intended to balance fairness, participation, and student well-being.

I also want to be clear that I advocate for transgender people and support policies that ensure they are treated with dignity, inclusion, and equal protection under the law.

My role as a public leader is to help build communities where every person — including transgender youth — knows they belong and is treated with dignity and respect. For those reasons, I will not be signing, responding to, or sharing the survey, and I consider the matter closed.

Amáda Márquez Simula

Amáda Márquez Simula (She/Her) | Mayor

City of Columbia Heights

3989 Central Ave. NE

Columbia Heights, MN 55421

I sent the following email to Simula:

Hello Mayor Simula--

I’m a woman too! Also a wife, mom, grandmother, journalist, athlete, coach, and lifelong Democratic voter, not due to any sense of political loyalty but because I agreed with Democratic positions. Like a majority of Democratic voters, I feel dismayed and betrayed by the fact that Democratic lawmakers have sharply broken with voters, with factual reality, and with common sense.

Tom Ruen shared your response to his questions about men in women’s sports with me. By the by, an AI detector program estimated your response as 98.5% AI written. I am a journalist, my focus being women’s sports. My writing is informed by talking with athletes including those with trans identities, coaches, sport scientists, and sports administrators, and reading everything I can get my hands on. Including your letter. Literacy and critical thinking are my most used tools. Not AI.

I’m responding to your letter with verifiable facts. They are not views or opinions, in the same way that sex is an unchanging verifiable fact and gender identity is an unverifiable belief with no basis in reality.

You dismissed Ruen’s questions because they characterized transgender athletes as males. As you know, humans don’t change sex, nor are they born in the wrong body. All humans have rights based on reality; women’s rights are entirely dependent on the reality of their sex. Obviously, if any man can simply declare himself a woman, then the word woman becomes meaningless and women’s rights disappear. People may believe that they are the opposite sex, or both sexes or neither. Like any unverifiable belief (eg, I am a 2:10 marathoner), these are not worthy of special rights, especially when those unverifiable claims infringe on the rights of an objectively real group—women. Male and female are biological terms referring to people whose bodies developed along a pathway to produce eggs or sperm. There is no third or fourth gamete. It’s important to use accurate language. Males from conception are different from females, chromosomally, hormonally, skeletally, physiologically. These differences—more lean muscle mass, longer denser bones, larger heart and lungs, greater blood volume, greater ability to carry oxygen to name a few—cannot be changed and become greater with puberty. You can’t uncook an egg. Men are not women, regardless of belief, declaration, hormonal tinkering or surgery. This fact, one of the few foundational truths of humanity, is the basis of women’s rights, one of which is single-sex sports. And you have no idea how tiresome and frustrating and what a monumental waste of time and effort it has been to calmly and clearly state blindingly obvious facts to those (Democrats) who pretend not to understand. As they spout flat earth idiocy as an excuse to destroy MY AND YOUR rights. (I’m going to take a moment here to scream into a pillow)

The Minnesota legislature and the Minnesota State High School League back in 2015 did not consult science or coaches or women before they made the radical, unprecedented decision to disregard sex categories and allow any male to self-identify into female sports. The only evidence they had at that time was that it would be unfair, dangerous and deleterious to girls’ sports, but they disregarded these facts and instead based this decision (for reference, no one has EVER even considered “inclusion” in any other sports category—weight, age, ability—much less enacting it) on the fact that a few other cowardly, misguided orgs had violated women’s rights before. And gotten away with it because they called it something nice—inclusion.

Because they all, like you, ASSUMED that someone else had done the research and looked at the science and determined it was fair. They had not. None of them. Two autogynephilic men in 2003 who claimed to be women demanded that the IOC let them compete in women’s sports. Since they’d cut off their penises, and were really poor athletes and obviously not mentally well, the IOC thought there would be no harm in letting them compete as women. Of course, they knew they were violating women’s rights but what the hell, it was just women. I wrote about this initial crime here.

The MSHSL, the NCAA, Washington state athletic association, they knew it was wrong to allow men in women’s sports, but because others had done it, they could pretend it was right. It’s called a circle jerk, Amada. Let me know if you need an explanation. There was NEVER any evidence that allowing males in female sports was anything but wrong on every level. This was quietly disregarded because: Men and money. Trans ideology has been imposed top down by fear, coercion, circle jerks, and billionaire funding. As you are demonstrating, it really works.

Minnesota knew it was wrong, and left themselves an out, legally, by writing an exemption for Athletic Teams to have single-sex sports and locker rooms in the Human Rights Act. Please read it. You may be the only Democrat who has. Why doesn’t anyone talk about this? Why do they insist that it’s illegal to have female-only sports in Minnesota when this exemption exists? Why did lawmakers create this exemption but now pretend it does not exist? Does making female-only sports and spaces illegal sound right to you? Does that sound progressive? How do you propose ensuring opportunities, fairness, safety, dignity, and privacy for girls if any boy can self-identify into girls’ sports? (For starters, a boy using the girls’ locker room is, by definition, sexual harassment, in Minnesota, state-facilitated sexual harassment of ALL girls. I wrote about that too)

Your next paragraph speaks to the small number of kids with trans identities participating in sports. Luckily I did not outsource this question to Democratic talking points but rather called up the Williams Institute that is the leading source of data on kids with trans identities and their rates of sports participation. You can read my entire investigation here, but using Williams Institute’s estimate that 3.3% of high school age kids identify as trans and Minnesota’s approximately 302,602 high school students = 9986 trans-identified high school kids in MN. Williams Institute estimates the percent of trans-identified kids who participate in sports at somewhere between 1% and 20%. Using a median estimate of 10%, that’s 998 high school athletes with trans identities. Almost 1000. That’s not insignificant. As a track and cross country coach at a small private school in the Twin Cities, I personally know of more than 10 trans-identified kids on my small teams in my small school. That 1000 trans athlete estimate seems very low. And NCAA president Charlie Baker was doing something that identified as math when he estimated 10 athletes with trans identities in the entire NCAA. Using Williams Institute’s data, I came up with 7,202 trans-identified athletes in the NCAA. Not ten.

But data means diddly squat to the girl who didn’t make it to state because a boy took her place. And is just one boy watching the girls get undressed okay? Even if a boy is a rubbish athlete, last on the team, he’s still a boy. He doesn’t belong on the girls’ team. Girls’ sports is not an affirmation exercise for boys with girl identities.

This argument—it’s so few—is so stupid, and so frequently used. How many boys in the girls’ category is acceptable? Ten? 100? Just to help you think about this, how many heavyweight wrestlers do officials allow in the 120-pound class? There is no category that allows people who do not qualify in that category. The number is zero. You don’t have to be a coach to figure that out. It’s wrong, everyone knows it, but those who said so lost their jobs. Girls were threatened. You know this. If you actually questioned this violation of girls’ human rights, where would you be in the Democratic party?

Some questions for you: Why do we have boys’ and girls’ sports? Why should girls’ give up their human rights as females and their Title IX rights to single-sex sports and spaces to boys? Why are you supporting this law that erases girls’ rights as humans?

“Conversations about athletics should center the voices of people who are actually involved in sports...” Again, you ASSUME that someone else is looking out for girls. Nope. Athletes, coaches, sport scientists, school administrators who actually DO lookout for girls’ rights and fairness were all actively ignored when organizations like the MSHSL “opened up” girls’ sports to boys in 2015. They did this very quickly and quietly because they knew it was wrong and there would be enormous backlash if the public knew. It’s taken 11 years for Minnesotans to learn what “inclusion” means—boys in girls’ sports and spaces. Major international sports organizations outside the US (Minnesota is in the dark ages)—the IOC, World Athletics, World Aquatics, International Cycling, World Rugby, World Triathlon, and many others—have realized their horrific error and have moved to mandate the female category for females only. This had nothing to do with Trump, for the love of god. It’s science. It’s fact. It’s recognizing women as a fully human distinct sex class worthy of their own rights. People who know something about sports have decided, women’s sports must be for women only. Why are you ignoring them?

Laws and policy MUST be based on fact. You are staunchly defending bad laws that enshrine an unverifiable belief system that has no basis in reality with “rights” that erase the rights of half the population. (Note: government backed beliefs = theocracy). You are vigorously supporting erasure of your own rights, and mine. Every woman is a Democrat until she comes face to face with a naked man in the locker room.

As a staunch supporter of “trans rights”— you wrote, “the matter is closed”—I wonder what you have to say to the women of Shakopee Women’s Prison who are sharing showers with these fully intact male murderers and rapists (one man raped his own 3-year-old child) who identified as women after their crimes. These are men, Amada.

Minnesota says they are women because they said so. They are men in exactly the same way high school boys who claim to be girls are male.

This is what you are supporting. Why? I look forward to your thoughtful reply.

Thoughtful—or any—reply, came there none. Simula is in a position of some influence as Mayor of Columbia Heights, and hopes to be a representative in the Minnesota House. She hopes to be a leader of all people, yet supports laws that deny her own reality. It is unlikely that she will ever face the consequences of recognizing an unverifiable belief by men and boys in law on all girls and women in Minnesota. She never mentioned girls and women at all in her letter. Only people with a personal unverifiable belief that they are the opposite sex, or both sexes or neither, and as such, deserve more rights. Rights to women’s sports and spaces. She is unaware that major international sports organizations HAVE looked into it and moved to mandate women’s sports for females only. She doesn’t care that 67% of Democratic voters support female-only sports for women and girls. This is the view from Minnesota.