Thanks Sarah! Just as how we treated COVID socially, affected math and reading skills for an expected decade, the activists pushing boys into girls sports will affect the entire generation of women. These females, even if the didn't directly lose to a male, will be denied all the benefits that fair, competitive sports give us: Leadership skills, negotiation skills, strategic analytical skills, communication skills, will evaporate as females watch the very people who were supposed to protect them, toss them under the bus.
Imagine the pleasure that all those misogynists are experiencing. Women beaten at last! A last they are learning their place! At school! Just use “kindness” as a weapon and they are beaten to a pulp. Almost better than violence, although of course backed up by male dominating state power and the women who have joined the system and can’t beat it.
It’s seems to be a common argument- it’s such a small number, don’t worry about it. But I think the impact to girls is immense, which you clearly highlight.
I remember Title IX passing and the rage from some corners that more sports opportunities would open to girls and women and that any $ would be spent on girls sports. Never would I have believed it would be attacked just over 50 years later.
As an ex-Democrat it still pains me to say that it is Democrats who are sacrificing girls on the altar of gender identity for fear of the backlash if they were to publicly disagree..
In Ca it is Gavin Newsom who is sacrificing girls an that altar. To add insult to injury, if girls speak up they become an outlier to their classmates.
I have yet to see any rational for allowing males in female sport. That's because there is none. Get the guys the medical help they obviously need but keep female sports for females!
Thank you for writing this, it is so needed, I am so tired of organisations and people who have thought about this issue for about 5 seconds, concluding that it's "inclusive" to support this pervasive denial of reality. It's ro obvious that the perspective has always been "how can we support these boys" instead of "how does this massive lie affect all girls and wider society".
It's nut even about sport, it's about truth and the inhumanity of girls growing up bring shown that they are worth less, not deserving of consideration, not allowed to speak up. Thank you gif being as angry as I am and setting it out so clearly.
Transgender girls and women (i.e. boys and men) already have their own established sporting category: MALE teams and competitions. If they're not good enough or averse to competing with their own sex, let them pursue physical activities outside framework of sport.
I'm so sick of hearing how "it's only a few" and the painfully transparent lie "there's no physical advantage." Or that if there is an advantage, it doesn't start until after puberty. Every girl with a brother knows that they're physically stronger from a very young age. I wasn't "letting" my brother pin me down with my legs over my head for my own entertainment. No amount of fighting helped and he let me up when he damn well felt like it. He wasn't a big guy and he was only 15 months older than me. And that certainly wasn't happening after puberty because my parents would have actually objected by that point. Shitty parenting aside, I know first hand there's an enormous difference in strength between prepubescent boys and girls.
Best and most enraging drill-down into the PSYCHOLOGICAL effects of letting males compete, not just the sporting and fairness aspects. It’s the messaging that’s so damaging. I’ve never seen this laid out so well before.
Thanks. What has been most shocking to me is that gender ideology could not have gotten this far without society-wide belief that women are not worthy of their own spaces. Men have human rights but women? Not so much
Yes, infuriating! How about the thousands of professional female athletes with huge platforms that could amplify the unfairness of it all, but they stay silent or worse celebrate under the guise of inclusiveness/compassion (ie Megan Rapinoe and her ilk)?! Only true narcissists are blind to the fact that they stand on the shoulders of women (&some men) with true fortitude, who battled for legislation to be treated fairly, and yet MILLIONS of Americans, female Americans, still vote to support candidates that would decimate title IX and make it punitive not to go along with the born-in-the-wrong-body think (many state legislators already have made it punitive). Like Sarah writes, it affects tens of thousands of female athletes, and I would argue affects millions of us who will not comply with this destructive ideology. Thank you, Sarah🙌
One boy in the girls’ category has an exponentially negative impact on girls, families, communities, and civil society. I explained this to someone who was using the “but it’s such a rare thing” argument. I may have made them curious to reconsider backing this particularly destructive interpretation of “kindness and inclusion.”
Beautiful piece, Sarah. So obvious that one cheating male impacts so many girls, but thanks for putting in the work to bring the message home with real numbers.
For the majority of people, you literally have to spoon feed and re-activate their conscious and subconscious minds to take in new and relevant information as part of the de-indoctrination process. Otherwise they will simply regurgitate what they've been indoctrinated with. Remembering, most people are not fighters, they are followers. Also, people are very vulnerable to mind control. Marketing and advertising is completely based on mind control.
Educational establishments are the classic hubs of mind control.
Love the math, the insight, the rage, the questions. This is what feminism looks like today. We will win.
Thanks Sarah! Just as how we treated COVID socially, affected math and reading skills for an expected decade, the activists pushing boys into girls sports will affect the entire generation of women. These females, even if the didn't directly lose to a male, will be denied all the benefits that fair, competitive sports give us: Leadership skills, negotiation skills, strategic analytical skills, communication skills, will evaporate as females watch the very people who were supposed to protect them, toss them under the bus.
Imagine the pleasure that all those misogynists are experiencing. Women beaten at last! A last they are learning their place! At school! Just use “kindness” as a weapon and they are beaten to a pulp. Almost better than violence, although of course backed up by male dominating state power and the women who have joined the system and can’t beat it.
It’s seems to be a common argument- it’s such a small number, don’t worry about it. But I think the impact to girls is immense, which you clearly highlight.
I remember Title IX passing and the rage from some corners that more sports opportunities would open to girls and women and that any $ would be spent on girls sports. Never would I have believed it would be attacked just over 50 years later.
As an ex-Democrat it still pains me to say that it is Democrats who are sacrificing girls on the altar of gender identity for fear of the backlash if they were to publicly disagree..
In Ca it is Gavin Newsom who is sacrificing girls an that altar. To add insult to injury, if girls speak up they become an outlier to their classmates.
I have yet to see any rational for allowing males in female sport. That's because there is none. Get the guys the medical help they obviously need but keep female sports for females!
Thank you for writing this, it is so needed, I am so tired of organisations and people who have thought about this issue for about 5 seconds, concluding that it's "inclusive" to support this pervasive denial of reality. It's ro obvious that the perspective has always been "how can we support these boys" instead of "how does this massive lie affect all girls and wider society".
It's nut even about sport, it's about truth and the inhumanity of girls growing up bring shown that they are worth less, not deserving of consideration, not allowed to speak up. Thank you gif being as angry as I am and setting it out so clearly.
Transgender girls and women (i.e. boys and men) already have their own established sporting category: MALE teams and competitions. If they're not good enough or averse to competing with their own sex, let them pursue physical activities outside framework of sport.
Excellent article, thank you.
I'm so sick of hearing how "it's only a few" and the painfully transparent lie "there's no physical advantage." Or that if there is an advantage, it doesn't start until after puberty. Every girl with a brother knows that they're physically stronger from a very young age. I wasn't "letting" my brother pin me down with my legs over my head for my own entertainment. No amount of fighting helped and he let me up when he damn well felt like it. He wasn't a big guy and he was only 15 months older than me. And that certainly wasn't happening after puberty because my parents would have actually objected by that point. Shitty parenting aside, I know first hand there's an enormous difference in strength between prepubescent boys and girls.
Thank you for the research, time, effort required to produce this excellent document.
Best and most enraging drill-down into the PSYCHOLOGICAL effects of letting males compete, not just the sporting and fairness aspects. It’s the messaging that’s so damaging. I’ve never seen this laid out so well before.
Thanks. What has been most shocking to me is that gender ideology could not have gotten this far without society-wide belief that women are not worthy of their own spaces. Men have human rights but women? Not so much
What's shocking to me is how much of this support comes from women and how nasty they are to females trying to stand up for ourselves.
Yes, infuriating! How about the thousands of professional female athletes with huge platforms that could amplify the unfairness of it all, but they stay silent or worse celebrate under the guise of inclusiveness/compassion (ie Megan Rapinoe and her ilk)?! Only true narcissists are blind to the fact that they stand on the shoulders of women (&some men) with true fortitude, who battled for legislation to be treated fairly, and yet MILLIONS of Americans, female Americans, still vote to support candidates that would decimate title IX and make it punitive not to go along with the born-in-the-wrong-body think (many state legislators already have made it punitive). Like Sarah writes, it affects tens of thousands of female athletes, and I would argue affects millions of us who will not comply with this destructive ideology. Thank you, Sarah🙌
One boy in the girls’ category has an exponentially negative impact on girls, families, communities, and civil society. I explained this to someone who was using the “but it’s such a rare thing” argument. I may have made them curious to reconsider backing this particularly destructive interpretation of “kindness and inclusion.”
God! This is SO profound!
Beautiful piece, Sarah. So obvious that one cheating male impacts so many girls, but thanks for putting in the work to bring the message home with real numbers.
Every bit of this is true and it breaks my heart.
Thank you for exposing this reality, Sarah!
Thank you, Sarah Barker. Have restacked and restacked and restacked.
And still, people will pretend they just don't get it.
For the majority of people, you literally have to spoon feed and re-activate their conscious and subconscious minds to take in new and relevant information as part of the de-indoctrination process. Otherwise they will simply regurgitate what they've been indoctrinated with. Remembering, most people are not fighters, they are followers. Also, people are very vulnerable to mind control. Marketing and advertising is completely based on mind control.
Educational establishments are the classic hubs of mind control.