Once again Sarah, spot on! It's always about money. Money has been an incentive since the invention of the Tooth Fairy.
I've never had faith that the majority of humanity would be incentivized to do the right thing for morality sake. History shows it would have to be done by force: physical harm, status removal or money. Pick your poison.
The USOPC requires that the NGB's "gender policy" be approved by them. And if you read the ones they have approved they are eerily simular in the first paragraph. They cite the EO, Ted Steven's Act, and oh yeah, apologize for having to do this and protect women. And you are right, they are just waiting for the Administration to change and we will go back to the normalization of allowing men to compete as women. Because, after all, we are the ones who are the bigots, transphobes or just plain crazy.
In my state of California, San Jose State University is suing the Trump Admin after being ordered to comply with Title IX. They fielded a male player on their women’s volleyball team, which has spawned much litigation, including by a former teammate and the former assistant coach. Not to be deterred, SJSU is using our tax dollars to sue so they can keep doing this. It’s outrageous.
Yes. The vast majority of the public thinks it's wrong, even though mainstream media does not report on men in women's sports or prisons, so have come to that conclusion via substacks or social media or personal experience. SJSU knows it's wrong—legally, scientifically, morally—and yet, will fight tooth and nail to be able to continue abusing women. It's the behavior of cult members—resistant to facts and digging in when challenged
Thanks for this. Yes, most of the Mid East countries struggle to field any women, team or individual. Most of Saudi's female athletes are Saudi nationals or dual citizens living outside the country
Of course money is the motivating factor for US sports orgs to pretend to give a damn about women's rights. But it's not the bottom line. You know who else's moral compass is so finely tuned that they can't imagine excluding "trans women" from women's playing fields? Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi, and all the other progressive legislators and their constituents who think it's bigoted to deny men in drag their rightful place on the podium. Transwomen are women, haven't you heard?
Trans ideology and all other forms of DEI constitute the moral scaffolding upon which progressives stand. The fear of being called a transphobe or a racist is far more compelling to those who have drunk the self-righteous kool-aid.
Groups like DIAG and the Courage Coalition are on the correct side of the issue, but they have their work cut out for them. Take a poll of your progressive friends and family and see how many understand or even want to understand the nature of this 21st century cult.
Agree. It's not productive to complain about how this short term victory was accomplished. I also have a very hard time celebrating a fart by our sociopathic president. The executive orders were a bodily function that happened somewhere between a Big Mac and a letter demanding the Nobel peace prize.
Couldn't we try to GET them to say that they ARE for women-only sports, since they have to be, and it would look better to say it IS for principle? Then when someone takes the executive order away, they might stay as is. This is a chance to persuade them to switch course.
It WOULD look better to say they are all absolutely behind women's sports for women, but their hearts are not in it. Recognizing women and women's achievements just is not in their institutional culture. To be honest, they all seem kind of proud of their misogyny
It's much worse than "their hearts are not in it"; for the great majority, their hearts are completely and utterly devoted to the transqueer cult. And yes they are very very proud of that. There is no zealotry like the zealotry of the recently converted religious acolyte.
Same sort of reactions in the UK after the Supreme Court confirmed sex in the Equality Act means biological sex (not legal sex, gender, self-ID, etc.).
The corporate apologies! The broken-hearted concern for trans colleagues and customers! The above not accompanied by "Oh, God, we are SO SORRY that our gender policies discriminated against women, lesbians and gays for so long! We were wrong."
I stopped reading when the author undermined Trumps declaration that women’s sports should be protected for women. Did it mess with far left leaning liberals? Yes. Was that his purpose? No. It was just a bonus.
Once again Sarah, spot on! It's always about money. Money has been an incentive since the invention of the Tooth Fairy.
I've never had faith that the majority of humanity would be incentivized to do the right thing for morality sake. History shows it would have to be done by force: physical harm, status removal or money. Pick your poison.
The USOPC requires that the NGB's "gender policy" be approved by them. And if you read the ones they have approved they are eerily simular in the first paragraph. They cite the EO, Ted Steven's Act, and oh yeah, apologize for having to do this and protect women. And you are right, they are just waiting for the Administration to change and we will go back to the normalization of allowing men to compete as women. Because, after all, we are the ones who are the bigots, transphobes or just plain crazy.
In my state of California, San Jose State University is suing the Trump Admin after being ordered to comply with Title IX. They fielded a male player on their women’s volleyball team, which has spawned much litigation, including by a former teammate and the former assistant coach. Not to be deterred, SJSU is using our tax dollars to sue so they can keep doing this. It’s outrageous.
Yes. The vast majority of the public thinks it's wrong, even though mainstream media does not report on men in women's sports or prisons, so have come to that conclusion via substacks or social media or personal experience. SJSU knows it's wrong—legally, scientifically, morally—and yet, will fight tooth and nail to be able to continue abusing women. It's the behavior of cult members—resistant to facts and digging in when challenged
Exciting news..the University of Oregon somehow discovered that men aren’t women, though I suspect they would be loathe to admit it https://news.uoregon.edu/hormonal-fluctuations-effects-womens-exercise-performance
I'm sure they will have to undergo a struggle session, in which they admit this work is harmful and transphobic. And accomplished on stolen land
Yup. And then they'll start figuring out a work-around.
nordic combined still fields no olympic women’s division
women never even got fully equal opportunity before the men started colonizing women’s classes
https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c4gjmlnr004o
Thanks for this. Yes, most of the Mid East countries struggle to field any women, team or individual. Most of Saudi's female athletes are Saudi nationals or dual citizens living outside the country
Of course money is the motivating factor for US sports orgs to pretend to give a damn about women's rights. But it's not the bottom line. You know who else's moral compass is so finely tuned that they can't imagine excluding "trans women" from women's playing fields? Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi, and all the other progressive legislators and their constituents who think it's bigoted to deny men in drag their rightful place on the podium. Transwomen are women, haven't you heard?
Trans ideology and all other forms of DEI constitute the moral scaffolding upon which progressives stand. The fear of being called a transphobe or a racist is far more compelling to those who have drunk the self-righteous kool-aid.
Groups like DIAG and the Courage Coalition are on the correct side of the issue, but they have their work cut out for them. Take a poll of your progressive friends and family and see how many understand or even want to understand the nature of this 21st century cult.
Yes, we are fighting a cult, they will not give us anything willingly, they will have to be dragged, kicking and screaming.
But we already knew that.
Victories are still worth celebrating, as is the power and empowerment that brought them about and that they bring more of.
Continuing to passively bitterly complain when we win is not very healthy or productive.
Agree. It's not productive to complain about how this short term victory was accomplished. I also have a very hard time celebrating a fart by our sociopathic president. The executive orders were a bodily function that happened somewhere between a Big Mac and a letter demanding the Nobel peace prize.
Yes, his reasons were approximately as shallow as the Dems' reasons for supporting this nonsense in the first place.
Politicians are tools to be used in the cause of justice.
Couldn't we try to GET them to say that they ARE for women-only sports, since they have to be, and it would look better to say it IS for principle? Then when someone takes the executive order away, they might stay as is. This is a chance to persuade them to switch course.
It WOULD look better to say they are all absolutely behind women's sports for women, but their hearts are not in it. Recognizing women and women's achievements just is not in their institutional culture. To be honest, they all seem kind of proud of their misogyny
It's much worse than "their hearts are not in it"; for the great majority, their hearts are completely and utterly devoted to the transqueer cult. And yes they are very very proud of that. There is no zealotry like the zealotry of the recently converted religious acolyte.
Same sort of reactions in the UK after the Supreme Court confirmed sex in the Equality Act means biological sex (not legal sex, gender, self-ID, etc.).
The corporate apologies! The broken-hearted concern for trans colleagues and customers! The above not accompanied by "Oh, God, we are SO SORRY that our gender policies discriminated against women, lesbians and gays for so long! We were wrong."
I stopped reading when the author undermined Trumps declaration that women’s sports should be protected for women. Did it mess with far left leaning liberals? Yes. Was that his purpose? No. It was just a bonus.