Do you stand with her or do you hate women?
- berryberry
- 05-09-2023, 11:58 PM
Riley continues her fight for fairness in Women's Sports to stop letting men pretending to be women compete in women's sports
Do you stand with her or do you hate women?
Do you stand with her or do you hate women?
- berryberry
- 05-09-2023, 11:59 PM
Riley Gaines:
Lia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman. The NCAA is responsible.
Lia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman. The NCAA is responsible.
- berryberry
- 05-10-2023, 12:00 AM
Inga Thompson May 8
TAKING A STAND AGAINST UNFAIRNESS: Inga Thompson, 3-time Olympian, calls for female cyclists to Boycott and Protest any competition that featured a biological male in the female category.
"It is time for Women Cyclist to start protesting @UCI_cycling Policy," Thompson tweeted. "Start taking a knee at the starting lines. Team managers need to speak up and protect their riders. Hold signs at every race ‘Save Women’s Sports.’"
TAKING A STAND AGAINST UNFAIRNESS: Inga Thompson, 3-time Olympian, calls for female cyclists to Boycott and Protest any competition that featured a biological male in the female category.
"It is time for Women Cyclist to start protesting @UCI_cycling Policy," Thompson tweeted. "Start taking a knee at the starting lines. Team managers need to speak up and protect their riders. Hold signs at every race ‘Save Women’s Sports.’"
- berryberry
- 05-10-2023, 12:02 AM
Caitlyn Jenner - May 7:
It’s the 50th anniversary of Title IX and women are facing the reality of losing their scholarships if the Biden admin changes their guidelines. I support Riley’s boycott if females are forced to compete against biological males
It’s the 50th anniversary of Title IX and women are facing the reality of losing their scholarships if the Biden admin changes their guidelines. I support Riley’s boycott if females are forced to compete against biological males
- berryberry
- 05-10-2023, 12:03 AM
Women’s Swimming Champion Riley Gaines has called on female athletes to boycott competing against Trans players.
Riley has said the only way to bring back fairness in sport is to:
“have girls who, when the whistle blows, they don't run, they don't swim. They stand up on the block and they don't go.”
Riley, who has been one of the leading voices in protecting women’s sports told Fox News:
“How many girls have to be injured playing against a male, how many girls have to lose out on scholarships and trophies and titles? How many girls have to feel violated in the locker room?”
Riley has said the only way to bring back fairness in sport is to:
“have girls who, when the whistle blows, they don't run, they don't swim. They stand up on the block and they don't go.”
Riley, who has been one of the leading voices in protecting women’s sports told Fox News:
“How many girls have to be injured playing against a male, how many girls have to lose out on scholarships and trophies and titles? How many girls have to feel violated in the locker room?”
- berryberry
- 05-10-2023, 12:08 AM
May 5 -
10 former varsity athletes at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill:
“Will NC stand up for women’s sports?”
“In the world of competitive sport, single-sex categories are the only way to achieve equality for women and girls.”
As former varsity athletes at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, we know what it takes to compete.
We applaud efforts in the North Carolina legislature to support equal athletic opportunity by preserving single-sex competition for female athletes. In the world of competitive sport, single-sex categories are the only way to achieve equality for women and girls. And we implore lawmakers and Gov. Cooper to support legislation that will protect female athletes at the highest levels of competition, including college athletics, where the opportunities, the stakes, and the risks are greatest.
To some people, sports — and sex-segregated sports — may seem like a trivial matter. During a time when our country and our states face myriad challenges related to the economy, the environment, health care, crime and safety, and immigration, it may seem like sports are just a matter of recreation, not carrying the same weight as some of these other issues.
But this was not our experience as female college athletes. Sports changed our lives. Through participation in our sports at the elite level, we learned critical skills that have
translated into all areas of our lives: self-discipline, confidence, teamwork, leadership, perseverance, resilience, and more. We formed bonds with our fellow women athletes
deeper than words can describe.
Of course, our participation in sports also offered us the opportunity to attend a premier university on athletic scholarships, helped some of us on our way to even higher levels of competition, and served all of us in terms of resume-building and professional networking.
It is critical that lawmakers and others understand all that is at stake in women’s sports. The issue also serves as a proxy for how our culture and our laws will treat women in general: Will we recognize that women are deserving of fairness and equal opportunities in all areas of life? The position of lawmakers on the question of women’s sports sends a strong message here.
Biological-sex differences matter in sports. As tennis legend Martina Navratilova recently said, “We shouldn’t have to explain it.” The science is clear: males have larger hearts and lungs, different skeletal structures, and stronger muscles than females of the same size and weight. These differences allow males to throw farther, run and accelerate faster, punch harder, and jump higher than females.
Although the male athletic advantage arguably begins in the womb, male puberty confers a significant and lasting athletic advantage that cannot be fully erased — even with years of hormone therapy. Yes, testosterone suppression impairs male performance. But it cannot erase a biological male’s athletic advantage over females.
As female athletes, many of us sacrificed blood, sweat, and tears to shave mere fractions of a second off of our times. Being asked to compete against hormonally impaired males, who nevertheless still carry an athletic advantage, is grossly insulting and signals to young women that their bodies are not good enough.
But this is not just about fairness and female self-esteem. It’s also about equal opportunity. Because any time a biological male takes a roster spot on a women’s high school or college team, there is a female athlete who doesn’t make the team. Any time a biological male takes the field in a woman’s sport, a female athlete loses playing time. And any time a biological male receives a women’s athletic scholarship, a female athlete loses scholarship dollars.
There should, of course, be a place for trans-athletes in competitive sport. But that place is not in the women’s category, which must remain protected for the sake of equality.
By opening up women’s sports to men, the federal Department of Education and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) have failed us. Their actions not only contradict science and common sense, but they also violate Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, including college athletics.
While the NCAA is powerful, it does not represent the position of most Americans or most North Carolinians. Nationally, only three in 10 people say transgender athletes should
be allowed in women’s sports, and 21 states have already acted to protect women’s sports as female-only. North Carolina should become the 22nd, and college sports should be included.
North Carolina has an opportunity to defend collegiate women’s sports, putting pressure on the NCAA to correct course.
Women before us fought hard for the progress we enjoyed as women athletes; we must fight to keep women’s sports fair. But who will fight for us? N.C. lawmakers, we look to you.
Megan Kaltenbach Burke
Track and Cross-Country
2-time NCAA Champion
American Record Holder
Katelyn Conlon
Track and Cross-Country
Alli Van Schaack
NCAA Field Hockey Champion
Laura Cummings
Track and Cross-Country
Cassie Link
Track and Cross-Country
Carol Henry
Track, Canadian Record Holder
NCAA Bronze Medalist
10-Time All-American
Jesse Gey Duke
NCAA Field Hockey Champion
All American
USA Olympian
Erin Dudley Kagan
Softball
Erin Donohue
Track and Cross-Country
2008 USA Olympian, 1500m
Taylor Parkes Lane
Track and Cross-Country
https://www.carolinajournal.com/opin...womens-sports/
10 former varsity athletes at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill:
“Will NC stand up for women’s sports?”
“In the world of competitive sport, single-sex categories are the only way to achieve equality for women and girls.”
As former varsity athletes at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, we know what it takes to compete.
We applaud efforts in the North Carolina legislature to support equal athletic opportunity by preserving single-sex competition for female athletes. In the world of competitive sport, single-sex categories are the only way to achieve equality for women and girls. And we implore lawmakers and Gov. Cooper to support legislation that will protect female athletes at the highest levels of competition, including college athletics, where the opportunities, the stakes, and the risks are greatest.
To some people, sports — and sex-segregated sports — may seem like a trivial matter. During a time when our country and our states face myriad challenges related to the economy, the environment, health care, crime and safety, and immigration, it may seem like sports are just a matter of recreation, not carrying the same weight as some of these other issues.
But this was not our experience as female college athletes. Sports changed our lives. Through participation in our sports at the elite level, we learned critical skills that have
translated into all areas of our lives: self-discipline, confidence, teamwork, leadership, perseverance, resilience, and more. We formed bonds with our fellow women athletes
deeper than words can describe.
Of course, our participation in sports also offered us the opportunity to attend a premier university on athletic scholarships, helped some of us on our way to even higher levels of competition, and served all of us in terms of resume-building and professional networking.
It is critical that lawmakers and others understand all that is at stake in women’s sports. The issue also serves as a proxy for how our culture and our laws will treat women in general: Will we recognize that women are deserving of fairness and equal opportunities in all areas of life? The position of lawmakers on the question of women’s sports sends a strong message here.
Biological-sex differences matter in sports. As tennis legend Martina Navratilova recently said, “We shouldn’t have to explain it.” The science is clear: males have larger hearts and lungs, different skeletal structures, and stronger muscles than females of the same size and weight. These differences allow males to throw farther, run and accelerate faster, punch harder, and jump higher than females.
Although the male athletic advantage arguably begins in the womb, male puberty confers a significant and lasting athletic advantage that cannot be fully erased — even with years of hormone therapy. Yes, testosterone suppression impairs male performance. But it cannot erase a biological male’s athletic advantage over females.
As female athletes, many of us sacrificed blood, sweat, and tears to shave mere fractions of a second off of our times. Being asked to compete against hormonally impaired males, who nevertheless still carry an athletic advantage, is grossly insulting and signals to young women that their bodies are not good enough.
But this is not just about fairness and female self-esteem. It’s also about equal opportunity. Because any time a biological male takes a roster spot on a women’s high school or college team, there is a female athlete who doesn’t make the team. Any time a biological male takes the field in a woman’s sport, a female athlete loses playing time. And any time a biological male receives a women’s athletic scholarship, a female athlete loses scholarship dollars.
There should, of course, be a place for trans-athletes in competitive sport. But that place is not in the women’s category, which must remain protected for the sake of equality.
By opening up women’s sports to men, the federal Department of Education and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) have failed us. Their actions not only contradict science and common sense, but they also violate Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, including college athletics.
While the NCAA is powerful, it does not represent the position of most Americans or most North Carolinians. Nationally, only three in 10 people say transgender athletes should
be allowed in women’s sports, and 21 states have already acted to protect women’s sports as female-only. North Carolina should become the 22nd, and college sports should be included.
North Carolina has an opportunity to defend collegiate women’s sports, putting pressure on the NCAA to correct course.
Women before us fought hard for the progress we enjoyed as women athletes; we must fight to keep women’s sports fair. But who will fight for us? N.C. lawmakers, we look to you.
Megan Kaltenbach Burke
Track and Cross-Country
2-time NCAA Champion
American Record Holder
Katelyn Conlon
Track and Cross-Country
Alli Van Schaack
NCAA Field Hockey Champion
Laura Cummings
Track and Cross-Country
Cassie Link
Track and Cross-Country
Carol Henry
Track, Canadian Record Holder
NCAA Bronze Medalist
10-Time All-American
Jesse Gey Duke
NCAA Field Hockey Champion
All American
USA Olympian
Erin Dudley Kagan
Softball
Erin Donohue
Track and Cross-Country
2008 USA Olympian, 1500m
Taylor Parkes Lane
Track and Cross-Country
https://www.carolinajournal.com/opin...womens-sports/
- berryberry
- 05-10-2023, 12:13 AM
Riley Gaines challenges Dem fathers opposed to sports bill: You want your daughter in a locker room with men?
Gaines said the 'spineless' Democrat fathers in Congress failed their daughters with their opposition to the bill
https://www.foxnews.com/media/riley-...?intcmp=tw_fnc
Gaines said the 'spineless' Democrat fathers in Congress failed their daughters with their opposition to the bill
https://www.foxnews.com/media/riley-...?intcmp=tw_fnc
- HDGristle
- 05-10-2023, 05:33 AM
Devo was right
- berryberry
- 05-10-2023, 11:46 AM
Riley Gaines is courageous, independent, standing up for her beliefs, fiercely protective of women's sports, a great American, and now a leader.
- berryberry
- 05-11-2023, 12:21 AM
- Salty Again
- 05-11-2023, 04:10 PM
... Today, she's calling-out those Williams sisters from tennis.
People surely used to ask them just how they might fare
against male players - and they both were quick to
admit that the males have such a size and power
advantage that it'd be "no contest"... Which is the TRUTH.
Maybe Riley can persuade the Williams sisters to say that NOW.
#### Salty
People surely used to ask them just how they might fare
against male players - and they both were quick to
admit that the males have such a size and power
advantage that it'd be "no contest"... Which is the TRUTH.
Maybe Riley can persuade the Williams sisters to say that NOW.
#### Salty
- HDGristle
- 05-11-2023, 04:33 PM
She called out the Williams sisters days ago Salty
- Mistershark
- 05-11-2023, 05:49 PM
- Salty Again
- 05-11-2023, 10:58 PM
- berryberry
- 05-11-2023, 11:42 PM