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How bigoted.
Don’t these chuds know that there is literally no difference between a trans woman and a natal woman?
I can’t even, I’m literally shaking rn.
Don’t these chuds know that there is literally no difference between a trans woman and a natal woman?
I can’t even, I’m literally shaking rn.
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Talusan went to Harvard, Cornell, and California College of the Arts— two Ivies and a pricey private art school.
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Supremacy clause, bitches.
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This is bullshit.
I want MORE men ruining women's fun.
They certainly spend enough of their time ruining things that men like.
I want MORE men ruining women's fun.
They certainly spend enough of their time ruining things that men like.
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i dont think its gonna stick
courts will find some bullshit excuse to strike it down and the tranny takeover will continue
in the end there will just be one league for men, and a second league for men in dresses, and women will be relegated to cheerleader roles (with some tranny cheerleaders mixed in for the sake of being inclusive)
courts will find some bullshit excuse to strike it down and the tranny takeover will continue
in the end there will just be one league for men, and a second league for men in dresses, and women will be relegated to cheerleader roles (with some tranny cheerleaders mixed in for the sake of being inclusive)
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And then the trannies will take over that, and the cycle will keep going until we get to the point where women actually stay at home in the kitchen making sandwiches like they did many decades ago because trannies are doing everything that women used to do outside the house
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I get the feeling that a lot of female athletes are going to become TERFs in the next few years
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Bitches just be mad that men are better at being women than they are.
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Connecticut? Isn't that where Ms Violet Casandra Ocean lives! Damn now she has to put up with the government oppressing her even more!! The world is so cruel to Ms Ocean!!
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In many sports, it can be a small thing that will get you a scholarship. And not all colleges are going to take into account that a tranny was the one who put you in 2nd on the team. Even worse, imagine competing at a district wide competition and the top 8 finishers are trans, but only the top 10 get to move onto nationals. An appearance at the nationally held competitions is a big fucking deal when recruiters are giving your high school career the initial eye test.
At the risk of power leveling, I want to embellish on what someone who misses out on a scholarship, even in an obscure sport at an obscure school, is not going to be getting.
I have a relative who was a D1 athlete at a power 5 school. Though they didnt play a sport that actually turns a profit (aka not basketball or football) the benefits of even an obscure sport's scholarship, is life changing.
Football and basketball brings in the dough - so they get the access to the best shit on campuses. Football and basketball teams will have private weight rooms, tutors, hot tubs, even dorms. Those are the things that the cream of the crop sports will get you. Hell, Clemson is building a laser tag facility for its football players. Check out pics of the Oregon Ducks football team locker room if you want a taste for how insanely loose they run budgets for the big boys. I wont even get started on how dirty recruiting is for the blue chips in these two sports.
But the thing is, even for the little sports like track, swimming, wrestling, tennis, golf, hockey, etc, the amount of free shit they give the students is incredible.
If you have ever been to a sporting goods store, you probably have seen that a mere light sports jacket will run you around 80 bucks, given it is an official brand like Nike, Adidas, or Underarmor. Shoes? Easily $100+. Socks? $15-20 per pair. Shorts? $30-50. Winter jacket? $300 retail. Sweatpants will run you about $60 full price. Even a hat is going to be marked up to $30 bucks because it has that official lisenced product sticker on it.
Every single scholarship and walk on athlete at every school, for every sport, gets about 10 pairs of everything. In a variety of colors.
If you have been to college in the last 20 years you might have noticed gaggles of fit-looking individuals decked out head to toe in official school gear. 100 percent of the time, they are scholarship or walk on athletes. This is because it is free, and it is often the best stuff Nike puts out there, because the athletes are walking talking free advertising. Family member who was a d1 athlete still wears the free shit they got from school, even 10+ yrs down the road.
But it is not just clothes. Paying recruits is a big no no (it happens everywhere, most dont get caught because the NCAA doesnt have the balls to punish any of the big time money makers, unless they pull a Sandusky and start raping kids in the locker room.
So schools get around this by providing exorbitant amenities and "equipment." I'm talking backpacks, medical access where you are pushed to the front of the queue to see the university's best doctors, nutritional consultations, private dining halls, game consoles located in their private athlete dorms, private chefs (Kentucky Basketball). Along with this, to avoid "impermissable benefits" they get an allowance and a strict budget they have to follow each month, instructions tailored specifically to if they need to gain or lose weight. A step by step list is literally written for them on how to spend this money. Then, after you graduate, you have lifetime access to alumni associations that everyone else has to pay for. This means special concourse access to other major sporting events, special deals, and often huge discounts if they decide to continue their education beyond a bachelor's degree in general studies.
But that's what is above the table. Imagine all the hidden shit. Anyways, I've gone on a bit of a tangent here.
My point is, these idiots who insist on roping the world into their delusions are ruining it for everyone else. There are going to be girls who will not get offers because they don't pass the eyeball test, at first glance. In fact, there is a notable increase in foreign students from Europe taking a lot more scholarships in the states because of the inaccuracies that inclusion has brought.
At the risk of power leveling, I want to embellish on what someone who misses out on a scholarship, even in an obscure sport at an obscure school, is not going to be getting.
I have a relative who was a D1 athlete at a power 5 school. Though they didnt play a sport that actually turns a profit (aka not basketball or football) the benefits of even an obscure sport's scholarship, is life changing.
Football and basketball brings in the dough - so they get the access to the best shit on campuses. Football and basketball teams will have private weight rooms, tutors, hot tubs, even dorms. Those are the things that the cream of the crop sports will get you. Hell, Clemson is building a laser tag facility for its football players. Check out pics of the Oregon Ducks football team locker room if you want a taste for how insanely loose they run budgets for the big boys. I wont even get started on how dirty recruiting is for the blue chips in these two sports.
But the thing is, even for the little sports like track, swimming, wrestling, tennis, golf, hockey, etc, the amount of free shit they give the students is incredible.
If you have ever been to a sporting goods store, you probably have seen that a mere light sports jacket will run you around 80 bucks, given it is an official brand like Nike, Adidas, or Underarmor. Shoes? Easily $100+. Socks? $15-20 per pair. Shorts? $30-50. Winter jacket? $300 retail. Sweatpants will run you about $60 full price. Even a hat is going to be marked up to $30 bucks because it has that official lisenced product sticker on it.
Every single scholarship and walk on athlete at every school, for every sport, gets about 10 pairs of everything. In a variety of colors.
If you have been to college in the last 20 years you might have noticed gaggles of fit-looking individuals decked out head to toe in official school gear. 100 percent of the time, they are scholarship or walk on athletes. This is because it is free, and it is often the best stuff Nike puts out there, because the athletes are walking talking free advertising. Family member who was a d1 athlete still wears the free shit they got from school, even 10+ yrs down the road.
But it is not just clothes. Paying recruits is a big no no (it happens everywhere, most dont get caught because the NCAA doesnt have the balls to punish any of the big time money makers, unless they pull a Sandusky and start raping kids in the locker room.
So schools get around this by providing exorbitant amenities and "equipment." I'm talking backpacks, medical access where you are pushed to the front of the queue to see the university's best doctors, nutritional consultations, private dining halls, game consoles located in their private athlete dorms, private chefs (Kentucky Basketball). Along with this, to avoid "impermissable benefits" they get an allowance and a strict budget they have to follow each month, instructions tailored specifically to if they need to gain or lose weight. A step by step list is literally written for them on how to spend this money. Then, after you graduate, you have lifetime access to alumni associations that everyone else has to pay for. This means special concourse access to other major sporting events, special deals, and often huge discounts if they decide to continue their education beyond a bachelor's degree in general studies.
But that's what is above the table. Imagine all the hidden shit. Anyways, I've gone on a bit of a tangent here.
My point is, these idiots who insist on roping the world into their delusions are ruining it for everyone else. There are going to be girls who will not get offers because they don't pass the eyeball test, at first glance. In fact, there is a notable increase in foreign students from Europe taking a lot more scholarships in the states because of the inaccuracies that inclusion has brought.
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Apologies for back to back posts, but this is a different topic.
An FTM, Natosha "Tony" McDade, is shot and killed by police in Tallahassee today after a stabbing incident this morning that left a man dead. McDade is considered the main suspect in the stabbing death.
Details are still coming in but I was able to grab an article that has yet to be scrubbed for “misgendering”:
Officer-involved Shooting Leaves Tallahassee Woman Dead
TPD officers were at the scene of an officer involved shooting at Leon Arms apartment complex on Tallahassee's Southside just after 11 a.m. Wednesday.
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ETA More details. Apparently McDade made a Facebook video about getting revenge on men who allegedly assaulted her yesterday:
Twitter is already going:
An FTM, Natosha "Tony" McDade, is shot and killed by police in Tallahassee today after a stabbing incident this morning that left a man dead. McDade is considered the main suspect in the stabbing death.
Details are still coming in but I was able to grab an article that has yet to be scrubbed for “misgendering”:
Officer-involved Shooting Leaves Tallahassee Woman Dead
TPD officers were at the scene of an officer involved shooting at Leon Arms apartment complex on Tallahassee's Southside just after 11 a.m. Wednesday.
Update 4:05 p.m.
Two people are dead after a stabbing homicide and an officer-involved shooting on Tallahassee’s Southside this morning. The stabbing, according to police, took place on Saxon Street at about 10:45 a.m. and one adult male was killed. The man has not been identified.
Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell briefed reporters at the scene.
“The suspect from that stabbing fled on foot, and a description was provided to responding officers. The suspect description that was broadcast was a black female, (wearing) all black, bald, armed with a pistol and a knife,” Revell said.
This is the third officer-involved shooting since Revell (center) took over as chief in late December.
Revell says the suspect in the stabbing, a black woman, was shot in the Leon Arms apartment complex by a TPD officer. As Revell was speaking to media, he confirmed the woman had died. She has not yet been identified by TPD.
“At 10:59 a.m., the suspect was located here at 2500 Holton Street,” Revell explained. “And our officer calls out ‘shots fired’ and said over the radio that the suspect had pointed the gun at them, at the officer.”
The officer who shot the woman has not been identified by the agency, citing Marsy’s Law, and has been placed on paid administrative leave.
“The suspect was in possession of a handgun, and the bloody knife was found at the scene of the stabbing,” Revell said. “At 11:36 today, the suspect from the officer-involved shooting passed away at a local hospital as well.”
This marks the third officer-involved shooting for TPD since Revell took the helm in December.
Revell says he doesn’t know if body camera footage was taken. If it was, he says, it won’t be made public until after a grand jury hearing. The police chief also told reporters he didn’t know how many shots were fired.
Clifford Butler, an eyewitness who lives at Leon Arms, says he heard seven or eight shots.
“I walked down this way, as soon as I get around this curve, I just hear shots,” Butler told WFSU. “I see the girl right behind the tree, but I see for him (the officer) just jump out the car, swing the door open and just start shooting.”
Butler says he never heard the officer who fired shots give any warning beforehand.
“I never heard ‘Get down, freeze, I’m an officer’ – nothing. I just heard gun shots,” Butler said, adding there was another officer with the officer who fired shots. He says police attempted CPR on the woman.
Butler also says people at Leon Arms frequently gather in groups outside, and expressed concern that children in the complex could have been hurt during a shooting like the one that took place this morning.
“It could have been kids, anybody. You know, bullets don’t have to hit you and stay in you. They can hit you and come out, and go somewhere,” Butler said.
Revell says there are active investigations including an investigation into the stabbing homicide and an internal investigation into the officer-involved shooting. He says from what police know now, the officer reacted as they were trained.
“All preliminary findings are that the officer acted in accordance with their training,” Revell said.
"I would say in normal circumstances, and again not the specifics of this case, but if an officer is confronted with someone pointing a gun at them, but in those type of situations, there’s obviously not time to shout ‘put the gun down, put the gun down’ type of things – you’re defending your life at that point."
Origional Post: 1:15 p.m.
Tallahassee police are poised to hold a press conference within the hour to address reports of a possible officer-involved shooting on Tallahassee's Southside.
Heavy police presence has been reported in the area. A message on Twitter claims officers shot an unarmed woman multiple times in the back.
(b careful— bno misgendering allowed)
City officials have not confirmed or commented on the information at this time. Chief of Police Lawrence Revell will shortly hold what a city spokeswoman called "an update."
Information from Tallahassee's TOPS mapshowed two active incidents around the time of the tweet--a stabbing on Saxon St. reported at 10:45 am and a weapons or firearms report a few blocks away on Holton St. just before 11:00 am.
WFSU will continue to update this story as more information becomes available.
Two people are dead after a stabbing homicide and an officer-involved shooting on Tallahassee’s Southside this morning. The stabbing, according to police, took place on Saxon Street at about 10:45 a.m. and one adult male was killed. The man has not been identified.
Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell briefed reporters at the scene.
“The suspect from that stabbing fled on foot, and a description was provided to responding officers. The suspect description that was broadcast was a black female, (wearing) all black, bald, armed with a pistol and a knife,” Revell said.
This is the third officer-involved shooting since Revell (center) took over as chief in late December.
Revell says the suspect in the stabbing, a black woman, was shot in the Leon Arms apartment complex by a TPD officer. As Revell was speaking to media, he confirmed the woman had died. She has not yet been identified by TPD.
“At 10:59 a.m., the suspect was located here at 2500 Holton Street,” Revell explained. “And our officer calls out ‘shots fired’ and said over the radio that the suspect had pointed the gun at them, at the officer.”
The officer who shot the woman has not been identified by the agency, citing Marsy’s Law, and has been placed on paid administrative leave.
“The suspect was in possession of a handgun, and the bloody knife was found at the scene of the stabbing,” Revell said. “At 11:36 today, the suspect from the officer-involved shooting passed away at a local hospital as well.”
This marks the third officer-involved shooting for TPD since Revell took the helm in December.
Revell says he doesn’t know if body camera footage was taken. If it was, he says, it won’t be made public until after a grand jury hearing. The police chief also told reporters he didn’t know how many shots were fired.
Clifford Butler, an eyewitness who lives at Leon Arms, says he heard seven or eight shots.
“I walked down this way, as soon as I get around this curve, I just hear shots,” Butler told WFSU. “I see the girl right behind the tree, but I see for him (the officer) just jump out the car, swing the door open and just start shooting.”
Butler says he never heard the officer who fired shots give any warning beforehand.
“I never heard ‘Get down, freeze, I’m an officer’ – nothing. I just heard gun shots,” Butler said, adding there was another officer with the officer who fired shots. He says police attempted CPR on the woman.
Butler also says people at Leon Arms frequently gather in groups outside, and expressed concern that children in the complex could have been hurt during a shooting like the one that took place this morning.
“It could have been kids, anybody. You know, bullets don’t have to hit you and stay in you. They can hit you and come out, and go somewhere,” Butler said.
Revell says there are active investigations including an investigation into the stabbing homicide and an internal investigation into the officer-involved shooting. He says from what police know now, the officer reacted as they were trained.
“All preliminary findings are that the officer acted in accordance with their training,” Revell said.
"I would say in normal circumstances, and again not the specifics of this case, but if an officer is confronted with someone pointing a gun at them, but in those type of situations, there’s obviously not time to shout ‘put the gun down, put the gun down’ type of things – you’re defending your life at that point."
Origional Post: 1:15 p.m.
Tallahassee police are poised to hold a press conference within the hour to address reports of a possible officer-involved shooting on Tallahassee's Southside.
Heavy police presence has been reported in the area. A message on Twitter claims officers shot an unarmed woman multiple times in the back.
(b careful— bno misgendering allowed)
City officials have not confirmed or commented on the information at this time. Chief of Police Lawrence Revell will shortly hold what a city spokeswoman called "an update."
Information from Tallahassee's TOPS mapshowed two active incidents around the time of the tweet--a stabbing on Saxon St. reported at 10:45 am and a weapons or firearms report a few blocks away on Holton St. just before 11:00 am.
WFSU will continue to update this story as more information becomes available.
ETA More details. Apparently McDade made a Facebook video about getting revenge on men who allegedly assaulted her yesterday:
Twitter is already going:
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Yeah. I am actually pretty disappointed that the Department of Education is cracking down on this so soon, as given the demographics of MtF's in the US, this policy was essentially affirmative action for straight white males in college admissions (and progressives couldn't complain about it).
Has anyone been able to locate recordings of either of the two videos mentioned in the article (either the one uploaded by the tranny or the one depicting the alleged original assault)? I am working on trying to locate them now, but am not finding anything so far.
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Honestly this isn't even a supremacy clause issue (unless I'm missing something). This has to do with federal funding.
Connecticut is perfectly free to pass laws letting troons into girl's sports. But the feds are also perfectly free not to send them any money to pay for it.
I mean, it's an administrative decision. So Connecticut would need to sue the US Department of Education in federal court to get their chunk of the money.
And I think Trump is petty enough to appeal it all the way to the Supreme Court, where it will likely be upheld.
Cracking down on this so soon? Or too late?
If you mean too late, I agree. But better late than never.
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The first is on her FB page (archive). It’s over an hour long. If someone wants a better archive of the vid give it a go.
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Literal white knight stranger steps in to correct them and is politely told to stuff it:
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PLEASE tell me that transwomen can still represent women in the Olympics?? I NEED that peak trans moment ok??
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To get the TRUTH you need to read Outsports.com, silly. That's your place to go for the most objective reporting on matters like this.
Trump Administration puts its thumb on scale in transgender student athlete dispute
Trump Administration puts its thumb on scale in transgender student athlete dispute
The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has reportedly ruled that a Connecticut policy allowing transgender student athletes to compete in girls sports violates the civil rights of “female” athletes.
By Dawn Ennis@lifeafterdawn Updated May 28, 2020, 12:21pm PDT
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Canton High School’s Chelsea Mitchell, left, beat Terry Miller of Bloomfield, Conn., center, on Feb. 14 in the CIAC Class S track and field championships at Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven, Conn. Photo by Christian Abraham, Courtesy of CT Post, Hearst Connecticut Media, used with permission.
A report by the Associated Press says the Office for Civil Rights in Secretary Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education has ruled against Connecticut’s policy, which allows transgender student athletes to compete in girls sports, calling it a violation of the civil rights of “female athletes.”
The AP obtained the ruling Thursday, but its report contains several inaccuracies that need to be pointed out. First, regarding the phrase, “female athletes:” trans girls are girls and trans women are women. According to a federal judge hearing a related case, athletes who identify as female, and are transgender, are “transgender female athletes.” What the AP should have written was “cisgender female athletes,” since cisgender is a word that means, “not transgender.”
Second: the decision is indeed in response to a complaint filed last year, but it was not made by “several female track athletes;” it was filed by three cisgender high school girls and their families, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a far-right Christian advocacy law firm labeled an extremist anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, for its predatory practices targeting LGBT Americans. You would think that might be worthy of mentioning.
The ADF argued in its complaint that two Connecticut trans girls who were “identified as male at birth,” which is how the AP described Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller, had an unfair physical advantage. The ADF wants to call these two young women “male,” so much so that they have asked the federal judge hearing a civil rights lawsuit on this issue to recuse himself.
According to the AP report, the Office of Civil Rights said in a 45-page letter that it may seek to withhold federal funding from Connecticut over the policy.
Let’s take a moment to recall that the Washington Post and others have reported on how the DOE has taken a strong right turn in how it handles complaints ever since President Trump put DeVos in charge, and rolled back protections for transgender students nationwide.
Now, about the OCR’s threat to Connecticut, which does not control the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference. DeVos, her officers and the ADF are targeting a private, not-for-profit, 501(c)3 organization, as well as several Connecticut school boards that participate in scholastic sporting events run by the CIAC.
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But let’s play along for a moment: if the feds were to make good on their threat to withhold funding from the state, how much of a hit would that be? Ballotpedia says the feds provided Connecticut with $6.3 billion in 2014, which was 24.6% of the state’s general revenues. We can only imagine how desperate that federal money is needed now, in 2020, during a pandemic.
The CIAC policy in question dates back to 2013 and allows transgender athletes to participate as the gender with which they identify. According to the AP, the DOE ruled that the policy is a violation of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that guarantees equal education opportunities for women, including in athletics. Which is ironic, since it’s Title IX that is cited by the CIAC as providing trans student athletes “the opportunity to participate with the gender of which they identify.”
The DeVos-controlled Office of Civil Rights is quoted by the AP in a letter, which it reported is dated May 15, as accusing the CIAC of having ‘’denied female student-athletes athletic benefits and opportunities, including advancing to the finals in events, higher level competitions, awards, medals, recognition, and the possibility of greater visibility to colleges and other benefits.’’
The CIAC, which oversees scholastic sports in the state, has said its policy is designed to comply with the state’s law barring schools from discriminating against transgender students.
Attorneys for the Alliance Defending Freedom told the AP they would have a comment later on Thursday. The CIAC has not returned the AP’s calls, but in February issued this statement about the ADF’s complaint:
Another mistake by the AP: in referencing the “two transgender sprinters, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood,” reporter Pat Eaton-Robb wrote that they “have frequently outperformed their competitors, winning a combined 15 girls state indoor or outdoor championship races since 2017,” and cited the ADF’s lawsuit as a source for that information. Has anyone even thought to mention that Miller and Yearwood didn’t win every race they competed in? Also, Eaton-Robb declined to cite the ACLU’s response to transphobes like the ADF: “Four Myths About Trans Athletes Debunked, which specifically says:
It’s important to highlight the things Eaton-Robb got right: these cisgender girls and their ADF lawyers have asked a federal judge to not only block Miller and Yearwood from competing, but to erase all records set by them. They want to rewrite history.
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Of course, both trans athletes, and two of the three plaintiffs, are high school seniors about to graduate and their spring track meets were canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So the lawsuit is more about setting a precedent than about these girls in particular.
And they are all girls, even if Eaton-Robb repeatedly calls them “the transgender athletes.”
Another important point: Connecticut is one of 18 states, along with Washington, D.C. that allows high school athletes who identify as trans to compete without restrictions. Eaton-Robb cited the excellent site Transathlete.com, although forgot to credit the trans athlete and advocate who created it, Chris Mosier. His site tracks state policies in high school sports across the country.
Lastly, the AP writer did note that “several other states have policies barring the participation of transgender athletes” — and dozens more states are trying to pass such bans, according to the legislative tracker run by Freedom for All Americans — and made mention of Idaho recently becoming the first state in the U.S. to enact a law banning transgender women — and we must add, trans girls, too — from competing in women’s sports.
As Eaton-Robb wrote, the ACLU and Legal Voice filed a federal lawsuit contending that law violates the U.S. Constitution because it is discriminatory and an invasion of privacy. And you can hear the plaintiff in that suit, 19-year-old trans athlete Lindsay Hecox of Idaho, explain why she’s suing Gov. Brad Little, in an exclusive interview with The Trans Sporter Room podcast, below, as well as on Apple and Google Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find Outsports podcasts.
UPDATE: I’ve been getting questions about what impact this ruling will have on other transgender students in Connecticut, and while we await a response from the CIAC and from Gov. Ned Lamont and other lawmakers in Connecticut, please know this:
The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has reportedly ruled that a Connecticut policy allowing transgender student athletes to compete in girls sports violates the civil rights of “female” athletes.
By Dawn Ennis@lifeafterdawn Updated May 28, 2020, 12:21pm PDT
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A report by the Associated Press says the Office for Civil Rights in Secretary Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education has ruled against Connecticut’s policy, which allows transgender student athletes to compete in girls sports, calling it a violation of the civil rights of “female athletes.”
The AP obtained the ruling Thursday, but its report contains several inaccuracies that need to be pointed out. First, regarding the phrase, “female athletes:” trans girls are girls and trans women are women. According to a federal judge hearing a related case, athletes who identify as female, and are transgender, are “transgender female athletes.” What the AP should have written was “cisgender female athletes,” since cisgender is a word that means, “not transgender.”
Second: the decision is indeed in response to a complaint filed last year, but it was not made by “several female track athletes;” it was filed by three cisgender high school girls and their families, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a far-right Christian advocacy law firm labeled an extremist anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, for its predatory practices targeting LGBT Americans. You would think that might be worthy of mentioning.
The ADF argued in its complaint that two Connecticut trans girls who were “identified as male at birth,” which is how the AP described Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller, had an unfair physical advantage. The ADF wants to call these two young women “male,” so much so that they have asked the federal judge hearing a civil rights lawsuit on this issue to recuse himself.
According to the AP report, the Office of Civil Rights said in a 45-page letter that it may seek to withhold federal funding from Connecticut over the policy.
Let’s take a moment to recall that the Washington Post and others have reported on how the DOE has taken a strong right turn in how it handles complaints ever since President Trump put DeVos in charge, and rolled back protections for transgender students nationwide.
Now, about the OCR’s threat to Connecticut, which does not control the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference. DeVos, her officers and the ADF are targeting a private, not-for-profit, 501(c)3 organization, as well as several Connecticut school boards that participate in scholastic sporting events run by the CIAC.
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But let’s play along for a moment: if the feds were to make good on their threat to withhold funding from the state, how much of a hit would that be? Ballotpedia says the feds provided Connecticut with $6.3 billion in 2014, which was 24.6% of the state’s general revenues. We can only imagine how desperate that federal money is needed now, in 2020, during a pandemic.
The CIAC policy in question dates back to 2013 and allows transgender athletes to participate as the gender with which they identify. According to the AP, the DOE ruled that the policy is a violation of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that guarantees equal education opportunities for women, including in athletics. Which is ironic, since it’s Title IX that is cited by the CIAC as providing trans student athletes “the opportunity to participate with the gender of which they identify.”
The DeVos-controlled Office of Civil Rights is quoted by the AP in a letter, which it reported is dated May 15, as accusing the CIAC of having ‘’denied female student-athletes athletic benefits and opportunities, including advancing to the finals in events, higher level competitions, awards, medals, recognition, and the possibility of greater visibility to colleges and other benefits.’’
The CIAC, which oversees scholastic sports in the state, has said its policy is designed to comply with the state’s law barring schools from discriminating against transgender students.
Attorneys for the Alliance Defending Freedom told the AP they would have a comment later on Thursday. The CIAC has not returned the AP’s calls, but in February issued this statement about the ADF’s complaint:
Outsports reached out to the American Civil Rights Union, which represents Yearwood and Miller in the federal lawsuit; they have sought to be party to the suit against the CIAC and school boards in Glastonbury, Bloomfield, Hartford, Cromwell, Canton, and Danbury. ACLU Attorney Chase Strangio, deputy director for trans justice, with the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project, provided this statement, which the AP can add to its story now that Outsports did the heavy lifting for them (all it took was an email, folks):
In its letter, the OCR reportedly said it will ‘’either initiate administrative proceedings to suspend, terminate, or refuse to grant or continue and defer financial assistance’’ to the CIAC and those districts or refer the cases to the U.S. Department of Justice, which also has rolled-back protections for transgender Americans since President Trump was elected.
Another mistake by the AP: in referencing the “two transgender sprinters, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood,” reporter Pat Eaton-Robb wrote that they “have frequently outperformed their competitors, winning a combined 15 girls state indoor or outdoor championship races since 2017,” and cited the ADF’s lawsuit as a source for that information. Has anyone even thought to mention that Miller and Yearwood didn’t win every race they competed in? Also, Eaton-Robb declined to cite the ACLU’s response to transphobes like the ADF: “Four Myths About Trans Athletes Debunked, which specifically says:
The AP did note that the ACLU attorneys representing Yearwood and Miller have argued that both are undergoing hormone treatments that have put them on an equal footing with the girls they are competing against. And Eaton-Robb did mention that one of the plaintiffs, Chelsea Mitchell, won two state indoor title races over Miller this year.
It’s important to highlight the things Eaton-Robb got right: these cisgender girls and their ADF lawyers have asked a federal judge to not only block Miller and Yearwood from competing, but to erase all records set by them. They want to rewrite history.
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Of course, both trans athletes, and two of the three plaintiffs, are high school seniors about to graduate and their spring track meets were canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So the lawsuit is more about setting a precedent than about these girls in particular.
And they are all girls, even if Eaton-Robb repeatedly calls them “the transgender athletes.”
Another important point: Connecticut is one of 18 states, along with Washington, D.C. that allows high school athletes who identify as trans to compete without restrictions. Eaton-Robb cited the excellent site Transathlete.com, although forgot to credit the trans athlete and advocate who created it, Chris Mosier. His site tracks state policies in high school sports across the country.
Lastly, the AP writer did note that “several other states have policies barring the participation of transgender athletes” — and dozens more states are trying to pass such bans, according to the legislative tracker run by Freedom for All Americans — and made mention of Idaho recently becoming the first state in the U.S. to enact a law banning transgender women — and we must add, trans girls, too — from competing in women’s sports.
As Eaton-Robb wrote, the ACLU and Legal Voice filed a federal lawsuit contending that law violates the U.S. Constitution because it is discriminatory and an invasion of privacy. And you can hear the plaintiff in that suit, 19-year-old trans athlete Lindsay Hecox of Idaho, explain why she’s suing Gov. Brad Little, in an exclusive interview with The Trans Sporter Room podcast, below, as well as on Apple and Google Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you find Outsports podcasts.
UPDATE: I’ve been getting questions about what impact this ruling will have on other transgender students in Connecticut, and while we await a response from the CIAC and from Gov. Ned Lamont and other lawmakers in Connecticut, please know this:
- This is a political move, and at this moment the ruling by the OCR does not in any way change existing policies that have been in place across Connecticut for several years.
- The CIAC and school boards in Bloomfield, Canton, Cromwell, Danbury, Glastonbury, and Hartford have not changed their transgender inclusion policies which are based on Connecticut law, prohibiting discrimination. They should be reassured that the federal DOE still leaves the authority of deciding their school sports policy up to them.
- The threat of cutting or reducing federal funding is certainly worrisome, and should be considered seriously. But ultimately, it is a bully tactic meant to scare Connecticut. Actually depriving our state and our schools of federal funding is not a spigot that Betsy DeVos or even President Trump can turn off. Congress is in charge of funding, not the Trump Administration. Any move to target Connecticut for trying to protect our children from discrimination is bound to be met with resistance unlike anything ever seen before.
- If the DOE follows protocol, its next step may be to issue guidance to schools nationwide about this ruling and promoting the idea that trans female students all across the country should be excluded from girls’ sports. That has not happened, and may not happen.
- This issue will ultimately be settled by the courts. The ACLU is on the case, and both the federal civil rights lawsuit ongoing in Connecticut and a forthcoming ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on transgender workers may play a role in how trans Americans are protected from discrimination, or not.
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Have to admit I feel a bit of schadenfreude watching these middle-class white people who voted for tranny inclusion coping with the realization that they're on the hook for Becky's $50k per year tuition to Party School State because a black dude realized he could just identify as a girl for a couple years, smash some girl's state records, and steal her scholarship. Can't wait to watch latinos inevitably do the same thing to women's softball/soccer too.
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A Connecticut policy that allows transgender athletes to compete in girls sports violates the civil rights of female athletes, the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has ruled.
The ruling, which was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, comes in response to a complaint filed last year by several female track athletes, who argued that two transgender runners who were identified as male at birth had an unfair physical advantage.
The office said in a 45-page letter that it may seek to withhold federal funding over the policy, which allows transgender athletes to participate as the gender with which they identify. It said the policy is a violation of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that guarantees equal education opportunities for women, including in athletics.
It has “denied female student-athletes athletic benefits and opportunities, including advancing to the finals in events, higher level competitions, awards, medals, recognition, and the possibility of greater visibility to colleges and other benefits,” according to the letter, which is dated May 15.
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which oversees scholastic sports in the state, has said its policy is designed to comply with the state’s law barring schools from discriminating against transgender students. A call seeking comment was left Thursday with CIAC.
Attorneys for the Alliance Defending Freedom, who represent the girls who brought the complaint, said they would have a comment later on Thursday.
The Office for Civil Rights ruling names the CIAC and school districts the transgender runners and those filing the complaint competed — Glastonbury, Bloomfield, Hartford, Cromwell, Canton, and Danbury.
The office said it will “either initiate administrative proceedings to suspend, terminate, or refuse to grant or continue and defer financial assistance” to the CIAC and those districts or refer the cases to the U.S. Department of Justice.
In its letter, the Office for Civil Rights said it notified the CIAC and the school districts of its pending decision in February, but that subsequent negotiations failed to result in an agreement over the policy.
The dispute, which is already the subject of a federal lawsuit, centers on two transgender sprinters, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, who have frequently outperformed their competitors, winning a combined 15 girls state indoor or outdoor championship races since 2017, according to the lawsuit.
Lawyers for the transgender athletes have argued that both are undergoing hormone treatments that have put them on an equal footing with the girls they are competing against.
One of the plaintiffs, Chelsea Mitchell, won two state indoor title races over Miller this year.
The plaintiffs sought to block the participation of Miller and Yearwood, both seniors, from spring track meets, which were later canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. They were also seeking to erase all records set by the transgender athletes.
Connecticut is one of 18 states, along with Washington, D.C. that allows transgender high school athletes to compete without restrictions, according to Transathlete.com, which tracks state policies in high school sports across the country.
Several other states have policies barring the participation of transgender athletes and Idaho recently became the first state to pass a law banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports. The American Civil Liberties Union and Legal Voice filed a federal lawsuit contending that law violates the U.S. Constitution because it is discriminatory and an invasion of privacy.
A Connecticut policy that allows transgender athletes to compete in girls sports violates the civil rights of female athletes, the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has ruled.
The ruling, which was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, comes in response to a complaint filed last year by several female track athletes, who argued that two transgender runners who were identified as male at birth had an unfair physical advantage.
The office said in a 45-page letter that it may seek to withhold federal funding over the policy, which allows transgender athletes to participate as the gender with which they identify. It said the policy is a violation of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that guarantees equal education opportunities for women, including in athletics.
It has “denied female student-athletes athletic benefits and opportunities, including advancing to the finals in events, higher level competitions, awards, medals, recognition, and the possibility of greater visibility to colleges and other benefits,” according to the letter, which is dated May 15.
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which oversees scholastic sports in the state, has said its policy is designed to comply with the state’s law barring schools from discriminating against transgender students. A call seeking comment was left Thursday with CIAC.
Attorneys for the Alliance Defending Freedom, who represent the girls who brought the complaint, said they would have a comment later on Thursday.
The Office for Civil Rights ruling names the CIAC and school districts the transgender runners and those filing the complaint competed — Glastonbury, Bloomfield, Hartford, Cromwell, Canton, and Danbury.
The office said it will “either initiate administrative proceedings to suspend, terminate, or refuse to grant or continue and defer financial assistance” to the CIAC and those districts or refer the cases to the U.S. Department of Justice.
In its letter, the Office for Civil Rights said it notified the CIAC and the school districts of its pending decision in February, but that subsequent negotiations failed to result in an agreement over the policy.
The dispute, which is already the subject of a federal lawsuit, centers on two transgender sprinters, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, who have frequently outperformed their competitors, winning a combined 15 girls state indoor or outdoor championship races since 2017, according to the lawsuit.
Lawyers for the transgender athletes have argued that both are undergoing hormone treatments that have put them on an equal footing with the girls they are competing against.
One of the plaintiffs, Chelsea Mitchell, won two state indoor title races over Miller this year.
The plaintiffs sought to block the participation of Miller and Yearwood, both seniors, from spring track meets, which were later canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. They were also seeking to erase all records set by the transgender athletes.
Connecticut is one of 18 states, along with Washington, D.C. that allows transgender high school athletes to compete without restrictions, according to Transathlete.com, which tracks state policies in high school sports across the country.
Several other states have policies barring the participation of transgender athletes and Idaho recently became the first state to pass a law banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports. The American Civil Liberties Union and Legal Voice filed a federal lawsuit contending that law violates the U.S. Constitution because it is discriminatory and an invasion of privacy.
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