On Monday, Republican Governor Brad Little of Idaho signed the Fairness for Women in Sports Act, which protects girls sports as single-sex, barring biologically male transgender girls from competing against biological girls.
&#8220;The sports ban applies to all sports teams sponsored by public schools, colleges and universities,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/idaho-governor-signs-law-anti-transgender-legislation-n1172886">NBC News</a> reported. &#8220;A girls’ or women’s team will not be open to transgender students who identify as female.&#8221;
“Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field. Allowing males to compete in girls’ sports destroys fair competition and women’s athletic opportunities,&#8221; Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Senior Vice President of U.S. Legal Division Kristen Waggoner said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire.
ADF is representing high school female athletes in a federal lawsuit seeking to preserve single-sex girls sports.
&#8220;We commend Gov. Little for signing the Fairness for Women in Sports Act into law so that those opportunities will be protected in Idaho,&#8221; Waggoner continued. &#8220;When the law ignores biological differences, women and girls bear the brunt of the harm.&#8221;
&#8220;In Connecticut, for example, two males dominated girls’ track after they began competing as females, capturing dozens of championships and shattering long-standing female track records,&#8221; the attorney outlined. &#8220;Comparably fit and trained males will always have physical advantages over females—that’s the reason we have girls’ sports.&#8221;
&#8220;When we ignore biological reality, female athletes lose medals, podium spots, public recognition, and opportunities to compete,&#8221; Waggoner added, thanking the bill&#8217;s Republican co-sponsors Rep. Barbara Ehardt and Sen. Mary Souza.
ADF-represented high schooler Chelsea Mitchell, one of the athletes challenging Connecticut’s transgender policy, applauded the move by Gov. Little.
“I am so happy that female athletes in Idaho will not have to face an unfair playing field as I have in Connecticut,&#8221; Mitchell said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire.
&#8220;I have lost four state championships because my state’s policy ignores the physical advantages males have over females in sports and allows males to compete in the girls’ category,&#8221; the athlete outlined. &#8220;Four times I was the fastest female in my race, but I didn’t get the gold medal or the state title; the males in my race took that honor. I have watched this happen over and over again in my sport in Connecticut, as so many girls have been impacted.&#8221;
Mitchell added, &#8220;It isn’t fair, and it isn’t right. We need separate sports categories based on biological sex in order to fairly compete. Idaho has now set the example for other states to follow.”
The ACLU has already jumped in to condemn Gov. Little and promise a lawsuit.
Leaders from the business, faith, medical, education and athletics communities will not forget this decision or what it says about the governor&#8217;s priorities during a global pandemic,&#8221; the organization said in a <a href="https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/capitol-watch/idaho-governor-little-signs-into-law-anti-transgender-legislation/277-8541e9d3-2cbb-4780-8f4b-5a9b59232594">statement</a>. &#8220;The ACLU will see the governor in court. We encourage all Idahoans to email, call, and tweet Gov. Little to express outrage and disappointment at wasting precious taxpayer resources on blatantly anti-transgender bill.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-barr-weighs-into-trans-suit-no-biological-boys-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-compete-against-girls">Attorney General Barr Weighs Into Trans Suit: No, Biological Boys Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Compete Against Girls</a>

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GOP Governor Bans Biological Males From Competing Against Girls

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On Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr sided with the preservation of single-sex girls sports, filing a statement of interest in a Connecticut lawsuit concerning transgender girls, who are biologically male, competing in girls&#8217; sporting events.
As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boys-competing-with-girls-won-track-meets-the-girls-just-filed-a-lawsuit-in-federal-court">The Daily Wire</a> in February, student-athletes Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, and Chelsea Mitchell, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which has permitted boys to compete in events and win awards that would otherwise have gone to girls.
Barr agreed with the girls&#8217; complaint: “Under CIAC’s interpretation of Title IX…schools may not account for the real physiological differences between men and women,&#8221; Barr and other Justice Department officials said in the letter, according to <a href="https://www.espn.com/high-school/story/_/id/28953072/treat-trans-athletes-girls">ESPN</a>. &#8220;Instead, schools must have certain biological males — namely, those who publicly identify as female — compete against biological females. In so doing, CIAC deprives those women of the single-sex athletic competitions that are one of the marquee accomplishments of Title IX.”
&#8220;Males will always have inherent physical advantages over comparably talented and trained girls — that&#8217;s the reason we have girls sports in the first place,&#8221; said ADF lawyer Christiana Holcomb, who is representing the girls and their families. &#8220;And a male&#8217;s belief about his gender doesn&#8217;t eliminate those advantages.&#8221;
Soule, Smith, and Mitchell &#8220;were denied opportunities to compete at higher levels as boys took home the prizes,&#8221; The Daily Wire noted back in February. &#8220;CIAC’s policy allowed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-two-transgenders-blow-out-girls-state-meet-hank-berrien">two males to compete in girls’ athletic competitions</a> beginning in the 2017 track season. Those boys have taken 15 women’s state championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different Connecticut girls) and have taken more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions from female track athletes in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone.&#8221;
“I knew that I was the fastest girl here, one of the fastest in the state,&#8221; Mitchell recalled. &#8220;I remembered all my training and everything I had been taught on how to maximize my performance … I thought of all the times that other girls have lost. I could feel the adrenaline in my blood and hope that wafted from me. That just possibly, I could win this. Then, the gun went off. And I lost.”
Soule, who was edged out by a biological male from qualifying for a state championship final, remarked: “It’s very frustrating and heartbreaking when us girls are at the start of the race and we already know that these [male] athletes are going to come out and win no matter how hard you try. They took away the spots of deserving girls, athletes … me being included.”
“Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field,&#8221; Holcomb previously stressed. &#8220;Forcing them to compete against boys isn’t fair, shatters their dreams, and destroys their athletic opportunities. Having separate boys’ and girls’ sports has always been based on biological differences, not what people believe about their gender, because those differences matter for fair competition. And forcing girls to be spectators in their own sports is completely at odds with Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics. Connecticut’s policy violates that law and reverses nearly 50 years of advances for women.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boys-competing-with-girls-won-track-meets-the-girls-just-filed-a-lawsuit-in-federal-court">Boys Competing With Girls Won Track Meets. The Girls Just Filed A Lawsuit In Federal Court.</a>

Families of 3 Connecticut students sue to block transgender athletes from girls sports

Attorney General Barr Weighs Into Trans Suit: No, Biological Boys Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Compete Against Girls

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<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxekyz/transgender-surgeries-delayed-coronavirus-hospitals">Vice News reports</a> that transgender individuals, awaiting &#8220;gender reassignment&#8221; surgeries, are teetering on the precipice of outrage after discovering that doctors and hospitals consider such surgeries &#8220;non-essential&#8221; and will be postponing them indefinitely in order to better prepare for a possible onslaught of coronavirus patients needing hospital beds and critical care.
Across the country, hospitals have cut down dramatically on the number of scheduled &#8220;non-essential&#8221; surgical procedures, urging patients to reschedule elective surgeries, procedures that can be delayed, and even dental procedures, so that hospitals can keep beds free and preserve equipment, should they be hit with a wave of patients infected with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The Centers for Medical and Medicaid Services, in partnership with the White House, <a href="https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-releases-recommendations-adult-elective-surgeries-non-essential-medical-surgical-and-dental">has asked that such procedures</a> be delayed during the coronavirus outbreak.
&#8220;Gender reassignment&#8221; surgeries are considered elective surgeries and, because a transgender individual&#8217;s immediate health is not in danger if such procedures are slightly delayed, they are among the &#8220;non-essential&#8221; procedures being rescheduled.
But leftists aren&#8217;t happy about it.
&#8220;This underscores a common experience amongst trans people seeking medical care or surgery: Research has suggested that gender-affirming surgery, in particular, has a notable and long-term impact on mental health, but far too often, trans people already wait far longer than is safe or healthy for this care,&#8221; VICE reports. &#8220;Further delays can be dangerous and even life-threatening.&#8221;
This is the third time it’s been postponed. It’s getting more and more heartbreaking to keep getting so close to something that will make me feel better and feel like I&#8217;m in the right body for once,” one transgender individual told the outlet. “Every time I feel like I&#8217;ve gotten close, something has to come along to take it away.”
Such delays are likely not as life-threatening as complications from coronavirus, however. And certainly, planning such procedures now could put transgender individuals at risk of contracting coronavirus, especially if they are required to share hospital wards with infected patients. Since coronavirus seems to have an outsized impact on those with underlying conditions or those in a fragile medical state, that could make transgender individuals recovering from surgery particularly susceptible to complicated versions of the disease.
VICE reports that transgender individuals who are seeking gender reassignment surgery are reporting levels of &#8220;stress&#8221; and &#8220;anxiety,&#8221; however.
In the American healthcare systems&#8217; quest to ready itself for an onslaught of coronavirus victims, other elective procedures are also on the chopping block, In Ohio, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/21/ohio-abortion-clinics-coronavirus/">the governor has called time on abortion </a>services, asking Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers to cease conducting in-office procedures and donate personal protective equipment, like masks and gloves, to health care providers on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak.
The decision left the National Abortion Federation seeing red.
&#8220;Abortion is provided for almost one in five pregnancies in the United States, as part of the continuum of pregnancy care,&#8221; they said in a statement. &#8220;It is an essential health service. An individual and family decide to end a pregnancy for a complex constellation of reasons that include the impact of pregnancy and birth on their health, ability to work, and strained economic circumstances. These are conditions that do not go away—and are likely heightened—in pandemic conditions. Denying or deferring abortion care places an immediate burden on patients, their families, and the health system, and can have profound and lasting consequences.&#8221;
Ohio&#8217;s governor was unmoved.

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Trans Individuals Are Angry That Gender Reassignment Surgeries Are Deemed Non-Essential As Hospitals Focus On Coronavirus

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On Thursday, Republicans in Alabama took a key step in their quest to protect children from hormone blockers and transgender surgeries, when state senators approved a bill seeking to criminalize medical professionals prescribing or advising such drastic transgender medical intervention.
According to <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/8/alabama-republicans-seek-transgender-surgery-ban-t/">The Washington Times</a>, Republican Sen. Shay Shelnutt&#8217;s bill, called the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, seeks to &#8220;make it a felony for doctors and other medical providers to prescribe hormone blockers or surgeries for minors seeking to treat gender dysphoria.&#8221;
&#8220;I just don’t think, and others don’t think, that kids should be given experimental drugs or surgeries that could have irreversible consequences for the rest of their life,&#8221; Sen. Shelnutt <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/8/alabama-republicans-seek-transgender-surgery-ban-t/">told</a> local reporters.
&#8220;Kids are not fully developed until later in life,&#8221; the Republican added. &#8220;I think we can all agree that kids aren’t capable of making certain decisions until certain ages. And so we want to just stop these procedures from happening in Alabama.&#8221;
The bill, which overwhelmingly passed in the state Senate, is soon headed to Alabama&#8217;s House of Representatives.
Alabama&#8217;s Republican Governor Kay Ivey has yet to indicate her intention on signing the bill if it were to pass the House.
Ivey earned praise from conservatives and scorn from feminists last year when she signed a robust pro-life bill, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-alabama-law-doesnt-punish-women-who-get-michael-j-knowles">Alabama Human Life Protection Act</a>, banning nearly all elective abortions within the state.
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Rep. Wes Allen, a Republican serving in the Alabama House, fumed over the reality that children are being prescribed hormone blockers within the state.
&#8220;I was shocked when I found out doctors in Alabama were prescribing these types of drugs to children,&#8221; Allen said in a statement, the Times noted. &#8220;This is something you hear about happening in California or New York but it is happening right here in Alabama and it’s time we put a stop to that practice.&#8221;
According to the Mayo Clinic&#8217;s <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075">website</a>, giving a child hormone blockers to delay puberty is a &#8220;big step&#8221; that could effect their fertility.
&#8220;In those identified as male at birth, <abbr title="gonadotropin-releasing hormone">GnRH</abbr> analogues decrease the growth of facial and body hair, prevent voice deepening, and limit the growth of genitalia,&#8221; the clinic&#8217;s site outlines, adding that the &#8220;treatment limits or stops breast development and delays or stops menstruation&#8221; for biological females.
Under &#8220;side effects&#8221; and &#8220;complications,&#8221; the site lists:
Possible side effects of <abbr title="gonadotropin-releasing hormone">GnRH</abbr> analogue treatment include:
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<li>Injection site swelling</li>
<li>Weight gain</li>
<li>Hot flashes</li>
<li>Headaches</li>
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Use of <abbr title="gonadotropin-releasing hormone">GnRH</abbr> analogues might also have long-term effects on:
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<li>Bone density</li>
<li>Future fertility</li>
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&#8220;If children with male genitalia begin using <abbr title="gonadotropin-releasing hormone">GnRH</abbr> analogues early in puberty, they might not develop enough penile and scrotal skin for certain gender confirmation genital surgical procedures, such as penile inversion vaginoplasty,&#8221; the Mayo Clinic explains, adding that &#8220;delaying puberty beyond one&#8217;s peers can be stressful. Your child might experience lower self-esteem.&#8221;
Moreover, as highlighted by <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2018/12/14/puberty-blockers-clear-danger-childrens-health/">The Federalist</a>, endocrinologist Michael Laidlaw has warned that puberty blockers &#8220;interfere with the expected increase in bone density in adolescence such that the bones are not as strong as they would be had normal pubertal development been allowed. This is due to the effect of dropping sex hormone levels to subnormal levels. These lost years of bone development cannot be regained.&#8221;
Laidlaw also emphasized the &#8220;truly terrifying&#8221; &#8220;psychological effect&#8221; hormone blockers have on children.
&#8220;Under the traditional treatment for gender dysphoria, which involves &#8216;watchful waiting or pursuit of family and individual psychotherapy,&#8217; between <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2018/12/14/puberty-blockers-clear-danger-childrens-health/watchful%20waiting%20or%20pursuit%20of%20family%20and%20individual%20psychotherapy">80 and 95 percent of adolescent patients</a> outgrow their dysphoria naturally,&#8221; The Federalist added.

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Alabama Takes Major Step In Banning Hormone Blockers, Transgender Surgeries For Children

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Shortly after a high-profile lawsuit was filed in Connecticut against a recent state policy allowing biological males to participate in girls&#8217; sports, legislators in Ohio are taking action to &#8220;Save Women&#8217;s Sports&#8221; from transgender athletes.
In a <a href="http://www.ohiohouse.gov/jena-powell/press/representative-powell-proposes-the-save-womens-sports-act">press release</a> in late-February, the Ohio House of Representatives announced a new bill, the &#8220;Save Women’s Sports Act,&#8221; proposed by Republican state representatives Jena Powell and Reggie Stoltzfus that &#8220;seeks to promote fairness to all and preserve the integrity of school sports&#8221; by keeping biological males out of female athletic events.
&#8220;The Save Women’s Sports Act ensures that women are not forced to compete against men playing on women’s sports teams,&#8221; reads the release. &#8220;The bill would designate male and female sports teams be based upon the biological sex of an individual, meaning that biological males cannot play on female teams.&#8221;
The legislation would apply to all public schools and private schools that are members of state or national athletic associations.
&#8220;The Save Women’s Sports Act is a fairness issue for women,&#8221; Powell said at a February 25 press conference announcing the bill. &#8220;This bill ensures that every little girl who works hard to make it on a podium is not robbed of her chance by a biological male competing against her in a biological female sport. We want every little girl to achieve her athletic dream here in the state of Ohio.&#8221;
In her comments promoting the new bill, Powell specifically cited recent developments in Connecticut in which two transgender runners have dominated girl&#8217;s track in the state. Titles that were held by nine different girls in the year prior to the state&#8217;s new pro-transgender policy went into effect, Powell noted, have been held by just two biological male runners since.
&#8220;The legislation goes further to protect a school or college who preserve women-only teams from being punished by a government entity under a state or local non-discrimination law,&#8221; the press release explains. &#8220;Additionally, the bill allows any student a private right of action who may be deprived of an athletic opportunity or is harmed by a school or college that violates this act and protects the student from any retaliatory actions taken by any school. The bill also creates a process to resolve any disputes over a student’s sex and respectfully accommodates those who have an intersex condition or disorder of sexual development to demonstrate they are, in fact, a female. Further, the Save Women’s Sports Act also will make sure biological men who identify as a female cannot be categorized as a woman to compete against women in sports.&#8221;
As Powell referenced, Connecticut has gained national attention due to recent eye-opening developments in its high school track competitions. The dominance of the competition by two biological males who identify as female in the state over the last three years has resulted in a high-profile lawsuit from Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of three female runners.
&#8220;Ever since the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference adopted a policy that allows males who identify as female to compete in girls’ athletic events, boys have consistently deprived Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, and Chelsea Mitchell of honors and opportunities to compete at elite levels,&#8221; ADF said in a February 12 <a href="https://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/press-release-details/high-school-athletes-file-suit-to-protect-fairness-in-girls-sports">press release</a> announcing its lawsuit against Connecticut&#8217;s new policy. &#8220;Mitchell, for example, would have won the 2019 state championship in the women’s 55-meter indoor track competition, but because two males took first and second place, she was denied the gold medal. Soule and Smith likewise have been denied medals and/or advancement opportunities.&#8221;
&#8220;The <a title="complaint" href="https://adflegal.blob.core.windows.net/mainsite-new/docs/default-source/documents/legal-documents/soule-v.-connecticut-association-of-schools/soule-v-connecticut-association-of-schools---complaint.pdf?sfvrsn=f1ed93a9_4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">complaint</a> filed in Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools with the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut explains that CIAC’s new policy and others like it pose a concrete threat to Title IX gains because &#8216;inescapable biological facts of the human species [are] not stereotypes, &#8220;social constructs,&#8221; or relics of past discrimination. As a result of these many inherent physiological differences between men and women after puberty, male athletes consistently achieve records 10-20% higher than comparably fit and trained women across almost all athletic events, with even wider consistent disparities in long-term endurance events and contests of sheer strength such as weight-lifting,'&#8221; the release details.
&#8220;As a result of CIAC’s policy, two males were permitted to compete in girls’ athletic competitions beginning in the 2017 track season,&#8221; the release explains. &#8220;Between them, they have taken 15 women’s state championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different Connecticut girls) and have taken more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions from female track athletes in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone.&#8221;

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After Trans Runner Lawsuit, Ohio Legislators Step In To ‘Save Women’s Sports’ From Biological Males

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On Sunday, former NBA player Dwyane Wade posted photos of his 12-year-old son, whom he says is a transgender girl, to his Instagram account, praising the child as an LGBTQ+ leader while using female pronouns.
&#8220;Everyone allow her to re-introduce herself her name is Zaya Wade!&#8221; Wade captioned a photo of young Zaya Wade wearing a bright green tuxedo jacket and pink sash.
The child recently changed his name from Zion to Zaya to coordinate with the gender &#8220;transition.&#8221;
&#8220;Last night was Zaya’s first red carpet and we couldn’t have been prouder of how she handled the questions that were asked of her,&#8221; the former Miami Heat guard wrote. &#8220;She has emerged as one of the young faces and voices for the LGBTQ+ community. <a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/truthawards/">#truthawards</a>.&#8221;
Wade, his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, and Zaya attended the Better Brothers LA&#8217;s Truth Awards together on Saturday night. According to <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1129145/dwyane-wade-s-daughter-walks-first-red-carpet-as-zaya-wade">E! News</a>, the award ceremony &#8220;highlights the accomplishments of the Black LGBTQ+ community and its allies.&#8221;
According to the outlet, the three appeared on stage together &#8220;to honor a friend,&#8221; and Wade spoke about Zaya.
&#8220;When our 8-year-old daughter, Zaya Wade, came home and said she had something to tell us, when she came out to us, as a family, we admitted that weren&#8217;t as educated about the LGBTQ+ plus community as we should have been,&#8221; Wade told the audience.
The athlete reportedly said that he and Union turned to a &#8220;male couple&#8221; to help them &#8220;navigate the right language to use, the questions to ask, and what to listen for,&#8221; with regard to the young boy&#8217;s gender.
&#8220;They also reminded us to make sure Zaya knew her community and felt the love and support inside and outside from home,&#8221; Wade continued. &#8220;From working closely with Zaya to design her room in our homes to make sure that her most authentic self was represented and that her bedroom felt like her sanctuary. Now, that may seem small, but taking the time to make sure Zaya felt seen and heard as she created her own space for us was key. It was key to Zaya&#8217;s comfort and her confidence.&#8221;
In December, Wade similarly spoke about his son becoming who &#8220;she&#8221; is.
“I watched my son, from day one, become into who she now eventually come into,” he <a href="https://people.com/parents/dwyane-wade-watched-child-become-who-she-now-eventually-is/">told</a> the “All the Smoke.&#8221;
“And for me… nothing changes in my love. Nothing changes in my responsibilities. So, all I had to do now is get smarter, educate myself more. And that’s my job,” continued Wade, who recently <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/miami-heat-star-dwyane-wade-kicks-off-nba-62332990">retired</a> from the NBA after an uber-successful career.
“First of all, you want to talk about strength and courage, my 12-year-old has way more than I have,” he said. “You can learn something from your kids.”
After Wade noticed Zaya was not on the &#8220;boy vibe&#8221; that his other son was on, he said he questioned if the boy was gay and how he would feel about that. Apparently, the couple realized Zaya was really a girl.
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Transgender juggler Phia Menard and the performer&#8217;s fans have expressed outrage over the last-minute cancellation of Menard&#8217;s show at the Bouffes du Nord theater in Paris, France, to make way for one of Kanye West&#8217;s famous &#8220;Sunday Service&#8221; religious-themed events.
In what <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/fury-kanye-west-hymn-pushes-transgender-show-155456467.html">AFP</a> describes as a decision prompting &#8220;furor&#8221; and a &#8220;storm&#8221; of controversy, just a day ahead of Menard&#8217;s performance at the Bouffes du Nord theatre during fashion week, the venue notified the juggler that the show was canceled, citing &#8220;technical reasons.&#8221;
But, Menard suggested in a defiant statement on social media, the real reason for the cancellation was the theater management&#8217;s greed which resulted in them prioritizing West&#8217;s religious-themed event.
In a statement on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/phia.menard">Facebook</a> on Monday, Menard decried both the theater&#8217;s managers and West, whom the transgender performer described as a &#8220;Trump-supporting rapper.&#8221;
&#8220;Menard — one of the discoveries of the Avignon festival in 2018 — refused take the news lying down, with her and her fans lambasting the theatre and West as an &#8216;imposter&#8217; on social media,&#8221; AFP reports. &#8220;She accused the theatre of lying &#8216;so they could cash in on a religious ceremony and the money the Donald Trump-supporting rapper&#8217; could pay them, the 49-year-old juggler wrote on Facebook on Monday.&#8221;
&#8220;I am an artist, a trans woman, the director of a company, and I refuse to accept this denial and contempt,&#8221; said Menard, as reported by AFP.
The theater&#8217;s management, however, insisted to AFP that the transgender performer&#8217;s show was canceled because of the &#8220;technical incompatibility&#8221; of the two events.
&#8220;The 98 people who had bought tickets were contacted and most came to her show the night before while the rest were reimbursed,&#8221; the Bouffes du Nord managers told AFP.
AFP notes that West&#8217;s equally famous wife Kim Kardashian appeared at the musician&#8217;s religious-themed event &#8220;in an almost sprayed-on latex brown suit, one of three figure-hugging Balmain looks she wore during the course of the day.&#8221; The couple were joined by their daughter, North West, and Kim&#8217;s sister Kourtney, who, AFP points out, were also &#8220;dressed head-to-toe in latex.&#8221;
West has undergone a public transformation in recent years, both politically and religiously. Both shifts have been met with criticism from the Left, but West&#8217;s political sentiments have sparked the most intense ire. As Menard&#8217;s incensed post references, West has openly expressed support for President Trump and has repeatedly urged minorities to be open-minded about the president and conservative political concepts.
West&#8217;s increased religious focus, including his &#8220;Religious Service&#8221; events and his new faith-themed songs, have continued his string of musical success.
His recent album, &#8220;Jesus Is King,&#8221; hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts and broke West’s previous online streaming records, as noted by <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/kanye-west-says-no-1-jesus-is-king-album-is-god-showing-out-abs-giving-free-bibles-to-his-fans.html">The Christian Post</a> in November. &#8220;The 27 minute music release garnered the second-largest sales week of the year for an R&amp;B/Hip-Hop album, with over 100,000 copies sold,” the outlet reported.
&#8220;Number one in the country right now, number one in the world right now, Jesus is King,” West <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-to-appear-at-nations-biggest-megachurch-sunday-bring-his-choir">said</a> in response to the success of the album. &#8220;Number one song, number one album, and they told me I would (inaudible) if I gave my life to Christ, but God is showing out.&#8221;

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Transgender Performer Slams ‘Trump-Supporting’ Kanye After His Religious Service Leads To Cancellation Of Trans Show

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Transgender runner, Megan Youngren, was one of 450 individuals competing in the United States Olympic women&#8217;s marathon trials in Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday, but will not be among the runners sent to compete in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, after finishing well behind the three women selected to represent the U.S.
Youngren, women&#8217;s entertainment magazine <a href="https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/tokyo-olympics-american-marathoners-2020-47265589">Pop Sugar reports</a>, &#8220;placed 230th with a time of 2:50:27.&#8221;
The race, one of the &#8220;hilliest&#8221; in U.S. Olympic history, produced at least one first-time Olympian, Molly Seidel, who was also competing in her first-ever marathon: &#8220;Winners of those Tokyo tickets on the women&#8217;s side include first-place finisher Aliphine Tuliamuk (2:27:23), first-time marathoner Molly Seidel, and 2012 Olympian Sally Kipyego. Yep, you read that right: Molly had never competed at 26.2 miles before the Olympic trials.&#8221;
Youngren, who is biologically male, is the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the American Olympic trials for track and field. The transgender athlete &#8220;qualified for the trials after a strong performance on Dec. 8, 2019, in the California International Marathon,&#8221; according to the Daily Signal, and had hoped to make Olympic history by becoming the first trangender athlete to represent the United States in an Olympic track and field event.
“People will try to put it down by saying, ‘That’s too easy because you’re trans.’ But what about the 500 other women who will qualify?” the trans runner told Sports Illustrated last month, per the Signal. “There’s probably someone with the exact same story.”
“I trained hard. I got lucky. I dodged injuries,” Youngren added. “I raced a lot, and it worked out for me. That’s the story for a lot of other people, too.&#8221;
That training wasn&#8217;t enough, though, and Youngren was bested by 229 biologically female runners.
The United States does allow transgender individuals to compete against the gender of their choice rather than their stated biological gender provided they meet the <a href="http://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Commissions_PDFfiles/Medical_commission/2015-11_ioc_consensus_meeting_on_sex_reassignment_and_hyperandrogenism-en.pdf">International Olympic Committees own standards for competition</a>, established in November of 2015 at the IOC&#8217;s &#8220;Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism.&#8221;
Fearing that biologically male athletes could have an advantage over biologically female athletes in gender-specific events, the IOC mandated that male-to-female athletes must have declared that their gender identify is female for at least four years prior to competing for an Olympic slot and &#8220;must demonstrate that her total testosterone level in serum has been below 10 nmol/L for at least 12 months prior to her first competition (with the requirement for any longer period to be based on a confidential case-by-case evaluation, considering whether or not 12 months is a sufficient length of time to minimize any advantage in women’s competition).&#8221;
Youngren isn&#8217;t the only transgender individual competing for a slot on the U.S. Olympic team. American BMX Freestyle rider Chelsea Wolfe is also aiming to &#8220;mak[e] history as the first transgender athlete to compete in the Games,&#8221; <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-olympics-lgbt-interview/trans-bmxer-riding-high-as-olympic-dream-edges-nearer-idUSKCN20I20N?fbclid=IwAR3paRFmzgwSHRfl2LrX2_M4hUJyKZoWIVXEDls5gwh9RSxTiSzEGdftvPw">per Reuters</a>. Wolfe &#8220;received an email asking her to register for the Tokyo Olympics this month,&#8221; though Wolfe has yet to officially qualify.
Brazilian volleyball player Tifanny Abreu and New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard are also competing to become the first transgender athlete to compete against women for Olympic titles.

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The issue of transgender male-to-female athletes competing in women&#8217;s events has escalated in recent months due to the increase in participation of biological males in some high-profile events, including qualifying events for the Olympics. One such athlete is Laurel Hubbard, a biological male who identifies as a female, and who has dominated multiple women&#8217;s weightlifting events, recently taking home two golds and a silver in three women&#8217;s heavyweight events at the the Pacific Games last summer.
On Wednesday, former CNN host and current &#8220;Good Morning Britain&#8221; host Piers Morgan responded to reports on Hubbard competing for the International Weightlifting Federation Australian Weightlifting Open in Canberra, Australia, in hopes of qualifying for the Tokyo Games. Morgan&#8217;s initial tweet and follow-up posts promptly gained international attention, appearing in multiple reports on multiple continents.
Morgan&#8217;s transgender-themed tweets began with a response to a post by Dr. James Kent, who tweeted out images of Hubbard in competitions and wrote: &#8220;New Zealand transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard clinches two gold medals. Obliterated the rest of the female field. Olympics might be denied in Tokyo.&#8221;
&#8220;This is insane. Women’s rights to basic fairness &amp; equality are getting destroyed at the altar of political correctness,&#8221; Morgan responded (posts below).
Among a flood of responses to Morgan&#8217;s &#8220;insane&#8221; post, one responder wrote: &#8220;I agree. And what exactly is this doing for women’s sport? There’s very little data on transitioned strength athletes. And at least until there are more studies on the impact a sex change has on a male body, I am sceptical about what should be allowed in women’s sport.&#8221;
That elicited another post by Morgan, who offered a &#8220;rather obvious fact&#8221; about transgender male-to-female athletes: &#8220;Trans women born with biological male bodies have a massive physical advantage against women born with female bodies in any sport where power &amp; strength are significant factors. This shouldn’t be a contentious claim, it’s just a rather obvious fact.&#8221;
Along with many people expressing agreement with his statements, Morgan&#8217;s posts were also met with strong backlash from LGBT advocates. The television personality in turn pushed back a few times.
&#8220;I’m not transphobic &amp; have always supported transgender rights. So why are you encouraging this hate just for clicks?&#8221; he wrote in response to a post by British LGBT Awards criticizing him.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not &#8216;transphobic&#8217; to believe it is grotesquely unfair for transgender women born with male biological bodies to compete in sports like weightlifting against women born with female biological bodies. It&#8217;s common sense. Transgender rights shouldn&#8217;t damage women&#8217;s rights,&#8221; Morgan wrote in another response.
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This is insane. Women’s rights to basic fairness &amp; equality are getting destroyed at the altar of political correctness. <a href="https://t.co/XnlGNmdVV4">https://t.co/XnlGNmdVV4</a>
&mdash; Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1232782975449935874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trans women born with biological male bodies have a massive physical advantage against women born with female bodies in any sport where power &amp; strength are significant factors. This shouldn’t be a contentious claim, it’s just a rather obvious fact. <a href="https://t.co/FQ5xfFMwN4">https://t.co/FQ5xfFMwN4</a>
&mdash; Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1232793664390418434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I’m not transphobic &amp; have always supported transgender rights. So why are you encouraging this hate just for clicks? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeKind?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BeKind</a> <a href="https://t.co/VvsYrSo9im">https://t.co/VvsYrSo9im</a>
&mdash; Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1233371065914662912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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It&#39;s not &#39;transphobic&#39; to believe it is grotesquely unfair for transgender women born with male biological bodies to compete in sports like weightlifting against women born with female biological bodies. It&#39;s common sense. Transgender rights shouldn&#39;t damage women&#39;s rights. <a href="https://t.co/L0GRN9Yrnt">https://t.co/L0GRN9Yrnt</a>
&mdash; Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1233374936863051776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Among the sites that have covered Morgan&#8217;s transgender tweets is <a href="https://au.sports.yahoo.com/tokyo-2020-olympics-laurel-hubbard-transgender-rules-controversy-032007716.html">Yahoo Sports Australia </a>, which highlights another complaint about transgender athletes competing in women&#8217;s events voiced by a widely recognized name in Australia, former Aussie Olympian Tamsyn Lewis.
&#8220;People are scared to come out and say anything because of political correctness,&#8221; Lewis <a href="https://www.2gb.com/exclusive-aussie-olympian-takes-a-stand-against-transgender-athletes-at-tokyo-2020/">told</a> 2GB&#8217;s Ben Fordham on Wednesday. &#8220;This is an issue that’s a really difficult issue. Not even the IOC can come to the proper guidelines. It is politically charged and it’s a sensitive topic [but] if we don’t make a stand, what’s going to happen to that female category of sport?&#8221;
&#8220;And considering that Olympic competition is all about fairness,&#8221; said the host. &#8220;All about a level playing field, why don&#8217;t they understand that this is just not fair? That is the great fear here. It’s not about discouraging transgender athletes, it’s about encouraging female athletes.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-girl-who-sued-to-block-boys-from-competing-against-girls-defeats-boy-for-first-time-in-state-championship">WATCH: Girl Who Sued To Block Boys From Competing Against Girls Defeats Trans Runner For First Time — In State Championship</a>

Laurel Hubbard

Piers Morgan Tweets Go Viral: Posts ‘Obvious Fact’ About Trans Weightlifter Who Dominated Women’s Events Competing For Olympics

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The left-wing haven of California certainly has its priorities in line. As the state faces a burgeoning homelessness crisis spurred on by drug addiction and crippling housing prices, a new bill is seeking to remedy the problem of gender conformity in toy stores.
According to <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/california/should-toys-be-gender-neutral-proposal-would-nix-boys-and-girls-toy-aisles-in-california-stores/">Kron4</a>, Assembly Bill 2826 (AB-2826) will require retailers to have gender-neutral floor spaces inside their stores by doing away with such outdated concepts like &#8220;boys aisles&#8221; and &#8220;girls aisles&#8221; by offering children products in a &#8220;single, gender-neutral section.&#8221;
Proposed by Democratic Assemblyman Evan Low, the bill would apply to all retail department stores with more than 500 employees. Should it become law, retailers who don&#8217;t comply could be “liable for a civil penalty of $1,000.”
From the <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2826#content_anchor">AB-2826 official descriptive text</a>:
<blockquote>Existing law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, specifies that all persons within the jurisdiction of the state are free and equal, and no matter their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status, are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind.
This bill would require a retail department store with 500 or more employees to maintain undivided areas of its sales floor where, if it sells childcare articles, children’s clothing, or toys, all childcare items, all clothing for children, or all toys, regardless of whether a particular item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys, shall be displayed. Beginning on January 1, 2023, the bill would make a retail department store that fails to correct a violation of these provisions within 30 days of receiving written notice of the violation from the Attorney General liable for a civil penalty of $1,000, as provided.</blockquote>
The bill further goes on to say that by dividing the toys into aisles of separate genders, the retailers make &#8220;it more difficult for the consumer to compare the products and incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate.&#8221; To remedy this, the bill sets the following guidelines for retail outlets to abide by, which include &#8220;undivided&#8221; areas in both toy and clothing sections of the stores &#8220;regardless of whether a particular item has traditionally been marketed for either girls or for boys.&#8221;
&#8220;Beginning on January 1, 2023, a retail department store that fails to correct a violation of this section within 30 days of receiving written notice of the violation from the Attorney General is liable for a civil penalty of one thousand dollars ($1,000) which may be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General in any court of competent jurisdiction,&#8221; the bill asserts.
As stated earlier, the homeless situation in California has reached crisis levels. According to the <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2020/02/13/unhoused-symposium-at-usc-gives-federal-state-and-local-decision-makers-forum-to-address-homelessness/">Orange County Register</a>, a recent poll in the once golden state actually showed that homelessness is the state’s number one issue above climate change or immigration – gender-neutral spaces for toy stores barely makes the list.
&#8220;Of the respondents, 22.9% ranked homelessness as the top problem,&#8221; asserted the register. &#8220;Other issues lagged behind: 14.8% named climate change/environment, 9.2% said immigration, and another 7.5% simply answered &#8216;Trump.'&#8221;

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California Bill Would Require Retail Outlets To Have Gender-Neutral Space For Children

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On Wednesday night, Twitter suspended British rapper, author, and podcast host Zuby for &#8220;misgendering&#8221; a far-left transgender activist and data scientist by responding, &#8220;ok dude.&#8221;
Emily Gorcenski, who is biologically male but identifies as a <a href="https://twitter.com/emilygorcenski/status/844593813486260224?lang=en">transgender woman</a>, apparently bragged to Zuby about sleeping with more women than him, the rapper told The Daily Wire.
In response, Zuby replied, &#8220;ok, dude.&#8221;
That was enough for Zuby to be reported for &#8220;hateful conduct&#8221; and temporarily suspended from Twitter.
&#8220;[Zuby] was suspended for saying &#8216;Ok dude,'&#8221; right-wing politico Robby Starbuck posted Thursday, captioning screenshots of the interaction. &#8220;He was replying to a person who told him she sleeps with more women than [Zuby] does.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;Ok dude&#8217; is literally all he said,&#8221; Starbuck noted. &#8220;In common vernacular &#8216;dude&#8217; is used to refer to anybody.&#8221;
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Everyone please demand <a href="https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Twitter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TwitterSafety</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeZuby?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FreeZuby</a>. He was suspended for saying &quot;Ok dude&quot;
He was replying to a person who told him she sleeps with more women than <a href="https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ZubyMusic</a> does.
&quot;Ok dude&quot; is literally all he said. In common vernacular &quot;dude&quot; is used to refer to anybody. <a href="https://t.co/92ICzLFGwZ">pic.twitter.com/92ICzLFGwZ</a>
&mdash; Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1233008386037440512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Openly celebrating the suspension, Gorcenski posted a screenshot of an update from Twitter. &#8220;Your report about @ZubyMusic has been received,&#8221; the tech platform said, adding, &#8220;After our review, we&#8217;ve locked the account for breaking our rules.&#8221;
&#8220;Lol misogynist down. Pronouns enforced,&#8221; Gorcenski cheered, captioning the screenshot.
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Lol misogynist down. Pronouns enforced. <a href="https://t.co/D8kwjUNRJ2">pic.twitter.com/D8kwjUNRJ2</a>
&mdash; Pronoun Enforcer (@EmilyGorcenski) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1232906288188796928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Last year, Zuby threw a wrench in the &#8220;equality&#8221; argument regarding male-to-female transgender athletes competing against biological females by &#8220;identifying&#8221; as a woman and obliterating the British women&#8217;s deadlift record.
&#8220;I keep hearing about how biological men don&#8217;t have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019,&#8221; he wrote via Twitter. &#8220;So watch me DESTROY the British Women&#8217;s deadlift record without trying.&#8221;
&#8220;P.S. I identified as a woman whilst lifting the weight,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Don&#8217;t be a bigot.&#8221;
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I keep hearing about how biological men don&#39;t have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019&#8230;
So watch me DESTROY the British Women&#39;s deadlift record without trying.
P.S. I identified as a woman whilst lifting the weight. Don&#39;t be a bigot. 😂 <a href="https://t.co/dYRraHCB42">pic.twitter.com/dYRraHCB42</a>
&mdash; ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1100348562041462784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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After easily demolishing the deadlift record, Zuby moved on to break the women’s bench press record.
&#8220;Just took the UK women&#8217;s bench press record too&#8230;,&#8221; he captioned the video. &#8220;For reps. Strong, stunning and brave.&#8221;
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Just took the UK women&#39;s bench press record too&#8230;
For reps. 😁
Strong, stunning and brave. <a href="https://t.co/PYReGRkyYI">pic.twitter.com/PYReGRkyYI</a>
&mdash; ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1100479924920561664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As far as his suspension goes, Zuby told The Daily Wire, &#8220;I will be back soon.&#8221;
Gorcenski is a radical far-left activist who, in 2018, Bitch Media included in their &#8220;<a href="https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/2018-bitch-50">Bitch 50</a>&#8221; list, noting that the activist was pepper-sprayed at the &#8220;Unite the Right&#8221; rally:
<blockquote>Charlottesville resident Emily Gorcenski was horrified when, in the summer of 2017, she learned that white supremacists were planning to overtake her city. And in the course of protesting ultimately tragic Unite the Right rally, she was pepper-sprayed by one of its speakers (who would later serve three months in prison for it). But Gorcenski’s expertise as a data scientist armed her with a powerful weapon against the alt-right: Along with other activists, she created <a style="font-weight: 300" href="https://first-vigil.com/">First Vigil</a>, a public database used to track the criminal activity of white nationalists. Journalists can use the database for research on significant court cases, and it’s a crucial tool for anyone seeking a broader look at an increasingly widespread hate movement.</blockquote>
Gorcenski has a host of radical tweets published online, such as openly condoning violence against &#8220;nazis&#8221; (Note: Folks like The Daily Wire&#8217;s own Ben Shapiro has been criticized as a &#8220;nazi&#8221; for advancing conservative ideology. Shapiro is a constant target of the alt-right and an orthodox Jew.) and this one from 2017: &#8220;Aww. As a transgender woman, I am genuinely afraid of Republicans murdering me if I stop for gas in the wrong part of Virginia.&#8221;
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Aww. As a transgender woman, I am genuinely afraid of Republicans murdering me if I stop for gas in the wrong part of Virginia. <a href="https://t.co/HveLl3ddc0">https://t.co/HveLl3ddc0</a>
&mdash; Pronoun Enforcer (@EmilyGorcenski) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/844593813486260224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-british-rapper-trolls-leftists-destroying-emily-zanotti">WATCH: British Rapper Trolls Leftists By DESTROYING Women’s Deadlift Record ‘As A Woman’</a>
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‘Ok Dude’: Rapper Zuby Suspended For ‘Misgendering’ On Twitter. Trans Activist Celebrates: ‘Pronouns Enforced’

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One Missouri legislator has introduced a bill that would ban transgender high schoolers from competing on teams that don’t match their biological sex. Speaking at a state education hearing on Tuesday, GOP State Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin stated, “It is a known biological fact that males are born with categorically superior strength, speed and endurance. It has nothing to do with any other issue than trying to create a fair playing field,” as <a href="https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Missouri-bill-would-restrict-transgender-athletes-to-play-on-sports-teams-matching-gender-assigned-at-birth-568187561.html">KY3 reported</a>.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/missouri-law-transgender-high-school-athletes">Fox News</a> noted, “Under current Missouri law, transgender athletes who want to play on teams that don’t match their assigned birth must apply to the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA), submitting medical records and other relevant documentation. Transgender women must prove they’ve been on testosterone blockers for a year and stick with them.”
A similar bill has been presented in Missouri’s House of Representatives. If the state’s general Assembly approves either of the bills, they will be listed on the state ballot and put to a vote.
One girl who identifies as a boy protested, &#8220;Putting me on the girls activities won&#8217;t make me a girl. This bill will force me on the girls teams where I end up beating every single girl on my high school cross country team in every race, and I&#8217;d have placed 28th in the state as a freshman.&#8221;
The increasing number of cases in which transgender high school athletes have competed on teams opposite from their biological sex has triggered at least one recent lawsuit in which three female high school athletes in Connecticut sued the state’s Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which has permitted boys to compete in events and win awards that would otherwise have gone to girls.
Chelsea Mitchell, a senior at Canton High School, Selina Soule, a senior at Glastonbury High School, and Alanna Smith, a sophomore at Danbury High School, filed a federal lawsuit with their families after CIAC’s policy allowed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-two-transgenders-blow-out-girls-state-meet-hank-berrien">two males to compete in girls’ athletic competitions </a>beginning in the 2017 track season. Those biological males, Miller and Andraya Yearwood, had taken 15 women’s state championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different Connecticut girls) and had taken more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions from female track athletes in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone.
On February 14, Mitchell defeated one of the biological males who has won numerous titles in girls’ events, winning the Class S 55-meter dash title with her time of 7.18 seconds. She beat Bloomfield High School student Terry Miller, who is a biological boy and ran the event in 7.20 seconds.
Mitchell, who is currently ranked the fastest biological girl in Connecticut in the 55m, lost four girls’ state championships and two all-New England awards. She recalled, “I knew that I was the fastest girl here, one of the fastest in the state. I remembered all my training and everything I had been taught on how to maximize my performance &#8230; I thought of all the times that other girls have lost. I could feel the adrenaline in my blood and hope that wafted from me. That just possibly, I could win this. Then, the gun went off. And I lost.”
The <a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/files/SouleComplaint.pdf">complaint</a> filed in Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools states that policies that permit boys to compete in girls sports threaten Title IX gains because “inescapable biological facts of the human species [are] not stereotypes, ‘social constructs,’ or relics of past discrimination. As a result of these many inherent physiological differences between men and women after puberty, male athletes consistently achieve records 10-20% higher than comparably fit and trained women across almost all athletic events, with even wider consistent disparities in long-term endurance events and contests of sheer strength such as weight-lifting.”

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Missouri Legislator Introduces Bill Banning Trans Athletes From Competing Against Athletes Of Opposite Biological Sex

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On Thursday evening, rapper Boosie Badazz, whose real name is Torrence Hatch Jr., said he was kicked out of a Planet Fitness gym over his criticism of the parenting choices of former NBA star Dwyane Wade, who claims his 12-year-old son Zion Malachi Airamis is a transgender girl.
&#8220;MANAGER WHO WAS GAY REFUSED TO LET ME N PLANET FITNESS BECAUSE OF MY PAST ACTIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ABOUT GENDER ETC.,&#8221; Hatch captioned an Instagram video taken outside of the gym.
&#8220;DO NOT SUPPORT PLANET FITNESS &#8216;Hwy 138 Jonesboro rd&#8217; THEy Racist,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;THEY HAVE ROACHES , N THEY SHOWER WATER DONT GET HOT.&#8221;
&#8220;GET OUT YA FEELINGS LIL B****,&#8221; Hatch said, adding the hashtags:  &#8220;<a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/roachfitness/">#roachfitness</a><a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/roachfitness/">#roachfitness</a> <a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/roachfitness/">#roachfitness</a><a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/roachfitness/">#roachfitness</a> <a class=" xil3i" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/roachfitness/">#roachfitness</a>.&#8221;
The rapper closed the post: &#8220;B**** U WANT A GAY CHILD BUT DONT NOBODY WANT TO HAVE A BABY FOR YO SISSY A** NOW U MAD.&#8221;
In the video, Hatch similarly claimed he was kicked out of the gym over his remarks about Wade&#8217;s parenting and said the gym accused him of saying one of Planet Fitness&#8217; gay employees was a &#8220;f*****.&#8221;
As noted by The Daily Wire on Wednesday, Hatch criticized Wade for treating his son as transgender, urging the athlete to let the child grow up before treating him as female, suggesting that if the child is going to be gay, &#8220;let him be gay.&#8221;
“I gotta say something about this sh**, bro. Dwyane Wade, you gone too f***ing far, dawg,” Hatch said in a video posted to Instagram, according to <a href="https://www.complex.com/music/2020/02/boosie-badazz-to-dwyane-wade-child-coming-out-as-transgender?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=musictw">Complex</a>.
“That is a male. A 12-year-old,” he continued. “At 12, they don’t even know what they next meal gon’ be. They don’t have sh** figured out yet. He might meet a woman, anything, at 16 and fall in love with her. But his d*** be gone—how he gon’—like, bruh, you going too far, dawg.”
“Don’t cut his d*** off, bruh,” Hatch said. “Like, bruh, for real, if he gon’ be gay, let him be gay.”
As noted by The Daily Wire, it’s unclear what steps the Wade family has taken or are planning to take in the young boy’s “transition.” For example, Wade has not indicated if his son will be put on hormone blockers, which can sterilize the boy, or if gender reassignment surgery is in the future. However, the former Miami Heat guard now publicly refers to his son with “she” and “her” pronouns and has allowed the child to change his name from Zion to Zaya.
“But don’t cut his d*** off, bruh,” the rapper said. “Don’t—and dress him as a woman, dawg. He’s 12 years old. He’s not up there year. He hasn’t made his final decisions yet.”
“Don’t cut his f***ing d*** off, Dwyane Wade, bruh. You f***ing trippin’, dawg,” Hatch closed out the video.
The rapper captioned his video post: “IM GO SAY IT SINCE THIS P**** A** WORLD AIN[‘]T GO SAY S*** ‼️U TRIPPIN N****.”
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B8zIB1ZF88i/">Watch Hatch&#8217;s message here (warning: language). </a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rapper-hits-dwyane-wade-on-parenting-trans-child-going-too-far-dont-cut-his-d-off">Rapper Hits Dwyane Wade On Parenting ‘Trans’ Child: Going ‘Too Far,’ ‘Don’t Cut His D*** Off’</a>

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Rapper Who Criticized Dwyane Wade For Going ‘Too Far’ Parenting ‘Trans’ Child Booted From Planet Fitness

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A Christian professor at Shawnee State University told a biological male student who identified as a female that he would not use the student’s preferred pronouns due to his religious beliefs.
The student, <a href="https://www.adflegal.org/professor-meriwether-story">according</a> to Alliance Defending Freedom “became aggressive, circling around him, getting in his face in a threatening fashion, while telling him, ‘Then I guess this means I can call you a c**t.’” The student then threatened the professor’s job and went on to file a formal complaint with university officials.
The Federalist’s Chad Felix Greene <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/20/ohio-court-orders-christian-professor-to-use-trans-pronouns-or-lose-his-job/">reported</a> that the professor, Nicholas Meriwether, sued with the help of ADF after SSU sided with the student and agreed the professor had created a “hostile” environment in violation of the school’s anti-discrimination policy.
“Shawnee State officials have also ignored the Constitution, which guarantees the right of all Americans to speak freely,” Meriwether’s lawsuit said. The court dismissed his suit, claiming he didn’t prove he had been discriminated against for his religious beliefs.
“Plaintiff’s refusal to address a student in class in accordance with the student’s gender identity does not implicate broader societal concerns and the free speech clause of the First Amendment under the circumstances of this case,” the court ruled.
Further, the court said Meriwether hadn’t been forced to use speech with which he disagreed because he had been given the option to remove all gendered language from the classroom.
Meriwether had attempted to compromise. He said he called his students by either “Mr.” or “Ms.” and their last name. He offered to call the transgender student simply by their last name. The court said this was still discrimination and suggested Meriwether call all students by their last name. Meriwether refused, so the court concluded he had not been forced to express a view with which he disagreed and claimed pronouns and titles are not the same as expressing a belief. More from Greene:
The court rejected the professor’s religious objections, saying the reasonable-person standard would not consider using preferred pronouns as unreasonable and that the anti-discrimination policy is “neutral” and therefore not specifically affecting any religious group or belief. Most shockingly, the court upheld the university’s position that it could not accommodate the professor due to his religious objection, as it would then be required to make similar accommodations for racist or sexist views as well.
Strangely, the court determined Meriwether faced no form of discrimination for his religious beliefs after his superior openly laughed at his concerns during their meeting and compared his views to those of racists. Meriwether also could not prove other faculty who opposed gender identity accommodations had been treated differently than he had been. Essentially, because the university would have disciplined all faculty refusing to use preferred pronouns equally, the court decided no discrimination was present.
Greene argued that the court’s reasoning was unreasonable when they “assumed approving of a false gender identity to be a common and reasonable standard of conduct for public employees.” He said this was “an imposed view rather than an objective observation of current social standards.”

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Use Trans Pronouns Or Get Fired, Ohio Court Tells Christian Professor

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On Wednesday, rapper Boosie Badazz, whose real name is Torrence Hatch Jr., hit former NBA star Dwyane Wade over the parenting choices he&#8217;s made with his 12-year-old son Zion Malachi Airamis, whom Wade believes is actually a transgender girl.
&#8220;I gotta say something about this s***, bro. Dwyane Wade, you gone too f***ing far, dawg,&#8221; Hatch said in an Instagram video posted Wednesday, according to <a href="https://www.complex.com/music/2020/02/boosie-badazz-to-dwyane-wade-child-coming-out-as-transgender?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=musictw">Complex</a>.
&#8220;That is a male. A 12-year-old,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;At 12, they don’t even know what they next meal gon&#8217; be. They don’t have s*** figured out yet. He might meet a woman, anything, at 16 and fall in love with her. But his d*** be gone—how he gon&#8217;—like, bruh, you going too far, dawg.&#8221;
&#8220;Don’t cut his d*** off, bruh,&#8221; Hatch said. &#8220;Like, bruh, for real, if he gon&#8217; be gay, let him be gay.&#8221;
It&#8217;s unclear what steps the Wade family has taken or are planning to take in the young boy&#8217;s &#8220;transition.&#8221; For example, Wade has not indicated if his son will be put on hormone blockers, which can sterilize the boy, or if gender reassignment surgery is in the future. For now, however, the famed athlete refers to his son with &#8220;she&#8221; and &#8220;her&#8221; pronouns and has allowed the child to change his name from Zion to Zaya.
&#8220;But don’t cut his d*** off, bruh,&#8221; the rapper continued. &#8220;Don’t—and dress him as a woman, dawg. He’s 12 years old. He’s not up there year. He hasn’t made his final decisions yet.&#8221;
&#8220;Don’t cut his f***ing d*** off, Dwyane Wade, bruh. You f***ing trippin&#8217;, dawg,&#8221; Hatch concluded.
The rapper captioned his video post: &#8220;IM GO SAY IT SINCE THIS P**** A** WORLD AIN[&#8216;]T GO SAY S*** ‼️U TRIPPIN N****.&#8221;
Earlier this month, during an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-dwyane-wade-says-12-year-old-trans-son-changed-her-name-ellen-degeneres-praises-him-on-parenting-skills">appearance</a> on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Wade called his son a “leader” in the LGBTQ+ community, and noted that he and his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, are “proud” allies of the community.
“We are proud, when I say proud, we are proud parents of a child in the LGBTQ+ community, and we are proud allies, as well,” boasted Wade.
“When Zaya, 12 years old, came home,” the former Miami Heat guard said, noting that Zion “was born as a boy,” the child told him and his wife that he wanted to “live his truth.”
“I think going forward I’m ready to live my truth,” Wade recalled his son telling him at age 12. “I wanna be referenced as ‘she’ and ‘her’ and I would love for you guys to call me Zaya.”
“We wanted to give our child the best opportunity to be her best self,” the athlete added.
In December, Wade made similar comments about his child. “I watched my son, from day one, become into who she now eventually come into,” he <a href="https://people.com/parents/dwyane-wade-watched-child-become-who-she-now-eventually-is/">told</a> the “All the Smoke” podcast.
“And for me … nothing changes in my love. Nothing changes in my responsibilities. So, all I had to do now is get smarter educate myself more. And that’s my job,” he continued, noting, “You want to talk about strength and courage, my 12-year-old has way more than I have. You can learn something from your kids.”
“Me and my wife are having conversations about, you know, us noticing that, you know, [Zion] wasn’t on the boy vibe that Zaire was on,” Wade said. “And I had to look myself in the mirror and say, ‘What if your son comes home and tell you he’s gay? What are you going to do? How are you going to be? How are you going to act?’ It ain’t about him. He knows who he is. It’s about you. Who are you?”
“This is the new normal,” the former NBA star insisted. “So, if anybody different, we’re looked at as different. The ones that don’t understand it. The ones that don’t get it. The ones that get stuck in the box, you know, they’re different. Not the people out here living their lives.”
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B8twfDpl74O/?utm_source=ig_embed">Watch Hatch&#8217;s message here (warning: language)</a>.

Dwyane Wade And Gabrielle Union

Rapper Hits Dwyane Wade On Parenting ‘Trans’ Child: Going ‘Too Far,’ ‘Don’t Cut His D*** Off’

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg released a video this week stressing his campaign&#8217;s commitment to LGBTQ+ voters, and focusing on &#8220;inclusivity&#8221; for at-risk youth, including, apparently, youth who identify as trangender.
&#8220;I lived in <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg" data-focusable="true">@MikeBloomberg</a>’s New York, and I saw him fight every day for the LGBTQ+ community,&#8221; says fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi in a clip posted to both Mizrahi and Bloomberg&#8217;s Twitter accounts. &#8220;And not just the adults. He fought for the kids who are so vulnerable. We need that kind of compassion in our next president.&#8221;
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I lived in <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MikeBloomberg</a>’s New York, and I saw him fight every day for the LGBTQ+ community. And not just the adults. He fought for the kids who are so vulnerable. We need that kind of compassion in our next president. <a href="https://t.co/CgkTMYhxke">pic.twitter.com/CgkTMYhxke</a>
&mdash; Isaac Mizrahi (@IsaacMizrahi) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsaacMizrahi/status/1229812419641389063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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But just as the video was making the rounds on social media, a second video surfaced, this one from just last year, showing a Bloomberg largely hostile to &#8220;transgender rights&#8221; and, in particular, the right of an individual to use the bathroom of their choice, as associated with their gender identity.
<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/michael-bloomberg-2020-transgender-comments-video">Buzzfeed News reports</a> that, in the video, which has since been removed from social media, Bloomberg appears on a panel for the &#8220;Bermuda Business Development Agency,&#8221; and is openly hostile to accommodations for transgender individuals &#8212; and openly hostile to Democratic candidates making transgender rights a staple of their 2020 presidential campaign platforms.
&#8220;If your conversation during a presidential election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she, or it can go to the locker room with their daughter, that’s not a winning formula for most people,” Bloomberg says in the clip.
Buzzfeed refers to the idea of a man who identifies as female entering a women&#8217;s bathroom as a &#8220;conservative cliché,&#8221; but concern over transgender bathroom rights has driven controversies across the country and across the spectrum. School districts are now wrestling with the idea of allowing male athletes who identify as female compete against and share sports facilities with biologically female athletes, and companies like Target have had to answer to irate shareholders over their own self-selective bathroom policies.
Bloomberg&#8217;s point, though, was something many Democrats, who object to a Democratic presidential effort led by a &#8220;Democratic socialist&#8221; like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, have raised as a concern in recent weeks: working class voters in battleground states care more about job security and health care than they do about largely tangential social issues, even if those same tangential social issues are at the forefront for many vocal, social media progressives.
In the video, Bloomberg goes on to put his comments in precisely that context: &#8220;And so you can understand where somebody like Trump comes from,” he says. “You can understand when you look at the Democratic Party, they are so far left that two years ago there was nobody on their side who would take these positions, and today virtually all the candidates for president of the Democratic Party are so progressive. I don’t know what progressive means.”
A Bloomberg spokesperson added that &#8220;Mike understands that the transgender community has been under attack for decades and the advance of rights has not been equal. In April 2002, during his first year as mayor, Mike signed a sweeping transgender civil rights bill into law. His company provides comprehensive health care coverage for his transgender employees. As president, he has a comprehensive plan to secure rights for transgender Americans, including passing <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/house-passes-equality-act-lgbt-rights-discrimination" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the Equality Act</a>, ensuring transgender people have access to affirming health care and working to end the crisis of violence against transgender women. Mike is running to defeat Donald Trump and reverse the many policies he has implemented that attack the rights of the transgender community.&#8221;
Regardless, the video probably won&#8217;t play well with Sanders supporters, who are already convinced that Bloomberg is out to use his vast wealth to &#8220;steal&#8221; the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination from Bernie.

Mike Bloomberg

Bloomberg On Tape: A Transgender Man Is Just ‘Some Guy Wearing A Dress’

Michael Bloomberg

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-disturbing-videos-show-famous-12-year-old-drag-queen-pretending-to-snort-ketamine-interviewing-with-convicted-killer">video</a> has recently gone viral (again) of &#8220;drag kid&#8221; Desmond Napoles hanging out on a couch with an adult cross dresser and joking about doing drugs. The child, who was about 9 years old at the time of the original livestream, appears visibly intoxicated while he pretends to snort ketamine off the back of his hand. In another viral clip, Desmond can be seen sitting with a man named Michael Alig who was convicted of beating another man to death and cutting up his body.
These videos are just two in a whole catalogue of disturbing clips involving this young boy &#8212; the most disturbing of which must be Desmond&#8217;s 2018 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11-year-old-boy-dressed-drag-dances-gay-men-bar-amanda-prestigiacomo">&#8220;performance&#8221; at a gay club</a> in Brooklyn. The grown men in attendance can be seen hooting, hollering, and throwing dollar bills at the child as he dances for them. This is perhaps only slightly less grotesque than the time when a different drag kid <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/449116-child-drag-queen-scandal/">posed</a> with a nude adult male for a magazine shoot.
It should not need to be explained that this drag kid phenomenon is morally abominable. These boys are victims of abuse, and it is an abuse being carried out in broad daylight (or at night on stage at gay clubs) for all to see. Desmond Napoles in particular is clearly not well. The fact that he even knew what ketamine was at the age of 9, much less how to use it, seems to suggest that his physical — as well as emotional and psychological — health is in serious danger. In a sane culture, his mother would be perp walked into jail wearing shackles and a jumpsuit, as a warning to any other parent who would consider exploiting their children in this way. Instead, she is the subject of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2z0tiUYrz8">fawning puff pieces</a> while leftists trip over themselves to congratulate her bold and progressive parenting style.
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The absurdity of this reaction is thrown into sharp relief when you consider how nearly everyone would respond if Desmond were named Debbie or Danielle. If this was a girl dolled up to look like a grown woman and paraded on stage for the satisfaction of actual adults, the condemnation would be close to universal. Actually, we don&#8217;t need to imagine this as a mere hypothetical. Child beauty pageants come in for heated <a href="https://theweek.com/articles/477311/5-reasons-child-pageants-are-bad-kids">criticism</a> all the time, and rightly so, and precisely for the reasons some of us criticize child drag shows. In fact the very same outlets that <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/drag-kids-documentary-newfest-megan-wennberg_n_5db0fc1fe4b0131fa9995241">celebrate</a> drag kids like Desmond also publish lengthy articles <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brooke-breedwell-former-child-pageant-star_n_1885132">warning parents</a> about the danger of pageant life for girls.
This contrast is even more startling given that beauty pageants — as tacky and inappropriate as they are, in my view — aren&#8217;t nearly so debauched and explicitly adult-oriented as a drag show. I admit I have never been to a beauty pageant, child or otherwise, but I&#8217;ve never heard of one that involves young girls dancing on stage while adult men cheer and throw dollar bills. And I&#8217;ve never heard of a 10-year-old beauty queen posing with a naked man for a magazine. And I&#8217;ve never seen a beauty pageant contestant wearing quite the same kind of ostentatious, definitely not-for-kids outfits that drag kids &#8220;perform&#8221; in. Indeed, drag kids have almost nothing to do with child beauty queens, as drag shows bear a much closer resemblance to burlesque performances than mere beauty pageants. Presumably, we would all agree that young girls should not be recruited to perform burlesque. Yet some of us find it totally acceptable if the girls are boys pretending to be girls.
Not to be redundant, but it bears repeating: almost everyone agrees that young girls should not be dressed as grown women for the entertainment of adults. You will find almost no one who will disagree with that assertion. But you will find plenty of people who find the assertion not just wrong but bigoted if it&#8217;s applied to young boys. This is incoherent, illogical, inconsistent, perverted nonsense.

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WALSH: The People Applauding ‘Drag Kids’ Are Applauding The Sexual Abuse Of Children 

On Friday, two days after she and two other high school girl track competitors filed a federal lawsuit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which has permitted boys to compete in events and win awards that would otherwise have gone to girls, Chelsea Mitchell defeated one of the biological males who has won numerous titles in girls’ events, winning the Class S 55-meter dash title with her time of 7.18 seconds. She beat Bloomfield High School student Terry Miller, who is a biological boy and ran the event in 7.20 seconds.
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As <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8009879/High-school-runner-beats-transgender-competitor-filing-lawsuit-cut-girls-category.html">The Daily Mail</a> noted, “Mitchell also came first in the 300-meter dash, while Miller was 16th, and Mitchell won the long jump.”
According to the <a href="https://www.courant.com/sports/high-schools/hc-sp-class-s-track-transgender-athletes-lawsuit-20200215-4rfrv3w3dfa4jfdfs74ntsjbay-story.html">Hartford Courant</a>, “There was no interaction between the two before or after the race.”
Mitchell said she didn’t think that winning against Miller, the first time she had beaten Miller, would affect the lawsuit, stating, “I don&#8217;t think it could go against, there&#8217;s still tons of girls that lose on a daily basis.”
Mitchell, Selina Soule, a senior at Glastonbury High School, and Alanna Smith, a sophomore at Danbury High School, filed a federal lawsuit with their families after CIAC’s policy allowed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-two-transgenders-blow-out-girls-state-meet-hank-berrien">two males to compete in girls’ athletic competitions</a> beginning in the 2017 track season. Those biological males, Miller and Andraya Yearwood, had taken 15 women’s state championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different Connecticut girls) and had taken more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions from female track athletes in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone.
The Daily Mail noted some of the past history, adding, “The three plaintiffs have competed directly against them, almost always losing to Miller and usually behind Yearwood. Mitchell finished third in the 2019 state championship in the girls 55-meter indoor track competition behind Miller and Yearwood.”
Mitchell, who is currently ranked the fastest biological girl in Connecticut in the 55m, lost four girls’ state championships and two all-New England awards. She recalled, “I knew that I was the fastest girl here, one of the fastest in the state. I remembered all my training and everything I had been taught on how to maximize my performance &#8230; I thought of all the times that other girls have lost. I could feel the adrenaline in my blood and hope that wafted from me. That just possibly, I could win this. Then, the gun went off. And I lost.”
Miller <a href="https://www.courant.com/sports/high-schools/hc-sp-transgender-policy-runners-respond-20190619-20190620-5x2c7s2f5jb6dnw2dwpftiw6ru-story.html">stated</a> in June 2019, “I have faced discrimination in every aspect of my life and I no longer want to remain silent. I am a girl and I am a runner. I participate in athletics just like my peers to excel, find community, and meaning in my life. It is both unfair and painful that my victories have to be attacked and my hard work ignored.”
Yearwood echoed, “I hope that the next generation of trans youth doesn&#8217;t have to fight the fights that I have. I hope they can be celebrated when they succeed not demonized. For the next generation, I run for you!”

WATCH: Girl Who Sued To Block Boys From Competing Against Girls Defeats Trans Runner For First Time — In State Championship

Last week, news broke that the &#8220;<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/runner-megan-youngren-first-openly-234954115.html">first openly transgender athlete</a>&#8221; is set to compete in the 2020 U.S. Olympic marathon trials; Megan Youngren, a biologically male 28-year-old runner who identifies as female, will compete at the women&#8217;s trials on February 29.
“I’m open to talking about it to people because that’s the only way you make progress on stuff like this,” Youngren said, as reported by <a href="https://www.si.com/olympics/2020/02/13/megan-youngren-first-transgender-athlete-us-olympic-marathon-trials">Sports Illustrated</a> magazine.
Youngren started taking hormones in 2011, came out as trans the next year, and finalized transition paperwork just last year, the magazine noted.
The athlete&#8217;s impressive marathon times in the women&#8217;s division are not easier for Youngren because he&#8217;s trans, the runner insisted.
&#8220;People will try to put it down by saying, &#8216;That’s too easy because you’re trans,'&#8221; said Youngren. &#8220;But what about the 500 other women who will qualify? There’s probably someone with the exact same story. I trained hard. I got lucky. I dodged injuries. I raced a lot, and it worked out for me. That’s the story for a lot of other people, too.&#8221;
In order to compete in women&#8217;s Olympic events, male-to-female transgender athletes must have their testosterone level below 10 nanomoles per liter for at least 12 months before competition, per the <a href="https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Commissions_PDFfiles/Medical_commission/2015-11_ioc_consensus_meeting_on_sex_reassignment_and_hyperandrogenism-en.pdf">International Olympic Committee</a> (IOC) rules, noted Sports Illustrated.
The controversial rules do not account for other general physical advantages male bodies have over female bodies, such as greater lung volume, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15746999">skeletal size and bone mass</a>. Moreover, the IOC is &#8220;planning to implement stricter guidelines that could lower the testosterone levels in serum to 5 nanomoles per liter,&#8221; Sports Illustrated reports.
“I have done everything by the book, and I can show that,” said Youngren.
Biological males competing in female sports at the high school level triggered a lawsuit earlier this month. As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boys-competing-with-girls-won-track-meets-the-girls-just-filed-a-lawsuit-in-federal-court">The Daily Wire</a> on Wednesday, three high school girls and their mothers filed suit in federal court against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which began allowing biologically male athletes to compete in girls&#8217; events and win awards since 2017.
&#8220;Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, and Chelsea Mitchell, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), were denied opportunities to compete at higher levels as boys took home the prizes,&#8221; The Daily Wire outlined. &#8220;CIAC’s policy allowed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-two-transgenders-blow-out-girls-state-meet-hank-berrien">two males to compete in girls’ athletic competitions</a> beginning in the 2017 track season. Those boys have taken 15 women’s state championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different Connecticut girls) and have taken more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions from female track athletes in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone.&#8221;
“It’s very frustrating and heartbreaking when us girls are at the start of the race and we already know that these [male] athletes are going to come out and win no matter how hard you try,&#8221; said Soule. &#8220;They took away the spots of deserving girls, athletes … me being included.”
&#8220;Soule missed qualifying for the state championship 55m final and an opportunity to qualify for the New England championship by one spot in the 2018-19 season as two spots were taken by boys,&#8221; The Daily Wire noted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boys-competing-with-girls-won-track-meets-the-girls-just-filed-a-lawsuit-in-federal-court">Boys Competing With Girls Won Track Meets. The Girls Just Filed A Lawsuit In Federal Court.</a>

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‘Transgender’ Biologically Male Runner Will Compete In U.S. Women’s Olympic Trials

On Wednesday, a lawsuit was filed in federal court by three high school girls and their mothers against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which has permitted boys to compete in events and win awards that would otherwise have gone to girls.
Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, and Chelsea Mitchell, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), were denied opportunities to compete at higher levels as boys took home the prizes. CIAC’s policy allowed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-two-transgenders-blow-out-girls-state-meet-hank-berrien">two males to compete in girls’ athletic competitions</a> beginning in the 2017 track season. Those boys have taken 15 women’s state championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different Connecticut girls) and have taken more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions from female track athletes in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone.
Mitchell, who is currently ranked the fastest biological girl in Connecticut in the 55m, lost four girls’ state championships and two all-New England awards. She recalled, “I knew that I was the fastest girl here, one of the fastest in the state. I remembered all my training and everything I had been taught on how to maximize my performance &#8230; I thought of all the times that other girls have lost. I could feel the adrenaline in my blood and hope that wafted from me. That just possibly, I could win this. Then, the gun went off. And I lost.”
Soule missed qualifying for the state championship 55m final and an opportunity to qualify for the New England championship by one spot in the 2018-19 season as two spots were taken by boys. She said, “It’s very frustrating and heartbreaking when us girls are at the start of the race and we already know that these [male] athletes are going to come out and win no matter how hard you try. They took away the spots of deserving girls, athletes &#8230; me being included.”
Smith, whose father is MLB Hall of Famer relief pitcher Lee Smith, won the 400m at the 2019 outdoor New England Regional  Championships as a freshman and finished second in the 200m at the New England Regional  Championships.  She stated, “Even before I get to the track, I already know that I’m not going to  get first place, or maybe even second place . . . I know that no matter how hard I work, I won’t be able to have the top spot.”
ADF Legal Counsel Christiana Holcomb stated, “Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field. Forcing them to compete against boys isn’t fair, shatters their dreams, and destroys their athletic opportunities. Having separate boys’ and girls’ sports has always been based on biological differences, not what people believe about their gender, because those differences matter for fair competition. And forcing girls to be spectators in their own sports is completely at odds with Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics. Connecticut’s policy violates that law and reverses nearly 50 years of advances for women.”
The <a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/files/SouleComplaint.pdf">complaint </a>filed in Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools states that policies that permit boys to compete in girls sports threaten Title IX gains because “inescapable biological facts of the human species [are] not stereotypes, ‘social constructs,’ or relicts of past discrimination. As a result of these many inherent physiological differences between men and women after puberty, male athletes consistently achieve records 10-20% higher than comparably fit and trained women across almost all athletic events, with even wider consistent disparities in long-term endurance events and contests of sheer strength such as weight-lifting.”
The complaint adds, “In sum, the real-world result of the CIAC Policy is that in Connecticut interscholastic track competitions, while highly competitive girls are experiencing the no doubt character-building ‘agony of defeat,’ they are systematically being deprived of a fair and equal opportunity to experience the ‘thrill of victory.’ A transgender athlete advocate recently wrote that this should be accepted because part of competitive sports is ‘learning to lose.’ A policy such as the CIAC Policy that ensures that girls get extra lessons in losing, however, cannot be reconciled with Title IX.”
ADF Senior Vice President of U.S. Legal Division Kristen Waggoner concluded, “Girls deserve the same opportunity as boys to excel and chase their dreams. Allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports shatters those dreams and steals opportunities. Boys have physical advantages over girls. It’s dispiriting to girls competing against boys to know what the outcome likely is before the race even starts. The government shouldn’t rob these girls of the opportunity not only to win, but to earn college scholarships and launch their own careers in athletics, coaching, and more.”

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