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The fastest woman swimmer is a man. And no one who makes a living in the public eye can say out loud “Goddamn that’s fucked up”. That’s where we are.

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Well, Babylon Bee-- but I think they've been cancelled for saying Rachel Levine was Man of the Year.

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it's becoming a badge of honor to be expelled from twitter.

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The Republicans are too stupid to realize they aren’t alone in the censorship.

Never imagined being anti-war, questioning an unknown DNA altering substance in your body, repeating already proven facts and documents, repeating song lyrics written thirty years ago, criticizing allowing a 6’4” trans with his junk intact, a shoulder span the size of Montana, bone and muscle density that you can see through his effing skin and had swam on the men’s team is “ transphobic”.

I was cancelled for calling out Biden’s press conference boasting that he’d given a list to Putin of who not to hack. Can’t make it up.” “Hate speech and misinformation”

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I got cancelled two years ago for a snarky comment about college level trans athletes. What really hurt is that it wasn't even controversial from the perspective of where I live(d) in one of the bluest cities in NorCal.

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I just quit Twitter

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I'm going to sad it was wondrous for awhile

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Strange, I just began uploading selected posts to Twitter. I expect to be cut off shortly.

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I shall never earn one, and that constitutes my sole regret to never having joined Twitter in the first place.

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I got banned for a mildly rude remark. No honour there.

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It actually just may be a mark of honour to be canceled.

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Lol. Same happened to me a couple of years ago. I’ve lost no sleep over it. Good riddance.

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We'd be much better off as a society if there weren't so much focus on getting and wearing "badges of honor". None of those I most admire had or claimed or needed any such "badges." They knew--without worrying about others' approval of them or the lack of it--whether they were honorable or not.

"Badges" of honor go with a society lost in empty, stupid virtue-signalling as a substitute for genuine virtue.

Now for a comment on the substance of Matt's article: The New York _Times_--as he aptly pointed out--had alreadly forfeited any claims it might have once had to respectability as a daily newspaper and would-be opinion-leader. This tempest smacks of alarm and outrage that Hitler's driver turned right on red without stopping.

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Banned for posting I would like to see someone slap Maxine Waters across the face. NOT “I would like to slap her,” (even though I would like to) NOT “I will...” but I would like to witness it. I don’t care either way.

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Then I am ahead of the game times three....

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If only that were true…

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I question her trans status.I’ve had trans friends for 40+ years.They share one commonality.. vanity. Perfect hair, makeup, jewelry.. uber female. Cases in point, Caitlyn Jenner, Chelsea( blanked out on her last name), the one who had passed government classified docs

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There's speculations in certain quarters that Lia Thomas is pulling one over everyone and will revert back to being man once all the trophies have been won.

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He get's to shower with the team > Smarter than the average bear Boo Boo!

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That would be something…she returns the trophies and says “this was a protest against biological men in womens sports! Let’s go Brandon!”

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Whatever the reason, it’s terribly selfish. Perhaps Thomas couldn’t cut it as top tier on the male team. Regardless, it is the antithesis of fair play and the very concept of competitive sports. These girls have worked for years to complete and play by the rules among others within well established guidelines.

It’s tantamount to pitting Tyrus against Oscar side la Hoya in a boxing match.No matter how skilled de la Hoya is in the lightweight category, ever if Tyrus was not the front runner as a heavyweight, one punch and La Hoya’s down. And that’s two biological males!

In the seventies, a male tennis player suddenly decided to become a female. Renee Richards. Richards had actually gone the full surgical route. In a non- professionally deigned matchup, he and Billie Jean King played on a bet. King was the female world champion, gay and not exactly the typical poster girl for the feminine standard. Richards beat her handily. Richards was also enormous. The issue was put to bed.

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What's happening now is merely the logical conclusion of the postmodern idea that gender is nothing more than a social construct. A couple of years ago I was having a conversation with a large group as we watched Phelps hoover up gold medals at the Olympics in Tokyo. During our discussion the topic of women vs men came up, and I stated that it would be virtually impossible for a women to hold the overall world record in any swimming event. Cue the outrage among all the women present. If you go look at world record times for female athletes, in many cases those times wouldn't even meet the Olympic qualification times for men.

Example:

Womens' olympic qualifer time 200m free: 2:08:43

Women's fly 200m world record long course: 2:01.81

Men's olympic qualifier time 200m fly: 1:57.28

Men's fly 200m world record long course: 1:42.00

Finally society is coming back to the idea that maybe women and men really are different. I still bet most that most college educated women would reflexively take offense at my statement, though. What elite athletes can or cannot accomplish says absolutely nothing about the value of men or women.

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"the logical conclusion of the postmodern idea that gender is nothing more than a social construct"

A thing that completely baffles me is that, according to the mass media, declaring yourself to be a sex other than your biological one gets you on glossy magazine covers (e.g. Caitlyn Jenner, Elliot Page) but making a pretense to a racial identity which you do not sufficiently* possess (e.g. Liz Warren, Rachel Dolezal) is a big no-no and merits contumely. I mean, if your identity is whatever you say it is, anything should go, right?

I am not making judgments or calling for any laws to be passed. I merely observe that one of these things, for whatever reason, is not like the other in the arena of public spectacle.

(*If I really wanted to get myself in hot water, I would opine that "race" is much more of a social construct than biological sex, but whatever.)

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100s of high school boys every year beat Flo-Jos incredible time in the 100m.

I wonder about lia Thomas’s mental state and not even from the perspective of wanting to be trans. I can’t see actually believing what she’s doing is righteous. I think she’s some type of full blown NPD sociopath or something

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I'm holding out for that moment when he collects his diploma and says " I can't believe you let me get away with it"

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"She" has a penis.. That's a Man!

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a penis is removable a vagina can have an “extension” but XX or XY is forever (so far). Why call yourself “trans?” If you want to “identify” as a woman or a man go for it but why identify as trans? if that’s how U see yourself then establish trans-sports teams and competitions. Why not? BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD WATCH!

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I think the goal for most trans people is to pass without having to identify as "trans." I think that's why trans lobby wouldn't ever consider making a "trans" category. The reason some trans people identify that way is to usually make a political statement and/or because they know they aren't passing...yet. I know plenty of trans people who absolutely do not want anyone to know that they were born the "sex" that they now reject and don't identify as.

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"Piece of shit Manning" Narcissistic child with mental issues given access to classified material.

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Chelsea Manning is a true world hero. You're the piece of shit.

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Only to the mentally unhinged.

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She indeed was a hero for what she did. It does appear she has some mental issues, as documented by her treatment of Greenwald.

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Yes, the military made a big mistake when they gave access to someone with actual morals.

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Perhaps she exposed the documents on moral grounds or perhaps she had other motivations. One thing seems clear though, her moral compass broke when she turned on Glenn Greenwald, who helped her immensely through her travails. Her reason for very viciously turning on Greenwald had something to do with his alleged swing to the "far right." Greenwald was quite gracious: "Friendships that depend on political agreement were never 'friendships,' just cynical transactions." Some alleged that Manning released the documents to impress an online romantic relationship she (at the time still a "he") was pursuing. Given her behavior towards Greenwald, that speculation seems more plausible to me.

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Gargle that statist cock harder, baby!

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Oh, that's good!

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If that's what it takes to expose the crimes of the empire, I'm all for it.

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You missed one more thing - your likes of my posts.

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Correct.

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I want to scream!

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Exhibit A

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If the female athletes don't fight this, well it's on them. I know it will be uncomfortable, but if you are going along, you fortifying insanity.

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I think there's a case to be made that becoming trans and using it to beat women in sports is no different than drug enhancements, which are prohibited.

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I get your point, except trans-cheating is more like mainlining meth right before a race. They wouldn’t even bother testing you, just eject you from the sport…

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"If the female athletes don't fight this, well it's on them." A more accurate statement would be "if the medical community doesn't fight this ("this" being the lie that men (XY) can simply declare themselves female (XX) and it goes unchallenged), they will ultimately lose professional and personal integrity.

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We all need to say something. Martina Navratilova went out on truth island on this subject . When the insanity tide canceled her the lesson we learned was don’t go to truth island. We can all own a little bit of that

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The people who are not standing up for the female athletes are the coaches, the parents and, most of all, the medical community that knows males are anatomically advantaged in sports. Until courage trumps the fear of being cancelled, losing employment and being out there on a limb by yourself, this will continue. The forces against stopping this are immense -- there's no denying that -- but the truth that gender is determined at conception, doctors document weight, height, APGAR score, overall health of the newborn and equally important, gender, at birth and do not "assign" a gender IS the truth.

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

― George Orwell

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I am so grateful I didnt grow up and go to college in a time that my future didnt depend on me dressing in a locker room with male genitlia and not being able to call BS.

Isnt it time for people to "speak out."

I graduated from HS in 1972. I think Title IX passed in June that year. That a man can compete and win trophies half a century later totally destroys women's sports. It is sold as a human rights issues, because there are thousands of people who want to sex change and compete in sports, right? Whomever is saying they are standing up for women's rights and supporting this need to STFU.

I didn't know we all had rights to compete in whatever sports event in America we wanted to. When is the next NBA try-out for post-menopausal white women? They owe me.

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Actually as I watched NCAA bball the last couple of weekends, it did occur to me that a man (identifying as a woman) could easily make a try out on a women's team if he was mediocre on the men's team. It'll never end. And then we have the binary status! Nuts.

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LOL! 😃

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You don't need to have a degree in medicine to recognize that men generally have an advantage over women in athletics. Stop the worship of credentials, it's gone too far!

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If everyone who thought this was wrong spoke up and was cancelled I wonder whether the healthcare system and scientific research would come to a screeching halt.

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It's not just the medical community. I remember once upon a time where a university was a place you went to seek the truth and felt free to question orthodoxy. The Ivy League and other elite universities are destroying their reputation as well. As is social media, mainstream media, corporate america, and so on. No wonder people feel like this country is falling apart-- the people at the top are out of touch with reality.

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While I get your point, it's on the people making the rules to stop it, not the female athletes that have been steamrolled by society and the people who are supposed to be looking out for their best interest.

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Can't rely on politicians for anything, it has to come from the people, that in turn will throw out the politicians because they didn't do the job.

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The bureaucracies have exploded to the point that there are almost more politicians than citizens. It will be nearly impossible to clean enough house to clear the administrations involved in this shit show.

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It’s morally right to expect the rule makers to stop it, but we gave up morals for “virtue” years ago. Now the only way is for females to refuse to compete.

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They need to get their parents heavily involved. They should refuse to compete, refuse to pay tuition, and blackball the entirety of it. The current trans movement needs to be crushed. The real trans people that are living difficult lives are having them made more difficult by the bullshit going on. Every celebrity has a token trans kid these days, and there are actually people trying to normalize pedophilia.

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^ Very much this.

Trans people are a very, very tiny minority. (unless and until cutting sex parts off can be promoted as a "fashion decision", like getting tattoos.)

The insane, rigidly dogmatic, reality-denying people wielding the "transphobic!" accusations and "you are literally killing trans children reeeeee!" claims are a much, much tinier minority. And every time I look into it, it's some repulsive ex-man enjoying the power he now wields over biological women. However society should deal with the (very few) actual trans people, what is happening now needs to be stopped.

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Maybe some sacrifices need to be made. Junior colleges aren’t so bad and those Ivy League schools suck anyway 

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Why do you believe the female athletes should sacrifice? Go to junior college instead of Penn? The NCAA allowed this trans woman to compete. This means every Division 1 female swimmer potentially had to compete against "her". Come on (wo)man!!

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You make a good point

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You either risk cancellation or you get cancelled because you're out-competed. I think too many competing now will regret in 5 years that they didn't fight back.

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Sounds perfectly reasonable. Aside from the fatal gunshot to the heart of the concept of "competition". I mean.

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As long as a woman with junk wins, that's all that matters.

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The bolstering has to come from liberal feminists or it will be used as the usual “ rightwing hatred of everybody” crap.Even though Hannity, Hilton, Tammy Bruce, Grenell, Gaetz, Jeanine, Lawrence Jones, David Webb, Kennedy, Chadwick Moore,Dana Perrino, Maria, Leo Terrell, Pete Navarro, Kash Patel,Carlos Jimenez,Winsome Sears, Charles Payne Liz McDonald,Salazar, Byron Donalds, Ari Fleischer, Horowitz and OAN all endorsed Jenner

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The number of so-called liberal feminists who have drunk the kool-aid and sacrificed their last working neuron in support of men in womens' spaces far outweighs the ones who defend women's rights. Aside from a couple of small organizations, Women's Liberation Front and Save Women's Sports, which toil thanklessly with minuscule staffs and no money (WoLF just lost its funding platform, Givebutter, for "violating the terms of service" -- code words for "transphobia"), nobody gives a shit about what happens to the women. Support these orgs, folks, if you can. Every dollar helps.

The sports issue is a big deal, to be sure, but equally onerous is the national rollout, now in progress, of state-by-state bills to allow male felons, who apparently need protection from other male felons, into women's prisons. This population of trans-identified male felons has a very high rate of convictions for violent crimes and sex crimes. Good times ahead!

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The number of feminists supporting this insanity outnumbers those feminists against it? Sez who?

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Good question. I think most women are deeply offended, but silent.

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Women who publicly speak out about trans lose their jobs or get cancelled. Or both. The female athletes know they won't get hired or into grad schools if they complain about Lia Thomas.

The trans lobby ( is it big Pharma? There is a lot of money in this) has so successfully attached themselves to LGB rights that castrating children is fucking celebrated by parents on Facebook and in major papers. Instagram and Reddit are filled with teen girls posting pics of themselves post double mastectomy for the likes.

And the real kicker- emperor-has-no-clothes thing is that there is no good data showing these "treatments" help at all!

All of these gender affirming clinics are going on nothing but woke feelings.

I used to be afraid of getting doxxed when I posted reality based things that are labeled as trans phobic. Nor anymore. Being on the side of not mutilating kids is a decent hill to die on.

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Maybe we could just let the athletes decide who they want to compete against instead of maintaining gender-based ghettos. The division between men and women's sports just reinforces the idea one gender is inherently stronger, faster, etc., than the other. #JustSayin' 🙃

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Well of course the division between men's and women's sports reinforces the idea that one gender is inherently stronger, faster, etc. than the other. It's not a lie, it's not a problem, it's not a cause for shame...it is simply a basic fact of human biology. Why do you think that men and women have always competed separately? There can be no level playing field between the sexes.

I don't expect you to agree or to even understand this, because you have clearly been inculcated to embrace an absurd metaphysical fallacy, one that is so easy to overturn that only a person who chooses to walk around with their eyes closed could miss it. But just in case you feel like residing in the real world someday, I invite you to ponder the real-world statistics contained in this objective compilation of statistics put together by Duke University, which demonstrates the irrefutable superiority of males in comparison with females in the area of sports. To make the point even more poignant, comparative statistics are given between women and boys, as well as between women and men. In many instances, immature males outperform mature women.

https://law.duke.edu/sports/sex-sport/comparative-athletic-performance/

However, you are correct in one respect: female athletes will absolutely have to step up and say "no" loud and clear to this assault on the entire enterprise of women's sports. Otherwise it will disappear. One more thing: the fact that human males are innately bigger and stronger than human females in no way diminishes the extraordinary accomplishments of female athletes. Only when forced to compete against men are all our magnificent achievements turned into a cruel joke.

By the way, I have no interest in "debating" with you further. Have at it. Have a nice day.

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You may have whiffed on a sarcastic comment there, bucko. The upside-down smiley 𝑐𝑎𝑛 be used as a /sarc tag.

So, I agree with both of you, obviating any refusal to "debate" further.

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What we need is a similar study that targets the performance of biological women vs trans women. We also need a study that targets the differences in physiognomy between biological and trans women. Let's get some hard facts so we can make good, fair decisions. Of course, getting a study like these off the ground is nigh impossible in the current political climate. But, we still need it, regardless.

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Well said.

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You’re really dumb as a soap dish, aren’t you?

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One gender is stronger, faster, etc....all because of biology.

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All I can do is just laugh at "true feminists" who are now getting a taste of the dog food they've been feeding men for half a century. Enjoy it, Ladies! :)

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They almost certainly will lose their scholarships. You might argue that the education ain't worth it, but they are young women who believe in the importance of a university education mantra. Put yourself in their place - everything they worked so hard for culminating in a swim team scholarship will be lost. This is not speculation; they must swim without complaint or they are off the team and that means no more scholarship. It is the parents who should be making the noise!

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Perspective: how much scholarship money is at risk here? The majority of non-revenue producing sports do not offer an athlete a full or even half scholarship. The athlete may receive one covering 25%, which means 75% covered with loans or out of pocket.

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100% of whatever non-threatening amount you choose of scholarship money is at risk.

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That in addition to being blacklisted from other universities and future employers. But at some point you gotta ask, is it worth attending these universities and working for such employers? We're reaching a level of absurdity where an increasing number of people will start saying 'No'.

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I hope you’re right. No one is going to save the day. It’s becoming increasingly apparent - we need to save ourselves

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If this were some nonexistential threat I would agree, but it is a great threat to our country. If we all lived our lives only for what we might get out of it short term we would not exist today.

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I am pretty sure most of the female swimmers don't see this is an existential threat to the country so there's that. They may see it as unfair and a threat to their swimming competition but, from what I have read, some (if not many) of them are quite on board with the inclusion of a trans swimmer in their ranks. Honestly, I am pretty sure a large percentage of the population don't see this as an existential threat to the country...at least not yet. (P.S. Even I don't see it as an existential threat to the country and I am very opposed to the inclusion of trans women athletes in female sports.)

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But this is an existential threat and the pawns are the kids who are being told not to "believe their lying' eyes" that the male they're competing against is not a male but a female. I don't expect teenagers to take a stand when the adults responsible for demanding this level of deceit refuse to do so.

This really has nothing to do with sexuality--it's a basic assault on the truth that has been established for eons. I think many people do understand this. In no way am I inferring that anyone who identifies as transgender should be treated with anything less than courtesy and dignity. That said, scientific fact can not and should not be altered to treat false assertions as true and demand that we all agree (or pretend that we agree) or else.

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They’re on board with it because these institutions and all of the schooling they’ve ever had, brainwashes them to be on board with it

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The female athletes at that level are on scholarships and would lose them if they refused to swim. Stuck between a rock and a hard place. It's up to the NCAA to do ther right thing and they won't.

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The NCAA has never done the right thing. Heroes take on the burden. Founding Fathers gave up their lives so others that followed, including their children, could live free.

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You mean they weren’t afraid to give up their scholarships?

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George Washington never made the NBA, did he?

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At 6'2" he was freakishly tall for the time, but I guess it's true what they say -- white men can't jump (unless they are Croatian).

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Haha at this point in history I don’t think i would want my hypothetical kids to go to any of these schools. The damage done by “the academy” is like viral mental-itis and there’s no vax for that.

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That's unfair. The women at Penn understood well that any criticism and it was their asses - university would not support them, trans phobic label would affect job prospects, etc. Their parents feared any statements would adversely affect the young women. Adults should fight this, and are mostly silent (Martina Navratilova and Caitlin Jenner notable exceptions as athletes, and J. K. Rowling as a liberal). The NCAA is a corrupt institution that cares more about wokester criticism than the well-being of its student athletes.

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OK, well how will they feel in 10 years when they look back? With bitterness, regret they remained silent? If this is a molding experience, which it is, they will accept / comply, thus submissive. Is that what women have been taught for the last 40+ years? No, this is such cognitive dissonance it should have a much more resounding push back.

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It may be a molding experience, but it is absolute bullshit they were put in this position. Everyone could see this coming, yet left them to be the victims of it. Nothing changed, except that the new "female" swimmers have all the right parts to dominate the women they are competing against.

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Are you going to pushback?

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Honey, I been pushing back since I left my mothers womb.

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Then keep punching.

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it is on all of us

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