Posts tagged ‘Female Athletics’
Reported By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter| Monday, May 17, 2021
Athletes compete in the 5,000-meter final during the Oregon Relays at Hayward Field on April 23, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon. | Getty Images/Steph Chambers
Linnea Saltz wants to be a lobbyist. Haley Tanne intends to pursue a career as a physician’s assistant. Chelsea Mitchell plans to obtain a degree in marketing. While all three women have different career aspirations, they all have one common experience:
losing to biological males who identify as females in female track competitions.
Athletics have played an essential role in all three women’s lives, and they take a great deal of pride in their accomplishments throughout high school and college. However, they have been negatively impacted by policies allowing biological males who identify as females to compete on women’s sports teams, leading them and other female athletes to embrace varying degrees of activism
Athletes compete in the 5,000-meter final during the Oregon Relays at Hayward Field on April 23, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon. | Getty Images/Steph Chambers
Linnea Saltz wants to be a lobbyist. Haley Tanne intends to pursue a career as a physicianâs assistant. Chelsea Mitchell plans to obtain a degree in marketing. While all three women have different career aspirations, they all have one common experience: losing to biological males who identify as females in female track competitions.Â
Athletics have played an essential role in all three womenâs lives, and they take a great deal of pride in their accomplishments throughout high school and college.
Female athletes who lost to trans males seek fair playing field | Politics christianpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from christianpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By CNSNews.com | May 14, 2021 | 11:26am EDT
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Elise Stefanik emerge from the May 14, 2021 meeting where Stefanik was elected chair of the House Republican Conference. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
(To see the 2019 roll call vote on the Equality Act click here.)
When it came up for another vote this February, she voted against it. (To see the 2021 roll call vote on the Equality Act click here.)
“U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik was one of a handful of Republicans to vote in favor of an gay, lesbian and transgender rights bill in 2019, and as recently as Tuesday she told the media she was for the measure again,” the Albany Times Union reported on Feb. 26.
We need to ensure girls are included, engaged and encouraged to participate in programs reserved for them. Former Olympic gold medalist decathlete Bruce - now Caitlyn - Jenner recently agreed and was vilified by the constantly changing judgment of today s cancel culture.
Pressed for a brief comment by a reporter at the start of this month, socialite and celebrity Jenner, who is hoping to become California s next Governor, drew stinging criticism in some quarters by echoing fears over fairness. I stick with my statements that I made, she told Fox News more recently. I think we have to make sure that the integrity of girls sports is there - I think that s extremely important.