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One Small Step

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Last night, in a marathon board meeting in which many things were discussed, my small school district passed a resolution to direct our superintendent to address the lack of fairness in high school sporting competitions. Recently a biological male won a women's state competition in running. This impacted young women within our community, and, rightly, parents were livid.

Statewide competitions are organized and governed by the WIAA (Washington Interscholastic Activities Association). The WIAA is a quasi-government organization subject to its own rules and bylaws as well as state and federal law. The process to address this within WIAA is to propose an amendment to those bylaws. There is a lot of energy across the state to address the issue. Even some folks on the left don't agree that this should be allowed, given the unfair advantage a biological boy has when competing in girls' sports.

It's one small step, and I hope we'll see more of this across the country.

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  • Terry Mott@TerryMott
    Spin (View Post):

    Even the folks on the left don’t agree with the unfair advantage that a biological boy has when competing in girls’ sports.

    Too bad they'll never admit, even to themselves, that their side's basic philosophy leads inevitably to this result.

  • EODmom@EODmom
    ReplyingtoTerry Mott

    Terry Mott (View Comment):

    Spin (View Post):

    Even the folks on the left don’t agree with the unfair advantage that a biological boy has when competing in girls’ sports.

    Too bad they’ll never admit, even to themselves, that their side’s basic philosophy leads inevitably to this result.

    Or have the strength to publicly remove their girl children from competition against boys and denounce the sponsors. Walk away. From government schools and government sports. Don’t give your children to people who mean them harm.

  • Chuck@Chuckles
    ReplyingtoEODmom

    Terry Mott (View Comment):

    Spin (View Post):

    Even the folks on the left don’t agree with the unfair advantage that a biological boy has when competing in girls’ sports.

    Too bad they’ll never admit, even to themselves, that their side’s basic philosophy leads inevitably to this result.

    EODmom (View Comment):

    Or have the strength to publicly remove their girl children from competition against boys and denounce the sponsors. Walk away. From government schools and government sports. Don’t give your children to people who mean them harm.

    Wasn't women's' participation in sports primarily a consequence of Title 9? When did women originally actively engage in Olympics? How much of a catastrophe would it be if men and women could compete on an equal basis?

  • EODmom@EODmom
    ReplyingtoChuck

    Terry Mott (View Comment):

    Spin (View Post):

    Even the folks on the left don’t agree with the unfair advantage that a biological boy has when competing in girls’ sports.

    Too bad they’ll never admit, even to themselves, that their side’s basic philosophy leads inevitably to this result.

    EODmom (View Comment):

    Or have the strength to publicly remove their girl children from competition against boys and denounce the sponsors. Walk away. From government schools and government sports. Don’t give your children to people who mean them harm.

    Chuck (View Comment):

    Wasn’t women’s participation in sports primarily a consequence of Title 9? When did women originally actively engage in Olympics? How much of a catastrophe would it be if men and women could compete on an equal basis?

    Women have competed in the modern Olympics since 1900, well before Title IX. Women have been athletic for a much longer time than that of course. However, as women and men have distinctly different biological makeup, direct athletic competition isn’t meaningful and more to the point can be dangerous to women in many sports. I’m not sure what point is proven when a man demonstrates that he can run a mile faster than a woman or serves a tennis ball faster and harder than the female opponent. It’s not exactly a secret the role that testosterone plays in male physiology. So why would a man want to beat a female competitor?

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