{"id":1217645,"date":"2022-01-15T05:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T10:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217645"},"modified":"2022-01-15T05:04:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T10:04:23","slug":"female-swimmer-stop-woke-sports-put-transgenders-in-mens-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/female-swimmer-stop-woke-sports-put-transgenders-in-mens-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Swimmer: Stop Woke Sports, Put Transgenders in Men&#039;s Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffemale-swimmer-stop-woke-sports-put-transgenders-in-mens-races%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217645&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lia-Thompson-Penn-Athletics-Facebook-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Linda Blade, a former swimmer and sports performance coach,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/guest-editorial-in-defense-of-lia-thomas-and-her-right-to-compete\/\">&nbsp;has responded<\/a>&nbsp;to support for Lia Thomas, a \u201ctransgender woman\u201d who is competing against female athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil a non-binary solution is developed for sports eligibility, this \u2018Open\u2019 and \u2018Female\u2019 system will ensure that any competitor with a novel identity claim (and there will be more) does not bring with him or her a competitive advantage,\u201d Blade wrote in an oped in <em>Swimming World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lucas Draper, a junior-year swimmer at Oberlin College, wrote an earlier oped in <em>Swimming World<\/em> defending Thomas, which Blade said \u201crang hollow\u201d and \u201cmissed [the] point of controversy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Draper, who is a \u201ctransgender man,\u201d claims in the oped that Thomas \u201cis a woman\u201d and \u201cshe uses she\/her pronouns, and any reference to her otherwise is offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My editorial response is here.<br \/>\u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SexNotGender?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SexNotGender<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SexBasedSports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SexBasedSports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveWomensSports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaveWomensSports<\/a> \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/caNYPnXBFf\">https:\/\/t.co\/caNYPnXBFf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Linda Blade (@coachblade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coachblade\/status\/1481056228705021956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>First, Blade praises Draper for competing against men instead of continuing to compete as a woman \u201cwhile doping,\u201d referring to hormone treatments. But Draper\u2019s comments \u201cdeploy escalating levels of emotional gaslighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blade broke down her response into five points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Draper\u2019s claim that Thomas should be treated with \u201cbasic human decency. \u201cFemale athletes are equally deserving of respect and decency,\u201d Blade said.<\/li>\n<li>Draper claims transgender women would not compete just to have an edge over competitors. \u201cWe don\u2019t select sports teams or eligibility based upon someone\u2019s internal motivation,\u201d Blade said. Rules should reflect \u201cphysical reality.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Draper said Thomas should be compete \u201cas who she is.\u201d \u201cParticipation in sports necessarily involves restrictions,\u201d Blade said. It can never be an open forum where competitors are allowed to join based upon subjective preference.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Draper should not make an appeal to victimhood while victimizing others. \u201cScrutiny by officials and the public is part of sports. It is not being \u2018mean.\u2019\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Drapers and others are trying to \u201cshut down debate\u201d by putting labels on transgender women athletes such as pronouns. \u201cGender ideologues are the ones who profess that usage of pronouns operates independently of the two biological sexes. If so, then a pronoun now operates much in the same way as other kinds of identities \u2013 such as, \u2018I am a Democrat\u2019 or \u2018I am Muslim.&#8217;\u201d Would we ever select someone for a sports competition based upon their religion?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blade calls on the NCAA to revisit its 2011 rules that allow sports participation based on gender identity not biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the overwhelming scientific evidence now available showing that males will always maintain a physical advantage over females in sports involving strength, speed, power and reaction time, the NCAA must undertake a re-assessment of its policy ASAP!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Blade, a former swimmer and sports performance coach,\u00a0has responded\u00a0to support for Lia Thomas, a \u201ctransgender woman\u201d who is competing against female athletes. \u201cUntil a non-binary solution is developed for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}