{"id":1388215,"date":"2022-03-18T07:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388215"},"modified":"2022-03-18T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T15:59:50","slug":"i-dont-want-women-to-feel-the-way-that-i-did-female-track-athlete-forced-to-compete-against-biological-male-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-dont-want-women-to-feel-the-way-that-i-did-female-track-athlete-forced-to-compete-against-biological-male-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Don\u2019t Want Women To Feel The Way That I Did\u2019: Female Track Athlete Forced To Compete Against Biological Male Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/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%2Fi-dont-want-women-to-feel-the-way-that-i-did-female-track-athlete-forced-to-compete-against-biological-male-speaks-out%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=1388215&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-18-at-10.55.22-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A young woman who competed against a biologically male track runner in college weighed in on controversy over transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, saying that allowing males in female competitions is a \u201cdisservice\u201d to \u201call women in sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Linnea Saltz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwf.org\/save-womens-sports-linnea-saltz\/\">won<\/a> the 800 meter track race in the Big Sky Conference Outdoor Championship in 2019. As she headed into her senior year of college, she was informed that a biologically male athlete who formerly ran on the University of Montana men\u2019s track team, had taken a red shirt year \u2014 and that athlete would now be competing against her as a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The former track athlete joined protestors from the \u201cSave Women\u2019s Sports\u201d organization outside the\u00a0NCAA Division I Championship meet in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday as transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biologically-male-swimmer-annihilates-female-competitors-in-500-free\">crushed female competitors<\/a> in the 500 freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>Saltz, who was hoping to win the Big Sky Conference Outdoor Championship and potentially pursue an All-American track title, told The Daily Wire that she was incredibly discouraged to be told by her coaches that she would have to face a biological male, who goes by the name\u00a0June Eastwood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just thought to myself, \u2018Well, I\u2019m so excited to go and defend my title again, but am I not going to have that opportunity anymore?\u00a0Because now a man who has competed and run ten seconds faster than me in the eight hundred, I\u2019m now going to have to defend my title against somebody that already possesses this physiological biological advantage over me?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just really disappointing, and it was hard for me to understand why the NCAA would allow something like that to happen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Saltz said that she believes many of the people on her team and within the conference felt that they were not being heard and they did not have an opportunity to race on a level playing field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I come out to things like this is because I don\u2019t want women to feel the way that I did,\u201d she said, gesturing around her at small groups of protestors outside the NCAA women\u2019s championships. \u201cI don\u2019t want women to feel the way that my teammates did. It\u2019s a disservice honestly to all women in sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saltz told The Daily Wire that she observed a swimmer crying on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Virginia Tech swimmer competing in this year\u2019s NCAA championship details how her teammate was brought to tears after her place in the finals was taken by Lia Thomas: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mow56mVp1W\">pic.twitter.com\/mow56mVp1W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sav (@RapidFire_Pod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidFire_Pod\/status\/1504577845494005767?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOne of our women over here was like, \u2018Why don\u2019t you speak out about it,&#8217;\u201d Saltz said. \u201cAnd they said, \u2018Well, I\u2019m scared. I can\u2019t be walking around wearing my university\u2019s brand and talking about this.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saltz said she pulled aside the girls and told them, \u201cWell, I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to compete at Southern Utah University,\u201d the former track athlete said that she told the students. \u201cI went and spoke with my president. I spoke with the athletic director I spoke with as EU counsel, and I told them, \u2018Listen, whether you believe me or not, or whether you agree with my opinion or not, I\u2019m going forward with this. Then I\u2019m going towards the NCAA and I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re going to be on my side or not, but I just want you to know what I\u2019m doing.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saltz said that she was fully supported by her university, emphasizing that she felt lucky to be at a university that was completely on her side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that I may not be an athlete now, but I did come out and advocate for this issue then, and people are just as hateful to me now as they were back then,\u201d she said she told the swimmers. \u201cIt\u2019s never going to be different. And so I may be receiving a lot of hate\u2026I\u2019ve had athletes that I\u2019ve competed against a multitude of times, say really hateful, hurtful things towards me because of my opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics of those who support women\u2019s sports often insist they would never tear down other women, Saltz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s exactly what they\u2019re doing to me when I\u2019m trying to speak on behalf of women athletes,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Saltz raced her transgender competitor at the Big Sky indoor conference championship in February 2020, right before the coronavirus pandemic began. The athlete did not race Saltz in the 800-meter competition, which Saltz won.<\/p>\n<p>But as Saltz and her teammates competed against the transgender athlete in a relay race, she overheard the University of Montana coach telling Eastwood to slow down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the sticking point for me,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that honestly made me and all of my advocacy efforts feel worth it because it just was so clear to me that my coach would never tell me to slow down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo coach would tell you to slow down,\u201d she added, suggesting that the University of Montana coach told the transgender athlete to slow down in order to not crush competitors by too much. \u201cThe whole point of track and field is you completely exhaust yourself on the track we call emptying the tank. We want everything to be depleted by the time you cross the finish line. So you would never tell your athlete to slow down. You would tell them to push it to their ultimate limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young woman who competed against a biologically male track runner in college weighed in on controversy over transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, saying that allowing males in female competitions is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1388215","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\/1388215","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388215\/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=1388215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}