{"id":1391770,"date":"2022-03-21T11:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1391770"},"modified":"2022-03-21T11:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:59:47","slug":"womens-sports-coalition-this-is-not-an-anti-lia-campaign-its-pro-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/womens-sports-coalition-this-is-not-an-anti-lia-campaign-its-pro-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#039;s Sports Coalition: &#039;This Is Not an Anti-Lia Campaign,&#039; It\u2019s &#039;Pro-Woman&#039;"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fwomens-sports-coalition-this-is-not-an-anti-lia-campaign-its-pro-woman%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=1391770&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--><p class=\"subheading\">\u201cWe think everyone should play sports fairly,\u201d a women\u2019s sports group that is working to preserve\u00a0biology-based eligibility\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/19\/save-womens-sports-founder-says-group-isnt-anti-lia-thomas\/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Post<\/em> on Saturday, and stressed the movement is not specifically aimed at Lia Thomas, the transgender male collegiate swimmer currently competing as a woman, but is actually \u201cpro-women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSave Women\u2019s Sports is a coalition that seeks to preserve biology-based eligibility standards for participation in female sports,\u201d according to their <a href=\"https:\/\/savewomenssports.com\/\">website<\/a>.<\/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>\u201cThis is not an anti-Lia campaign,\u201d Beth Stelzer, an amateur powerlifter and the group\u2019s founder told the <em>Post<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s a pro-woman campaign. We think everyone should play sports fairly.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20289206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/beth-amateur-power-lifter.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Save Women\u2019s Sports founder Beth Stelzer (bethstelzer.com)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On the group\u2019s website, Stelzer \u201cstresses that defending women in athletics ought not be a partisan nor religious issue,\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/savewomenssports.com\/about-us-1\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If we allow males to compete in female sports; there will be men\u2019s sports, there will be co-ed sports, but there will no longer be women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Save Women&#8217;s Sports founder says group isn&#8217;t anti-Lia Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4GIgB0lODN\">https:\/\/t.co\/4GIgB0lODN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QkaZzlfJZ5\">pic.twitter.com\/QkaZzlfJZ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1505560075741671429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Stelzer and her group have been protesting at the NCAA swimming championships in Atlanta this week, where Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/17\/trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-beats-field-female-swimmers-to-win-national-championship\/\">won<\/a> the 500-yard freestyle Thursday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/20\/gwinn-lia-jussie-thomas-americas-biggest-cheater-hoaxster-fraud\/\">beating<\/a> out three Olympic silver medal-winning female swimmers,\u00a0Emma Weyant, Erica Sullivan, and Brooke Forde. During Thomas\u2019s three years competing on the men\u2019s team, he was ranked 462nd among male swimmers, making his chances of qualifying for the Olympic Games slim.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20289242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/AP22077856101703.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20289242 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AP22077856101703-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters, one holding a sign, stand as Pennsylvania transgender athlete Lia Thomas competes in the women&#039;s 200 freestyle final at the NCAA swimming and diving championships Friday, March 18, 2022, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Thomas finished tied for fifth place. (AP Photo\/John Bazemore)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Members of Save Women\u2019s Sports stand as Pennsylvania transgender athlete Lia Thomas competes in the women\u2019s 200 freestyle final at the NCAA swimming and diving championships Friday, March 18, 2022, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. (AP Photo\/John Bazemore)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/17\/trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-beats-field-female-swimmers-to-win-national-championship\/\">reported<\/a> of Thomas\u2019s \u201ceasy\u201d win Thursday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some female swimmers lamented that Thomas began\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/12\/13\/so-easy-i-was-cruising-trans-upenn-swimmer-bragged-about-beating-female-opponents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boasting<\/a>\u00a0about the ease of his victory following the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was so easy. I was cruising,\u201d a female swimmer reported Thomas as saying. \u201cAt least I\u2019m still No. 1 in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe came down here to support the female athletes,\u201d Stelzer said. \u201cOur intention was to respectfully\u00a0raise awareness while letting the girls know they matter\u00a0and that we will hold the line for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stelzer said she is protesting alongside women from both sides of the political aisle, including Democrats who do not agree with the\u00a0\u201cradical ideology\u201d their party has adopted, with their blind support of movements such as transgender men competing with women.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWomen deserve fairness without caveat, and they should not be asked to shoulder the mental health of others at their own expense. A male body cannot become a female body. A woman is not a disadvantaged man.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k1dSILAxmK\">https:\/\/t.co\/k1dSILAxmK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maud Maron (@MaudMaron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaudMaron\/status\/1505098314219458560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>New York Democrat congressional candidate Maud Maron spoke out against her party\u2019s transgender ideology in a <em>Newsweek<\/em> op-ed on Sunday, titled \u201cIt\u2019s Time to Get Serious About Saving Girls\u2019 and Women\u2019s Sports,\u201d where she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/its-time-get-serious-about-saving-girls-womens-sports-opinion-1689217\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This June, Title IX will turn 50. The half century mark should be a time of triumphant celebration. But women\u2019s sports is under an existential threat today that our current legislators are either too scared to address and solve or too disinterested.<\/p>\n<p>When men can compete on women\u2019s sports teams and against women, women lose. Girls and women lose the races and competitions to people born boys and men. They lose scholarship opportunities, sponsorship dollars and the dignity of knowing your hard work, talent and discipline can pay off. And they lose the chance at a fair fight\u2014a fair opportunity to show who is the best athlete in their category.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe unfairness of people born men competing in women\u2019s sports has sparked broad resistance. The simple truth cannot be erased: Every time a person born male takes a spot on a women\u2019s team, a female athlete loses. That\u2019s not fair. It also should not be legal,\u201d Maron concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe think everyone should play sports fairly,\u201d a women\u2019s sports group that is working to preserve\u00a0biology-based eligibility\u00a0told the New York Post on Saturday, and stressed the movement is not specifically<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"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-1391770","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\/1391770","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391770\/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=1391770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}