{"id":1437399,"date":"2022-04-14T10:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1437399"},"modified":"2022-04-14T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:15:58","slug":"transgender-archer-banned-from-texas-femaless-competitors-after-winning-state-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgender-archer-banned-from-texas-femaless-competitors-after-winning-state-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Archer Banned from Texas Females&#039;s Competitors After Winning State Championship"},"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%2Ftransgender-archer-banned-from-texas-femaless-competitors-after-winning-state-championship%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=1437399&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\">A transgender archer in Texas has been banned from the women\u2019s competition after winning the state championship.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year,\u00a0Kelly Jeanne Pyne, a man living as a woman and former Army veteran, won the senior women\u2019s archery freestyle event by a single point at the\u00a0Texas Field Archery Association\u2019s Indoor State Tournament. Shortly thereafter, three of Pyne\u2019s competitors protested the win, arguing that his biology gave him an unfair advantage.<\/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>\u201cThe protests essentially objected to Pyne, a transgender woman, competing in the women\u2019s events,\u201d reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/texas\/transgender-archery-champion-banned-from-texas-womens-competitions\/\">KXAN<\/a>. \u201cAccording to the TFAA rules, a competitor can file a protest in writing within an hour after a shoot and pay a $50 filing fee, which is reimbursed if a protest committee rules in favor of the reporting party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pyne claims he never held a physical advantage, citing the fact he won the state championship by a single point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aim comes from your mental game: can you sit there and focus on that pin or on that dot and keep it in the center until the shot breaks?\u201d Pyne said. \u201cThat\u2019s your mental game. It really comes down to a mental game and practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jay Lindsey, the TFAA president, said that protests rarely happen and are usually resolved quickly, but this particular circumstance required extra attention.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/sep-2000-a-close-up-of-a-target-during-anthe-mens-individual-archery-picture-id629548?k=20&#038;m=629548&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=Q-hQTNegFzisjWKRGKe83qTMKeuh2ONId6nR8af5oko=\" alt=\"Close up of a target during anthe Men&#039;s Individual Archery Event at the Sydney International Archery Park for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games in...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Olympic archery target (Adam Pretty\/AUS \/Allsport)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve never had this particular issue protested before,\u201d Lindsey told KXAN.<\/p>\n<p>After three weeks of examining the complaints, the TFAA unanimously decided that Pyne was ineligible to receive the titles of TFAA Senior Female Freestyle Shooter of the Year and State Champion. The committee also ruled that transgender athletes must compete in categories corresponding to their biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the event transgender male to female athletes are allowed to compete as women, the TFAA Protest Committee fears that in 20 years, all female records, in all sports may be held by transgender people, and no female records will be held by biological women. How is that fair to women?\u201d the decision said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Pyne said it felt as if a great achievement had been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt good,\u201d Pyne said about the win. \u201cIt felt like I had achieved something, and then that was rapidly taken away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf everybody wants me to shoot as a male, OK, now you\u2019re gonna have a woman beating you,\u201d Pyne later asserted, \u201cbecause I\u2019m a woman. However you want to look at it, I\u2019m a woman, and I\u2019m going to beat you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pyne even differentiated himself from famed transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, arguing that he does not have the same physical advantages in a sport like archery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no physical advantages in archery or any precision sport, so we\u2019re on two ends of the spectrum in this case,\u201d Pyne said. \u201cI don\u2019t believe that Lia should have been swimming in the women\u2019s category either, but, I mean, people are gonna say that I\u2019m kind of hateful now for being a transgender person and going against transgender people. But fair is fair, and that\u2019s just not fair.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transgender archer in Texas has been banned from the women\u2019s competition after winning the state championship. 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