{"id":1485504,"date":"2022-05-20T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485504"},"modified":"2022-05-20T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:01:15","slug":"i-am-sick-of-being-bullied-into-silence-female-skateboarder-claims-red-bull-ignored-her-complaint-after-reportedly-losing-to-biological-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-am-sick-of-being-bullied-into-silence-female-skateboarder-claims-red-bull-ignored-her-complaint-after-reportedly-losing-to-biological-man\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Am Sick Of Being Bullied Into Silence\u2019: Female Skateboarder Claims Red Bull Ignored Her Complaint After Reportedly Losing To Biological Man"},"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-am-sick-of-being-bullied-into-silence-female-skateboarder-claims-red-bull-ignored-her-complaint-after-reportedly-losing-to-biological-man%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=1485504&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\/05\/GettyImages-1365111751.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A female skateboarder who finished second to a male competitor who identifies as a woman ripped the company sponsoring the competition for allegedly ignoring her plea to be placed first.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Silverman said she competed in the Red Bull Cornerstone Contest, where she finished second to skateboarder Lillian Gallagher. It was not clear when the alleged event took place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI reached out to Redbull and was ignored,\u201d Silverman wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CdqeekVMFBo\/\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cI am sick of being bullied into silence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silverman won <a href=\"https:\/\/theboardr.com\/results\/8598\/Red_Bull_Cornerstone_Detroit_Womens_Finals\">first prize<\/a> at the Red Bull Cornerstone Detroit Women\u2019s Finals on November 7, 2021; <a href=\"https:\/\/theboardr.com\/results\/8603\/Red_Bull_Cornerstone_Milwaukee_Womens_Finals\">the next day<\/a> Gallagher won first prize at the Red Bull Cornerstone Milwaukee Women\u2019s Finals, and Gallagher again <a href=\"https:\/\/theboardr.com\/results\/8644\/Red_Bull_Cornerstone_Minneapolis_Womens_Finals\">won first prize<\/a> at the\u00a0Red Bull Cornerstone Minneapolis Women\u2019s Finals later that month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name is Taylor Silverman. I am a female athlete,\u201d Silverman\u2019s post began. \u201cI have been skateboarding for eleven years and competing for several years. I have been in three different contests with trans women, two of which I placed second.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the last contest series I did for Redbull, I placed second,\u201d she recalled. \u201cThe trans competitor who won took $1000 in qualifiers, $3000 in finals, and $1000 in best trick. This totaled to $5000 of the prize money meant for the female athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took $1000 in qualifiers and $1750 for second place, so $2750 in total,\u201d she noted. \u201cThe girl who took third received $750.The girl who deserved $1000 for best trick took nothing along with whoever would have placed third.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI deserved to be place (sic) first, be acknowledged for my win and get paid,\u201d she contended. \u201cI reached out to Redbull and was ignored. I am sick of being bullied into silence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silverman posted a message to Redbull <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/erich-dummer\">Senior Sports Marketing Manager<\/a> Erich Dummer on Instagram. She wrote, \u201cA biological man with a clear advantage won the women\u2019s division, best trick, and also won multiple qualifiers. This took away the opportunity that was meant for women to place and earn money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened was unfair and at the time I was too uncomfortable to speak up,\u201d she continued. \u201cI understand that in todays [sic] society even some women think this is acceptable, but I believe in doing the right thing even if it\u2019s not the popular thing. I now realize it\u2019s really important for me to speak up and I\u2019d like to schedule a time to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The movement protesting biological men competing in women\u2019s sports was accentuated last December when University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas utterly crushed the women competing with Thomas at the University of Akron\u2019s Zippy Invitational, winning the 1650 free by a gargantuan 38 seconds ahead of the young woman finishing second, winning the 500 free by a whopping 12 seconds ahead of the woman finishing second, and winning the 200 free by a still-huge seven seconds, setting new Penn records along with meet and pool records.<\/p>\n<p>Video of Thomas winning the 1650 free showed how lopsided the race was with Thomas, who swam competitively for the men\u2019s team for three years before switching to the women\u2019s team, leaving female swimmers looking as if they were not even in the same race.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just to show you how absurd this is. Here\u2019s the trans swimmer \u201cLia\u201d Thomas crushing all of the female competitors by 40 seconds. This is what that looks like in real time. A total farce. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kAi9GgF5sj\">pic.twitter.com\/kAi9GgF5sj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1470978594256130050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female skateboarder who finished second to a male competitor who identifies as a woman ripped the company sponsoring the competition for allegedly ignoring her plea to be placed first.Taylor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1485530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485504","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\/1485504","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}