{"id":456003,"date":"2021-04-26T13:21:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=456003"},"modified":"2021-04-26T13:21:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:21:15","slug":"texas-democrat-attacks-trans-bill-claims-there-are-6-sexes-mother-of-girl-athlete-fires-back-we-must-put-facts-before-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-democrat-attacks-trans-bill-claims-there-are-6-sexes-mother-of-girl-athlete-fires-back-we-must-put-facts-before-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrat Attacks Trans Bill, Claims There Are 6 Sexes. Mother Of Girl Athlete Fires Back: \u2018We Must Put Facts Before Feelings\u2019"},"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%2Ftexas-democrat-attacks-trans-bill-claims-there-are-6-sexes-mother-of-girl-athlete-fires-back-we-must-put-facts-before-feelings%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=456003&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\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3786.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Last week, a Texas Democratic state legislator, testifying against a bill that would bar transgender athletes from participating in sports at the K-12 level, <a href=\"https:\/\/house.texas.gov\/video-audio\/committee-broadcasts\/\">insisted<\/a> that there are six biological sexes.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat James Talarico, questioning Republican state Representative Cole Hefner, who sponsored House Bill 4042, stated, \u201cThe bill seems to think there are two. The one thing I want us to all be aware of is that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six, which honestly, Representative Hefner, surprised me, too, because I am not well-versed in this issue area. I\u2019m not a scientist; I\u2019m a politician, a lot worse than a scientist\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to those comments, Talarico attacked the bill by citing the emotional impact of the issue, asking Hefner, \u201cYou know, I don\u2019t want to play \u2018got you\u2019 with questions \u2026 I want to ask you a serious question. Do you, as the author, know why so many people are upset about this bill?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I don\u2019t know that I could answer that,\u201d Hefner answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to be a kid in school \u2026 \u00a0especially if you\u2019re different,\u201d Talarico said. \u201cI was a school teacher before I came to this body. And when I was growing up \u2026 I was not that different. I was cisgender, which means my gender identity aligned with my assigned sex at birth, so I wasn\u2019t different in that regard. I wasn\u2019t different in a lot of regards, but school was still hard. It\u2019s still hard growing up, it\u2019s still hard in being a kid. \u2026 Can you imagine being a trans kid in school and how this bill in particular, might make you feel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hefner pointed out that boys and girls are biologically different and that girls could feel unsafe competing against boys.<\/p>\n<p>Talarico followed by quoting a statistic that 42% of high school trans student in Texas had considered suicide, although he offered no evidence as to what had impelled such thoughts, then said, \u201cWhich of those sounds like a bigger problem to tackle with legislation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hefner then returned fire, saying he had a question to answer Talarico\u2019s question. He stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p><em>Let\u2019s say we have a young girl from rural east Texas where I\u2019m from, where we have a lot of people\u00a0that live in the poverty level. Or we have a young lady in inner city Houston or Dallas. And they have a dream of being a doctor or a lawyer or maybe a high school volleyball coach. And their family doesn\u2019t have the means to send that little girl to a college.\u00a0 They just don\u2019t have the financial means. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And so this young lady is good at sports, so she applies herself at a young age and she works and sacrifices and dedicates herself for years with dreams of going to college on a scholarship and she gets to that high school level and she\u2019s qualifying through all the levels, she\u2019s moving up the ladder, about to achieve that dream. And then we have someone who\u2019s born a biological male who has an unfair advantage\u2026 And then her dream of going to college and becoming that doctor, that lawyer, are taken away. What about her mental\u00a0health? Her emotional state?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jennifer Evans, from Save Women\u2019s Sports, who has a son and a daughter, testified, \u201cI\u2019ve been an athlete all of my life. I\u2019ve played soccer, gymnastics, track, I\u2019ve coached track, I\u2019ve coached co-ed soccer; both of my children are athletes. I\u2019ve had a lot of experience seeing the difference between biological males and females, on the field and with my very own eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me tell you about my daughter,\u201d she continued. \u201cMacy is a senior in high school and has been working very hard to earn a track scholarship since she was a little girl. She used to run around the house when she was little just because she wanted to run; she ran loops. She attended a small private school and topped out at her level of competition by winning state in the 400-meter dash as a sophomore. As a junior she transferred to a large public school to increase competition and increase the odds of running in college, which is her goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a sacrifice she chose to make, leaving her friend group of ten years, to achieve her goal,\u201d Evans explained. \u201cHowever, she lost that season and summer track due to COVID, but persevered on her own, jumping fences at high schools, running around park trails, lifting weights at home.\u00a0I\u2019m proud and joyful today to say that her tenacity, drive, and dedication has earned her spot at a D-1 college track team. Her dad and I couldn\u2019t be more proud of her hard work and achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, she now faces an insurmountable obstacle: one that no amount of training or dedication could overcome, and that\u2019s competing against a male,\u201d Evans warned. \u201cAll of her years of hard work, overcoming adversity, shaving fractions of a second off her time, could be crushed by one male. The fact is, college-level runners are easily could be beaten by high school boys, and yes, even by middle-school boys. One of the fastest female runners in the world \u2026 can be outrun by almost 300 school boys. She\u2019s a gold medalist.\u00a0We must simply look with our own eyes as rational human beings just to realize how unequal the competition is. We must put facts before feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Save Women\u2019s Sports President Beth Stelzer countered Talarico, saying of the number of sexes, \u201cThey are dimorphic: XX, XY. The other \u2018sexes\u2019 mentioned are disorders of sexual development that are variants of XX or XY chromosomes. They are still disorders of male or female.\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. 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