When I was forced to race male bodies on the track, colleges didn’t see the fastest female in Connecticut. They saw a second- or third-place runner.

real women btfo

Don't call them 'real women'. Call them what they are: last gen women.

The future. Is. Now.

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again; men are better at everything, including being women

Athletics are built towards male strengths. So it’s really just men being better at being men.

If childbirth or writing seething essays about trivial things (twoX) were considered sports, I’m sure that women would have their sports as well,

seething essays? pizza would get Olympic gold

You haven’t seen how well the trains seethe my friend.

I mean most of 2x have y chromosomes

Men would win childbirth because 👏🏿trains👏🏿men👏🏿are👏🏿real👏🏿men👏🏿

As for s33the essays, have you seen the kind of shit moids churn out when they feel really spurned? Alternatively, have you looked at pizza's comment history?

Hitler's mein kampf is just an angry blog post cuz he's mad his country didn't win the fortnite world tournament from 1914 to 1918

Throw in something about trump and toxic masculinity and recontrxtualizing and you've got your pitch for an NYT articel right there! Wouldnt be the first time they feature this sub 😏

If childbirth or writing seething essays about trivial things (twoX) were considered sports, I’m sure that women would have their sports as well,

Reminds me of some drama I've seen on TiA years ago where people seethed about how research on producing artificial sperm from bone marrow is considered ethical, but research on artificial human uteruses is verboten

At first I didn't think much of it but now it's getting my nogging jogging 🤔

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😒I thought the word filters were gone i guess automod doesn't support railroad transportation lives.

The Future is (Fe)male

Iron males? Count me in!

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Legacy women

Sounds like the Institute from Fallout 4. That game's story was so shitty, of course it was prophetic

No one cares about w*men’s “sports”.

W*men deserve all of this

Women's MMA is pretty lit.

It is actually impressive how much I and other mma fans care about female mma, it's fucking awesome

It's because the average MMA fan enjoys seeing women get hit.

How it really is

Based

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I love it. I do watch women's soccer. Maybe I'll check out the WNBA too.

Coom

Cope

Unless you want to see a combined 30 points at halftime, I would avoid doing that

One of my buds only watches it because he's a gambling addict

I already like this guy.

Great guy. He'll do stuff like stay up to watch cricket matches despite having only the faintest grasp of the rules, only because he trusts his sources lol. You should see this guy on a night out, an absolute legend

I've heard good things. Gotta say, cricket though is not my Jam. Some matches can be insanely long.

The test matches take like 5 days with very defensive play. T20 is much more tolerable and more exciting, offensive play.

I have no idea bro.

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You are forgetting beach volleyball too

fun to play boring to watch

I don’t think you understood my comment

yeah I did. I gotta go though bro, catch you tmr.

You might as well post the body, no one is going to pay USA Today, and most of us don't care enough to bypass it.

OPINION I was the fastest girl in Connecticut. But transgender athletes made it an unfair fight. When I was forced to race male bodies on the track, colleges didn’t see the fastest female in Connecticut. They saw a second- or third-place runner. Chelsea Mitchell Opinion contributor

It’s February 2020. I’m crouched at the starting line of the high school girls’ 55-meter indoor race. This should be one of the best days of my life. I’m running in the state championship, and I’m ranked the fastest high school female in the 55-meter dash in the state. I should be feeling confident. I should know that I have a strong shot at winning.

Instead, all I can think about is how all my training, everything I’ve done to maximize my performance, might not be enough, simply because there’s a runner on the line with an enormous physical advantage: a male body.

I won that race, and I'm grateful. But time after time, I have lost. I’ve lost four women’s state championship titles, two all-New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to male runners. I was bumped to third place in the 55-meter dash in 2019, behind two male runners. With every loss, it gets harder and harder to try again

That’s a devastating experience. It tells me that I’m not good enough; that my body isn’t good enough; and that no matter how hard I work, I am unlikely to succeed, because I’m a woman. Don't eliminate women's sports

That experience is why three of my fellow female athletes and I filed a lawsuit last year with Alliance Defending Freedom against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC): because girls and women shouldn’t be stripped of their right to fair competition.

The CIAC allows biological males to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. As a result, two males began racing in girls’ track in 2017. In the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone, these males took 15 women’s state track championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different girls) and more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions that belonged to female track athletes.

That’s because males have massive physical advantages. Their bodies are simply bigger and stronger on average than female bodies. It’s obvious to every single girl on the track. Chelsea Mitchell in Connecticut in 2019.

But Connecticut officials are determined to ignore the obvious. And unfortunately, a federal district court recently dismissed our case. The court’s decision to do so tells women and girls that their feelings and opportunities don’t matter, and that they can’t expect anyone to stand up for their dignity and their rights.

Don't ignore the obvious:Transgender athletes deserve compassion, but not the right to transform women's sports

That’s wrong. And it chips away at women’s confidence and our belief in our own abilities.

It’s happened to me over and over. Every time I walk up to the starting line, I try to tell myself that I can overcome the unfair odds — I can win, even though the race is stacked against me. Hurting female athletes' futures

But besides the psychological toll of experiencing unfair losses over and over, the CIAC’s policy has more tangible harms for women. It robs girls of the chance to race in front of college scouts who show up for elite metes, and to compete for the scholarships and opportunities that come with college recruitment. I’ll never know how my own college recruitment was impacted by losing those four state championship titles to a male. When colleges looked at my record, they didn’t see the fastest girl in Connecticut. They saw a second- or third-place runner.

Retired high school coach:In real life, transgender girls in sports are a non-controversy

And it’s not just happening to me. My friend and fellow plaintiff Selina Soule was bumped from qualifying for the state championship 55-meter final and an opportunity to qualify for the New England championship by a male runner in 2019. Meanwhile, Alanna Smith, an incredibly talented female athlete, was the second-place female runner in the 200-meter at the New England Regional Championships, but was dropped to third behind a male competitor. Selina Soule (left) and Alanna Smith (right), who compete within the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, in 2019.

It’s discouraging that the federal district court has decided that these experiences — these lost opportunities — simply don’t matter.

But I’m not beaten yet. And neither are my fellow female athletes.

Through our ADF attorneys, my fellow athletes and I are appealing the federal district court’s ruling. We’re taking our case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, where we are going to ask once again for the court to recognize our right to fair competition — a right that Title IX has promised to girls and women for 50 years. And we’re fighting not just for ourselves, but for all female athletes.

So as we prepare for this next step in the case, I’m settling into my starting blocks again, but for a different kind of race. And this time, I’m confident that we can win.

Chelsea Mitchell is an award-winning athlete from Canton High School in Connecticut. She is running track at the collegiate level.

end of article xd

Worse. Portlander.

It’s ignorant. The moment these women identified as women, they no longer had male bodies.

Ackshually sweaty they never had male bodies, they were always women, even before they were women.

Wait are you joking? Lol

No, we're not joking.

You do realize what your saying is incorrect. Like the word male is used to describe certain characteristics. Even if you change the word the characteristics would still be there. What do you seek to gain by changing the word? When* she goes to the doctors office the doctor won't be treating female characteristics but male characteristics. I don't understand your perspective on this.

Edit: I misspelled When. It said he she goes to the doctor. I meant to say When* she.

Like the word male is used to describe certain characteristics.

Yes, for men. But we are discussing who are not cis and the moment transwomen identify as their real gender, they are never male in the first place

Okay but how do you figure that? If even they change genders they are still biologically a male. Like I am understanding the gender part but I am not understanding the male to female part.

Like male and female have nothing to do with your gender. That was what I thought was the whole point. And thank you for trying to answer my question.

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Reported.

For what? I am honestly not understanding where you are coming from at all.

This is genocide against nonbinary folx

do better

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I think there is a misunderstanding going on. Because non-bionary people can still exist and thrive from what I said. If I'm wrong show me where. So I can correct it.

It's not my job to educate you. It's almost like Google is a thing.

Reddit Anti-Evil Operations was created to deal with chuds like you. I hope they make you eat your words so maybe next you'll think twice before speaking hate against NB/transfolx

You do realize that I don't hate anyone and I'm telling you my understanding.

If I go on google it will say exactly what I'm saying. Unless you have some links I can look up or something that would go against what I said. I agree its not your job to educate me. But your point of view is one I've literally never come across. So why are you attacking me? That doesn't make any sense. There might be real people out there who are hateful and being malicious but I'm not one of them.

your existence is literally a hate crime

Okay, I'm going to respefully stop responding because I see that this isn't helping anything. I hope you have a good life and find what you are looking for. I'm sorry for whats ever your going through that is making you so defensive.

Take a dirt nap, boomer

Go to a subreddit called AntiHateCommunities to educate yourself sweaty

We aren’t here to do your research for you bigot.

If that happens you should copy the Twitter link from the app and paste it into your browser to get the mobile version then you can post it again.

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White woman feminists fight slightly different white women feminists.

No matter who loses its a win.

And unfortunately, a federal district court recently dismissed our case. The court’s decision to do so tells women and girls that their feelings and opportunities don’t matter, and that they can’t expect anyone to stand up for their dignity and their rights.

apparently their federal circuit is based af I wanna see this ruling

Excellent title game

You have 4 links and not one of them is to information. The signal to noise ratio of the shit I've read from your links is absolutely abysmal, nobody with a working brain would put time into reading such drivel, let alone attempt to use it in place of information sources. If basic income actually failed, you could give at least some semblance of a concise explanation of the failure, or at least have one of your four links lead to something data-focused, instead of being like "here's an opinion, now immerse yourself in verbose repititions of that opinion for a half hour since hopefully that's enough to make you agree with it." You are a prime brainwashee and the reason Trump will win again.

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Risking it all for posterity:

Ms. Mitchell:

Your op-ed is, like your federal lawsuit, full of lies and omissions.

You didn't just win one race against a trains girl: You beat her at least twice within 8 days of filing that suit.

You didn't lose to a male; that's your transphobia showing. Terry Miller is a young woman. So is Andraya Yearwood. They're not males. They're female, but not like you. You're cisgender, they're #trainsgender. Those are the proper, non-bigoted terms.

But no matter what phrase or words you use, your bias cannot erase who they are. Trains girls are girls. Trains women are women. You won a sports scholarship to @williamandmary. Terry and Andraya won nothing. They opted to not pursue sports in college.

You and your co-plaintiffs are conveniently ignoring what every coach and recruiter knows all too well to cover for your trainsphobia: They don't look at who places first, or second. They look at personal best. That's what counts, and you know it.

But you and your cohorts and your legal sponsors at the extremist Christian anti #LGBTQ hate group, the @AllianceDefends are taking advantage of most people's ignorance of women's sports and sports in general, to sway public opinion.

Of course, every athlete wants to win, to place first, and every mom and dad wants to see their children succeed. I do, too! But to win by discriminating against another athlete, by suing for the legal right to win? That's what's unfair. And life is unfair, Ms. Mitchell.

No court in the world, no matter what party the judges are affiliated with, is going to give you the right to win at the expense of others.

You want the courts and state lawmakers to grant you a license to discriminate. Not in the United States that I know and love.

What is happening across our nation right now is an overreaction to propaganda and ignorance. Trainsgender athletes have every right to compete just as you do.

The fact that you, your co-plaintiffs, the parents involved and legal sponsors apparently think you're being treated unfairly is the height of arrogance, privilege and prejudice.

What #TitleIX protects is all females. All girls. All women, including those like me.

Not just you.

You may have won those races, and your scholarship, but what you have already lost is your moral compass. What you will never win is the right to discriminate.

Take a break from the track and writing your opinion pieces and look up the #14thAmendment to the U.S. Constitution, which promises equal protection for all Americans.

Also search for the August 2020 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, which upheld that #TitleIX protects #trainsgender girls and women.

Your white privilege-fed, cisgender-based confidence will not be enough to outrun the law.

Not this time.

Not ever.

Sincerely,

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It makes a good point. We should do away with women's sports leagues entirely tbh. Let then play with the men in contact sports, or get out competed.

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Always happy to see radfem and TERF fighting. Keep the drama on.

I thought w*men athletes weren't allowed to take performance enhancing drugs? 🤔

Loophole!

"listen and beleive"

"wait no we didn't say you could say that stop listening stop beleiving"

see https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/niw9s1/girl_writes_an_essay_about_how_shes_tired_of/gz4q9c1/ for whole article its behind a paywall but im a hackerman chad so i yoinked it for freezies

A for title

Didnt a similar thing happen like 3 years ago? In some mid-west USA state or something

Op is an r-slur and linked to 'latest' not 'top'

At the time of posting the latest comment was this

"Dumb jock, evangelical edition. Nobody who carries mostly female hormones at birth, then gets a flood of them at puberty has a "male body", #ChelseaMitchell. Stop making excuses for your poor showing. Take your losses like a pro, and work to improve. 👎"

By some low-energy r-slur with 7500 tweets and 25 followers

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheCapitolRadar

I assume some kind of Chinese bot but I'd expect them to have more followers than that

but you could be.

try harder

lol I got banned for this post; appealed, now unbanned. fuck this place.

OMFG, that title is a god damn work of art.

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