A college offensive lineman at our gym use to bench 450 lbs.
He transitioned to a woman and after hormone therapy can now only bench 350.
Does modern medicine give these new ladies a womb?
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Women's bench press record holder:
Just or Unfair: Many are Outraged at Transgender Athlete who Broke Women’s Powerlifting Records
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Jacob Ladon
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May 2, 2019
Header image courtesy of Envato Elements
Transgender athlete Mary Gregory has come under scrutiny.For the past few years the debate over whether transgender athletes should be competing in particular sports has heated up. It’s certainly a controversial topic of conversation, one that could potentially alienate a vast quantity of people depending on which side they stand on the argument.
It’s a touchy subject matter to say the least. It’s truly difficult to have an opinion on one side or the other without offending a entire section of the population. Yet, despite that fact, it’s an issue that must be discussed sooner rather than later in order to get some much needed clarification.
Recently the issue has come up again in the news. Transgender powerlifter Mary Gregory took to social media after winning nine out of nine events at the recent Raw Powerlifting Federation Event. Mary Gregory posted the below to Instagram.
Needless to say the post has been making the rounds and has a lot of individuals up in arms over the situation.
Former swimming champion Sharon Davies took to Twitter to address her opinion about the situation.
Even Marc Lobliner had a lot to say about this turn of events.
Again the issue seems to be that male to female transgender athletes are the individuals that people have the biggest issue with.
For many against male to female transgender athletes competing in women’s categories, the biggest issue is that women are feeling marginalized. As a result, supporting one group over the other will eventually result in a ton of backlash.
RAW President Paul Bossi had this to say about the controversial issue.
So what can we make of all this? Is it truly fair to have transgender athletes competing traditional categories designated for biologically born men and women?
As of now, it’s a question that is simply too difficult to answer and one that will have many scratching their heads in confusion and frustration. One thing is certain however. If they wish to avoid the public outcry and negative stigma of these kinds of situations, something will need to be done to the rule set to ensure fairness across the board.
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Source: Summit News
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Biden sports plan angers transgender advocates, opponents
SEAN MURPHY AND HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
Updated April 7, 2023, 3:28 PM
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Transgender AthletesFILE - People attend a rally as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, 2023, by the Capitol in Washington. Schools and colleges across the U.S. would be forbidden from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes under a proposal released Thursday, April 6, from the Biden administration, but teams could create some limits in certain cases, for example, to ensure fairness. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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A Biden administration proposal to forbid outright bans on transgender athletes sparked outrage from conservative leaders while also angering trans rights activists who note schools could still prevent some athletes from participating on teams that align with their gender identity.
The proposed rule, which still faces a lengthy approval process, establishes that blanket bans, like those that have been approved in at least 20 states, would violate Title IX, the landmark gender-equity legislation enacted in 1972. But schools could still adopt policies that limit transgender students' participation, particularly in more competitive high school and college sports.
Under the proposal, it would be much more difficult for schools to ban, for example, a transgender girl in elementary school from playing on a girls basketball team. But it would also leave room for schools to develop policies that prohibit trans athletes from playing on more competitive teams if those policies are designed to ensure fairness or prevent sports-related injuries.
Imara Jones, a trans woman who created “The Anti-Trans Hate Machine” podcast, said the proposal shows that President Joe Biden is attempting to “straddle the fence” on a human rights issue ahead of an election year by giving legal recourse to schools that bar some trans athletes from competition.
“The Biden Administration framed their proposal as a ban on blanket discrimination against trans athletes. But actually, it provides guidelines for how schools and universities can ban trans athletes legally,” Jones said in a statement.
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, also offered pointed criticism, saying in a tweet that the plan was “indefensible and embarrassing.”
Erin Reed, a prominent trans activist and researcher, said the proposal “alarmingly” echoes right-wing talking points, which argue that trans participation could increase injuries and take away scholarship opportunities from female athletes who are cisgender, meaning their gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth. She worries school boards and lawmakers will use it to justify bans.
Extensive research is virtually nonexistent when it comes to determining whether adolescent trans girls have a clear athletic advantage over cisgender girls.
“I can’t read this any other way than a betrayal,” Reed said in a tweet. “This entire document is worse than doing nothing.”
Sean Ebony Coleman, a trans activist and founder of the LGBTQ+ center Destination Tomorrow in New York, said policymakers — particularly on a national level — need to completely rule out any option for trans people to be further ostracized.
“While it hypothetically prevents across-the-board bans, it offers enough gray area for discrete gender policing and demonization to occur, specifically on a local level,” Coleman said.
Still, some transgender athletes welcomed the proposal as an important first step toward protecting trans kids' access to sports.
“I would love to see protections expanded to include elite and collegiate sports, but this seems like a good start,” said Iszac Henig, a trans man and competitive swimmer at Yale University. “Trans athletes should have the ability to compete on the team of their choice if their athletic skills allow it.”
Doriane Coleman, a law professor at Duke University, said the proposal allows for schools that receive federal funding to “still choose to have male and female sports teams" and makes sense compared with the “one-size-fits-all approach” found in some states.
"You wouldn’t be able to make the same argument for kindergarten or elementary school sport that you can make for elite high school and college sport under this two-part test,” Coleman said.
A way that the federal government, states and advocacy groups can avoid “piecemeal litigation” is by making clear “there is a body of evidence to support generalizable sex-specific eligibility standards for each sport at each level of development,” she said.
The proposal was quickly assailed by many Republican leaders who said they were ready to fight the plan in court.
“South Dakota will not allow this to stand,” Gov. Kristi Noem tweeted. “We will lead. We will defend our laws.”
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a statement suggesting the state might also try to challenge the federal rule. Alabama lawmakers in 2021 approved legislation that bans trans women and girls from participating on female sports team in K-12 schools. It was also one of 20 states that filed a lawsuit in 2021 seeking to halt directives that extend federal sex discrimination protections to LGBTQ+ people.
“I have made myself abundantly clear to the Biden Administration that he will NOT impose his radical policies on Alabama athletes. He will NOT destroy athletic competition for our young women & girls. In Alabama our law protects girls’ sports. Stay tuned!” Marshall said in a statement.
The public will have 30 days to comment on the proposal after it is published in the Federal Register. After that, the U.S. Department of Education will review the comments and decide whether any changes are needed before issuing a final rule.
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Murphy reported from Oklahoma City, and Schoenbaum reported from Raleigh, N.C. Associated Press writers Carole Feldman in Washington, D.C., Erica Hunzinger in Denver, Kimberly Chandler in Montgomery, Ala., Pat Eaton-Robb in Hartford, Conn., and John Hanna in Topeka, Kan., contributed.
Originally published April 7, 2023, 3:27 PM |
