Another male “winner” in female sports
In New Hampshire high school athletics:
Male high jumper Maelle Jacques won a GIRLS' high school state title yesterday in New Hampshire. @NHIAA_LOA
His winning jump was almost 10" lower than the boys' winning height. His 10 pt score helped the Kearsage HS girls' track & field team jump to runner-up in the state among… pic.twitter.com/mX2c0lUOHS
— ICONS (@icons_women) February 12, 2024
There’s a hint there as to why schools let this happen: it helps the team place higher. However, not only is it an obvious travesty which we’re not supposed to notice, but it hurts individual girl athletes:
…[S]ince Maelle has declared that he is femaelle, he finished in fourth in the girls meet. This is significant for two reasons:
1. His girl’s team got 5 points towards their team score.
2. The top 6 girls in each event qualify for the New England Championship, which meant that Brooke Bouchard of Hollis-Brookline Regional would’ve qualified if she ran against a field exclusively of other girls.
Many people think the girls should just refuse to compete. But don’t underestimate how difficult that is. From the comments at LI:
Competitors definitely don’t want to miss a meet. And/But, they definitely don’t want to miss a meet and then get labeled ‘transphobic.’ There’s a reason why (for the most part) the only collegiate athletes who are publicly criticizing this insanity are those who are in their senior year or have graduated. The younger girls in college or those prep school athletes wanting to make a collegiate team themselves, keep their mouths shut because they’re terrified of retaliation. Given what happened to the college coach (I think at Otterbein), that fear is clearly justified.
Plus, unless it’s a group boycott, it has little effect except to ruin the boycotter’s athletic career. I wish more people were strong enough to protest by getting together in a large group to stop participating, but I think it’s unrealistic to expect that many people to be courageous. In my opinion it is the athletic authorities who allow this who are the gutless cowards who should stop it.
It’s precisely this kind of thing that leads me to say that we are completely lost as a nation, a culture, a civilization and we can’t vote our way out of this. Doesn’t matter who is in the White House, this isn’t going to change.
I propose a new law:
Any school which fields a male pretending to be a female,
in which that team achieves a win,
in which the male-in-drag athlete achieves a personal victory or breaks a record,
shall have those wins or that record-breaking removed from its school athletic record and stats,
(optionally footnoted with information noting why),
and shall be prohibited from participation in the relevant high-school athletic league or association for a number of years equal to the number of years in which it was fielding ringers-in-drag, unfairly depriving other schools’ female athletes of the victories they would otherwise have had.
College sports is nothing but cheating. When I competed in against KU in ’68, they saw my first bout and at the finals ran me three bouts in a row w/o rest. I placed fourth and on returning to my college instructor I asked why she didn’t protest (rests are mandated in competition) and she had no answer. I walked out on her and never returned.
Years later when I ran a cub in KC, KU showed up for the competition. I had to stop the entire competition multiple times because of KU’s cheating. Once trying to get the judges to make other club’s members wear restrictive gear (martingales) that theirs weren’t. Once for their members using electric foils (metal tips) against normal jackets in a manual meet. And trying to slip their members into end judge positions on other’s matches.
As they couldn’t cheat, they were trounced by several teams in attendance.
I hate cheats and it’s obvious from their subsequent meteoric jump in ranking immediately after ‘transitioning’ that these guys aren’t doing it for anything more than to “win”.
Speaking of cheating, Kamala knows all about it:
Kamala Harris tells the TRUTH
Who is funnier, the impersonator (intentionally) or Kamala (unintentionally)? Watch it twice – it’s a tough call.
It’s the government officials in government schools who accept the lie that XY people are “real women” if they say so.
Men’s sport should be replaced by Open, for men, women, and all.
Female sports for XX folk who are women, only.
http://Www.shewon.org
A listing of the HUNDREDS of females who have lost medals to males (to date)
Oh, and another reason even whole teams are afraid to boycott:
https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/13/vermont-school-that-boycotted-game-with-trans-player-banned-from-tournaments
One team boycotted in this instance, and the result was the ENTIRE SCHOOL was forbidden from playing in any tournaments the reminder of the season.
They won’t just punish you, they’ll punish other to make them hate you
I see it as a cultural fault. The boys competing against girls feel no shame.
When I was in school, I would have been relentlessly ridiculed if I decided to compete against girls. Apparently, there is no public shaming of these mentally ill young men.
Erronius
“It’s precisely this kind of thing that leads me to say that we are completely lost as a nation, a culture, a civilization and we can’t vote our way out of this. Doesn’t matter who is in the White House, this isn’t going to change.” Marisa
America may well be lost. But the clown world in which we currently reside is not sustainable because denial of reality is not permanently sustainable.
So, it’s not a case of if the woke facade will collapse but of how much more harm it will do before it collapses.
At some point, I fully expect a young woman to die in some highly physical sport through the actions of a man pretending to themselves to be a woman.
But given the depth of denial on the woke left, I don’t think even a second death will result in ending this pretense.
It’s going to take a third death to end this insanity.
Why do Women/Mothers/Athletes keep letting this happen. When they stop participating this nonsense will stop.
Marisa
There is only one way out and we refuse to pay that price.
Tom Grey,
I think most men’s sports are already open to all.
I remember a story awhile back about an outstanding, male High School wrestler who forfeited a meet because he refused to wrestle a girl who he would have easily defeated.
Regarding female athletes not boycotting,
It’s a personal choice and I don’t negatively judge any woman or girl who does just that, but most athletes compete because they want to compete.
I remember one track meet in High School where just before my race I learned there was a College guy in my heat. He needed to log a certain number of sanctioned events in order to qualify for some other meet, so his coach had arranged for him to race at this High School event. I was not happy. At all. Having someone with his ability in the race would throw off the strategy I had hoped to use. But I didn’t let on. I stoically took it in and lined up for the start.
And that guy was quite stunned when he found himself in second place when we all left our assigned lanes after the first lap. He ended up edging me out at the finish, but I made sure he worked for that win.
Athletes train for competition and most want to compete, even when the odds are stacked against them. I admire these girls and hope the adults involved change these idiotic rules so the girls and women are no longer penalized by this insane practice.
I keep hoping that the fathers of those (real) female athletes would just grab the guy who was pretending to be a women and give that guy a sex-change operation right on the spot. And then all of those fathers could prove they were all at Joe’s Bar during the “surgical” procedure!
The NCAA is currently on our chopping block for stopping the corruption in Real Women’s sports.
There is fresh thread at Instapundit on the latest controversy. It all matters more this year because the summer Olympic Games hits Paris in August.
I think myself fortunate that I’m a pro-Tennis fan, where this isn’t a war yet.
Sad.