Women already encounter significant hardship in schools. Many American women do not have the resources growing up to engage in athletics in school: no late buses or unsafe public transportation, crumbling infrastructure where schools do not have safe athletic facilities, working parents cannot afford gear and supplies, schools don't have organized teams for young women, etc. So when women make it to college and can participate in a track team or swimming team (and/or they get scholarships to participate in collegiate level sports) this is a huge achievement.
Today, the Biden administration announced an expansion of Title IX in American colleges (impacting the federal funding such colleges receive, for example) where transgender people will be subject to federal protection if college teams choose to keep women's teams without biological men. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona made the announcement.
This is a controversial topic so I am fully prepared to receive criticism. But the fact is, women already face significant hardship just for being women by the time they get to college. To add biological men to their sports teams -- now with full backing of the biological men by the federal government -- adds to already existing hardship. Biological men are usually stronger and more powerful than biological women. Biological male skeletons are easily identifiable by their sheer differences to biological female skeletons, from wider shoulders to bone mass. These changes are innate and do not go away...
Where was this federal protection or funding for athletic programs for women? Less than 1% (0.58%) of the American population identifies as transgender. 58% of the American population is women. Surely the needs of 58% of the population is more pressing than the needs (?) of 0.58%.
Women today have very few allies.
One of the ONLY things I ever respected about Biden was the Violence Against Women Act but he has even changed that for males.....I just.....roe v wade upturned, women not being allowed to escape penises no matter where they go, women being raped and impregnated in prison by mtfs....it's too much, they hate us too much, I don't think I can vote blue. At least Republicans respect a woman's right to shoot a rapist....I have never voted red before in my life.....I've been told to do so would make women's rights "go backwards"
I wish FDS women would stop apologizing to the misogynists who want to erase women and pretend men can be women. Ate they apologizing to us or calling us bigots? Is doubting ourselves and apologizing to scrotes getting us anywhere? They can kiss my CIS FEMALE azz.
This also has dangerous implications for women in contact sports. Especially team sports. Any woman running up against a man whether in soccer or rugby is going to get broken bones and permanent injuries from playing on mixed teams... This is incredibly dangerous
Just as Reagan and Clinton pushed for corporation appeasement and rights Biden is pushing forward men's rights. Title IX is so important for scholarships and young women- this is really devastating. That FINA can see that a man in a one-piece shooting for the women's Olympic trials (when he wouldn't make a heat for the men's pre-Olympic trials) is staggering. The scariest thing is not just that Biden is pushing this forward, but that Biden is so feeble and we can't tell who is pushing him. That there is a concealed MRA within the Biden administration is troubling and that women now have no legal rights as recourse (to protect us from organizations) is so backwards and troubling. Everything is backwards and troubling- when the police is full of military rejects with no training to the point where the military looks like an appealing option for policing... When the government strips half the population of their rights and dignity to the point where organizations and corporations have appealing policy... All of this is societal decay to consolidate power by appeasing angry men til they've serve their purpose It also makes me say FUCK THE DEMS for this midterm election. They're just as violently sexist as Republicans and they haven't been good to ANY group of constituents in the last 50 years. They've only been 'not Republican' and that has never been enough and they're no longer worth supporting in word or practice