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US swimming bosses change policy on trans athletes
Leaders have received a mixed reaction after issuing a new policy with immediate effect
Governing body USA Swimming has ruled that a three-member panel will decide whether women who have transitioned gender have an unfair advantage when they attempt to compete in female competition against biologically-born women.
The immediate change in policy, which will also require female athletes to have a testosterone concentration level under 5 nmol/L for a continuous period of at least 36 months, appears to be a response to the controversy around University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas.
Transgender Thomas is understood to have undergone at least a year of testosterone suppression before smashing several records in the female ranks, winning numerous races with an ease that led to a fierce debate around whether National Collegiate Athletic Association rules are fair.
This should be sufficient to tell you that reducing testosterone in men doesn't turn them into women or make them physically equal.
"USA Swimming has and will continue to champion gender equity and the inclusivity of all cisgender and transgender women and their rights to participate in sport," the organization said in a statement, adding that its mission lies in "fervently supporting competitive equity at elite levels of competition."
"The development of the elite policy therefore acknowledges a competitive difference in the male and female categories and the disadvantages this presents in elite head-to-head competition.
"This is supported by statistical data that shows that the top-ranked female in 2021, on average, would be ranked 536th across all short course yards (25 yards) male events in the country and 326th across all long course meters (50 meters) male events in the country, among USA Swimming members.
"The policy therefore supports the need for competitive equity at the most elite levels of competition.
"At the non-elite level, an inclusive process has been established by which an athlete can elect to change their competition category in order for them to experience the sport of swimming in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity and expression.
"At the elite level, a policy has been created for transgender athlete participation in the US that relies on science and medical evidence-based methods to provide a level-playing field for elite cisgender women, and to mitigate the advantages associated with male puberty and physiology.
If science and medical evidence were used properly, there would be no issue here. Transgenders are not the sex they pretend to be, nor can they possibly ever be. Transgenders should compete against themselves.
"Elite athletes shall include any athlete who has achieved a time standard and desires to participate in elite events as defined in the policy."
The announcement is a clear attempt to address arguments across the spectrum of debate on transgender swimmers.
Several noted former athletes have warned that participants born as women face their sporting aspirations being crushed by opponents who have transitioned, pointing to scientific sources and arguing that going through puberty as a male, in particular, confers unfair advantages.
Politicians in several US states have passed legislation outlawing transgender athletes from competing in female sports, while rights campaigners have argued that those bills are discriminatory and prevent everyone having the chance to participate according to their desired gender.
Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a prominent equality campaigner and three-time gold medalist for the US at the 1984 Olympic Games, joined others in applauding the development.
"USA Swimming deserves our appreciation for prioritizing biological women in new eligibility guidelines," she said, having overseen the publication of data suggesting that transgender athletes have insurmountable advantages in the pool.
"Women are prioritized in the purpose of an evaluation and in the new eligibility criteria."
Others claimed the policy is over-reliant on testosterone measurements and accused Swimming USA of sounding the death knell for women's sports and showing disdain for females.
Some reports raised the question of whether the rules will now preclude Thomas from being allowed to compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships, which she reached by finishing 38 seconds ahead of her nearest rival.
Thomas's teammates had released a statement supporting her just a day earlier, expressing their "full support for Lia in her transition".
They said that media claims of parents complaining about Thomas's involvement and urging the NCAA to revise its rules were "not representative" of the views of the "diverse" 39-woman team. "We value her as a person, teammate and friend," they added.
I think it's a good thing these girls can swim.
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Biden Admin Says “Mother” and “Father” are Offensive
USAID promoting homosexuality and transgender ideology
By Alexis I. Fragosa, Esq. |
February 3, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. (C-Fam) New U.S. guidelines for overseas educational programs suggest that the terms “mother” and “father” are “offensive.”
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) released guidelines encouraging USAID educational partners to integrate these new LGBT ideas into school curriculums and teacher trainings.
Reasserting its commitment to “inclusive development,” the new guidelines draw upon the Obama era strategy document LGBT Vision for Action, which outlined USAID’s strategy for promoting homosexuality and transgender ideology through its work overseas.
The new document offers “best practices” for LGBT “inclusion in education,” which includes banning the use of the “offensive and inappropriate” terms, like “mother” and “father,” removing books and content “from curricula that negatively stereotype” individuals who identify as LGBT and promoting “diverse sexual orientations and gender identities” in sexual education and family formation curriculums.
Critics claim that USAID’s new guidelines will ultimately impact faith-based education partners insufficiently committed to the Biden administration’s whole-of-government initiative to advance the LGBT agenda by conditioning grant funding upon their implementation of USAID’s new guidelines.
In the guidelines, USAID encourages educators to “expand [their] students’ knowledge of diversity” by exposing them LGBT role models “through literature, lessons and classroom guests.”
The document also encourages schools to allow transgender students to use the restroom and locker rooms intended for students of the opposite sex to ensure that transgender students are not “marginalized” or “exposed to bullying and/or harassment.” Schools are also advised to refrain from implementing dress codes for students that are strictly based on a “binary understanding of gender,” which USAID claims is detrimental to “transgender, third-gender, and non-conforming students and educators.”
USAID warns schools that some educators, which includes all faculty, administrative staff, pupil support services – essentially any adult on campus – “may be biased or judgmental against LGBTQI+ students and may not be able to create an inclusive environment or provide support for LGBTQI+ students,” especially “educators whose personal and religious beliefs do not support” the LGBT lifestyle.
Beyond the religious litmus test USAID implicitly suggests is necessary to weed out non-inclusive educators, USAID also advises that schools must ensure that “education officials do not reveal a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity” to a student’s family without the expressed permission from the student, claiming that minors have a right to privacy from their parents.
The document also offers examples of successful LGBT “inclusive education programs.” For example, in Kosovo, under USAID’s Basic Education Program “over 140 principals in Kosovo participated in training” designed to “increase school directors’ awareness of the challenges faced by LGBTQI+ students and teachers, and their duty of care for students and staff” – again, implicitly asserting that principals have an extraordinary legal “duty of care” for LGBT students and staff.
USAID claims that LGBT students are disproportionately impacted by violence in school compared to their heterosexual peers and references a UNESCO document that defines certain speech as violence.
USAID also claims that “[i]n pre-colonial times it appears that there were local understandings that gender and sexual diversity was a part of the reality of humanity,” and that any idea that the promotion of the LGBT agenda abroad is “a form of cultural imperialism” is not accurate.
And we know that because? In my logical world, primitive societies would not likely tolerate homosexuality because that would reduce the growth of that particular community. Growth is extremely important in primitive tribes, it means survival.
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Professor under investigation for defending sex with children
Clips of Stephen Kershnar expressing favorable views on pedophilia went viral online
A New York university is investigating one of its professors after he appeared to defend sex between adults and extremely young children in a series of videos which went viral online.
Stephen Kershnar, a philosophy professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia), received heavy backlash this week after clips of him were published on social media.
“Imagine that an adult male wants to have sex with a 12-year-old girl. Imagine that she’s a willing participant,” said Kershnar. “It’s a very standard, very widely held view that there’s something deeply wrong about this, and it’s wrong independent of it being criminalized. It’s not obvious to me that it is in fact wrong.”
Conscience is attached to the highest that you know - Oswald Chambers. It appears Prof. Kershnar's standards may be pretty low.
Kershnar went on to say that “the notion that it’s wrong even with a one-year-old is not quite obvious to me,” and argued that there were reports “in some cultures of grandmothers fellating their baby boys to calm them down.”
“If it were to be true, it’s hard to see what would be wrong with it,” he said, before going one step further by claiming that adult-child sex could even have benefits for both parties.
Citing historical instances of sex between adults and children, as well as in bonobo apes, Kershnar said “there is good reason to believe that there’s actually a strong benefit to adult-child sex.”
Yeah! For the adult! There is nothing but trauma and confusion for the child!
After social media users called for Kershnar to be fired for the comments, SUNY Fredonia President Stephen H. Kolison issued a statement on Tuesday claiming that the matter was under review.
SUNY Fredonia is aware of a video posted online involving one of its professors.
The views expressed by the professor are reprehensible and do not represent the
values of SUNY Fredonia in any way, shape or form
“They are solely the professor’s views,” said Kolison, adding that “the matter is being reviewed.”
While the clips landed Kershnar in hot water this week, he has consistently made similar statements for over 20 years, and is known in the academic world for his frequent and provocative arguments in favor of other controversial topics.
In 2015, Kershnar published a book titled, ‘Pedophilia and Adult-Child Sex: A Philosophical Analysis’, which made many of the same arguments expressed in the recent clips.
Even SUNY Fredonia’s official profile for Kershnar boasts that the professor has written extensively “on such diverse topics” as “adult-child sex.”
In 2011, Kershnar wrote a book titled, ‘For Torture: A Rights-Based Defense’, while the professor has also written articles titled, ‘A Liberal Argument for Slavery’, ‘For Discrimination Against Women’, ‘Rape Fantasies and Virtue’, ‘The Morality of Faking Orgasms’, and ‘In Defense of Asian Romantic Preference’.
The Dean needs to be fired as well as the pedophile professor.
Team USA runner ‘silenced’ over trans athlete concerns
Cynthia Monteleone claims she was ordered to "keep her mouth shut"
at the 2018 World Master Atheltics Championships
A track-and-field world champion has claimed Team USA ordered her to "keep her mouth shut" about the advantages transgender athletes have when trying to voice her concerns in 2018.
Cynthia Monteleone struck gold in the 4x100m and 4x400m relays at the 2018 World Master Athletics Championships in Malaga, and then in the 400m at the 2019 World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland.
On Tuesday, the 45-year-old revealed her own team advised her against complaining about having to compete against trans runners such as Colombia's Yanelle Del Mar Zape, who she faced twice in Malaga including in the semi-finals when Monteleone beat her by just a few tenths of a second.
Monteleone was allegedly told "for your own safety you should probably keep your mouth shut" by Team USA officials before she could lodge a complaint.
Monteleone said "words can't describe how I felt walking up to that starting line in Spain next to a biological male-bodied athlete" in a Facebook live stream with Senator Marsha Blackburn on her Unmuted with Marsha page.
Unlike her mother, Monteleone's daughter Margaret cannot say she has topped a transgender athlete when competing in a high-school event.
"She had to line up for her very first race, after training all year, along [with] a biological male," Monteleone said, claiming the trans runner had blown "everybody away in the first 100 meters" even though she had only trained for a fortnight prior to the meet.
"She deserved to win. She put in the work. But she had no chance because of the biological advantage of this male-bodied athlete," Monteleone said of Margaret's plight.
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