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One Brow said:
That sentence had nothing to do with trans people, male or female. Try to keep up.


Trust me, I have no illusion he will change his mind.


In fact, I have been reading blogs by trans people for years. I agree I would be a better person than I am if I was more of an activist.


I appreciate your concern. So far, they are happy with my ability to deliver quality data on time. I'm sure it was not in any way an attempt to dissuade me.
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I have no delusions that the broken spout of Eric can ever be turned off, as we see with the flood of posts on JF.
 
Bravery these days seems in short supply and should be applauded when someone rises above to display it.

For those not aware, San Jose State has a guy on their women's volleyball team. It is not fair and it is dangerous for the young women on the wrong end of a ball spiked by a more biologically powerful male player. Four schools had forfeit rather than risk the safety of their student athletes. The University of Nevada-Reno made a statement that their women's team would be placed in a position of danger to virtue signal. They made this statement without asking the young women on the UNR volleyball team. Upon finding out the UNR administration had committed their team to being in harm's way, the volleyball team made a direct statement in defiance of the UNR administration.

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It takes serious bravery to stand up against your own school and make a statement that is sure to draw mountains of hate from those pushing the idiocy that biological sex is a social construct. That made 5 schools to stand up for women.

However, that is not where this story ends. Today SJSU's Brooke Slusser made a statement in support of the UNR volleyball team's stance against SJSU and their own UNR administration.


View: https://x.com/BrookeSlusser/status/1846004360557613399
 
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Bawse Dawg said:
We played co-ed volleyball all the time in high school. Those snowflakes should toughen up.
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We put on an exhibition kind of thing for a "pride week" or whatever to kick off the sports season my 9th grade year and the boy's JV squad played the girl's varsity. It wasn't taken seriously of course, but the unoffical score was like 68 to 14 at the end. If we had played seriously it would have likely been way way worse. Tough for women to compete with guys where the smallest guy was as tall as the tallest girl. At least the high school level.
 
Sardines said:
Oh no, this is going to hurt woman's sports! Surely everyone concerned about women's sports over the last few years will be up in arms over this...


*crickets*
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Has Rep Nancy Mace tweeted 200 times over it? Has the Utah legislature passed any new laws to address this? This is grooming! So much grooming! And CRT! And DEI… combined!

Won’t anyone think of the women’s sports?! We Republicans must protect the womens that clearly we care very very very much about!
 
Sardines said:
Oh no, this is going to hurt woman's sports! Surely everyone concerned about women's sports over the last few years will be up in arms over this...


*crickets*
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How?

How is this ruling going to hurt women's sports? I don't think you know what you are talking about.

The ruling helps all sports, but mostly women's sports. The equal opportunity part of Title IX is in place. If you are a female athlete, you have more opportunity than a male athlete to play in college due to Title IX's proportional weighting toward student population. Colleges are roughly 2/3rd women, and by law the number of opportunities to play sports have to be 2/3rd for women athletes. That part has been in effect for a long time, and is still in effect.

What Biden did was to issue an order that would have made women's sports massively more expensive for universities. Of all the opportunities to play sports, most are in sports that nobody watches, meaning they lose money. The only college sports that make money are men's football and men's basketball. A handful of schools break even with women's basketball, but all other college sports lose money. Biden's fiat doesn't create new revenue for universities. They have the same money as before, but under the ruling they had to allocate 2/3rd of it to programs that have no chance of increasing total revenue. Biden's Title IX fiat made all those money-losing sports more expensive, and the only way to make it work financially would be to reduce athletic opportunities, 2/3rd of those opportunities which would be taken away, would be from women due to Title IX's still in-place equal opportunity provision.

Reversing Biden's revenue sharing order serves to increase the opportunity women, as a whole, will have to play sports in school.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
I don't think you know what you are talking about.
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Oh buddy, ok. This is where we ask ourselves,

“Do I really know what I’m talking about here?”

If the answer is no, it’s best to be quiet, let others talk, listen, and ask questions!

Just an unsolicited suggestion.


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BabyPeterzz said:
Oh buddy, ok. This is where we ask ourselves,

“Do I really know what I’m talking about here?”

If the answer is no, it’s best to be quiet, let others talk, listen, and ask questions!
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Excellent advice. You should ask yourself if you know what you're talking about here. I don't want to dox myself, but I do have an admittedly selfish interest in the outcome of the NCAA-antitrust settlement, revenue sharing, and scholarship rules currently in flux. This is a topic I have been paying attention to.
 
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