Independent Council on Women’s Sports: 🌐Network of female athletes advocating saving women’s sports 🏛️Funding lawsuit for female athletes against the NCAA
🚨🚨Breaking: 16 Female Athlete’s File Landmark Title IX Lawsuit Against the NCAA
ICONS commitment to funding this lawsuit follows through on our promise to hold the NCAA accountable after prolonged discrimination against its female athletes.
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🏋️♂️ Team Canada powerlifting coach, Avi Silverberg just broke the Alberta WOMEN's bench press record in the 84+ kg category at the "Heroes Classic."
Former record holder, trans-identifying male, Anne Andres had a front row view as Silverberg mocked the discriminatory CPU policy…
Massachusetts GIRLS’ basketball team forfeits at halftime against KIPP Academy with male player standing over 6’ tall with facial hair.
The coach “felt that his girls were getting injured, basically, all game,”
🔥🚨Breaking News! The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
@NAIA
Council of Presidents voted 25-0 to make history as the first national college governing body to officially ban men from women’s collegiate sports.
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Boy Dominates Girls' High School Conference in California
Male runner, Athena Ryan from
@sonomaacademy
finished 1st in a field of 55 girls at the Coastal Mountain Conference Championships in Santa Rosa, CA this month.
@_TechnologyHS
freshman Josie Hill was cheated out of her…
Martina Navratilova blasts US Tennis Association after trans-identifying male, Alicia Rowley won women's national tournament and claims the sport is 'not for failed male athletes'
@usta
🏃Trans-identifying male, Athena Ryan (Jr) took 2nd today in the “Girls 1600m” at a CA State Championship qualifier meet in Dublin, CA.
Ryan beamed while 4th place senior, Adeline Johnson gave a thumb down after losing the chance to advance to the State Championships by 1 spot.
🚨🚨 Breaking: several male fighters have been brutalizing women in the combat sport of Jiu Jitsu‼️
@joerogan
Safety of female athletes MUST be prioritized over the preferences of men‼️ Save Women's Jiu Jitsu➡️
50-year-old 'trans'-identifying male prevented from competing at kids swim meet
Host team tells Orangeville Otters: don’t come with middle-aged male swim team member
Watch:
Nearly two dozen California mothers, coaches, & activists speak out against the rise in boys participation in girl's sports in the state...
@WomenAreReals
@CIFState
We agree with Lia Thomas on one thing:
“You can’t really have that sort of half-support”
We do not in ANY way support the injustice of male participation in women’s sports. We are all in for female athletes. Not half. ALL in.
🏃2nd trans-identifying male, Lorelei Barrett is headed to the
@CIFState
CA track championships next weekend. Along with male Athena Ryan, he’s also qualified in the “Girls 1600m” race.
Barrett had qualified for the girls state cross country championships last fall……
🚨🚨🚨Police called on 19 women
@ICFSport
in Vancouver by Canadian Powerlifting Union Pres. Shane Martin
Women dressed in black to “mourn women’s sports” with “XY≠XX” stickers cheered female lifters forced to compete at CAN Nationals against trans identifying male, Anne Andres.
The Canadian Powerlifting Union has suspended female athlete April Hutchinson from the sport for 2 years‼️
Her crime? Calling her male powerlifting opponent a “biological man” on the
@piersmorgan
show while advocating for fair sports for women & girls.
"BREAKING:
I now face a 2-year ban by the CPU for speaking publicly about the unfairness of biological males being allowed to taunt female competitors & loot their winnings.
Apparently, I have failed in my gender-role duties as “supporting actress” in the horror show that is my…
⚽️ “An Australian amateur football league is receiving backlash from parents and players who are voicing frustrations after learning that a man who identifies as a woman has been dominating the female soccer league and injuring female players.”
NCAA male swimmer, Meg Cortez-Fields at Ramapo College, NJ, switched to the women's team, using their locker room & sharing hotel rooms with female teammates this season.
He won 2 women's events & erased a woman's name from the record books in Dallas, PA this weekend.
@NCAA
…
The NCAA was dead wrong to force female athletes like
@Riley_Gaines_
to share a locker room with biological men. The NCAA should apologize to female athletes - and stop forcing women to stand by while men take over their sports
🚩🚩Shutting GIRLS down on Senior Night
Vermont's Long Trail girls' basketball team is dominating this season with 17-1 record. The GIRLS team star player is 6'1" male center, Rose Johnson.
Mid Vermont Christian School was barred from all athletic play after forfeiting against…
It can be hard, when we're young, to not win a trophy sometimes. But we grow up and realize it’s not the end of the world and we don't need to turn that loss into our entire personality.
@ReduxxMag
Normalizing brutality against women by putting it on public display and then awarding men medals, belts and in some cases swords for their victory in violence is a dangerous message to every person who witnesses it. This must end.
🚴 Trans-identifying male BMXer, Chelsea Wolfe (30) collided w/
@BritishCycling
rider, Sasha Pardoe (16) resulting in a concussion for the teenager & removal from the
@fiseworld
World Cup.
High schooler loses chance at 7k euros in winning prize money by failing medical clearance.
👟Male runner, Cece Telfer, displaced collegiate women in the finals of a women's invitational meet in Boston last month.
Telfer, the first openly trans-identifying male to win a women's NCAA national title in the 400m hurdles (2019), ran unattached. After bumping a female…
Male cross-country runner, Soren Stark-Chessa won the
@MPA_Sports
Girls S. Maine Championships this morning by almost 1.5min
3rd place, Haley Williams lamented “it’s really, it’s very upsetting to me because I’ve worked my butt off all year.”
⚠️ Shocking video
🏐NC HS girl's volleyball player injured by hit from alleged trans identified male
👉School Board cancels games against team w/male athlete over "safety issue"
*Injured girl ➡️ ongoing concussion symptoms including vision problems
Harassing 5-year-old girls who advocate for fair competition in athletics is a desperate tactic of radicals who are starting to recognize that girls are winning in the battle over their own sports.
DISGUSTING: Protestors targeted young girls outside of the signing of the
#SaveWomensSports
Act in Texas.
Girls, as young as 5, were harassed & called vulgar names, all for joining the celebration of protecting equal athletic opportunity.
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📢Women need more RESPECT on the track, in the pool & on the field these days.
Show your support to keep women’s sports female! Get your gear at
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@ReduxxMag
Here's the moment when three intersex males took gold, silver, and bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics Women's 800M event. Not a single woman placed in their own category.
Security removed women from the field seen holding signs in support of girls in the sectional meet. Many parents were completely unaware there was a boy competing in girls races. Others, were appreciative that they were there when they themselves felt silenced.
@WomenAreReals
…
🥇Male athlete, Lizzy Bidwell won the GIRLS New England Track & Field Championship high jump title this weekend.
He secured the
#1
jump in CT and the
#3
highest jump nationwide for high school girls. He was 1 of 2 boys in the girls' event of 32. 🧵
Read more here:
"Did my penis distract you?"
MA teen boy, Derek Cannuscio's inappropriate comment to opposing female player post girls' volleyball game sparks controversy. Heated girls' match: Opposing team fans booed the male team captain. 🧵
@MIAA033
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…
Title IX has become a tool to strip away women’s rights, marking a complete betrayal. The Biden Administration is well aware of the harm they're inflicting on women and girls with their radical overhaul of Title IX. Despite hearing from hundreds of thousands of people, including…
Today, in LV ahead of the Super Bowl
@Dove
unveils girls sports campaign
Is Dove the first major corporate sponsor to publicly back saving women’s sports?
We condemn the nomination of a male for
@NCAA
Woman of the Year.
@pennathletics
&
@IvyLeague
selection surrenders another accolade meant to celebrate female accomplishments. Women deserve fair competition and acknowledgement that the best collegiate female athletes are not male.
🚨🚨 Court Appeal Announcement‼️
@USAPowerlifting
files appeal in lawsuit after Judge orders USAPL cease ALL operations in Minnesota unless it permits male athletes to compete against women in powerlifting competitions
✨Read the details HERE:
🏋️Trans identifying male, Anne Andres is Alberta Canada's women's powerlifting record holder in bench
🚨competes next month in women's category at the 2023 CPU National Championships
🚩Recognizes no understanding of upper body strength differences btw males & females
🧵
It's alleged that
@UWVolleyball
rescinded the scholarship from the male vying to play with the women. Sources say the coaches had NO idea he is a male.
He and his family concealed his sex throughout the entering recruiting process.
The power of public opinion & accountability.
🏃Italian trans-identifying male, Valentina Petrillo breaks record and wins 8th women’s title
👇200m F50 women’s category win at the Italian Indoor Masters Championships March 12th
Trans-identifying male, Emma Farnan set to play professional women’s US rugby kickoff in Austin, TX this Saturday
Premier Rugby Sevens IGNORES
@WorldRugby
guidelines, allows male to play the collision sport against female athletes
🥏This CA judge made the wrong decision today. He’s dismissed the real harms endured by dozens of female professional disc golfers to prioritize the desires of one man.
📢 Exclusive: Teenage girl bravely speaks out about unfair races. “I realized that in front of me was a boy running in our race. I kept wondering, why are all the adults going along with this? I felt tricked… he’s making fun of us.”
🏃♂️Junior, non-binary identifying male, Chloe Barnes helps girls team win Massachusetts HS State Championships with performance in the hurdles
👉Girls hurdles = 33"h v. Boys hurdles = 39"h
*Barnes pushed senior Shayla Quill out of the finals
@ReduxxMag
@LetOregonLearn
These record setting high school male athletes will be rewarded with women’s collegiate roster spots and scholarships. The
@NCAA
encourages these boys to dominate disadvantaged girls for huge financial and academic gain.
UPenn swimmer,
@PaulaYScanlan
will be speaking on an incredible panel with
@Riley_Gaines_
at our upcoming International Women’s Sports Summit in Denver, July 21-23!
Join dozens of global experts in law, science and policy next month!
✨Register TODAY
A teammate of Lia Thomas appeared in What Is A Woman anonymously. A few days ago she came to us and said she is ready to come out publicly and tell her story. I had a longer conversation with Paula where she revealed a number of details that weren't covered in the film. Watch:
In girls sports, 9yo girls have lost prizes & money to adult men with advantaged, male bodies.
@Dove
will you really stand with girls and speak out against this injustice?
Lia Thomas takes legal action to challenge the World Aquatics policy barring him from elite women’s competitions, including the Olympics.
Another daring move to blow up more women’s barriers in sports from the first male NCAA DI women’s champion 🏊♂️🌐
🎾 Male tennis player Brooklyn Ross, 27, sparks fury in Wyoming and female tennis association president quits after he’s allowed to compete in women’s Governor's Cup tournament: 'It's a very unfair matchup’
🚨Parents nightmare:
“it appears, a [trans-identifying 50-year-old male] is within the law to both change and shower with little girls in the same changeroom and also compete against them in the pool.”
🚴"I have decided to end my cycling career. At my last race at the recent UCI Cyclocross National Championships in the elite women’s category in Dec '22, I came in 4th place, flanked on either side by male riders awarded 3rd & 5th places."
Hannah Arensman
🚨Grandparents, Moms threatened with arrest for supporting female athletes in ‘Respect Her Sports’ shirts. One sign read ‘Boys are Not Girls.’
Principal claimed grandmas were ‘disrupting’ boy competing in the girls’ races. Parents are fed up with
@wiaawa
’s policy allowing male…
Kings gets cheated out of another 1st place team trophy as male from Seattle Academy contributes to women's team score. Individually, he placed 3rd overall.
Yet again, Aspen (male) stands atop the podium selfishly holding the women's team trophy just as he did last week…
Male tennis player, Brooklyn Ross (27) drops out of women’s Governor's Cup after finally being publicly exposed for participating in women’s tennis matches since college in 2019
Judge order: if
@USAPowerlifting
won't subject women lifters to unfair competition by allowing males in the women's category, then no one can compete at all.
The sport of powerlifting has been destroyed for both men & women in MN. We applaud USA Powerlifting for its commitment…
The judge in our ongoing litigation in Minnesota, involving the appropriate and fair inclusion of transgender athletes, has ordered us to cease doing business in Minnesota despite the plaintiff NOT requesting this. We will appeal this highly unusual ruling.
California mother speaks out about a boy taking a roster spot on her daughter’s track and field team.
Read her testimony in an athlete brief submitted to the Supreme Court ➡️
🏃Freshman trans-identifying male, Maelle Jacques won 2nd today in the girls 1600m at the
@NHIAA_LOA
DIII Track & Field State Championships. Jacques also scored points in 5th place in the High Jump and placed 13th in the Long Jump.
Jacques helped lead his girls team to a…
Although this
#SCOTUS
decision has extended the time it will take, the end of sex-discrimination in athletics is INEVITABLE.
We are more determined than ever to make sure the US does not erase the hard-earned rights of women after only a few short decades.
🚨NCAA Official Resigns Over Transgender Policy
📽️Sports attorney and former general counsel for
@usantidoping
, Bill Bock reveals "conspiracy of silence" within the
@NCAA
on discrimination against female athletes with
@DanaPerino
.
For this reason and this reason only, I'll be quitting my activism of fighting to protecting women's sports and single-sex spaces.
Things like this have become FAR too intimidating and happen way too often. This was the final straw...
Trans-identifying male footballer who left opponents 'terrified' and broke knee of a player 'blocking her shot' quits team and threatens to sue for discrimination because rivals refused to compete against him
🎾 Male tennis player, Alicia Rowley is the latest Women’s National Tennis Champion and winner of the coveted “golden ball”
Rowley has recently won the women’s 55+:
🥇Grass Court National Championships
🥇National Indoor Singles and Doubles
It's reported that male player (
#2
for Swampscott) knocked the teeth out of female player. Males are allowed to play on female teams in MA because of the "equal play act"
This is the town where NCAA president and past gov, Charlie baker lives. Care to comment,
@CharlieBakerMA
?
...The Christian school is suing state officials after being banned from all athletic and academic events for forfeiting a game over this male player last year. He continues to excel in girls' basketball this season. 🧵
Sheraton hotel manager
@SheratonYVR
asks women to leave women’s sporting event because they were cheering on women athletes and holding signs.
“If you’re refusing to leave we are going to have to take it to the next step…Officers are waiting outside.”
New Hampshire Male Track Athlete Favored To Win Girls State Championship Meet This Upcoming Weekend
“Sophomore Maelle Jacques, a biological male, is ranked as the top high jumper in the division”
His daughter has earned 13
@CIFState
patches and decided to pull out of her favorite race yesterday, because of a boy.
“These girls are discouraged, they feel hopeless and they’re quitting…Stop taking things away from our little girls”.
#TitleIX
Jiu Jitsu apparel company vows never to sponsor competitions that allow male athletes to fight female opponents.
Support companies that support women. Thank you
@DSgear
Datsusara is fully committed to protecting the right of female athletes to compete in a fair and safe environment.
We will not sponsor any competition that allows biological males to compete in women's divisions. We will work to end this ideological insanity together.
Our statement:
World governing bodies like
@UCI_cycling
are all moving in the right direction; however, puberty is not the divide between man and woman. It is the divide between boy and man OR girl and woman. Female athletes deserve fair competition at every age and every level.
🚨NCAA response to Title IX lawsuit🚨
The NCAA claims to “ensure fair competition in all NCAA championships" amidst a lawsuit by 16 female athletes.
🚩7 days ago, a man competed at the NCAA DIII Women’s Track & Field Championships, denying a deserving female runner her chance…
@wiaawa
🧵Unity in the face of adversity! Right before the meet, her teammates at King’s rallied & decided they'd all run as one at the back of the race to support one another. The silent, unified protest of being told their feelings & accomplishments meant less to the
@wiaawa
than one…
We need a voice to defend the fair treatment of our next generation of female athletes. We will be that voice.
✨ Join us to learn WHY we must advocate for respect & equal opportunities in sports for women & girls and HOW to do it✨
Register NOW for the ICONS Women’s Sports
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act ensures female athletes receive the equal opportunity, safety, & fairness that was promised under Title IX. The US must stand behind the fair & decent treatment of women. Being born female cannot mean inheriting a burden of…
🚨Another man wins WOMEN’s national title⁉️
Kylie Small (male) of
@FLCCYCLING
just rode away with the women’s gold medal at the 2023 National Cyclocross Championships in Louisville, KY. He knocked Jennifer Malik off the top podium spot.
ICONS Evie Edwards, a participant in…
‘A male athlete places in the girls' high jump at track meets, raising more questions about fairness and gender identity in high school sports.’
There is no question. This is wrong.
🧑⚖️67 athletes & supporters in our network filed an amicus brief to
#SCOTUS
in support of WV’s law protecting women’s sports. This is the 1st case to come before the Supreme Court addressing today’s threat to women’s athletics.
Among the 67 female athletes...
@MattWalshBlog
UPenn swimmer,
@PaulaYScanlan
will be speaking on an incredible panel with
@Riley_Gaines_
at our upcoming International Women’s Sports Summit in Denver, July 21-23!
Join dozens of global experts in law, science and policy next month!
✨Register TODAY
California HS trans identifying male awarded 2nd place in Women's 2.78 mi Varsity category at Lowell Invitational
*Time would have earned 79th place in the relative Men's category
"It's just consistency"
🏋🏼♀️Canadian Powerlifter, April Hutchinson tells her emotional story about overcoming mental health & addiction struggles to be confronted with another ongoing battle - facing a man in elite women's powerlifting competitions.
@Lea_Christina4
🚨Breaking: another NCAA women's swim team faces emotional distress after men's team athlete switch to women's team
'The school put so much onto us...whenever we made efforts...to try to express how we felt, every time we were just shoved to the side.'
🏋️Trans identifying male, Anne Andres is Alberta Canada's women's powerlifting record holder in bench
🚨competes next month in women's category at the 2023 CPU National Championships
🚩Recognizes no understanding of upper body strength differences btw males & females
🧵
🧵Male athlete, Lizzy Bidwell wins GIRLS high jump below ⬇️
Had the male jumper competed in the boys' high jump event, he would have underperformed last place (21st) by 4 inches. The winner of the boys' event jumped over 7 feet compared to his 5'9" performance.
Barrett was seen leading the girl’s field at one point in the race but ultimately finished 3rd taking the last qualifying spot for the state championships. A coach has allegedly filed a protest on behalf one of the girls in the race. It’s so far unclear what the complaint was…
🎿Soren Stark-Chessa, a male sophomore, clinched three 3rd place finishes at the Maine GIRLS’ Nordic skiing state championship in classical, freestyle, and pursuit this week.
Previously, he made headlines as the first boy to seize a girls’ cross-country regional championship…
🧵On Saturday, a MALE runner on Seattle Academy's GIRLS' cross-country team made a 41-point difference, pushing them to a 2nd place team finish at the Washington State Girls Championships.
King's HS girls lost their runner-up trophy in a tie-breaker (their 4th displaced trophy…
👟Male track runner Veronica Garcia won the WOMEN's varsity 400m on Saturday in Washington.
@wiaawa
He's currently ranked 1st in the League & 4th overall for girls in the state. This is the teenager's 2nd name change (Donovan Brown ➡️ Davina Brown ➡️ Veronica Garcia)...🧵
🎦Dr. Ross Tucker
@Scienceofsport
explains scientific data highlighting the profound upper body strength differences between males and females here ⬇️ 🧵
🚴 Male cyclist, Claire Law (35) beat out 17yo Danielle Scoville and 15yo Lucy Dorer yesterday. He holds up the women’s “Northwest Champion” jersey atop the podium ⬇️
Although elite International
@UCI_cycling
rules have changed recently,
@usacycling
has not adopted the stricter
🏆Male bike racer Claire (Ivan) Law became the women's P/1/2/3 northwest champion in the elimination race last night at Jerry Baker Velodrome in Washington.
Those juniors in 🥈and 🥉are exactly who we want to develop in this sport, right
@usacycling
?
📢Parents: middle aged men are lining up in women’s swimsuits to take swimming awards from your 13 year old daughters now. It’s time to start making noise‼️
🧵Female fencer, Marja-Liisa Someroja from Finland has been denied her 2nd consecutive World Title in a rematch against the 6'1" male fencer.
According to another female fencer, most competitors have been completely unaware they are dueling a man
@outsidemagazine
Spoiler: This male mountain biker writes a whole piece on how marginalized and disadvantaged women are in cycling compared to men. Then he says women need to overlook the 55ish men in women’s cycling because there are so few taking these already limited opportunities.