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Independent Council on Women’s Sports 🌐 Advocating for female athletes 🏛️ Supporting lawsuits against the NCAA, Mountain West & Ivy League
Joined May 2022
🚨NEW ICONS-backed Lawsuit: Coach & 11 volleyball players from 5 universities SUE the Mountain West Conference and San Jose State University, challenging policies that allow a male player on the women's team.
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🤺🚨Historic Protest: Female Fencer Takes a Knee in Bout Against Male Opponent, Faces Immediate Disqualification. After receiving a black card for refusing to compete against a man, Redmond Sullivan's female opponent was expelled from the @USAFencing event at the Univ. of
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🚨 UNPRECEDENTED: Boise State forfeits their Conference tournament semifinal match against SJSU, refusing to face male athlete Blaire Fleming. A truly heroic stand for women’s sports, led by sisters @Katelynvankirk & @KierstenVanKirk, who are currently suing the Mountain West for
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Girls are beginning to step down en masse from competing against boys in their sports. We stand with the Hillsboro-Deering girls in their decision.
Hillsboro-Deering Girls Players Refusing to Take Field Against Male Today . .@NHGOP @NHDems #NHPolitics.
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@USAFencing USA Fencing and the NCAA have had a long history of taking opportunities away from female athletes like this. They must be held accountable:
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🚨 Breaking: Boise State Women’s Volleyball refuses to play against team with a male player, becoming the first Mountain West Conference team to withdraw from a matchup against SJSU and the second team this season. 🔗
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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
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🚨 MUST-READ INTERVIEW ‼️. Female fencer refuses to compete against a male opponent and receives massive punishment. Full story with @JackThompsonFOX.
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🚨Breaking: Utah State Women’s Volleyball joins SUU, BSU & UWyo in refusing to compete against a team with a male player‼️. They are the 3rd @MountainWest team to forfeit a match against SJSU and the 4th team this season.
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Nevada Reno’s Volleyball team confirms they will hold the line and refuse to play team with male starter. “A standoff between a team inspired to take action and the university it represents.”.
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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,” .
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🔥🚨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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“We DO understand the difference between a male and a female athlete.”. 💥POW! Passionate UNR Volleyball Captain @SiaLiilii calls out the NCAA, Mountain West, and her university for betraying women’s right to fair competition.
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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
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🚨Breaking: University of Wyoming Women’s Volleyball joins SUU and Boise State in refusing to compete against a team with a male player. They are the second Mountain West Conference team to forfeit a match against SJSU and the third team this season.
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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
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🔥Must WATCH: Oregon state girls 400m champion Josie Donelson scorches male athlete Aayden Gallagher to WIN in record time! #savewomenssports
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🏃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.
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UNR has now officially announced they will forfeit Saturdays volleyball match against team with male starter, citing “not having enough players to compete.”. The female athletes held their ground in a standoff with the university and DIDN’T BACK DOWN.
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NCAA hurdler Minna Svärd breaks silence after becoming the first woman to lose an NCAA title to a male athlete:. “It’s been five years since that honor was stolen from me. I want it back.”
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Southern Utah Women’s Volleyball: First NCAA Team to Withdraw from Match Against Opponent with Male Player?
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🚨🚨 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➡️
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🚨NEW Report: The International Olympic Committee knew he was male. The Algerians knew he was a man. They endangered women in the ring anyways. They gave a man a woman’s gold medal anyways.
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“We were lied to and deceived. I was traumatized from this situation. I am now doing online school and not attending SJSU anymore.” -@BrookeSlusser. Plaintiff suing NCAA testifies in support of TX SB 240, defending women’s rights to sex-designated spaces.
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We applaud the @NevadaWVB players for standing down against an NCAA team with a male player, taking a stand for the future of women’s sports. #ProtectWomensSports.
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The IOC spokesman shows irritation when asked about female athletes scheduled to fight men in Olympic boxing. He claims it's not helpful to start "stigmatizing" men in women's sports, likening it to a “witch hunt.”.
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“There’s nothing for me and everything for him.”. WATCH: Female fencer Stephanie Turner speaks out after being expelled from a @USAFencing tournament for refusing to compete against a male opponent.
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University of Nevada Reno Volleyball Team makes history!. Over 400 people showed up to rally for the women’s team who refused to play today’s scheduled match against an opponent with a male starter.
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🔥 The Chair of USA Fencing got torched by @RepBrandonGill for humiliating parents who emailed him to defend fair competition in women’s fencing—comparing them to KKK members.
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Male athlete Dorian Norton was the only freshman to make Monarch High's GIRLS varsity volleyball team, violating Florida's Fairness in Women's Sports Act. His mother, a school data entry employee, now faces firing for not updating his records back to "male" after presenting him
Florida law says school sports must be segregated by biological s*x, but this mother lied and said her son was female at birth bc "she's my child and she wanted to play" girls' volleyball. Mom says kid's life was 'destroyed' by being outed as male.
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HUGE News‼️Utah State University becomes the first university in the country to intervene in a lawsuit to support the rights of women in college sports! . Thank you @USUAggies @USUAthletics @kaylieray13 .
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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:
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Hey @MountainWest, why are women’s teams being penalized with a loss because you failed to ensure fair competition? @NCAA??.
🚨Breaking: University of Wyoming Women’s Volleyball joins SUU and Boise State in refusing to compete against a team with a male player. They are the second Mountain West Conference team to forfeit a match against SJSU and the third team this season.
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🚨Breaking: Jiu Jitsu Tournament Features All-Male Women’s Podiums in Georgia. Female fighters speak out for the first time….
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🤺Damien Lehfeldt, Chair of USA Fencing, has used his own social media to humiliate women who dare advocate for a sex-based category in women's fencing. This private email exchange is one he shared to his IG when a woman wrote him in defense of female fencers after this article
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A man, upset about men being excluded from girls’ sports, urges the public to shift our focus to a different group of men crossing boundaries in girl’s lives.
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‘Big shame’: Women’s Olympic boxing gold medalist Imane Khelif condemns politicians who claim he is 'a transgender,' saying it dishonors his family, Algeria, and the Arab world to identify as such. Speculation surrounds the male boxer who failed a chromosomal blood screen to
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🚨🚨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. Meet the athletes & read the full.
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Nearly two dozen California mothers, coaches, & activists speak out against the rise in boys participation in girl's sports in the state. @WomenAreReals @CIFState .
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Woman pool star refuses to play against anyone who is not biologically female amid a bitter row over trans-identifying male competitors
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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.
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💪 No More Men in Women's CrossFit. The @CrossFitGames just announced a new policy requiring athletes to compete in the division matching their birth SEX “universally and with NO EXCEPTIONS.” 👏👏👏
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🏃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…
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🚨Breaking: Teammate of Male Volleyball Player on Women's Scholarship Joins Riley Gaines in Lawsuit Against NCAA | @Outkick
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🚨🚨🚨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.
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🏋🏽 These women refused to stop cheering for women asking for support like @Lea_Christina4 and would NOT leave after multiple men threatened and intimidated them. #ourbodiesoursports @ICFSport @coachblade
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“Female bodies are just as strong and fast and capable as male bodies.” -@SenWilliamsPA . Fact check: Boys have a very real athletic advantage in sports.
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BREAKING: Trump’s Dept. of Education just sent a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter to schools nationwide reinforcing Title IX’s original intent—women’s scholarships, sports, and spaces like locker rooms are for females ONLY. Non-compliance risks losing federal funding.
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“That knee I took in protest was a cry for help and an act of desperation.”. USA Fencing athlete Stephanie Turner testified before Congress about the painful decision to protest being forced to compete against a male opponent.
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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
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⚽️ “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.”
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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
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30-Year-Old Man Beats 10-Year-Old Girl in Pro Skateboarding Competition, Accused of Physical and Psychological Abuse by Several Women. Read➡️
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Mass Exodus: SJSU Women’s Volleyball leads the nation in transfers for the second year following trans athlete scandal. @NCAA @CharlieBakerMA . Parents won’t send their daughters to schools committed to discriminating against them!
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🚨BREAKING: Female swimmers sue Ivy League, Harvard, & NCAA after male teammate Lia Thomas was granted access to women’s titles, records, opportunities, and locker rooms at the Ivy League Championships. 🔗 Read the filing & support:
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🚩🚩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
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UNSAFE‼️ Another female player smashed by a kill from SJSU’s male starter, Blaire Fleming, in tonight’s match against @UNMLoboVB.
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🚨Police Called In: Female Athlete Threatened After Speaking Out Against Male Participation on Women’s Team. When will enough be enough, @NCAA?.
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Male fencer Anna Rose Suchoski claimed the women’s runner-up title at this month’s Fortune Fencing Regional Championships. Despite starting fencing just 6 months ago, he triumphed over all but one veteran female fencer. He joins over 7 known male fencers winning elite women’s
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@BrowngaGreg @USAFencing Yes, there is a scientific paper on the participation of "transwomen" aka men in women's fencing. Spoiler: men regardless of medical interventions retain an advantage over women in the sport of fencing.
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🚨 Outrageous! Five brave middle school girls who stood up in protest by forfeiting their shot-put competition against a boy are now banned from competing in the event at their next track and field meet.
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The National Women’s Law Center just lied under oath to Congress, claiming that male athlete Caster Semenya was born female and was scrutinized and banned from World Athletics because he was "not feminine enough" for women’s Olympic sport. He is male.
"My testicles don't make me less of a woman" - Caster Semenya . Of course, this outlandish statement went totally unchallenged this morning🤡. Semenya is not a woman with high testosterone levels. He is a male with normal testosterone levels.
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The Knoxville Minx women’s rugby team has condemned the President’s Women’s Sports Executive Order, calling it “hateful” to prioritize female athletes’ safety and fair competition in the collision sport. Meanwhile, they’ve relied on male player Kenzie Budry to dominate women’s
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Politicians started by saying “this never happens” then “it’s extremely rare” now “your daughter doesn’t need to win trophies.” What’s next?.
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.
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👟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
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@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.
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🚴 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.
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"My team was punished with two losses for refusing to play against a male athlete on an opposing team, an injustice that ultimately kept us from competing in the Mountain West Tournament.” - @MaceyBoggs
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🚨TODAY: 48-year-old Maeryn (Bart) Gellhaus, who self-identifies as transgender, celebrates his first rugby match manhandling women after 34 years on the men’s team. @clansmen_rugby
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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.”
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Did you know three males won 🥇🥈🥉in the women’s 800m in the Rio Olympics?.
@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.
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WATCH: SJSU’s @BrookeSlusser says, “It isn’t fair for a biological man to take a scholarship spot away from a female athlete.”
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⚠️ 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.
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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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✨ Apparel Drop to Save Women’s Sports ✨ Only available for limited time‼️. 📢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 Ordered your shirts & stickers?
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Manhattan's largest school board district approves resolution to ban male athletes from women's sports.
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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
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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
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Coaches and parents rise up after half the ‘girls’ relay team at a Hawaii high school is now boys. #TakeBackTitleIX.
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After our legal counsel, representing 19 female athletes—including a competitor of male DIII women’s track champion Sadie Shreiner—sued the NCAA, he is now finding it difficult to secure a full-ride women’s scholarship to transfer DI. Good.
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"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
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Serena Williams' husband’s new investment, The Sports Bra, a bar which claims to only showcase women in sports, celebrates a MALE athlete after he dominated the recent GIRLS’ Oregon State Track Championships. 🤔🧵
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Families sue California AG over trans athlete law after girl loses varsity spot to male competitor | @FoxNews
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📺WATCH: NCAA coach @BatieSmoose speaks out after being let go from San Jose State University after filing a complaint as her female athletes endured a “traumatic” season playing with a male player on their women’s team. She is now suing SJSU and @MountainWest alongside 11
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🎉GIRLS WIN! A federal court has VACATED the Biden Administration’s Title IX rewrite equating sex with “gender identity” nationwide! It's dead!. With a new administration incoming, an appeal seems unlikely. This STANDS! | @AGTennessee 👏👏👏
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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.
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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?
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“You would lose women’s sport. It’s as simple as that.”. The potential next IOC President, Lord @sebcoe, tells @piersmorgan why maintaining the integrity of women’s sports requires excluding male athletes from women’s competitions.
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🚨 Another BOY bumps deserving GIRL out of Connecticut high school track state championships‼️. A 6’3” male athlete finished 2nd in the shot put at the GiRLS Conference Track Championships this week. Rose McNaughton is now ranked 3rd in the state leading up to the @ciacsports
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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.
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🚨 Breaking: The International Boxing Association has released the letter it sent to the IOC in June 2023, informing them that Algerian boxer, Khelif was ineligible to participate at the IBA World Championships as a female boxer due to their requirement of being female (XX). The
The International Boxing Association (IBA) has clarified the facts that led to the disqualification of two boxers, Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Chinese Taipei.
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🚨🚨 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:
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🚴Trans-identifying male, Tiffany Thomas (46) wins NYC women's cycling event, angering critics: 'Not fair at all'. @i_heart__bikes @libbyemmons .
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BOYcott‼️ From collegiate women’s volleyball in the West to high school girls’ soccer in the East, female athletes are standing up and saying ENOUGH.
The Bishop Brady girls’ soccer team has boycotted a game against a team with a big, strong boy. Good. But none of the parents are talking. This ends only when we stand in the sunlight and tell the truth. Let’s stop living in fear.
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Reminder: 3 male runners took🥇🥈🥉in the WOMEN’S 800m at the Rio @Olympics
@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.
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🏋️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.🧵
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🚩 "Just another day at the office," says the BOY who bumped a teenage GIRL off the winner's podium at the Washington state track championships. @wiaa #TakeBackTitleIX.
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