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https://www.europesays.com/2051057/ Penobscot Nation, environmental organizations, community speak out against landfill expansion #Environment #LauraLibby #TransAthletes #TransgenderDebate
And trans men are men! And non-binary people are non-binary!
#feminism #terf #terfscaneatshit #realfeminism #jkr #transgender #nonbinary #queer #lgbtqia #lgbt #lesbian #gay #bisexual #genderqueer #transathletes #sports #transwomen #transmen #biology
MUSK-Trump MALADMINISTRATION IS SHORT OF CASH FOR SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICES ... BUT
THEY HAVE ALL THE MONEY IT TAKES TO FIGHT ONE STATE ALLOWING TRANSGENDER ATHLETES IN WOMEN'S SPORTS
: #democrats #lgbtq #transathletes #transgenderathletes #uspol #uspolitics :
#Maine governor criticizes #Trump administration for freezing funds amid #transgender athlete dispute: ‘It’s not rational’
By Alyssa Vega Globe Staff,Updated April 14, 2025
"Maine #GovernorJanetMills criticized the Trump administration on Monday just days after it moved to cut all federal #education funding to the state. The move came in response to Maine’s refusal to enforce the administration’s directive to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
In an interview on MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' Monday, Mills said the state received a series of letters from federal agencies, culminating in an April 2 letter from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, which the Maine governor described as 'appalling' in tone and substance. Mills said the next day Rollins threatened to pull all education funding to the state.
" 'Because there are maybe two — at most — two transgender athletes competing in Maine schools right now, they decided to shut off funding for our school nutrition program, the school lunch program entirely, on which 172,000 Maine school #children rely for their school meals. That didn’t make any sense,' Mills said. "
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/NRfNV
In high school, I could easily beat the boys at 50 and 100 yard dashes (and could dunk way more baskets than most of them -- 7 in a row from the line one time). But I was not allowed to compete directly with them, or play on the boys' basketball team. The boys had no problem with it -- but the school did. Some of us are born with subtle differences in chromosomes, hormones, etc., and not-so-subtle differences in weight, skills, etc. Maybe we should focus on muscle mass, weight, skill, etc., like there is with boxing and other sports. In martial arts class (which I became a brown belt in a class full of boys), we competed by skill and size -- not by gender. Just saying...
#TransAthletes #TransgenderAthletes #TransgenderRights #PeopleArePeople #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
US track star says she feels ‘defeated’ after Trump’s move against #TransAthletes
By Brynn Gingras and Bonney Kapp, CNN
March 20, 2025
Portland, Maine (CNN) — "She’s a two-time All American in 200- and 400-meter races. A college athlete used to winning, with a goal of making the 2032 US Olympic team. But 21-year-old #SadieSchreiner says she feels 'defeated.'
"Not by the sport she loves or the physical rigors of the training but by the shifting rules on #TransgenderAthletes that have left her running alone around the track or now not running competitively at all.
"But she won’t stop. 'I don’t know what would happen if I don’t have track and field, and I’m not going to see that reality,' Schreiner insisted.
"Schreiner knew when she was young that her physical body didn’t match her gender and began transitioning while in high school. She takes 8 pills daily to keep her testosterone levels low enough so they aren’t detectable on lab tests.
'(The hormone therapy) shrank my ligaments. It’s made me shorter. It’s made me weaker. It’s lessened my muscles. It’s redistributing my fat. It’s lowered my lung capacity,' Schreiner explained. “My biology is fundamentally different than a cis man.'
"Her NCAA 24:12 personal best for the 200 meters puts her in the top tier of her age group but she said she’s a wholly different athlete than the high school kid who ran in boys’ races. 'I am now 20% slower than I was in 8th grade.'
"Undetectable levels of testosterone used to be the standard to compete in NCAA competitions.
"Schreiner says she makes other accommodations too: 'I don’t even change in the locker rooms.'
"But there’s nothing more she can do to run in college events – the competitive home of young US athletes – since the NCAA governing body followed President Donald #Trump’s executive order titled 'Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports' with a rule change limiting participation in women’s sports to those assigned female at birth.
"She switched to meets organized by USA Track & Field – the national governing body for the sport – which holds competitions across the country for all ages and skill levels.
"It was the only place Schreiner was allowed to compete, isolated from her teammates and coaches. In some races, she ran around the track alone, with no competition in her age group, which she called 'brutal.'
" 'I am literally racing against me, instead of racing at these college meets, at the competitive levels I should be.' "
Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/us/sadie-schreiner-trans-athlete-ban/index.html
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/6QM3A
So, sharing these photos of #SadieSchreiner from her website, showing the difference in her body before and after her transition. She isn't the same person she was before her transition. The same with anyone who has undergone HRT. Don't believe RWNJ emphasis on a few studies with only a couple of *participants*. Folks who undergo gender transition change. 'Nuff said!
"And let's start by acknowledging many people do have good-faith questions about this, even if they're asking them a little clumsily."
Not fully done watching yet & I'll probably have more to share, or just more shares of this important video to do, but can I just ask: Who is displaying the spirit of sports most here - the whiny little "I shoulda won the 5th place trophy" shit, or the giggling, smiling "Who cares if I won the medal or not, as long as everyone is having fun!" person...?
https://troet.cafe/@ralphruthe/114301244252086460 #sports #resist #uspol #TransAthletes
Vote these f*ckers out!
Republican lawmakers seek changes to #Maine #HumanRightsAct in #TitleIX compliance effort
Proposed amendments to the #antidiscrimination law revolve around #transgender student-athletes' right to compete in girls and women's sports.
https://www.wmtw.com/article/bill-remove-gender-identity-maine-human-rights-act/64354378
#TransgenderAthletes #MainePol #USPol #TransgenderRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransAthletes #ProtectTransKids #ProtectTransYouth #MaineHumanRightsAct
Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in #NaziGermany
The forgotten Olympic history of #TransAthletes.
by Alex Abad-Santos
Updated Aug 1, 2024
Excerpt: "Outside of the [Olympic] Games, trans people face so much backlash, often for simply existing. The conversation around sports is particularly fraught, from children’s athletics right up through the pros. Despite the International Olympic Committee vowing to be more inclusive, the future for trans athletes is unclear.
"It all raises the question: How did we get to this point, and did it always have to be this way?
"The answers found in historian and journalist #MichaelWaters’s The Other Olympians: #Fascism, #Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports might be surprising. Waters’s book traces the emergence of #ZdeněkKoubek, a track and field star representing the country formerly known as Czechoslovakia who, at 21, won two medals — a gold in the 800m and a bronze in the long jump — at the 1934 Women’s World Games. (The Women’s World Games was the precursor to women competing at the Olympics). In 1935, Koubek announced that he would be living life as a man and swiftly became an international celebrity.
"Perhaps the most intriguing facet to Koubek’s story was in the public response. Koubek was more welcomed and celebrated than we might imagine. There was an open-mindedness and empathy to the reception of Koubek and his gender identity and expression in the 1930s.
"Waters also pinpoints where and when that changed, specifically at the #1936Olympics in #Nazi Germany. Armed with a propensity for #eugenics, #GenderAnxiety, and a startling lack of scientific evidence, a small set of Nazi officials influenced the International Olympic Committee into #GenderSurveillance and #TransPanic — stuff that eerily mirrors the #transphobic attacks that athletes, cis and trans alike, face today."
Read more:
https://www.vox.com/culture/364032/trans-athletes-olympics-2024?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#TransgenderAthletes #SexTesting
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
The Long History of #SexTesting in the Olympics and Other Elite Sports
Here’s the long history of sex testing in elite sports like the Olympics and where the science really stands.
By Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi & Jeffery DelViscio
"Rachel Feltman: There have been a lot of headlines in recent years about #TransgenderAthletes. But this isn’t actually the first time debates over biological sex have caused controversy and exclusion in the sports world.
"Even athletes who identify with the sex they were assigned at birth, meaning people with XX chromosomes who were assigned female at birth and identify as women today, can find themselves banned from elite competition on the basis of their biology."
Read more / listen:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/sex-testing-in-the-olympics-and-other-elite-sports-is-based-on-flawed/
#TransAthletes
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
From 2020: #ChrisMosier is the First Openly Trans Man to Compete in Men's Olympic Trials
“For me, it’s all about making a pathway for all the trans athletes that come after me,” he told the New York Times.
By Wren Sanders, January 28, 2020
"On January 25, Chris Mosier became the first known openly transgender athlete to compete in an Olympic trial as the gender with which they identify. Mosier, a 39-year-old All-American duathlete and Hall of Fame triathlete, made history by starting the race, a 50 Kilometer race walk, held outside San Diego, California.
"Perhaps just as impressive as Mosier’s barrier-breaking identity is the fact that he’s relatively new to the sport in which he’s already broken barriers. The Chicago-born athlete competed in his first race walk this past September, winning a national championship. In his second race a month later, Mosier finished 12th in the nation, thereby qualifying for the Olympic Trials."
Read more:
https://www.them.us/story/chris-mosier-trans-man-compete-mens-olympic-trials
#TransAthlete #TransAthletes #USPol #TransRightsAreHumanRights
So, I wanted to highlight this quote from #TransAthlete #ChrisMosier [which I totally identify with]:
"An increased scrutiny on athletes' bodies creates serious harm to all women and girls who are perceived as 'more masculine' due to being #queer, #intersex, or otherwise out of alignment with narrow, white-centric norms of femininity."
Or those of us with higher androgen levels naturally! 
#CaitlynJenner issues surprising statement after #Trump signs executive order affecting #TransAthletes
The former Olympian has left some of her X followers feeling 'confused'
One follower wrote: "Legitimate question - as a trans woman, are you cool with them just slowly erasing trans people, their rights, and everything they’ve worked towards?"
Rhianna Benson, February 16, 2025
"According to Reuters, enforcing his ban 'may be difficult' for Trump 'to enforce', being that his current options 'range from looking at birth certificates, which can be altered, to inspecting the bodies of children, an alternative that most would find unpalatable at best'.
"Transgender athlete Chris Mosier, who also spoke to the publication, has since responded: 'Anti-trans school sports bans are difficult to enforce because they rely on #SexTesting and #BodyPolicing for implementation and enforcement.
"'An increased scrutiny on athletes' bodies creates serious harm to all women and girls who are perceived as 'more masculine' due to being #queer, #intersex, or otherwise out of alignment with narrow, white-centric norms of femininity.'" [Or those of us with higher androgen levels naturally! ]
Read more:
https://www.tyla.com/news/politics/caitlyn-jenner-transgender-athletes-donald-trump-policy-support-157158-20250206
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #USPol #GenderPolice
Diesen Menschen geht es sicher nur um die Fairness im Sport 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjDvw2repuA
Fed up Judge is sick of Trump
#TransandNonbinaryRightsAreHumanRights 
IMO: I hear about #trans in the #USmilitary and #TransAthletes suffering in the USA and I see people stand up for them. Rightfully so. But what a big movement to #ProtectTransKids
What about protecting low income trans people when they have use ID to get housing, food and healthcare?
What about the special issues trans immigrants, asylum seekers, POCs, etc have to deal with?
What about fighting against the confiscation of trans , nb and genderqueer 
people's passports? How are trans , etc people treated coming to the US and how are peopel leaving the US treated?
If you can't even be a blond, German, cis, het, male, middle class traveller without being brutalised by the U.S., what does one think can happen when someone is LGBTQIAplus, esp trans and esp. a POC?
Where are the BIG protests for queer rights? Where are the big protests to demand that people are allowed to use whatever pronoun people want to use?
