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Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 8:48 AM

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/espn-honors-lia-thomas-celebrating-womens-history-month-segment


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slap-in-the-face to real women***

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Mar 27, 2023, 8:56 AM



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i honestly don't see how any 1 could see it any other way

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:25 AM

there is an undeniable, physical advantage to be born male.

This is a lawyers dream case for the supreme court.


I wonder what the WNBA's player association would say if Lebron James decided he wanted to be considered female and joined the WNBA.

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Re: slap-in-the-face to real women***

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Mar 27, 2023, 1:51 PM [ in reply to slap-in-the-face to real women*** ]

"Slap in the face to real woman"? It's a slap in the face of reality. Truth has to matter. I have no issues if an adult wants to live in make believe land but when you push this lie to kids and force women to endure this disgrace in their sporting world is where the line has to be drawn. Unfortunately we are apart of history that will be study until the end of time with the future historians wondering what induced this mass psychosis.

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that chick can swim

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Mar 27, 2023, 8:58 AM

she's just built different

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Re: that chick can swim

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:34 AM

Underrated comment of the day. Thumbs up from me sir.

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My Biggest Issue w/Trans Swimmers is Male Have a Huge

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:01 AM

Advantage as their Johnson serves as a an underbelly fin, providing aquadynamics.

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TU for using the word Aquadynamics in conversation.***

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Mar 28, 2023, 12:27 PM



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Re: TU for using the word Aquadynamics in conversation.***


Mar 28, 2023, 3:37 PM

Along the same lines - does 'Johnson' really need to be capitalized?

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:07 AM

Simply irrational to give him that award.

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:12 AM

That's the crazy bizarro world we live in today.
I'll never understand what drives the libs to support this.

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"If a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal."


Men are so awesome, we dominate women's history month***

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:09 AM



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There's something in these hills.


Re: Men are so awesome, we dominate women's history month***

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:30 AM

Keep up the good work fellas, they are dropping like dominos!

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Re: Men are so awesome, we dominate women's history month***

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Mar 27, 2023, 3:58 PM

Liberalism is a disease. Women’s sports is being permitted to disappear.

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Re: Men are so awesome, we dominate women's history month***


Mar 30, 2023, 8:04 PM

This isn’t classical liberalism. This is Marxist based “progressivism”.

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Why is it she-males are competing and winning while ....

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:10 AM

the Shims don't even join the male sporting events? The Shims stay and play in their true gender sports as they know they can't typically compete in male sports. I think it's absolutely absurd that biological males are allowed to compete in female sports. If the woke want to acknowledge this transgender movement, then create their own gender specific sports leagues. And when you do, watch the females stay in women's sports where they are competitive and only trans-males playing in transgender sports leagues, but this would keep if fair.

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as a point of fact...

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:14 AM

ICATiger said:

the Shims don't even join the male sporting events? The Shims stay and play in their true gender sports as they know they can't typically compete in male sports. I think it's absolutely absurd that biological males are allowed to compete in female sports. If the woke want to acknowledge this transgender movement, then create their own gender specific sports leagues. And when you do, watch the females stay in women's sports where they are competitive and only trans-males playing in transgender sports leagues, but this would keep if fair.




I get that there is this weird trans-hysteria engulfing some of America, but in the same Ivy League swimming championships where male-to-female transsexual Lia Thomas won an individual championship Yale's Iszac Henig, a femaile-to-male transsexual won an individual championship, but don't let the facts get in the way of your outrage.

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Re: as a point of fact...

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:25 AM


ICATiger said:

the Shims don't even join the male sporting events? The Shims stay and play in their true gender sports as they know they can't typically compete in male sports. I think it's absolutely absurd that biological males are allowed to compete in female sports. If the woke want to acknowledge this transgender movement, then create their own gender specific sports leagues. And when you do, watch the females stay in women's sports where they are competitive and only trans-males playing in transgender sports leagues, but this would keep if fair.




I get that there is this weird trans-hysteria engulfing some of America, but in the same Ivy League swimming championships where male-to-female transsexual Lia Thomas won an individual championship Yale's Iszac Henig, a femaile-to-male transsexual won an individual championship, but don't let the facts get in the way of your outrage.




You are completely missing the point and are actually proving what ICATiger said. Iszac's win came in the women's meet, not the men's met.

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Re: as a point of fact...


Mar 27, 2023, 1:45 PM [ in reply to as a point of fact... ]

You're comparing apples to bananas.

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Re: as a point of fact...


Mar 30, 2023, 8:19 PM [ in reply to as a point of fact... ]

IN A WOMEN'S EVENT! A BIOLOGICAL WOMAN BEAT OTHER WOMEN! It happens every day. Please do try to keep up.

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Triggered snowflake

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:14 AM

Thanks for the thumbs down. Glad your on ESPN side.

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Re: Triggered snowflake

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:58 AM

You see that person didn’t respond just gave a TD. That’s because they know they don’t have a leg to stand on so they just throw the TD and leave.

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i think that is the very reason for the TD***

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:21 AM



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Re: i think that is the very reason for the TD***

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:55 AM

9 times out of 10 I try to give my input. Sure you don’t have to but it’s kind of annoying when I don’t see a response and just a TD.

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Re: Triggered snowflake

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:37 AM [ in reply to Triggered snowflake ]

Some DA TD’d this post? I can’t see it being on my mobile but that’s pretty sad. Hopefully it’s a fat finger.

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MEG


Doubtful...***

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:50 AM



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you don't see a bit of hypocrisy here?

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:57 AM [ in reply to Re: Triggered snowflake ]

"Trigg­ered snowflake"

"Some DA TD’d this post"

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Re: Triggered snowflake

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:56 AM [ in reply to Triggered snowflake ]

Blindly shot the messenger I guess .. must have been a woke snowflake. TU to you ..

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Re: Triggered snowflake

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:17 AM [ in reply to Triggered snowflake ]

I always figure that the triggered snowflakes are the ones upset by TDs.

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:19 AM

What is that yellow patch in the water behind they?

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:25 AM

Never trust a fart...

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"If a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal."


Re:

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:36 AM



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I try to save a life a day, usually it is my own.


Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:37 AM

Shouldn't they have picked a woman for that award?

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:42 AM

Pitiful

This world is a mess

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 9:43 AM

Very little integrity left at ESPN.

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clown world***

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:17 AM

I am a motorcycle that identifies as a bicycle. I am going to race in the Tour de France this year.

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unfortunately for you

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:28 AM

the international sports organizations do not follow this same flawed reasoning.


yet

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Two Babylon Bee videos ...

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:54 AM [ in reply to Re: Woke ESPN ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhc4Um_CVxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipvesqJP1e4

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:34 AM

I wish I did not have to rely on this network for my sports viewing. Jack up the prices and the people running it must not even know basic biology.
Women in this country are under attack. Sad for those that have had to work their tails off to turn around and have to compete with a male.

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MEG


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Mar 27, 2023, 2:09 PM

rhpltmeg® said:

I wish I did not have to rely on this network for my sports viewing. Jack up the prices and the people running it must not even know basic biology.
Women in this country are under attack. Sad for those that have had to work their tails off to turn around and have to compete with a male.




Women in this country are under attack? You mean by the people taking away their reproductive rights?

Maybe we should let the women decide if they are under attack or not?

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 5:06 PM

You do understand that abortion actually limits reproduction, right? "Limits Reproduction". Hmmm....sounds like you might have it backwards.

To your 2nd point; the women have spoken. Sane people understand that female biology is ingrained in a person's DNA. So, even if you dig someone up 2,000 years from now scientists can tell whether you were a man, or woman. Their DNA never changes. Ever.

They're ACTUALLY under attack from lunatics who want them to "pretend" chopping off body part, or taking hormones makes a male a female, changes the dude's sex, or DNA.

Women are under attack by the woke-pervert-class. It's brutally obvious to everyone except the clinically-insane.

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There is no constitutional right to an abortion.


Mar 30, 2023, 8:32 PM [ in reply to Re: Woke ESPN ]

There is another life that has rights as well.

Nearly every country in Europe, limits abortion to 12 weeks. Only China, North Korea, I think, maybe France, and some states in America allow late term abortions. And I’m not talking about to save the mother. That has never ever been illegal.

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You know, men can only do so much if the women are not going

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:37 AM

to stand up and raise cain about this.

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they are.. but who is going to listen?

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:08 AM

ESPN is the dominating force in sports media.. they propagate their agenda.

IF you are a female athlete and you stand up to this.. you will get persecuted in the media and ESPN isn't going to come to your rescue.

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These young men are appropriating women and femininity

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Mar 27, 2023, 10:45 AM

I have read Thomas considers himself a lesbian and has a girlfriend as he swings his gonads through the women's locker room.

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I believe they are also Satanists.***


Mar 27, 2023, 12:27 PM



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Re: These young men are appropriating women and femininity


Mar 27, 2023, 12:37 PM [ in reply to These young men are appropriating women and femininity ]

Equal treatment under the law would mean each sport would be sex blind with men, women and trannies
free to compete for the team. This would save half of the athletic budget when you only have one team for
each sport.

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Re: These young men are appropriating women and femininity


Mar 27, 2023, 2:09 PM

Equal treatment under the law would mean men compete with men and women compete with women. With the exception of an extremely few true hermaphrodites, there are only 2 genders and it is obvious at birth.

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Prayers to all the wimminz swimming fans on the bored.***

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:06 AM

I can't for the life of me understand why they keep trying to push this narrative. It has to be a small minority of people that celebrate things like this.

Every woman I've ever talked to about this topic seems to agree that it is ridiculous and shouldn't be allowed yet here we are.

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While the award seems a little show-boaty...

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:21 AM

(At least they didn't give it to Brittney Griner!)

It is fascinating that actual women athletes support trans-women participation in women's sports, but a bunch of men on a Clemson bulletin board think they know better!
https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/press_release/billie-jean-king-megan-rapinoe-and-candace-parker-join-nearly-200-athletes-supporting-trans-youth-participation-in-sports/


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And, those that support it have convoluted

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:37 AM

thoughts that are not normal. By definition, transgender is NOT normal. There is no reasonable argument.

Another question, how many female athletes who have transmuted into males/its have had success in male sports?

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Re: And, those that support it have convoluted


Mar 27, 2023, 2:12 PM


thoughts that are not normal. By definition, transgender is NOT normal. There is no reasonable argument.

Another question, how many female athletes who have transmuted into males/its have had success in male sports?



I think it is safe to assume that you are not a medical professional.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-the-science-on-gender-affirming-care-for-transgender-kids-really-shows/


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So, someone who IS a transgender shoots and


Mar 28, 2023, 12:25 PM

kills 3 children and 3 adults in a planned vendetta is NORMAL?

Bless your heart.

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Re: So, someone who IS a transgender shoots and


Mar 30, 2023, 6:15 PM

Killing 3 children and 3 adults in a planned vendetta is not normal regardless of the perpetrator’s gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, eye color, hair color, foot size, nationality, religion, etc., etc., etc.!

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Well if 200 former athletes support this

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:55 AM [ in reply to While the award seems a little show-boaty... ]

Then surely we must normalize it now. They are part of the problem as well and I gonna go out on a limb and say that most of those women have women life partners.

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Re: While the award seems a little show-boaty...


Mar 27, 2023, 12:49 PM [ in reply to While the award seems a little show-boaty... ]

HAHAHAHAHA, what an example.

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That's just the LGBTQ community showing support for the


Mar 27, 2023, 1:06 PM [ in reply to While the award seems a little show-boaty... ]

LGBTQ community - which is fine. But don't twist that as proof that women support allowing men to compete in women's sports.

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Re: That's just the LGBTQ community showing support for the

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Mar 27, 2023, 1:54 PM

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LGBTQ community - which is fine. But don't twist that as proof that women support allowing men to compete in women's sports.



Yeah, I'm sure women athletes don't know as much about the subject as some armchair bubbas on a bulletin board. That you point out that some of them may be lesbians doesn't make your argument sound any better. Just makes you sound like you have hang-ups.

I think what these women athletes know is that difficulty in getting access to sports - it took Title IX to get good women's sports support at the college level. They really don't have a fear of competing against trans athletes. That isn't their concern. They think it is good for every kid to compete in sports - that there are benefits of playing sports for everyone. I'm sure they are aware that there are other people to whom that isn't important, who have some nonsensical "I don't want my little Suzy competing against a man" at top of mind, even though that really isn't much of an issue.

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Mar 27, 2023, 2:19 PM

I read the article you posted. One of the athletes talked about what soccer meant to her and how glad she was that she could still play soccer after coming out as a lesbian. There is a huge difference between a lesbian playing women’s sports and a man who has undergone a partial sex change competing in women’s sports. The disagreement is around gender, not sexual preference.

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Not all female athletes share your opinion


Mar 28, 2023, 8:06 AM [ in reply to Re: That's just the LGBTQ community showing support for the ]

You are cherry picking from a very small sample size. Of course the group you cite in your article supports this. It is a group of extremists led by Billie Jean King. This would be like asking a group of PETA members what they think of veganism. Here is a different opinion from another female athlete.

https://rileygaines.com/


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Re: While the award seems a little show-boaty...

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Mar 27, 2023, 2:38 PM [ in reply to While the award seems a little show-boaty... ]

But actual transgender women think it's unfair to let transgender women compete against biological women.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/caitlyn-jenner-says-transgender-girls-women-s-sports-unfair-n1266138


Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic champion and reality TV personality now running for governor in California, said she opposes transgender girls competing in girls' sports at school.

Jenner, a 1976 decathlon gold medalist who came out as a transgender woman in 2015, told a TMZ reporter on Saturday that it's “a question of fairness.”

“That's why I oppose biological boys who are trans competing in girls' sports in school. It just isn't fair. And we have to protect girls’ sports in our schools,” Jenner said Saturday during a brief interview in a Malibu parking lot.

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ESPN is a disgrace.***

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 11:36 AM

Democrats just doing what Democrats do.

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GEEZ…thought it was more on Dawn Staley


Mar 27, 2023, 12:42 PM

Similar story, but different nonsense 😡😡

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Unless women quit putting up with this nonsense

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Mar 27, 2023, 1:08 PM

one must assume they approve of it. If women really objected, this would come to a halt.

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Mar 27, 2023, 4:36 PM

These new kind of women are setting new records like crazy! It won’t be long until they catch up with the men.

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We keep getting better & better everyday, in every way!
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Mar 27, 2023, 5:22 PM


These new kind of women are setting new records like crazy! It won’t be long until they catch up with the men.



Is there a lost of those "setting new records like crazy" records?

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 27, 2023, 5:25 PM

The "ME" movement is officially DOA. Womanhood is being destroyed for less than 1/2 % of the population.

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Trannie outrage for the sake of outrage


Mar 28, 2023, 3:41 PM

doesn't just make my whole day, it makes my hole weak.

Talk about a bunch of snowflakes.

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Re: Woke ESPN

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Mar 28, 2023, 3:48 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URz-RYEOaig

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How stupid!

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Mar 30, 2023, 6:28 PM

Women deserve better. Much better.

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Re: Woke ESPN


Mar 30, 2023, 9:40 PM

Neff and Clemson need to embrace this while they still can. It would be a win-win for the University and fans. All they have to do is tell the men’s basketball team that the whole team will now identify as women. Knock Dan Staley of he/his pedestal in Columbia = win, take home the women’s basketball championship = win.

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Re: Woke ESPN


Mar 30, 2023, 9:41 PM

Forgot to mention, first time caller, long time listener. I’ll hang up and listen.

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