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[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@Nemo17246097 @obritom @Martina Have you or your child been through the college sports recruiting process recently?

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@obritom @Martina Roster spots, scholarships, starting positions are all tenuous and years of sacrifice to achieve lifelong dreams are at risk. How Penn threatened and muzzled their swimmers is instructive and has athletes on edge. Too many non-athletes do not understand this… which is isolating.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@obritom @Martina All due respect, but this is not the same. The college recruiting process is intensely competitive and each athlete is heavily scrutinized. Only 7% of all female high school athletes go on to play in college and only 2% play D1. Within that are tiny %s of specializations. (1/2)

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@obritom @Martina Parents, coaches and close friends of those athletes have to be similarly cautious about raising concerns for the same reasons… anything we say or do reflects on these young athletes and poses risk to their academic and athletic careers. There’s broad and deep concern out there.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@obritom @Martina Not that simple. Penn swimmers were threatened, muzzled and misrepresented. High school and college female athletes are most vulnerable here and have the least ability to speak out for fear of social and institutional retaliation, including losing scholarships & roster spots.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@MsLizFoley @Martina The answer to a question about what defines a male versus what defines a female is easily discoverable online, in a book or in a 5 minute conversation with a biology teacher. It is rooted in scientific fact. So… when I say male, I mean a human that is born with XY chromosomes.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@aractic @OliLondonTV You have a surprise coming. Show up to any major girls’ sports tournament & see how your opinion flies with the thousands of young players & aspiring college/pro athletes there who worry for their rights (along with their parents, coaches and supporters). XY belongs on XY teams.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@MsLizFoley @Martina Your position is damaging to both the LGTBQ cause & women’s rights. When you propagate an opinion that is so extreme and counter to scientific fact of chromosomal sex (XX, XY), you forfeit credibility and push thinking people out of the tent of allyship… then the far right wins.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@MsLizFoley @Martina You can’t presume to know our personal opinions and definitions. The difficulty here is when opinions conflict with facts… sex, Biology, physiology and so forth. I am 100% supportive of trans people, however, these facts absolutely matter in women’s sports.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@julielarson1 @Martina What’s disgusting is how males, who certainly have the right to identify as females, demand that all biological females (including LGBQ) step aside when they want a spot on the women’s team. No one is stopping them from playing sports, but they feel entitled to choose where.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@ColinLA @tuckerthinks @Martina I’m amazed at how many people who consider themselves progressive can’t see the male entitlement here. Females should just shut up and take it when a male (who always has the option of playing a sport with other males) tramples all women, including LGBQ, to get on a female team.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@MsLizFoley @Martina You miss the point entirely. She is standing up for females, all females, who can no longer speak up for themselves for fear of retribution. Females are entitled play their sports with other females without males (who have the option to play on male teams) displacing them.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@datlife808 @Martina These young athletes see what happens if they speak out about their legitimate concerns (even those who are members of the LGBTQ community). They need people like Martina to speak for them. Unlike Lia T. and other trans women, they don’t have the option to play on men’s teams.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@datlife808 @Martina Well said. As the parent of a female D1 college athlete, I’m well aware of the undercurrent of worry plaguing these athletes. Their lifetime of effort and sacrifice may mean nothing if a male with benefit of natural physiology and testosterone wants their roster spot. (1/2)

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@DanCrenshawTX Red states are a drag on the US Economy. Blue states fund all the handouts to the slack-jawed yocals. Just sayin.’

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@SkyCatch_Her @klancaster1112 @Martina You’re out-of-touch on this. It’s not a generational divide, but rather a divide between those who see everything through a trans entitlement lens versus those most at risk of having their hard-won rights eroded… female athletes in particular. They are afraid to speak out.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@klancaster1112 @Martina I will concede that a sportswear company can and should advertise to all who might wear their products. As a “biological female” (scientific term for person born with XX chromosomes), I take issue with disparaging females who raise concerns or ask reasonable questions.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@maggiefn_Ghost @kmneun @Martina It is a constant conversation among female athletes & an increasingly urgent concern in their ecosystem. They are labeled transphobes and shouted down if they dare express those concerns or ask questions. Penn muzzled, threatened & misrepresented their swimmers over Lia Thomas.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@klancaster1112 @Martina Disagree. You can stand up for biological females without being falsely labeled a transphobe. This vilification of females raising concerns about the risk of being displaced in an arena for which they’ve fought for equality for decades is wrong and absolutely undermines allyship.

[Slappy @GingerPower08]

@keithengland @Martina Imagine being staunchly progressive and fighting for the rights of all humans for your entire life only to be accused otherwise when asking reasonable questions about trans participation in women’s sports. This is not about the ad.