Equality isn't a game.
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⚽️🏀🏑🏊♀️🏐🎾 Women’s Sports are more than just athletics: they’re about boosting confidence, reaching your highest potential, and working with others. Female athletics are crucial to all generations. This week, we are standing up for female athletes by celebrating National Women's Sports Week.
You too can celebrate National #WomensSportsWeek:
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** Just In: Trans Swimmers Restricted From Women’s Events ([link removed]) Watch ([link removed])
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** CHAMPION MESSAGE ([link removed])
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** HURTING NOT HELPING ([link removed])
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** Lia Thomas’ Olympic Aspirations: Some Women’s Advocacy Groups Remain Silent ([link removed])
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Lia Thomas’ emergence in competitive sports has sparked a massive debate surrounding the fairness of transgender women competing against biological females. ([link removed]) But as the debate heats up amid Thomas' aspirations to continue on to the Olympics, several major women’s rights advocacy groups have remained silent about their positions on the issue. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Women’s Sports Resource Center ([link removed])
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Competitive sport is a zero-sum game where some athletes make the cut, and others do not; someone wins, and others lose. In a zero-sum competition, the inclusion of male athletes in women’s sport inevitably denies opportunities to female athletes. As the number of males who identify as female seek to compete on women’s teams and in women’s events grows, the risks to female athletes also grows ([link removed]) . Claims to the contrary deny science, defy logic, and undermine Title IX. Everything you need to know is available in one place: Women's Sports Resource Center. Check it out. ([link removed])
** Spotlight: Rally To Keep Women's Sports Female ([link removed]) Listen ([link removed])
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** Protecting Women’s Sports Is Personal for Me ([link removed])
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Allowing biological men to play against biological women in female sports puts women at a huge disadvantage… and sets them up to fail. What’s the point of having a women's only team if males who identify as female are allowed to compete?
This could mark the end of women’s sports as a whole if we don’t stop it. ([link removed])
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** Trending: What Is a Woman? Rep. Debbie Lesko on the Need for a Women’s Bill of Rights ([link removed]) Watch ([link removed])
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** TWO TRUTHS & A LIE ([link removed])
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** Title IX and Transgender Athletes ([link removed])
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Congress passed Title IX in 1972 to prohibit educational institutions from discriminating on the basis of sex.
Can you identify which of the following statements about transgender athletes and equal athletic opportunities is not true?
A. Federal law requires schools to provide equal athletic opportunities for males and females. B. Without separate men’s and women’s sports, female athletes wouldn’t have the same athletic opportunities as men. C. Allowing transgender athletes to participate in women’s sports won’t negatively affect female athletes. ([link removed])
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* New Episode: On this episode, Erika Bachiochi, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, joined the program to discuss her book titled The Rights of Women and why she supports a Women's Bill of Rights. Listen here. ([link removed])
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** Conference on Women’s Sport ([link removed])
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Independent Women’s Forum staff and storytellers will be participating in the Conference on Women’s Sport in Las Vegas, NV, hosted by the Independent Council on Women’s Sport (ICONS), a network and advocacy group comprised of current and former collegiate and professional women athletes and their families and supporters.
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** Let Girls Be Girls. Protect Them From the Gender Agenda ([link removed])
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Feminists and the Left have long purported to reject sexual stereotypes. Yet their current gender agenda actually reinforces regressive, old-school stereotypes. Worse, they turn these stereotypes into straightjackets, encouraging those who don’t conform to traditional ideals of femininity or masculinity to think that they need to alter their physicality to become the “right” sex.
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