Transgender – The College Fix

Ohio House overrides DeWine’s veto of bill restricting transgender sports, sex changes

College Fix Staff — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:30:35 +0000

‘Kids should not be carved up or drugged into sterility and adolescent boys should not play girls’ sports’ A majority of lawmakers in the Republican-controlled Ohio Statehouse voted Wednesday to override GOP Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill that prohibits biological males from competing in women’s sports as well as restricts sex-change treatments. “The House voted 65-28 to override DeWine’s…

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NCAA silent on GOP governors’ call to exclude men from women’s sports

Giovanna Johnson - Gordon College — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 05:11:00 +0000

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has yet to publicly address a letter sent by nine Republican governors asking the group to rewrite its Transgender Student Athlete Policy to “protect, preserve, and encourage fairness in women’s athletics.” Although the association’s Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports discussed the transgender athlete topic at its Dec.

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Scholars: Conservative politics, biases behind transgender sports bans, not fairness issues

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 18:35:07 +0000

Bans exist ‘despite a lack of consistent scientific evidence of unfair advantages’ A pair of scholars from the University of Florida have a study out which claims conservatives’ efforts to ban transgender athletes, in particular transgender women, from participating in sports is rooted in biases and politics, not concerns about fairness. Professor of Sport Management George Cunningham and…

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Trans athlete offered women’s Division 1 scholarship, would be first male recipient

College Fix Staff — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:16:58 +0000

UPDATED University of Washington ‘should rescind the scholarship if they really care about women,’ Riley Gaines wrote A transgender volleyball player and high school junior from California verbally committed to play for the University of Washington, which could make him the first known male recipient of a women’s Division 1 athletic scholarship. If the university signs athlete Tate Drageset’…

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Evolutionary biology-themed institute works to debunk gender spectrum ‘nonsense’

Daniel Nuccio - Northern Illinois University — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 05:08:28 +0000

A team of self-styled science communicators are taking a stand against what they view as outright science denial through their new organization, The Paradox Institute, which works to inoculate young people against falling for gender spectra ideology myths and falsehoods. The institute produces educational materials on the biology of sex that young people find easy to digest…

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‘Trans femme scholar’: European colonists ‘imposed’ gender binary on Native Americans

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:27:39 +0000

A Native American “trans femme scholar,” social media influencer, and advocate recently spoke at the University of Illinois on the evils of colonialism and the concept of the indigenous “two-spirit.” Charlie Amáyá Scott (pictured), a PhD student at the University of Denver whose dissertation uses “a blend of […] photography and letter writing to really get Native students […] to sort of describe…

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Princeton College Dem leader: Don’t allow conservatives in eating club

Micaiah Bilger - Assistant Editor — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:30:01 +0000

Says GOP students ‘make trans people feel uncomfortable’ A student Democrat leader at Princeton University said he would exclude conservative students from a prestigious eating club because they are “bigots” who “make trans people feel uncomfortable” in an interview Thursday in the student newspaper. Nate Howard, president of the Princeton College Democrats, told The Daily Princetonian that…

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Trans swimmer breaks college record after switching from men’s to women’s team

Jennifer Kabbany - Fix Editor — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:25:32 +0000

UPDATED A biological male swimmer at Ramapo College of New Jersey who now identifies as female and switched to the women’s team to compete has broken a school record. After competing for the men’s team for three years, “Meghan Cortez-Fields won first place and broke a [women’s] school record in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 57.22 … She also came in first place in the 200-yard…

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CSUSB provides free haircuts to queer and transgender students to ‘affirm’ them

Micaiah Bilger - Assistant Editor — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:46:08 +0000

Stylist: ‘Hair holds trauma’ for some students Cal State University San Bernardino has given out more than 100 free haircuts to students since its “gender affirming” Queer Cuts program began last year. A project of the university’s Queer and Transgender Resource Center and Pan African Student Success Center, the project provides free hair cuts and braids in a “safe” and “affirming environment”…

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Harvard activists protest Riley Gaines appearance by throwing a ‘Big Trans Party’

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 21:10:21 +0000

Swimmer Riley Gaines, who’s been speaking out against the participation of biological men in women’s sports, made an appearance at Harvard University on Thursday. But progressive activists, including members of TransHarvard, the Queer Students Association, and Harvard Law’s Women’s Law Association, threw a “Big Trans Party” — which included posters and speeches — to protest Gaines’ talk…

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