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Earlier in March, Jill Biden gave a biological man the International Women of Courage Award. Now, as Women’s History Month ends, ESPN is celebrating a biological male who dominated women’s sports. When does this insanity end?

From The Christian Post. An outspoken female athlete is urging her followers to boycott ESPN, deriding the cable sports channel as ā€œspinelessā€ for promoting a trans-identified man as a figure worthy of celebration during Womenā€™s History Month.

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In aĀ one-minute videoĀ released by ESPN as part of ā€œCelebrating Womenā€™s History Month,ā€ the narrator lauds how, ā€œin 2022, swimmer Lia [Will] Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division 1 Championship by winning the 500 freestyle.ā€

ā€œThe Texas native competed for three seasons on the menā€™s swim team at the University of Pennsylvania,ā€ the ESPN ad purportedly promoting Women’s Month continues. ā€œ[He] began [his] transition after [his] sophomore season and after a gap year due to the [coronavirus] pandemic that forced the Ivy League to cancel all sports. Thomas made [his] debut as a member of the womenā€™s team in December 2021.ā€

The video featured testimony from Thomas, who insisted that ā€œbeing trans is not a choice.ā€ According to the athlete, ā€œI didnā€™t have any other choice because not transitioning was not leading me anywhere.ā€

The video did not address concerns about trans-identified men competing in womenā€™s sports, only featuring a picture of a news story with the headline ā€œSixteen Penn swimmers say transgender teammate Lia Thomas should not be allowed to competeā€ and a comment from the narrator asserting that ā€œshe competed amidst criticism from the swimming community, competitors and teammates.ā€ The implication was that opposition to Thomasā€™ competition on the womenā€™s team stemmed from anti-LGBT bigotry.

The video concluded with Thomas pushing back on concerns that he began identifying as trans to ā€œhave an advantage,ā€ maintaining that ā€œI transitioned to be happy.ā€

Thomasā€™ remark hints at the primary factor behind the outcry surrounding the participation of men who identify as female in womenā€™s sports, namely that biological males have physiological characteristics that give them an advantage over women athletes.

Former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines Barker, who now works with theĀ Independent Womenā€™s Forum, had to compete against Thomas in an NCAA championship last year. She has shared her experience numerous times, most recently in anĀ appearanceĀ at this yearā€™s Conservative Political Action Conference.

Barker recalled that while the two tied for fifth place in one competition, the NCAA told her that she would receive a sixth-place trophy to hold in a photograph recognizing the athletes for their achievement and that Thomas would get to hold the fifth-place trophy. An NCAA official told her that ā€œfor photo purposes, Lia (a man) has to have the trophy so you can pose with this one, but you go home empty-handed.ā€ Barker concluded that she was ā€œreduced to a photo op to validate the identity of a male.ā€

In aĀ tweetĀ posted on Sunday, Barker slammed ESPN for its video profile of Thomas. ā€œLia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman,ā€ she wrote.

ā€œIf I was a woman working at ESPN, I would walk out,ā€ she proclaimed. After telling the cable channel it was ā€œspineless,ā€ Barker called on her followers to ā€œ#boycottESPN.ā€

USA PowerliftingĀ is among the sports organizations that have recognized the physiological differences between the sexes that give men an advantage over women. Some of these advantages include ā€œincreased body and muscle mass, bone density, bone structure and connective tissue.ā€

AĀ studyĀ published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in late 2020 found that men who identify as trans and take opposite-sex hormones retain an advantage over women competitors even after two years of taking feminizing hormones.

Concerns about the unfairness presented by allowing men to compete on womenā€™s sports teams have ledĀ 19 statesĀ to pass laws requiring athletes to compete on teams that correspond with their biological sex instead of their chosen sexual identity: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

While the biological differences between men and women manifest themselves in athletic competitions where trans-identified men compete against women, female athletes cannot escape the reality of anatomical differences between the sexes behind the scenes either.Ā A group of Thomasā€™ teammates at the University of Pennsylvania filed aĀ complaintĀ against the school detailing the uncomfortable experience endured by female athletes due to his presence in the womenā€™s locker room.

One athlete that signed on to the complaint described sharing an intimate space with a man as ā€œdefinitely awkward because Lia [Will] still has male body parts and is attracted to women.ā€

Another swimmer noted that ā€œwhile Lia covers [himself] with a towel sometimes, thereā€™s a decent amount of nudity.ā€ As a result, this swimmer and others have had a ā€œglimpseā€ at Thomasā€™ private parts. Gaines also found herself subject to ā€œextreme discomfort in the locker roomā€ when competing against Thomas in the NCAA championship last year.

How are you praying about transgenderism? Share your prayers and scriptures below.

(Used with permission. By Ryan Foley from The Christian Post. Photo Credit: Johanna Steppan on Unsplash)

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Alma
March 30, 2023

Father,
Thank you for opening the eyes of those who have been tolerate and even those in that culture. Continue to expose the truth about their satanic agenda so that they are completely disgusted with this agenda. Deliver those who have been blinded and heal their them
In Jesusā€™ name, amen.

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R
March 29, 2023

I thank GOD that Uganda banned lgbtq public lifestyle outright before it attempts to take over there like it has in America! I witnessed that evil boldness in Chicago in 1978 during a gay pride parade. I was stuck on a side street in traffic when the parade blocked us in. I was shocked because in 1978 I never had any idea about gay life. That parade was so filthy. They simulated sex acts on the parade floats. They yelled filthy things to mostly little boys on the sidelines. I was appalled! Fast forward to how the trans attempt to shove their lifestyle on us today! FATHER GOD send laborers to transgenders and deliver them all completely from the trap of satan in JESUS MIGHTY NAME! Amen!

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Susan
March 29, 2023

Boycotting ESPN alone won’t accomplish a thing!! They will continue as they are.
There are other ways to get the point across that would hit home more pronounced!!
Think about it!!

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