Former athletes and activists spoke at the United Nations this week assembly It called on international organizations to encourage sanctions against men who try to participate in women's sports.
Olympic silver medalist Sharon Davis and former West Virginia athlete Laney Armistead spoke at an event in New York City on Wednesday, highlighting the clear advantage men have over women in track and field. Explained.
“Men don't participate in women's sports at all.”
“I'm here today because we've all seen what happens when men are allowed to join women's teams. … It's demoralizing and it's unfair. And that's completely wrong,” Armistead said.
The soccer player said West Virginia has a law that guarantees only biological women can participate in women's sports, but there are now stories in college about women getting injured while competing against men in women's track and field. But I explained that I had heard it.
“In West Virginia, in the past three years alone, one male athlete allowed to compete against women has already displaced nearly 300 female athletes. And that's just one athlete. do not have.”
Davis was more direct in his speech, talking about simple biological differences that should be considered “common sense.”
“Women are at a physical disadvantage,” she says. “This doesn't mean we're inferior or better. It just means we're biologically different.”
Davis is a former Olympic swimmer who won a silver medal at the 1980 Moscow Games and competed in three Olympics in total. She also won two golds, two silvers and two bronzes at the Commonwealth Games from 1978 to 1990.
“I don't know anyone who wants to exclude anyone, but we want women to play fair and safe sports. And we want women to be seriously injured and “We can't wait until we can deal with it, or worse, die, based on science and plain common sense,” she added.
Mr Davis has consistently called for gender testing to be reinstated at the Olympics, making it clear that even in the 1970s, gender testing was a simple process.
“The gender screening test is a once-in-a-lifetime test (because humans cannot change their biological sex) and takes only one minute to complete. It is simply applied to the inside of the cheek with a cotton swab. “It was no hindrance at all, especially during the Olympics, when athletes have to consent to drug tests,” she wrote. × In July.
“There are no men in women's sports at all,” she says. prompted In September. “Inclusion is now the exclusion of women from their own race by men!”
lawyer of Alliance to Defend Freedom The athletes were joined by Kristen Wagoner and Reem Al-Salem, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls.
They called on the international sporting community to ensure that women can participate in athletics without risking harm from men.
“Our message to the world is that we have learned from the mistakes that have been made and are now being righted so that our daughters can have a fair and safe future in sports,” Wagoner said. he asked.
Al-Salem, a long-time advocate in this field, said not protecting the female category is one of the most egregious forms of discrimination against women.
She argues that despite the pain, suffering, and humiliation women suffer at the hands of men who seek to beat them in their own competition, the essence of womanhood is “deliberately sidelined.” “There is,” he added.
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