Biological male competing as female in Maine wins again - has won 3/5 meets so far

Lltypical Liberals enabling abuse of females by allowing bio men to compete against them. This is what they wanted. Distract, divide and conquer. Time to wake up.

sports reflect society

any guy now can claim he's a woman an be treated as such OR ELSE

I hope she keeps competing and winning.

Or else what? 🤣

Pretty ballsy performance, I'd say.

How dare you keep bringing this up?! It hardly ever happens! It’s only a distraction from…something or other. You’re just a bigot.

Or whatever liberals say.

A sizable fraction of feminists dislike trans women in sports. Read the Ovarit web site.

I can understand why. From Helen Joyce.

"These things that are happening are admirable sentiments, but stem from a poorly thought-out, sense of compassion for trans people. This compassion is, not coincidentally, mostly demanded of women, who are socialised to put their own needs last and punished more severely than men when they refuse to comply.”

That’s the equivalent of “I’m not racist but..”. Well, you are just racist is what it almost always is in those cases.

These are TERFs, and they absolutely don’t think the sentiments are admirable. Saying they are “punished more severely than men when they refuse to comply” is meaningless.

Are women athletes not punished? They have to compete against beings with evolutionary advantages-slimmer hips, more upper body strength, more oxygen capacity and the like. For many men, the current situation simply offends their sense of fair-play.

For every woman who loses, another gains, so it’s zero sum, and why that TERF’s argument is bogus.

But the winner in this case has male gametes who is displacing a person with female gametes. Our species (and all other mammals) has only two types of gametes. Even intersex are binary, as these babies born with disorders are either male or female. They have a birth defect that damages the development of genitalia. Our gametes are built for human reproduction and one must argue that they they have no influence on human development-a tall order, particularly given the type of people who have railed against evolution (hard-core Christians, for example). Sports is where there will be backlash. No one cares what someone wants to call themselves or be what you want in your own mind.

Well, if the TERF doesn’t think trans women are women, then she never thought the sentiments are admirable in the first place, so that was just like a “I’m not racist but…”.

Running is not categorized based on gametes, so I can’t care about the gamete supremacist view.

yes this is absurd

however i will say in some way it adds to the depth of competition

2nd place in this latest race was 4 seconds back, while 3rd place was over a minute behind

so the fastest girl in this race got a little better racing experience by having a boy in her race

All sports have usually have classifications: age, disabled categories, weight classes. Should heavyweights fight bantamweights? Why does running have age groups? Why is separation by gametes different?

Slightly off topic, but I think that it would be better for the sport of running if there was an open division and a women's division like there is in Chess. It would then be very easy to set a restriction on the women's division, like requiring a test reading under 100 ng/DL.

It's unsurprising that men are better women than women.

What's wrong with being a TERF? You say that like it's a negative thing.

imagine being a man, pretending to be a woman, racing against women and then coming 5th.

This athlete won again on Saturday, Oct 21. From the Portland Press-Herald:

A 15-year-old runner on Saturday became the first transgender athlete to win a regional high school cross country championship in Maine.

Soren Stark-Chessa, a sophomore at Maine Coast Waldorf School in Freeport, won the Class C South girls’ title at Twin Brook Recreation Area, completing the 3.1-mile course in 19 minutes, 17.78 seconds – a minute and 22 seconds faster than the runner-up.

“I think I came out a little strong but just kept pushing through it and I’m happy with it,” Stark-Chessa said...

Last fall, Stark-Chessa competed in the boys’ division in the C South race, also at Twin Brook, finishing 14th as the fastest freshman in 19:36.01.

Waynflete sophomore Grace Alexander placed second in 20:40.29. Winthrop senior Haley Williams, the runner-up as a sophomore and junior, finished third in 20:59.11.

Williams said she knew second place would be her best possible finish this year, “because as you probably know there is a runner that identifies as female, and they were running the boys’ race last year, and they decided to run the girls’ race this year. And it’s really, it’s very upsetting to me because I’ve worked my butt off all year.”

Williams added, “I want to say I’m totally supportive with everyone being whoever they want to be, but I feel like when you put people born male in girls’ races, it’s just genetically unfair.”

State law is clear Stark-Chessa has the right to compete as a girl.

The Maine Human Rights Act, as amended in 2021, states that the opportunity to participate in “all educational … and all extracurricular activities without discrimination because of sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, a physical or mental disability, ancestry, national origin, race, color or religion is recognized and declared to be a civil right.” The law further states it is unlawful to “deny a person equal opportunity to athletic programs” on the basis of “sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.”

The Maine Principals’ Association, the agency that oversees high school sports in the state, no longer plays a role in deciding which transgender students can compete in athletics. The MPA voted in April to end a decade-long practice of requiring a hearing before its Gender Identity Equity Committee. The purpose of the hearing was to confirm that a student’s gender identity had been consistent and that allowing a waiver would not create an unfair or unsafe competitive situation in athletics.

Between 2013 and 2023, there were 57 hearings, and all transgender students were granted waivers by the MPA.

The Maine Human Rights Act, however, superseded the MPA policy, so the committee was disbanded this spring. Mike Burnham, executive director of the MPA, said in an email that his agency “is committed to working with schools across the entire state to ensure that Maine State Law is followed.”

The 2021 Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey conducted by the state found 3.6% of Maine school students, or 1,997 of the 55,490 students in grades 9-12, identify as transgender. That represented a significant increase from 1.6% (about 900 students) in the 2019 MIYH survey

Next up for Stark-Chessa is the Class C state championship meet in Belfast next Saturday.

Asked if running at New Englands was a goal, Stark-Chessa said, “That’s what we’re training for. That’s what I’m hoping for. It would be really, really cool.”

pressherald.com

Transgender girl makes history with victory at cross country regional

Don Coulter

Soren Stark-Chessa, a sophomore at Maine Coast Waldorf School, controlled the Class C South girls' race from start to finish, with support from the crowd.

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