Transgender researcher Joanna Harper said in a recent interview that Nike "pulled out" of funding a study on youth transgender athletes due to public pressure. This seems to contradict a statement that Nike previously gave OutKick regarding the study. A company executive told us in April, on background, that the study "was never initialized" and "is not moving forward."...
OutKick's reporting led several key figures to comment on the study, including: Vice President JD Vance, Sens. Ted Cruz, Tommy Tuberville and Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Burgess Owens, Charles Barkley, Clay Travis, Riley Gaines and others. The public pressure apparently made its way to Nike.
Joanna Harper says Nike was going to pay for a study on youth transgender athletes but got nervous and pulled the plug
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Serioiusly even in the heyday of the trans madness why would Nike think it should fund a study about transgender kid athletes?
How does that help it sell shoes?
Does Nike fund a bunch of studies unrelated to it's core mission? Truly bizarre.174 -
this is wild wrote:
Transgender researcher Joanna Harper said in a recent interview that Nike "pulled out" of funding a study on youth transgender athletes due to public pressure. This seems to contradict a statement that Nike previously gave OutKick regarding the study. A company executive told us in April, on background, that the study "was never initialized" and "is not moving forward."...
OutKick's reporting led several key figures to comment on the study, including: Vice President JD Vance, Sens. Ted Cruz, Tommy Tuberville and Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Burgess Owens, Charles Barkley, Clay Travis, Riley Gaines and others. The public pressure apparently made its way to Nike.
My take: Nike is woke as hell but at least they learned from Bud Light.
No one has yet come forward to say this study actually started, therefore Nike can't 'pull out' of something that never started. This may be a technical point, but it does create a misleading headline. I'm not advocating for either side, just trying to stick to the known facts.
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this is wild wrote:
Transgender researcher Joanna Harper said in a recent interview that Nike "pulled out" of funding a study on youth transgender athletes due to public pressure. This seems to contradict a statement that Nike previously gave OutKick regarding the study. A company executive told us in April, on background, that the study "was never initialized" and "is not moving forward."...
OutKick's reporting led several key figures to comment on the study, including: Vice President JD Vance, Sens. Ted Cruz, Tommy Tuberville and Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Burgess Owens, Charles Barkley, Clay Travis, Riley Gaines and others. The public pressure apparently made its way to Nike.
My take: Nike is woke as hell but at least they learned from Bud Light.
Republicans hate scientific research and evidence-based policy.
So they squash any study that may contradict with their ideological agenda.
The same happened in Germany in 1930s.
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easier said wrote:
Serioiusly even in the heyday of the trans madness why would Nike think it should fund a study about transgender kid athletes?
How does that help it sell shoes?
Does Nike fund a bunch of studies unrelated to it's core mission? Truly bizarre.
Nike in 2021.
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I sense an innuendo in the title but cant finger it out
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What new information would a Nike study on transgender athletes provide?
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Kickers usually win wrote:
What new information would a Nike study on transgender athletes provide?
This study was supposed to track the progression of trans athletes who started their medical transition early to see if they improve at a similar pace as cis athletes.
It would have shown us whether those athletes had advantage over cis athletes during and after transition. In BPJ v. West Virginia, the state claimed BPJ's performance improved faster than cis girls of the same age, without presenting any evidence to back up.
It was doomed even without outside interference anyway, because the ever increasing bans on trans athletes have reduced the number of athletes eligible for this study.
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Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:
Kickers usually win wrote:
What new information would a Nike study on transgender athletes provide?
This study was supposed to track the progression of trans athletes who started their medical transition early to see if they improve at a similar pace as cis athletes.
It would have shown us whether those athletes had advantage over cis athletes during and after transition. In BPJ v. West Virginia, the state claimed BPJ's performance improved faster than cis girls of the same age, without presenting any evidence to back up.
It was doomed even without outside interference anyway, because the ever increasing bans on trans athletes have reduced the number of athletes eligible for this
Your last paragraph is accurate. There are currently no medically transitioned athletes competing at any level.
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I do hope your being ridicules on purpose but I'm betting you're not.
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Kickers usually win wrote:
Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:
This study was supposed to track the progression of trans athletes who started their medical transition early to see if they improve at a similar pace as cis athletes.
It would have shown us whether those athletes had advantage over cis athletes during and after transition. In BPJ v. West Virginia, the state claimed BPJ's performance improved faster than cis girls of the same age, without presenting any evidence to back up.
It was doomed even without outside interference anyway, because the ever increasing bans on trans athletes have reduced the number of athletes eligible for this
Your last paragraph is accurate. There are currently no medically transitioned athletes competing at any level.
This is not true. I just showed one of them in that YouTube video. Her case will be argues in the Supreme Court next year.
And just because you don't know about them, that does not mean they don't exist. Just a few weeks ago, another HS athlete was outed by the rightwing media. Her team has just won the regional championship and will be playing in the state championship in the coming weeks.
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Stop lying. No trans athlete has ever been banned from any sport nor are there any proposals anywhere to do so. They have been welcomed with open arms to participate in sports based on their birth sex. But as Harper himself has said, "We just don't want to."
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You really think a FtM athlete would be welcome with open arms in women's races?
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Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:
Kickers usually win wrote:
What new information would a Nike study on transgender athletes provide?
This study was supposed to track the progression of trans athletes who started their medical transition early to see if they improve at a similar pace as cis athletes.
It would have shown us whether those athletes had advantage over cis athletes during and after transition. In BPJ v. West Virginia, the state claimed BPJ's performance improved faster than cis girls of the same age, without presenting any evidence to back up.
It was doomed even without outside interference anyway, because the ever increasing bans on trans athletes have reduced the number of athletes eligible for this study.
A boy does not have a right to play girls sports. Just like a 21 year old does not have the right to compete in a u20 category
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Nada wrote:
Stop lying. No trans athlete has ever been banned from any sport nor are there any proposals anywhere to do so. They have been welcomed with open arms to participate in sports based on their birth sex. But as Harper himself has said, "We just don't want to."
Yeah. gay men always had the rights to marry women, and some actually had heterosexual marriages.
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KoR wrote:
You really think a FtM athlete would be welcome with open arms in women's races?
Yes, there are numerous FtM playing basketball and soccer to name just two sports. What is prohibited is for them to take any hormonoes. No one cares if any females with essentially short haircuts play with other females. They used to be called tomboys over 20 years ago.
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Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:
KoR wrote:
You really think a FtM athlete would be welcome with open arms in women's races?
Mack was not welcome with open arms.
She is on T. Testosterone is a banned substance, that's why she is not welcome to compete with women. Surely you understand this. The fact that she wasn't immediately barred at the high school level is because of a failure of drug testing at that level.
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