RunRagged wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
...The girl makes it sound as if guys with wigs have taken over Connecticut's HS girls T&F and stolen their scholarships. Are there more than the two I saw in another thread? ...
Turns out, only two teenage guys with the physiological advantages of male puberty competing as females can have an outsized impact on girls' HS track, as this excerpt from the complaint itself explains:
"As a result of CIAC’s policy, two biological males, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, were permitted to compete in girls’ athletic competitions beginning in the 2017 track season. Between them, they have taken 15 women’s state championship titles (titles held in 2016 by ten different Connecticut girls) and have taken more than 40 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions from female track athletes in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone."
Miller is also the girls' statewide record holder in several events, & would've taken another state championship title this month, but was DQ'd for jumping the gun.
Though I'm sure you were just being flip with the wigs comment, in fact Miller does usually wear wigs, often with headbands, though sometimes Miller has sported what appear to be hair extensions. In the state outdoor championships this month, Miller wore a long Dynel day-glo green wig of the sort usually seen only on Halloween & hookers, the streetwalker kind.
Yearwood wears wigs too, & from social media has quite a collection. However, for much of the 3 years Yearwood has competed as a female, Yearwood has sported a weave/long braided hair extensions, which looked a bit odd to some when Yearwood still had a visible mustache. Most recently, Yearwood has competed sans either wigs or extensions, instead sporting a short Afro that looks the same as the one worn when still identifying as male.
True, no scholarships have been stolen from girls yet, but opportunities have. The girl named in the complaint, Selina Soule, & others have lost numerous chances to win or place up top in statewide & interscholastic meets, & to compete in regional meets where college scouts scope out New England talent.
Off the track, Miller & Yearwood have garnered press attention, accolades & opportunities they never would've had a chance to get if they had not eagerly sprinted onto the transwagon - & which will certainly be seen as impressive plusses on college applications. For example, in April, Miller & Yearwood were feted at a gala dinner where they were each awarded the state's "Courage Award" for being brave enough to beat girls.
And though Yearwood doesn't appear to have the brains to get into the Ivies, in November Yearwood nevertheless was invited to speak at Harvard. In that appearance, Yearwood was introduced as "a trailblazer" & said the HS Yearwood attends "is very accepting, but I feel it could be more accepting" since once in a while "members of the school community would use her legal name, rather than her chosen name," which Yearwood complained made it hard to learn. In its press release about Yearwood's campus visit, Harvard reported, "a common thread that ran throughout the discussion that evening was that of courage."
More recently, Yearwood has starred in the 2019 documentary, Changing The Game, that lionizes trans athletes for their bravery, specialness & all-around awesomeness. This has led to Yearwood appearing & being applauded & oohed & aahed over at both the Tribeca & Telluride film festivals, where Yearwood walked the red carpet & caught the approving eye of such luminaries as Oprah Winfrey ("mind-blowing!") & Hilary Swank (applause & heart emojis on Instagram).
Just this month, Yearwood was flown out to LA to join CeCe Telfer & other MtF trans athletes to celebrate their brave & stunning accomplishments & appear on an Outsports Pride panel discussion called “The real-life effects of the trans-athlete debate on trans women" moderated by Dawn Ennis, the MtF Outsports editor & head honcho who wrote the slanted article at the top of this thread. Of course, no one mentioned the effects on bio girls & women, because who cares about them? Real females are only good for being ground into the dirt.
A telling tidbit: although Yearwood usually runs in traditional male-style track shorts that are loose rather than form-fitting, girls' state champ Miller has a habit of competing in skintight track suits & shorts that makes Miller's penis so plainly visible spectators can't miss it, as can be seen in the 7th photo here:
https://www.gametimect.com/the-2019-gametimect-all-state-girls-track-team/#photo-825273