Transgender Sprinters Finish 1st, 2nd At Connecticut Girls Indoor Track Championships
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Andraya Yearwood hears the comments, usually from adults and usually not to her face.
She shouldn’t be running, they say, not against girls.
Yearwood, a 17-year-old junior at Cromwell High School, is one of two transgender high school sprinters in Connecticut, transitioning to female.
She recently finished second in the 55-meter dash at the state open indoor track championships. The winner, Terry Miller of Bloomfield High, is also transgender and set a girls state indoor record of 6.95 seconds. Yearwood finished in 7.01 seconds and the third-place competitor, who is not transgender, finished in 7.23 seconds.
Miller and Yearwood also topped the 100-meter state championships last year, and Miller won the 300 this season.
Critics say their gender identity amounts to an unfair advantage, expressing a familiar argument in a complex debate for transgender athletes as they break barriers across sports around the world from high school to the pros.
“I have learned a lot about myself and about other people through this transition. I always try to focus most on all of the positive encouragement that I have received from family, friends and supporters,” Yearwood said. “I use the negativity to fuel myself to run faster.”
Connecticut is one of 17 states that allow transgender high school athletes to compete without restrictions, according to Transathlete.com, which tracks state policies in high school sports across the country. Seven states have restrictions that make it difficult for transgender athletes to compete while in school, like requiring athletes to compete under the gender on their birth certificate, or allowing them to participate only after going through sex-reassignment procedures or hormone therapies.
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That is unfair to the real girls who are denied a real opportunity due to the transgender fairy tale that gender is a choice.
I don't think any child should be allowed to "transition" until they are an adult.
Men are doing everything they can to push women aside and this is only one example
I would say that someone who is not going through at least hormone therapy is not transitioning.
It's all well and good to say that all people - trans or not - should be treated with equal dignity and respect. They absolutely should be. But sports are segregated because there are dramatic differences in the way bodies develop and those differences are rooted in sex. You can't simply identify as something different or have a few hormone treatments and reverse those differences. Sexual segregation in sports creates an opportunity for fair competition.
PC politics puts blinders on to ignore these facts and it does so at the expense of decades of effort to create opportunities for girls and women.
These gals have a lot of balls entering a female competition.
My first impression is I am going to have to disapprove of this young man's activities here. More later.
The irony of this does not escape me. Here I am gearing up to write about the softness, stability, loving tendencies, and life-affirming special-ness of girls and women and on my television a federal judge is ruling an all-male draft is unconstitutional on behalf of women! Stunning. Oh well. So many dynamic concepts and dichotomies are in play in a truly diverse society!!
although smarter than men.... physically, men are much stronger than women
when real women get tired of "men" kicking their asses in female sports things will change.
might I suggest the "Trans Olympics" just like we have the "Special Olympics" or is it too soon?
1.One of my major concerns here was about hormone therapy. Somebody above stated these transgender youths have not begun hormone therapy (the petitioner against them did not know)— both have.
2.This is very interesting. It creates the type of dilemma that a fully realized diverse society should and will have to work out: This video will help us understand both sides' perspectives.
3. I hope NT take time to watch it!
Let me be clear. In the past history of the world and our nation these types of "dilemmas" created in people-groups were discreetly and forcefully kept out of "civilized" societies—forced to live on the fringes of society, made to conform to set standards, or literally extinguished.
Nowadays, "new" American generations are eyeing living in a truly diverse experience with more and more people in the shadows living with and/or working through difficulties society neglected in the past. As well as expectations of many, many, new dilemmas and "deliverables" advancements in science and technology promise.