@CarilynJohnson
Or being told, "Why would you compete if you know there is a male in the competition? Take a stand!" Some of these elite female athletes have spent a lifetime training for these opportunities and moments.
Wearing my Mothers' Day gift to the CIF (CA) State Track and Field Championships, where I medaled 32 years ago today. This generation of female athletes deserves the fair playing field that my competitors and I had.
@JenniferSey
@xx_xyathletics
@CarilynJohnson
Why is it that as an NCAA athlete in the 90s, I had to pee in a cup, with an NCAA official looking right at me, to show that I did not use performance enhancing drugs? Yet on the world's biggest stage, to "prove" sex/gender, we require....... a passport 🤔
@CarilynJohnson
We used to live out in the country. My husband would relocate gopher snakes and king snakes (the good guys) and chop the heads off rattlesnakes. Every. Damn. Time.
@voguemagazine
Sincere question, and nothing at all against Sha' Carri, but for the love of God, how do you not only still have this tweet up, but have it pinned?🤯
@RoxanneHoge
@StudioCityNC
@GOPLosAngeles
I once referred to a homeless person as a "bum" while at work. My co-worker tried to correct me and said, "You mean 'unhoused' person." I said, "No. I mean 'bum'".
@DrSuneelDhand
Completely immobile after throwing my back out, I had to take an ambulance to the emergency room. I could not stand, walk, or sit. ER doctor tried to send me home with Motrin in my husband's truck. When he walked away, I turned my head and looked at the nurse and said, "I am
@TheAfrocentricI
Keep in mind Kamala was a big part of Prop 47 being passed in CA, which we are trying to repeal on the Nov ballot with Prop 36. The slogan is "Make Crime Illegal Again."
@houmanhemmati
As an NCAA athlete in the 90s, I had to pee in a cup with someone watching in order to prove that I did not use performance enhancing drugs. On the world's biggest stage, apparently athletes (at least in boxing) need only provide a passport to prove sex/gender. Regardless what
Thank you
@Riley_Gaines_
and the other brave women attending the Georgia Senate Special Committee on Protecting Women’s Sports. Your testimony and heartbreaking stories further solidify why we must take action in the Georgia Senate and protect women’s rights in sports. This isn’t
@kenny_bednarek
Okay, this just made me cry- these pictures of support from your hometown😭 As a Californian who has never been to Wisconsin, I think I LOVE Rice Lake❤️
@kristenmag
My husband and I both left the teachers' union, after a combined 40ish years of membership, because of this. We saw no evidence that
@WeAreCTA
was doing anything to help matters.
@tmsilverman
In CA, this is the third such example in the past several months of males identifying as females and qualifying for championship athletic competitions. All three attend private schools that cost $54,000 to $56,000 a year.
@OregonianSports
This athlete has no times in previous to March 20. Many of the girls who missed out on a podium spot or a spot at the meet have trained for YEARS to earn a medal at State, just like I did. You are giving the girls and their families the middle finger.
@icons_women
If you are in CA, please help us get protections for girls' sports on the November ballot! Support
@ProtectKidsCA
by downloading and signing the petition before the April deadline!
🚨BREAKING: We've filed a lawsuit on behalf of a track coach who was fired for proposing an open division for transgender athletes to compete in, to ensure fairness for all student-athletes.
Coach John Parks was retaliated against, falsely accused of discriminatory behavior,
@Martina
The Biden Administration is currently trying to change Title IX to allow athletic participation based on gender identity. Up and coming female athletes could really use your voice,
@Martina
. Please support
@ProtectKidsCA
,
@icons_women
, and
@xx_xyathletics
.
@DyeStat
@Doug_Binder
Thank you for speaking up about this. I medaled in the CA State meet as a senior in 1992. It was the culmination of 6 years of hard work and sacrifice by not only me, but my parents. This is a slap in the face to the real female athletes in these races.
@hunnybadgermom
Thank you for sharing this. I cried through the entire six minutes and twenty two seconds of it.
I stand with Coach Parks.
I stand with female athletes.
We will not be silenced.
@JenniferSey
As someone who works in higher education, this word salad makes me embarrassed for higher education. It screams, "Send your child to trade school!" (Which, btw, is a great option regardless).
“Protecting women’s sports is a winning issue come November because acknowledging the differences between men and women is the most fundamental truth imaginable. If a candidate boldly asserts that men can be women if they want it badly enough, what lie won’t he or she tell?” -
@LaGrecca333
Central Californian here. SO MANY OF US HATE NEWSOM!!!! French Laundry, extended school closures (but not for his kids), $20 fast food min. wage, lives in the pocket of our powerful teachers' union, rules for thee but not for me, and next will be AB 1955 if he signs......
A high school track and field coach in Oregon was FIRED after penning letters to state officials advocating for single-sex sports.
John Parks spoke with The Publica about his termination.
"If I am going to do my job, I have got to advocate for my damn girls."
@CoClarified
@oregoncitizen_
@RepSalinas
This abortion response to a boys in girls sports question is the most ridiculous thing I have seen all day. And that's saying a lot...... because I live in California......where everything is ridiculous🙄
All of the worst politicians come from California, and Kamala is no different.
Newsom, Pelosi, Bonta, Weiner, Breed, Bass, Thao, Swalwell...
They're all absolute trash, and Kamala is the bottom of the barrel.
@JillianWeir
I was a collegiate middle distance runner. My son was a collegiate sprinter. Yet one of my all time t&f highlights was watching the competition, and then standing on the rail for the victory lap when our shot putters swept Worlds in 22.
“I lose money in this sport. I don’t gain money.”
Eric Holt speaks out about the struggles of being an unsponsored track athlete
He is the fifth-fastest American man in the 1500m this year. He just took the 2022 1500m world champion to the finish line at the NYC Grand Prix. No
@GovTinaKotek
How 'bout Oregon leverages female high school track and field athletes only having to compete against other biological females? Whaddya think, Tina?🤔
@OSAASports
For the folks (like me) who believe in fairness in girls' sports, we as a country voted for this nonsense. Please vote differently next time......at the local, state, and federal levels.
@CarilynJohnson
I'm going to make a spreadsheet with live event start times, my favorite events, and the athletes that I watch. Not gonna miss a moment. Unashamed to be totally nerding out on track and field❤️
Electric scenes in Botswana 🇧🇼
The National Stadium is buzzing, packed full with fans eagerly awaiting the arrival of Letsile Tebogo & other athletes after their historic run at the
#Paris2024
Olympics!
🎥
@MDNnewss
“Title IX was enacted for the protection of the discrimination of biological females. However, the Final Rule may likely cause biological females more discrimination than they had before Title IX was enacted.” 3/8
Please let OSAA and the Oregon Legislature know that we will not “grow up and shut up” until we have a fair shot, as designed by Title IV, to compete in sports, without worrying about the place being stolen by a biological man.
#savewomenssports
@crispmark29
California Ed Code allows this, unfortunately. Additionally, the Biden Administration's Title IX revise did not help. We must vote intentionally in order for change to happen.
@InformedMama209
$600,000 per unit. My husband and I have a good income, multiple degrees between us, and we did not spend that on a house. And we definitely don't have a home gym.
For the first time since London 2012, three women will represent Team USA in the 100 final! 🇺🇸✨
Sha’Carri Richardson, Melissa Jefferson, and TeeTee Terry will hit the track at
#Paris2024
at 3:20 p.m. ET!
#JourneyToGold
#ParisOlympics