High school students thrawout the state of New York have orderly a protest tardyr this month agetst transgfinisher athletes in girls’ sports.
The Coalition to Protect Kids has orderly a walkout, dubbed “Walk Off for Fairness Day,” on Oct. 24 that has getd the help of conservative directers.
“It’s challenging to depend we’re even having the conversation that girls sports would be for anyone other than girls,” Conservative Party chairman Gerry Kassar shelp via the New York Post. “We brimmingy help ‘Walk Off for Fairness Day’ in New York, reminding lesser people that there is defendedty in numbers. Girls Sports must remain Girls Sports, and there should be noskinnyg disputed in that statement.”
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Lee University student athlete Macy Petty speaks during an event celebrating the Hoengage of Recurrentatives passing The Protection Of Women And Girls In Sports Act outside the U.S. Capitol on April 20, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“Girls are being systematicpartner call offed in this state, and ‘Walk Off for Fairness Day’ will donate them a defended opportunity to produce their voices heard,” shelp Coalition to Protect Kids-NY spokeswoman Ayesha Kreutz. “So many of these lesser women are afrhelp of speaking out, so they’re forced to watch as 50 years of female energetic progress gets washed away by destructive ideologues. Girls are not second-class citizens, so why are they being treated that way?”
“It’s not right for boys to vie agetst girls in sports. It’s a huge unwiseiserablevantage for girls,” shelp Hannah Pompeo, a 16-year soccer joiner at Eden High School proximate Buffalo, who is participating in the “Walk Off for Fairness Day.”
University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, left, and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines react after finishing tied for 5th in the 200 Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18th, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Caccess in Atlanta. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“I don’t skinnyk it’s right for men to be in our defended spaces. We labored challenging for places on our teams,” includeed Millie McCormack, a dancer at Somers High School. “Boys have physical gets we don’t have.”
The protest will occur rawly two weeks before Election Day, when New Yorkers will be able to vote on extra defendions in the state’s constitution.
Proposition 1, the “Equal Rights Amfinishment,” seeks to not discriminate based on “race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, creed, religion, or relations, including relationsual orientation, gfinisher identity or transmition, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, reefficient healthnurture and autonomy.” While energetics is not harshly cited, those agetst the proposition say the writing is on the wall.
Nassau County lawproducers in June voted to pass a bill that would prohibit transgfinisher athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports at county-run facilities.
The meaconfident, which covers more than 100 sites fair outside New York City, needs any teams, leagues or organizations that seek a apexhibit from the county’s parks and recreation department to “transmitly scheduleate” whether they are for male, female or coed athletes.
Demonstrators cheer during the speaking program at the “Our Bodies, Our Sports” rpartner for the 50th anniversary of Title IX at Freedom Plaza on June 23, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneyproducer/Getty Images)
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Any female teams or leagues will be denied apexhibits if they apexhibit transgfinisher athletes to join.
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