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Image Credit Asra Nomani The International Swimming Federation voted to restrict most transgender athletes from competing in elite women’s aquatic competitions.
MORGANTOWN, W. V. — When I moved to this college town in the summer of 1975 as a 10-year-old Muslim immigrant girl from India, I found my stride doing something very simple: tackling the rolling hills outside our home on Cottonwood Street.
Each day, I logged my mile – running the same route, down Cottonwood, down Headlee, up Pineview, up Cottonwood – as religiously as I did my prayers. I subscribed to Runner’s World magazine and Boston Marathon winner Bill Rodgers became my hero. Every morning, I’d meditate upon the image of then-Bruce Jenner to put a kick in my step. Running 10ks and competing in cross country and girls’ track in middle school and high school made me a lifelong athlete.
In recent years, girls and women in sports have come under attack as a result of an aggressive, well-funded campaign to allow boys and men who identify as girls and women to compete in female sports, in the name of transgender rights. University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas , a male who competed in men’s swimming then last year started swimming on the women’s team after identifying as female, has most notoriously dominated women’s swimming after the NAACP allowed Thomas to compete in women’s swimming.
Too often, athletes, parents, and sports organizations who disagree with males in women’s sports have cowered or stayed silent in the face of this controversy because shaming naysayers as “transphobic” is a tactic of activists on this issue, just as “racist” and “Islamophobic” are weaponized to silence people on issues of race and religion.
But that is now finally changing. Earlier this week, the International Swimming Federation (FINA) voted to approve a new policy restricting most […]
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