{"id":1159,"date":"2021-02-09T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2021-02-09T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:36:03","slug":"nikki-haley-protect-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/2021\/02\/09\/nikki-haley-protect-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley: Protect Women’s Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amb. Haley published an op-ed today calling out the Biden administration for abandoning women\u2019s rights on the sports field.<\/a><\/p>\n

One of President Biden\u2019s first acts as president was signing an executive order that paves the way for mandating that biological men be allowed to play on women\u2019s sports teams. Many women have been afraid to object out of fear they will be criticized or silenced.<\/p>\n

This is a huge step backward for women\u2019s rights and women\u2019s sports, essentially pushing biological women out of competitive sports. As a woman and a mother, Amb. Haley calls on President Biden to protect the progress we have made for women\u2019s sports\u2014not take a step backward.<\/p>\n

Read the article here:<\/p>\n

When I was a teenager, tennis was my life.<\/p>\n

I started playing when I was ten. By the time I was 13, it was all I wanted to do. I practiced 24\/7. A lot of days, my parents wouldn\u2019t see me \u2014 I\u2019d be up and at the courts before dawn, and back after dusk. On weekends, I got up extra early because our small South Carolina town only had a few courts. I wanted to make sure I got one before someone else did.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t the best player at my high school. I was never first seed. But I was good enough to make the team. My dream was to be on the U.S. women\u2019s team and meet my sports heroes, Chrissie Evert and Martina Navratilova. Of course, I never would have made it \u2014 I clearly didn\u2019t! \u2014 but I still had hope. Frankly, I would have been just as happy to be the best at my school.<\/p>\n

Will today\u2019s young girls have that hope? Will they have any chance of being the best in their schools, much less in their districts or states? I worry many won\u2019t, and not just in tennis. Across the sporting world, the game is being rigged against women and in favor of biological men.<\/p>\n

President Biden is the latest man to do the rigging, which is strange coming from someone billed as a defender of women. In one of his first acts as president, he signed an executive order paving the way for a federal mandate that all schools receiving federal funding let biological men play on women\u2019s sports teams. The order was framed as a matter of transgender rights. But really, it was an attack on women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n

Generations of women fought hard to ensure that their daughters and granddaughters had a level playing field, because girls deserve the same chance as boys to play sports. Thanks to the efforts of countless feminists, the number of women\u2019s teams in schools has taken off over the past 50 years. Before then, less than 4 percent of girls played a sport. Now 40 percent do.<\/p>\n

My generation was one of the first to benefit from these victories. My daughter\u2019s generation has reaped the rewards, too. But Biden\u2019s actions will roll back those victories and put women at a disadvantage. Now, when a girl steps up to compete, she\u2019ll have to ask herself: Who am I really competing against?<\/p>\n

Transgender kids deserve support and respect. The fact remains, however, that biological boys and girls are built differently. The best male athletes have a natural advantage over the best female athletes. You have to ignore science not to see it. The world\u2019s fastest female sprinter has nine Olympics medals, but nearly 300 high-school boys are still faster than her. In states where biological boys compete against girls, the girls almost always lose \u2014 not just the match, but also possible college scholarships and a lifetime of success in their favorite sport. Their chance to shine is being stolen.<\/p>\n

I approach this issue as a woman and as a mom. When my daughter ran track, I\u2019d go to the meets. I can\u2019t imagine how hard it would\u2019ve been to watch her lose to someone with an unfair advantage. And I hate to think how my daughter would have reacted. She ran because she always felt she had a shot. If she lost that feeling, would she have kept running? Why compete when your best can\u2019t possibly be good enough? Girls across America could be asking themselves these very questions before too long. Some surely already are. On this critical issue, women\u2019s rights are moving in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n

If this trend isn\u2019t stopped, the achievements of so many brave women over so many years will be erased. That\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s insulting. And women know it, too, whether they\u2019re retired athletes, middle-aged mothers, or a 16-year-old girl thinking of signing up for swimming. They\u2019re just afraid to speak out, because they know they\u2019ll be silenced and called bigots.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019re not bigots. We\u2019re women. And we need to be heard, not silenced. We also need the backing of those who should know better. Most feminists are missing in action right now. They should be on the front lines of this fight. Men should get off the sidelines, too. Men\u2019s sports are unlikely to be affected, but if they were, you\u2019d bet the boys would be up in arms. They should be anyway, standing in solidarity with their wives and girlfriends and daughters and classmates.<\/p>\n

Justice and equality are on the line, and common sense is just as important as compassion. Women haven\u2019t run this race only to find we never had a chance to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amb. Haley published an op-ed today calling out the Biden administration for abandoning women\u2019s rights on the sports field. One of President Biden\u2019s first acts as president was signing an executive order that paves the way for mandating that biological men be allowed to play on women\u2019s sports teams. Many women have been afraid to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}