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Date Posted: 20:51:11 11/12/22 Sat
OK, so I will reply to this. I saw this a few days ago and I was not surprised, at all. It was just, in my eyes, a matter of time before this started happening, however over the past couple of days now I've gotten a lot of messages from girls that I’ve competed with, girls that are currently competing, even young teens who are 13yo, who are now wondering, like, what do we do? I don't want to compete against a man. I'm in a dressing room, alone. I don't feel comfortable with this. Like, why is MA doing this? When did this happen and what do we do for now?
The reality is that I don't know how MA stands on this. I don't know if they're for men competing as female in the org or not. I do know that they changed their contract a few years ago. So the contract used to read that you had to be a naturally born female in order to compete, now it says that you just have to be a female.
But we have to submit our birth certificate saying that we. are. female. which makes sense, except now we can change, our Birth Certificate, to reflex whatever gender we currently are feeling.
And that is where I see MA's hands being a little bit tied because they laid out that you do have to be a female, but now how do you check that? How do you enforce that when the only way, the only kind of documentation that shows that is your Birth Certificate, cause now it can be altered.
So I feel really bad for MA right now, I feel really bad for the women competing in MA right now, I feel bad for the girls over in NH who lost scholarships from an org that says they’re the largest provider of scholarships for ‘women’ and here they just gave scholarships to this young boy.
And I understand all these messages I’m getting that’s saying. “I’m sad by this. I’m genuinely sad by this.”
So to the young women asking now, what do I do? Do I continue to compete? Is this an org that I want to be a part of? I think more so than looking at MA and being like 'are you for this or are you against it?’, because again I don't know, MA hands could be tied, but also I know they're not going to come out with a statement anytime soon. We need to be looking at the current situation of what's happening.
Of course this is a much longer conversation, there's a lot of different pieces that come into play, a lot of different reasons that this is wrong, that this is ridiculous, that I can not believe we're having this conversation, but the reality is, is now boys are allowed in your dressing room bc their bc says. And this org who says that they're so much into women empowerment just gave your scholarship money to a young boy. And is that an org that you want to be a part of? And if it's not, maybe you do walk away, or maybe you speak up and say this is ridiculous, this is wrong, this is not the org that is all about women, that you claim to be and I'm going to speak up for true women empowerment.
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