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🚨🚨🚨Police called on 19 women @ICFSport in Vancouver by Canadian Powerlifting Union Pres. Shane Martin

Women dressed in black to “mourn women’s sports” with “XY≠XX” stickers cheered female lifters forced to compete at CAN Nationals against trans identifying male, Anne Andres.
Original footage has been taken down by event organizers youtube.com/live/yVZIH0gaA…
🏋🏽Trans identifying male powerlifter, Anne Andres has taken 3rd at the CPU Canadian National Women’s Championships and left a female lifter off the podium.
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Sports teaches strategic thinking. But weirdly, the @NCAA is not listening; it’s doggedly pursuing a losing strategy: people are LESS empathetic to transgender athletes after they see males compete in our sports, denying female opportunities.
#LosingStrategy @coachblade
NCAA leadership says the stated goal in policy-making is “not if transgender athletes are included, but how.”

We agree - of course those with diverse gender identities should compete in sports!
‼️Just not males in female sports‼️#OurBodiesOurSports
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“We want to have an environment that is fair, welcoming and inclusive for all of the athletes,”@IvyLeague’s Robin Harris said at the NCAA transgender session.
-Well then, allow science/ fact-based perspectives to present.

If that’s the goal… get males out of female spaces.2/
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