Gender, White Racism, CRT
Re: Fairness in Women’s Hang Gliding & Paragliding
Dear USHPA:
The International Consortium on Female Sport (ICFS) includes representation from across the world. We are elite athletes and coaches, academics and scientists, and legal and human rights experts. We call on USHPA, and its member and state associations, to eliminate discrimination against female pilots, and restore fairness to the female category in hang gliding and paragliding.
In developing your policy for transgender and gender diverse players in 2019, we understand that you consulted with your community over Facebook. However, given a very high percentage of your pilots are male, and therefore unimpacted by your policy, and most women are scared to voice their concerns publicly, we are concerned that your female pilots’ voices have not been heard.
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Read MoreHelen Joyce talked to academic Michael Foran and barrister Naomi Cunningham on 8th June 2023 about the upcoming Westminster Hall debate on clarifying the Equality Act
Among the questions discussed:
What is the policy problem this proposal aims to solve?
If our proposal becomes law (whether with our suggested wording or an alternative), what, in practical terms, is likely to change?
Our petition is being debated at the same time as a rival petition which calls on the government not to amend the definition of sex in the Equality Act. What are the best arguments put forward by opponents of clarity?
What, if anything, does the definition of sex in the Equality Act have to do with “gender self-identification”?
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Read MoreToronto Blue Jays call Christian player “hateful” for supporting Bud Light boycott
Does anyone think the Blue Jays would reprimand a Muslim for expressing his beliefs about gender?
Miller’s video showed him quoting scripture to encourage Christians to boycott Bud Light and Target for their respective anti-women and anti-children branding. (Bud Light reduced womanhood to a feeling, and Target sold Pride-friendly clothes to children, including bathing suits in the female section with a penis ‘tuck’.)
Chaos ensued. First, mainstream media outlets piled on Bass, calling for him to apologize. Some even said he should be kicked off the Blue Jays for good.
Bass caved to the pressure almost instantly. He deleted his post – but that wasn’t enough.
The next day at the Blue Jays clubhouse, Bass went to his manager’s office to apologize. The GM of the Blue Jays, Ross Atkins, was also present. But that wasn’t enough either.
His manager, John Schneider, told Bass that his apology needed to be louder. Bass then apologized to his teammates, as if Vladdy Guerrero Jr. honestly gave a flying fadoo.
Bass then issued an apology to the press.
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Read MoreOn May 26th, Uganda’s parliament signed into law the “Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023”, which prescribes life imprisonment for homosexuality and the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”, as well as harsh penalties for the “promotion” of homosexuality.
The West’s reaction was swift.
President Biden called the Act the “the latest development in an alarming trend of human rights abuses and corruption in Uganda”, and said that his administration is considering the “application of sanctions”. Likewise, EU Foreign Affairs Representative Joseph Borell described the Act as “contrary to international human rights law”, and said that Uganda’s failure to protect its citizens “will undermine relationships with international partners”.
Now, I should mention that I agree with Biden and Borell: homosexuality should not be illegal. Yet I can’t help but notice their glaring hypocrisy.
Here are some of the countries where homosexuality is currently illegal: Nigeria, Algeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Qatar and the UAE. Notice anything? They’re some of Europe’s biggest energy suppliers, and in the case of Saudi Arabia one of America’s most important “allies”.
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Read MoreA team established within the police to “make policing anti-racist” has itself been accused of racism. The Telegraph’s Ewan Somerville has the story.
The Police Race Action Plan was launched after the murder of the black man George Floyd by a white police officer in the US in 2020.
Developed by the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), it claims to “make policing anti-racist” and “not over-police” black people by tackling racial disparities in stop and search, arrests and homicides.
When it was published last May, the plan said: “We accept that policing still contains racism, discrimination and bias. We are ashamed of those truths, we apologise for them and we are determined to change them.
“We have much to do to secure the confidence of black people, including our own staff, and improve their experience of policing – and we will.”
Now, former staff members in the unit have accused it of racism.
A black former member, who asked to remain anonymous, told BBC Newsnight they believed people like them were seen as “troublemakers or difficult”, and were treated differently to their white colleagues, with no more support offered as workloads increased.
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Read MoreLONDON, May 31 (Reuters) – U.S. retailer Target’s decision to remove some LGBTQ-themed merchandise after customer backlash in its stores highlights the problem with companies’ “rainbow capitalism,” said Erik Carnell, a transgender designer whose products were pulled from its stores.
Target (TGT.N) has sold LGBTQ-related goods tied to Pride month for years. But last week the big-box chain removed Carnell’s products, citing an increase in confrontations between customers and employees and incidents of Pride merchandise being thrown on the floor.
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Read MoreDodgers pitcher Blake Treinen has publicly told his team to quit the LGBTQ propaganda after it invited the anti-Catholic drag queen group “The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” to its Pride Night.
In a public statement, Treinen said the drag queen group engages in “blasphemous” performances and “displays hate and mockery of Catholics and the Christian faith.”
“I understand that playing baseball is a privilege and not a right. My convictions in Jesus Christ will always come first. Since I have been with the Dodgers, they have been at the forefront of supporting a wide variety of groups,” he said.
“However, inviting the Sister’s of Perpetual Indulgence to perform disenfranchises a large community and promotes hate of Christians and people of faith,” he added. “This single event alienates the fans and supporters of the Dodgers, Major League Baseball, and professional sports.”
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Read MoreAlabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a bill into law that extends the state’s ban on transgender athletes playing in women’s sports from K-12 and now to college sports.
The state had already passed a law in 2021 that prevents boys claiming to be girls from playing K-12 girls’ sports. But the new law prevents college students from participating in girl’s sports under their “chosen” gender, even if they have had gender reassignment surgery, Fox News reports.
“Look, if you are a biological male, you are not going to be competing in women’s and girls’ sports in Alabama. It’s about fairness, plain and simple,” Ivey said after signing the bill into law.
“Forcing women to compete against biological men would reverse decades of progress that women have made for equal opportunity in athletics,” Bill sponsor Republican Rep. Susan DuBose said during the debate of the bill.
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Read MoreDisney has a man in a dress working in the dress store for little girls at Disneyland. This is who Disney wants girls to see when they first walk in to pick out a dress.
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Read MoreCalgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek congratulated Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party for winning the election.
“I look forward to building relationships with all Calgary MLAs and meeting with the premier in the days to come,” said Gondek in a Tuesday statement.
The mayor went on to say there is “no room for hate in a city and province that is slowly recovering from an economic recession that stood to cripple us.” Calgary rose up from the recession and created economic stability, with a strong workforce comprised of diverse people.
“That’s why homophobic, misogynistic, transphobic, and racist views cannot be tolerated,” she said.
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