I’m a 3-sport high school female athlete in Maine – I shouldn’t have to compete against biological males

Last week I attended a roundtable with Attorney General Pam Bondi and respective authorities attorneys general on protecting women’s sports. As I person been truthful galore times earlier erstwhile donning a Maine uniform, I was arrogant to correspond my state, my assemblage and my teammates.

But unfortunately, my ain authorities lawyer general, who should beryllium an advocator for the interests of women and girls successful the authorities of Maine, did not adjacent fuss to attend. In fact, nary of the authorities attorneys wide for immoderate of the 5 female athletes included successful the treatment came to the meeting.

While these nationalist officials volition not rise their voices successful defence of the girls successful their states, we volition – for ourselves, for our teammates and for the countless female athletes to follow. 

President Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed astatine the White House implicit enforcement bid compliance. (Pool via AP/Win McNamee/Getty Images)

We cognize we are not alone. We are backed successful this fight against our ain authorities governments by the American people, Attorney General Bondi, and President Donald Trump.

I’M A RUNNER AND I KNOW THE RACE TO SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS HAS STARTED OFF GREAT

As a three-sport varsity athlete in Maine – soccer, Nordic skiing, and way and tract – I was shocked and disappointed to hear Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ caller comments that she intends to proceed her fight against the enforcement bid banning biological males from women’s and girls’ sports.

I cognize the level of grit, determination, passionateness and sacrifice it takes to excel successful carnal competition. Girls strive tirelessly for years to hone their skills and cleanable their performance.

Ever since I was a small girl, I’ve been dreaming of becoming a authorities champion, and I person worked hard each azygous time since to execute that goal. It was exhilarating to triumph a authorities rubric successful way and tract past season. Like truthful many athletes, I thrive erstwhile facing a challenge.

Contrary to my acquisition arsenic a track athlete, Nordic skiing brought up antithetic emotions astatine times. When I was archetypal told that a biological male would be competing against me, my caller extremity became to beat him. I had faced each erstwhile diversion hurdle with persistence and resolve, and I was determined to proceed to enactment successful my athletics and vie to win..

MAINE’S GIRL ATHLETES PAYING THE PRICE FOR EXTREMISM OF STATE POLITICIANS

But the beingness of transgender athletes successful women’s and girls’ sports is an intolerable and unfair challenge. The information of the substance is that men and boys have a clear biological advantage implicit women and girls.

No substance however hard we try, female athletes volition ne'er beryllium capable to compete on a level playing field against male athletes. It’s unjust and cruel to disregard this world astatine the disbursal of women’s diversion excellence.

The blood, sweat and tears that female athletes person poured into grooming and practicing go meaningless erstwhile we are denied the accidental to vie fairly. Allowing men into women’s sports moves the goalpost to an unattainable caller standard.

These policies aren’t pro-woman; they’re anti-woman. Their applicable effect is to portion authorities titles, championships, records and scholarships from deserving women. 

My bosom is breached for the countless female athletes who person poured themselves into excelling successful their competitions only to person their hard-earned distinction, arsenic the champion successful their fields, taken distant from them by biological males. I cognize what that feels similar – the contiguous consciousness of decision that washes implicit you due to the fact that you cannot surpass oregon adjacent lucifer the spot of idiosyncratic who’s people acold beyond your carnal caliber.

THE ALL-OUT WAR ON FEMALE ATHLETES ENDS NOW, THANKS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP

This isn’t thing that I oregon immoderate different female athlete should ever person to feel. Allowing men into women’s and girls’ sports is simply a betrayal of everything women’s sports exists to protect: a abstraction wherever women tin vie and excel and person their unsocial strengths, talents and dignity celebrated and honored.

Likewise, arsenic a Christian, I judge that each idiosyncratic has inherent dignity and worthy and possesses unsocial God-given talents and abilities. It does not diminish women to accidental that men and women are biologically antithetic and that men tin typically outperform women successful carnal contention – it's a technological information and denying it, particularly successful bypassing Title IX protections, only harms women.

For women to flourish, we request to person spaces wherever our unsocial traits, capabilities and talents volition beryllium celebrated and protected.

This is wherefore I americium speaking up: aboriginal generations of female athletes merit to person their femininity celebrated and their achievements honored. They merit the aforesaid opportunities I had successful the years earlier I was forced to compete against the biological males invading my division.

WILL DEMOCRATS STAND UP FOR WOMEN OR LET MEN DESTROY GIRLS’ SPORTS?

I genuinely fearfulness for the aboriginal of women’s sports if states similar my ain proceed successful this direction. Girls of all ages are watching women beryllium erased from sports – they tin nary longer person assurance that their effort and dedication volition beryllium honored with a just shot against their carnal equals.

We person to triumph this conflict for them. This is simply a contention we cannot lose.

I had hoped that our pistillate politician would combat for america and for the level playing tract that took truthful agelong to secure, but she has shown that the extortion of Maine’s female athletes is not her priority. 

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Even though Gov. Mills is actively trying to instrumentality distant our opportunities, I person religion that the president and the service of pro-woman coaches, parents and officials astir the state volition reinstate fairness and sanity successful women’s and girls’ sports.

It’s clip to halt taking distant opportunities from the women and girls who person worked truthful hard for excellence and distinction. And it’s clip to halt pretending that it’s just for men to vie successful pistillate sports. Biological males should only vie successful men’s divisions – it's genuinely that simple. 

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