Jennifer Sey debates pro-transgender activists over women's sports policies, wins based on audience data

Former U.S. gymnast and laminitis of the women's activistic sportswear marque XX-XY Athletics Jennifer Sey participated successful a statement with pro-transgender activistic Kevin Bolling, enforcement manager of the Secular Student Alliance, implicit the taxable of trans athletes successful women's sports connected Wednesday. 

The statement was sponsored by the Steamboat Institute and took spot astatine the University of Colorado, Boulder's Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization. 

Based connected pre- and post-debate information collected from the audience, Sey's stance connected opposing trans athletes successful women's sports appeared to beryllium the winning argument.

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The pre-debate canvass recovered that 85% of attendees disagreed with allowing trans athletes successful women's sports, portion 9% did hold with it, and 6% were undecided. In the post-debate poll, the percent of those who disagreed with trans inclusion jumped to 90%, portion those who agreed with it dropped to 6%, and the undecided dropped to 3%. 

Sey's case, which she repeated passim the debate, was "based connected reality." 

Early on, Sey insisted that she did not privation to usage the word "biological woman" successful the debate.

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Jennifer Sey with marque ambassadors Paula Scanlan, left, and Riley Gaines, right,

"I won't usage biologic pistillate due to the fact that it insists determination is different benignant of woman. There is not. There is conscionable a woman," Sey said. "There's been bullying successful the civilization astir the connection we tin not use… I effort to usage presumption that bespeak biologic reality."

Sey besides cited aggregate statistic passim the night, relating to earthy carnal qualities that often springiness males carnal advantages implicit females, and a United Nations survey uncovering that astir 900 biologic females person fallen abbreviated of victories due to the fact that they person been defeated by transgender athletes.

The study, "Violence against women and girls successful sports," recovered much than 600 athletes did not medal successful much than 400 competitions successful 29 antithetic sports, totaling implicit 890 medals, according to accusation obtained up to March 30.

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Jennifer Sey, a erstwhile elder enforcement astatine Levi Strauss & Co., clashed with executives implicit COVID lockdowns successful 2020. She launched XX-XY Athletics successful March 2020. (XX-XY Athletics)

Sey's statement was besides based connected the content that sports, particularly astatine a precocious level, are not meant to beryllium "inclusive" to immoderate peculiar group, and that sports are fundamentally expected to beryllium "exclusive" for the involvement of competitiveness. 

Meanwhile, Bolling's statement against Sey was based connected the premise of advancing transgender rights arsenic a whole. 

During the debate, Bolling admitted that supporting trans inclusion successful women's sports, astatine the moment, was not a "popular" stance. He past compared the contented of trans inclusion to past civilian rights movements, including women's close to vote, radical segregation and adjacent "ending slavery," claiming that advocating for those issues was besides not fashionable successful the past. 

"Civil rights is not a popularity contest," Bolling said. 

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