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Beautiful display of support and perseverance by all of you!! Thank you so very much for doing this! This feels like a milestone!

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Thank you for all you do to help protect and support girls who are assaulted by the liars, cowards, bullies, and thieves: boys who falsely claim to be girls.

They are liars because they claim to be something they are not, they are cowards because they refuse to compete against their own sex, they are bullies because they force girls out of competitions in which they belong, and they are thieves because they steal the championships that rightfully belong to girls.

As a man, I say that they are a disgrace to my sex, and I am deeply ashamed of them.

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Huge thanks to you and all the other women who made such a very important point at the event. In my opinion, the group made the best choice in leaving peacefully; I completely understand your rationale for doing so, and agree with it. Thanks for ALL you do for women and girls.

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So glad you could be with us! Onward.

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I was heartened to see that all or almost all of the replies to this story on Twitter were

in favor of the bio female athletes:

https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1662918744132268037?cxt=HHwWisC9pbHy75MuAAAA

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What a great story 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

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Well played, Kara and co!

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Here's a little comic relief on this topic:

https://youtu.be/_sgjc29QCGo

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Related: does anyone here know about the below?

The Women’s Sports Policy Working Group is circulating a petition in support of women’s and girl’s sports. I was about to send it around to friends, but spotted that it included this: “We support the Equality Act and ending LGBT discrimination throughout society, including in employment, in public accommodations, and in family law.” My assumption is the Group hasn’t thoroughly vetted the Equality Act, which as we know is problematic as currently written. I have written the Group to ask whether that could be deleted from the petition, which otherwise looked very good to me: https://womenssportspolicy.org/petition/

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In case anyone missed this little gem from the White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/27/readout-of-white-house-roundtable-with-lesbian-leaders-to-celebrate-lesbian-day-of-visibility/

“Admiral Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health, who is a lesbian and the first openly transgender woman to achieve the rank the four-star admiral in any of the country’s uniformed services.”

“who is a lesbian”

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Great story and reporting. Thank you as always.

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