The women of the Roanoke College swim team have spoken out about their months of opposition to the schoolâs decision to allow a Transgender athlete to join their team. The women ultimately won this battle, but they said the war against womenâs Sports continues and itâs time the NCAA stood up for them instead of the radical trans agenda.
Members of the womenâs swim team and their parents and supporters attended an Oct. 5 school meeting to advocate for fairness. They demanded that the school and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the national body that governs college Sports, finally come forward to protect womenâs Sports from the incursion of trans athletes.
âMy feelings, our teamâs feelings and comfort were blatantly ignored and only one athlete was prioritized. I felt unheard and unseen. Our comfort was undervalued and discarded,â Roanoke College swim team captain Kate Pearson said during the meeting, according to WFXR-TV.
The women were there to speak up for women across the country who are losing their opportunities as a tidal wave of men who were mediocre athletes while playing as men but became instant stars after claiming to have âtransitionedâ into women have washed over womenâs college Sports in the last few years.
The meeting comes on the heels of a decision made by college officials to allow a student to swim on the womenâs team after spending two years as an unexceptional swimmer on the menâs team. The student ultimately decided not to join the team, even though the school said he could, because of the stiff opposition to his participation presented by the women on the Roanoke swim team.
Their opposition is all about fairness, the women say.
âFairness in sport includes opportunities for women and girls to participate in Sports and physical Education on a single-sex basis,â Kara Dansky, President of the U.S. Chapter Womenâs Declaration International, said from the speakerâs dais.
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Parents were also on hand to support the women.
âYoung women must know that they can have a safe, fair, and equal playing field. They must know that their dreams and hard work are not dismissible simply because they are girls,â a parent exclaimed.
Another attendee insisted that the NCAA needs to step up and put an end to trans âwomenâ being allowed to compete as women.
âThe NCAA should say the buck stops here, establishing NCAA guidelines that ensure no female athlete will have to endure this again,â Adrianna McLambe, a spokeswoman for Independent Womenâs Forum, exclaimed.
For its part, the college said it did not care what the women or their parents had to say. The schoolâs priority was in protecting dangerousTransgender athletes.
Roanoke College President Frank Shushok Jr., for instance, insisted that the decision to allow the trans swimmer to compete on the womenâs team was the right one.
âIn making this decision, the focus of senior administration and the board of trustees was on maintaining fairness in competition and protecting the integrity of all athletics at Roanoke College,â Shushok said. âWe remain committed to supporting our LGBTQ+ community and our student-athletes, all of whom are valued members of our vibrant community.â
But Lily Mullen, another one of the Roanoke swim team captains, said that it was entirely unfair to allow someone with a male body to swim against real women because the male body is simply stronger and built more powerfully than the female body.
âMany tears and the will to train to race a swimmer who has an advantage in the water that our bodies may never possess,â Mullins said, according to WSET-TV.
Roanoke student Susanna Price added, âWomenâs Sports are separate from menâs Sports for a reason. We are not the same, but we both deserve to be equally respected.â
Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, a past NCAA champion and now an activist for womenâs Sports, was also on hand and joined the Roanoke students to say that it should not take âbraveryâ for women to be able to save their spaces.
âIt shouldnât have to take bravery and fair treatment to speak up for the fair treatment of women and girls, and if leaders cannot find it within themselves to do that then we need different leaders,â Gaines said.
Men have been dominating many womenâs Sports from swimming, to weight lifting, to cycling and more, as Sports agencies and colleges bow to the radical Transgender agenda. But women are finally beginning to speak out against this invasion of their spaces by men posing as women, who are taking opportunities away from natural-born women all across the world.
Women who have dedicated their lives to excelling at their sport are being blown out by men who suddenly decided they are women. And many are finally getting fed up.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
