Ep 239: 2022 Winter Paralympics Preview & the Impact of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine on the Paralympic Games

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode Lindsay Gibbs, Jessica Luther, Amira Rose Davis, Shireen Ahmed and Brenda Elsey preview the 2022 Winter Paralympics! First, they take a moment to acknowledge the most recent horrific legislature harming trans youth. Next, they discuss Russia's most recent invasion of Ukraine, including it's impact on Paralympic athletes and the upcoming Beijing Games, and the IOC and IPC's reactions. Then they preview the five events at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, which run from March 4 to March 13 in Beijing. The events are sledge hockey (para ice hockey), para alpine skiing, para snowboarding, wheelchair curling and para Nordic skiing. They discuss athletes to watch, history of the events and they ways impairment classification works in each sport. Following this discussion, you'll hear a preview of Brenda's interview with scholar Dr. Bob Edelman on Russian and Ukrainian athletes' and sport communities' responses to the Russia's invasion. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All of us here up and I spit you out and I'll play with your babies to the scream and shout, oh yeah, oh yeah.
0:09.6	All of us here at Burn It All Down want to send our love to the transgender community, particularly to trans youth in Texas,
0:17.7	in the wake of the horrific directive issued by Texas Governor Greg Abbott last week,
0:22.9	stating that parents of trans minors should be reported to state authorities for child abuse
0:27.9	if it appears they are allowing their children to get gender-affirming care.
0:32.5	As gut-wrenching as this directive is, it did not come out of nowhere.
0:36.6	It is merely a continuation of the
0:39.1	onslaught of legislation in recent years targeting the rights of trans and non-binary people,
0:45.6	particularly children. As we have covered on the show before, many of these bills use the
0:51.1	deceptive and, frankly, bullshit framing of saving women's sports as an excuse to
0:57.9	enact transphobia into law. In January, Texas became the 10th state to enact a law banning
1:05.3	transgender girls from playing on girls' sports teams and transgender boys from playing on boys' sports teams.
1:13.6	Here at Burn It All Down, we support transgender inclusion in sports.
1:20.5	Today's episode is about the Paralympics, but we will continue to cover these attacks
1:25.8	against trans youth and trans athletes on the podcast.
1:28.7	And we want to direct you to two websites, trans texas.org and equality, texas.org, that's
1:37.6	trans texas.org and equality texas.org where you can go and directly make donations to help protect trans kids in
1:47.2	Texas. Also wanted to mention that on February 17th, we published an interview with Julie
1:53.1	Klegman, the chief copy editor at Sports Illustrated on trans athletes in the NCAA. We discussed the
2:00.6	fight to stop trans swimmer Leah Thomas from
2:03.6	competing and the importance of loudly fighting against the trans sports bands sweeping the nation.
2:16.1	Hello, friends. Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
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