The Fight To Save Women’s Sports
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Recently the International Olympic Committee renamed the “Women in Sport Commission” as the “Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commission.”
Why?
What does this mean for women in sports?
Former Division One swimmer Marshi Smith joins Michele to talk about her new organization, ICONS (Independent Council on Women’s Sports) and it’s fight to maintain fairness for women in sports.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to sideline sanity with me, Michelle Tofoya, sponsored by Legacy |
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| 0:15.1 | I think women are being treated unfairly in sport. |
| 0:24.5 | And this is not from the perspective of a female sportscaster or however you want to label me. This is from the perspective of someone who |
| 0:30.8 | sees fair, fairness, justice, equal opportunity for women, being eroded. |
| 0:40.8 | You hear about, for instance, these track athletes, high school track athletes in Connecticut, |
| 0:47.5 | raced and raced and raced and raced and set records. |
| 0:49.9 | And then when boys started competing against them as trans women, the girls weren't winning their |
| 0:55.7 | titles anymore. Do you know the implications of that? Do you know the implications of taking |
| 1:02.3 | stuff away from girls who have earned it at the expense of gender ideology? These young girls |
| 1:10.3 | may lose scholarships. |
| 1:13.9 | Certainly lose morale. |
| 1:17.1 | I mean, we've had Title IX now for 50 years. |
| 1:22.8 | And it seems to me that now everyone's chopping away at it. |
| 1:28.9 | Leah Thomas was the big story of the summer, or last spring, I guess, competing in NCAA |
| 1:35.4 | swimming, winning championships at the expense of women. |
| 1:40.2 | Leah Thompson had been, Leah Thomas, excuse me, had been competing as a male for most of his |
| 1:46.6 | career as a biological male, born a male, decided to become a woman. And I think there are many |
| 1:52.9 | studies out there that show no matter how much of the testosterone blocking you take, it doesn't |
| 1:59.0 | make you even athletically to women. |
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