A transgender athlete who became famous earlier this year for battering the girls on an opposing basketball team was suspended from a women's rowing team for making sexually suggestive remarks to a teammate. In February, transwoman Lazuli Clark acquired momentary notoriety for injuring three players on an opposing team, causing the coach to forfeit just 16 minutes into the game and trailing 31-14 to keep players safe.
BACKGROUND: OUTRAGE: HS Boy Roleplaying As Girl on Basketball Court Injures 3 Girls on Opposing Team
According to reports, the 6-foot Clark is a standout in five women's sports: basketball, rowing, volleyball, hurdles, shot put, and tae kwon do. Sorry, I couldn't resist.Now Clark has another claim to fame.
On March 20, Senator Bill Cassidy sent a letter to his colleagues as the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The subject was Biden's attempt to remake Title IX, a law ironically crafted to encourage women's sports, into a tool to destroy them: Investigation into the Biden Administration’s Changes to Title IX and the Impact on Women in Sports.
During the course of this investigation, Committee staff discovered a direct case of harassment involving Massachusetts youth in a private, free-standing rowing league whose policies are governed by USA Rowing. In Massachusetts and New England, competitive rowing occurs mainly via private leagues as it is too expensive for high schools to offer. According to a parent who spoke with Committee staff, a male athlete was allowed to join the women’s varsity crew team, which caused many issues for the female athletes. The male athlete was also allowed to use the women’s locker room in accordance with USA Rowing policy. The female athletes avoided using the locker room, but nonetheless a few months later, the male athlete was caught staring openly at one of the female athletes while she changed her clothes in the women’s locker room and remarked, “oooh ["redacted profanity"] !” When a female athlete nearby asked if it was the first time he had seen female breasts, the male responded, “uhh yeah” with a laugh. The male athlete was suspended for this incident.
Clark's comment, before Cassidy's genteel redaction," was "oooh t*tties!"
Stop letting these pervs hide behind preferred pronouns and blurred out images. This photo was proudly posted by the school therefore it's public domain.
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) April 3, 2024
Name and shame them. Lazuli Clark is a man that sexually harassed women. https://t.co/RBn2agoTsK pic.twitter.com/j3pxOh0abL
A letter from team parents to the rowing governing body, USRowing, gives more details.
Our daughters have stayed quiet because they are afraid. We tried to speak up for them, and we were shut down. We tried to speak to leadership at all levels. [But] name-calling and the threat of mental health is being used as emotional blackmail to keep us all quiet while women are harmed and devalued…Our daughters also faced a locker room situation where they were uncomfortable…They stopped changing in the locker room and began to hide away. These young girls should never have been put through being told they had to face a male body everyday as they undressed…It was a constant thought, a constant threat to submit and a constant awareness. Yet they dared not say anything (except privately to their parents). The rowing team also required the male athlete to room with them on trips. The girls spoke to us about quitting rowing because of the intimidation of being forced to be in a hotel room alone with a male.
Allowing men to compete in women's sports is a cruel travesty. It deprives women of an invaluable learning experience and takes away scholarship opportunities from talented women athletes. More dangerously, it creates a dynamic on the field or on the court where a much larger and stronger male athlete can easily inflict injuries. Aside from the impact on the sport, there is the psychic impact on the women players. A guy who comments on a partially clothed woman's breasts to her face is not even pretending to be a woman. He's simply a man in the women's locker room. This is wrong on every conceivable level, and this nonsense has to stop.
