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Female Athletes Launch Ad Campaign Aimed at Nike's Support for Transgender Athletes

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Nike has been taking a lot of heat lately over their support for allowing dudes to play in women's sports - and they deserve every degree of that heat. This is a practice, a policy, that is hatefully wrong; it's punishing female athletes in support of men who are either a) mentally ill, b) using a silly social contagion to gain an unfair advantage, or c) both.

Now, several noted young women athletes are taking Nike on directly, though an advertisement put out by XX-XY Athletics.

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The video features several prominent female athletes - and by "female" I mean women, adult female members of the species Homo sapiens, people with two X chromosomes. Women.

Female athletes sent fiery messages to Nike amid the push for fairness in women’s sports and the elimination of biological males competing against them in different levels of competition.

An XX-XY Athletics advertisement asked several athletes that if they could send a message to Nike, what would it be? Riley Gaines, Macey Boggs, Lauren Miller and Payton McNabb were among those featured in the video.

"If I had a chance to talk to Nike, I would tell them to just do it," Gaines, the former Kentucky Wildcats star swimmer and OutKick contributor, said in the clip. "That’s your slogan, isn’t it, Nike? Just do it. When I say it, I mean the right thing. And that’s defending women and biological reality."

Miller, a pro golfer who participated in the 2022 U.S. Women’s Open, asked the company to "think about your daughters."

"If we let men and boys continue to invade, women’s sports will be erased," he said.

There's a lot more to it than scholarships, titles, trophies, and recognition, although those would be reason enough to deride this stupid practice. It gets much worse: Girls and women are being injured by their larger, faster, stronger teammates, sometimes seriously.

McNabb, who was left with brain damage after being hit in the face by a spike from a biological male during a high school volleyball match, said she had "dreams of playing" the sport in college, but the incident dashed them.

"You’re saying that you’re supporting women, but you’re not actually doing anything," Boggs, a high school volleyball player, said. "You are using us when it’s convenient, but in private, you’re not doing anything about it."

Former NCAA swimmer Kaitlynn Wheeler, Canadian weightlifter April Hutchinson, former Nevada Wolf Pack volleyball player Sia Liilii and former San Jose State assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose also spoke out.

Here are just a few of the female athletes injured by their male teammates, who are (for the nth time) larger, faster, stronger, with more endurance, greater reach, and heavier bones than the girls and women:

  • Lynn, Massachusetts. A "transgender" male player with facial hair playing for the KIPP Academy girls’ basketball team injured multiple players and eventually forced the Collegiate Charter School to forfeit.
  • Murphy, North Carolina. A "transgender" male player spiked a volleyball into female player Payton McNabb's face, knocking her unconscious for 30 seconds and causing a concussion and a neck injury that left her temporarily paralyzed, and permanently unable to compete in collegiate volleyball.
  • North Dighton, Massachusetts. A high-school field hockey player, playing properly on the girls' team, had her teeth knocked out and suffered serious facial injuries when a "transgender" male player slammed a field hockey ball into her face.
  • The Netherlands. A female rugby player, Elena King, suffered a catastrophic knee injury at the hands of a hulking "transgender" male player. Elena suffered a torn ACL and a torn MCL, injuries that will cause her months of pain, months of rehab and physical therapy, and from which she will likely never completely recover.

Note that these events are only a few of many; note that this listing also takes into account the loss of scholarships, of titles, of trophies from female athletes, who have struggled and worked and trained for years, only to be kicked to the curb by a young man who was a mediocre athlete at best on the boys' or men's teams, but discovered he could "identify" as a girl and suddenly be a blue-ribbon specimen with a list of new records.

That's taking cheating to a whole new level.


See Also: Cruel and Unfair: Female Rugby Player Horribly Injured by Male Opponent

Is Nike Funding a Study on How Many Hormones It Takes to Make a Boy a Girl?


All the while, Nike was dealing with a lot of talk on how they proposed to partially fund a study to determine how many female hormones one would have to soak a boy in to make him the athletic equivalent of a girl. I would like to take a moment to forestall Nike's support by telling them simply this, speaking as a biologist: It can't be done, and you shouldn't try.

This message, aimed at Nike and featuring Riley Gaines, Macey Boggs, Lauren Miller, and Payton McNabb, should be taken seriously. Nike should take it seriously. We should all take it seriously. These young women have all been affected by this stupid policy, and there are thousands more like them.

Meanwhile, from Nike:

Nike did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

You don't say.

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