{"id":6580,"date":"2022-03-23T21:13:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T02:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/?page_id=6580"},"modified":"2022-03-23T21:13:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T02:13:52","slug":"does-gender-matter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/does-gender-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Gender Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block \" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 20px;text-align: center\"><strong>Does Gender Matter, continued<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block \" style=\"font-weight: normal\">Society today has enabled those less fortunate to win or succeed in sports to gain access to entitlement through gender identity.\u00a0 When I was a kid if I lost\u2026 I lost.\u00a0 If I wanted to win, I would have to work hard and prevail next time.\u00a0 Today, all kids are winners, setting these young adults up for future failures.<br>In this case, we have males who fail to succeed when competing in their assigned biology; therefore, they choose to compete with females in the same divisions, knowing that women cannot meet the same physical standards.\u00a0 It is impossible.\u00a0<br><br>The most recent case is the swimmer Leia Catherine Thomas (a.k.a William Thomas).\u00a0\u00a0Thomas was a male swimmer who continually failed to beat other male competitors.\u00a0 So, Thomas decided to change his name and sexual identity as a female to compete against a group less likely to win against him.\u00a0 He ranked 554<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in the men\u2019s 200-m freestyle and 65<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in the country.\u00a0 At this point in his college swimming career, Thomas chose to change his sexual identity.\u00a0<br>Now, Thomas holds the highest rank in NCAA women\u2019s swimming finals.<br>\u00a0<br>As you can see, I refuse to call Thomas a \u201cshe\u201d because his intentions were impure pertaining to sexual identity.\u00a0 He dims the light on the real transgender community.\u00a0But overall, men shouldn&#8217;t be competing against females due to the physiological differences I stated above. Imagine all the women who worked so hard to fulfill a life\u2019s ambition, only to lose to a man with bigger lungs, hands, and overall physiological structure.\u00a0<br><br>Most importantly, men competing in female sports takes away women\u2019s abilities to succeed in their financial securities such as endorsements, scholarships, and tv placements, thereby changing the trajectory of women\u2019s influence in society.\u00a0 What happened to women\u2019s rights?\u00a0 Women have fought for generations for equality in so many areas and now have to be forced to compete with men in female sports, making second place for women the new norm.\u00a0 \u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>I would love to get your honest opinions on the topic.\u00a0<br><br>Feel free to drop me a line at:<br>GraniteCityGossip@yahoo.com\u00a0 \u00a0<br>Love You All\u2026 Nothing You Can Do About It.<br>Dr. Amy Miller<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6580","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6581,"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6580\/revisions\/6581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitecitygossip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}