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Even Ann Coulter is out for this level of MAGA nonsense,
www.takimag.com/article/epst...,
with a wickedly salacious pivot.
Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been jailed and banned from filmmaking. Will the acclaim for his latest, the stirring βIt Was Just an Accident,β protect him from authorities, or make him a target once again?
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Monday, rather, not Holiday.
washingtonspirit.com/team-member/...
Monday, rather, not Holiday.
washingtonspirit.com/team-member/...
Washington's initial ten minutes of fierce attack from the left side using Holiday was a tactic to lull Portland toward opening up that right-hand side for Koassi.
Note how Portland's defense is now more structurally focused on Koassi.
Washington's initial ten minutes of fierce attack from the left side using Holiday was a tactic to lull Portland toward opening up that right-hand side for Koassi.
Note how Portland's defense is now more structurally focused on Koassi.
Koassi's first goal for Washington fits the classic 5ARD male pattern we have seen with Chawinga and Banda before:
That sprinting breakaway tactic is VERY common among 5ARD male players @NWSL.
Koassi's first goal for Washington fits the classic 5ARD male pattern we have seen with Chawinga and Banda before:
That sprinting breakaway tactic is VERY common among 5ARD male players @NWSL.
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The league needs to figure out very quickly how big is "big enough" and come up with a final number, so that it does not become as dysfunctionally crowded as MLS.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promoti...
Time to discuss promotion and relegation, for the largest health of the sport in decade(s) to comeβ¦
One can support males who want to cosplay femininity without compromising female-only spaces.
If a single woman says "no" to a male in her single-sex spaces, will the UUA tell her that her consent does not matter?
No one can consent for another, and no decent person would violate female consent.
The fastest way out I see for Berman is a quiet deal among owners to (a) spread the cost of (b) not renewing current 5ARD male players' contracts, (c) distributed among all teams for the next several years.
Waiting on the IOC or FIFA to solve this for NWSL via CONCACAF would take longer.
Is Berman hoping she can bluff this out long enough for these males to cycle out of their current contracts?
Is she hoping that IOC or FIFA will institute global sex-verification to save her these dangers?
www.seattletimes.com/sports/reign...
The league has dug itself a huge hole here, a grave?
When something doesn't make sense it often makes someone money, so "follow the money."
How many of the owners were privy to discussions before the 2021 NWSL Policy on Transgender Athletes?
How many of the players? The Players Association?
There are potentially huge legal liabilities here.
Banda is the third, suspected 5ARD male signed in March, www.espn.com/soccer/story....
What other owners were expecting this influx of 5ARD players?
How many even understood this was a possibility?
How many were consulted about the 2021 policy?
How did this accord or violate NWSL contracts?
Kundananji is the second suspected 5-ARD male signed by expansion side Bay FC in February, for a record transfer fee.
www.bbc.com/sport/africa...
"Zambia's Racheal Kundananji has become the most expensive women's footballer in history after joining Bay FC from Madrid CFF for $860,000 (Β£685,000)."
Chawinga is the first suspected 5-ARD male signed by KC Current in January of 2024, www.kansascitycurrent.com/news/kansas-....
The dollar amount for his contract (and possible 5ARD status) are not publicly disclosed.
Which teams or owners were in on the flurry of 5ARD signings at the beginning of 2024?
If all owners were not made aware, what internal agreements did that violate?
Given the huge transfer fees involved, this is financially significant, especially if there were unrecorded, backroom deals.
Who quietly decided to rescind the policy without comment, just before Berman came on as commissioner in 2022?
Was deprecation of the policy a condition of Berman taking the commissioner's job?
Did she understand its dangerous stupidity, and what did she do to manage or contain it?
Once the policy was created, how did it affect or acknowledge or comply with the Players Association's collective bargaining agreement?
How many lawsuits did this open the league up to, both from displaced players and the NWPA?
What was the NWPA's transparency with its members?
Whose bright idea was it to create the 2021 NWSL Policy on Transgender Athletes and how did it happen to include such an obvious loophole that made signing 5ARD male athletes possible?
Which owners or players were invited, included, advised?
The current 5ARD-male arms race @nwslsoccer.com is a huge legal liability, particularly if their 2021 policy and the flurry of early 2024 signings were not executed with total transparency for all groups.
Look at the timeline and follow the moneyβ¦
What in her history here is factually incorrect?
Which Nazi were you talking about?
The IOC has not yet pulled its head out of [the sand] with regard to universal sex-verification testing, but for historical reference:
Linda Blade, 2024. The Dystopian History of Sex Testing in Womenβs Sports. Realityβs Last Stand, www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-dystop..., 1 January 2024.
Which Nazi do you think invented sex testing?
Linda Blade, 2024. The Dystopian History of Sex Testing in Womenβs Sports. Realityβs Last Stand, www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-dystop..., 1 January 2024.
Is this Nazi in the room with us now? π€‘
In the last few years it has been reinstated by World Rugby, World Aquatics, World Athletics and World Boxing.
The IOC may also be returning it, as per The Times earlier today at www.thetimes.com/sport/olympi....
PCR and karyotype and ultrasounds are neither "pseudoscience," nor inherently racist.
FIFA needs to clean this up globally and let CAF catch up with the reality that 5ARD "intersex" males are still male and should not be allowed in female sport.
Africa needs to catch up with the science which was not clear when Caster Semenya first stepped onto the world stage: 5ARD male = MALE.
The expected IOC ban on "transgender" athletes is insufficient in that it seems likely to defer to FIFA and allow 5ARD males.
www.thetimes.com/sport/olympi...:
Universal sex-verification for ALL athletes across all sports should be the goal, with no 5ARD males in elite female competition.
Is the league punting on this because they have opened themselves up to lawsuits from female players AND the 5ARD males that they have already allowed in?
www.seattletimes.com/sports/reign...
Do they plan to punt if sued before then, by claiming they did not understand?
Jessica Berman is a mendacious coward and we know full well what "the science" says.
Ask World Rugby, World Aquatics, World Athletics and World Boxing why they went back to sex-verification for the female category
Male bodies have no place in female sport, whether 5ARD male or otherwise.
