High school students thrawout the state of New York have orderly a protest tardyr this month agetst transgfinisher athletes in girls’ sports.
The Coalition to Protect Kids has orderly a walkout, dubbed “Walk Off for Fairness Day,” on Oct. 24 that has getd the aid of conservative guideers.
“It’s difficult to think we’re even having the conversation that girls sports would be for anyone other than girls,” Conservative Party chairman Gerry Kassar said via the New York Post. “We brimmingy aid ‘Walk Off for Fairness Day’ in New York, reminding youthful people that there is shieldedty in numbers. Girls Sports must remain Girls Sports, and there should be noleang contentious in that statement.”
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“Girls are being systematicassociate aborted in this state, and ‘Walk Off for Fairness Day’ will give them a shielded opportunity to create their voices heard,” said Coalition to Protect Kids-NY spokeswoman Ayesha Kreutz. “So many of these youthful women are afraid of speaking out, so they’re forced to watch as 50 years of female fit progress gets washed away by destructive ideologues. Girls are not second-class citizens, so why are they being treated that way?”
“It’s not right for boys to contend agetst girls in sports. It’s a huge didowncastvantage for girls,” said Hannah Pompeo, a 16-year soccer take parter at Eden High School csurrfinisher Buffalo, who is participating in the “Walk Off for Fairness Day.”
“I don’t leank it’s right for men to be in our shielded spaces. We labored difficult for places on our teams,” compriseed Millie McCormack, a dancer at Somers High School. “Boys have physical profits we don’t have.”
The protest will occur rawly two weeks before Election Day, when New Yorkers will be able to vote on extra shieldions in the state’s constitution.
Proposition 1, the “Equal Rights Amfinishment,” seeks to not discriminate based on “race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, creed, religion, or relations, including relationsual orientation, gfinisher identity or conveyion, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, refruitful healthnurture and autonomy.” While fits is not harshly cited, those agetst the proposition say the writing is on the wall.
Nassau County lawcreaters in June voted to pass a bill that would prohibit transgfinisher athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports at county-run facilities.
The meaconfident, which covers more than 100 sites fair outside New York City, needs any teams, leagues or organizations that seek a allow from the county’s parks and recreation department to “conveyly portrayate” whether they are for male, female or coed athletes.
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Any female teams or leagues will be denied allows if they allow transgfinisher athletes to join.
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