Former U.S. gymnast and founding father of the ladies’s activist sportswear model XX-XY Athletics Jennifer Sey participated in a debate with pro-transgender activist Kevin Bolling, government director of the Secular Scholar Alliance, over the subject of trans athletes in ladies’s sports activities on Wednesday.
The controversy was sponsored by the Steamboat Institute and befell on the College of Colorado, Boulder’s Benson Middle for the Research of Western Civilization.
Based mostly on pre- and post-debate knowledge collected from the viewers, Sey’s stance on opposing trans athletes in ladies’s sports activities gave the impression to be the profitable argument.
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The pre-debate ballot discovered that 85% of attendees disagreed with permitting trans athletes in ladies’s sports activities, whereas 9% did agree with it, and 6% had been undecided. Within the post-debate ballot, the proportion of those that disagreed with trans inclusion jumped to 90%, whereas those that agreed with it dropped to six%, and the undecided dropped to three%.
Sey’s case, which she repeated all through the controversy, was “primarily based on actuality.”
Early on, Sey insisted that she didn’t need to use the time period “organic girl” within the debate.
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Jennifer Sey with model ambassadors Paula Scanlan, left, and Riley Gaines, proper,
“I will not use organic girl as a result of it insists there may be one other sort of girl. There may be not. There may be only a girl,” Sey mentioned. “There’s been bullying within the tradition across the language we can’t use… I attempt to use phrases that mirror organic actuality.”
Sey additionally cited a number of statistics all through the evening, referring to pure bodily qualities that usually give males bodily benefits over females, and a United Nations examine discovering that just about 900 organic females have fallen in need of victories as a result of they’ve been defeated by transgender athletes.
The examine, “Violence towards ladies and women in sports activities,” discovered greater than 600 athletes didn’t medal in additional than 400 competitions in 29 completely different sports activities, totaling over 890 medals, in line with data obtained as much as March 30.
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Jennifer Sey, a former senior government at Levi Strauss & Co., clashed with executives over COVID lockdowns in 2020. She launched XX-XY Athletics in March 2020. (XX-XY Athletics)
Sey’s argument was additionally primarily based on the assumption that sports activities, particularly at a excessive stage, should not meant to be “inclusive” to any explicit group, and that sports activities are basically imagined to be “unique” for the sake of competitiveness.
In the meantime, Bolling’s argument towards Sey was primarily based on the premise of advancing transgender rights as an entire.
In the course of the debate, Bolling admitted that supporting trans inclusion in ladies’s sports activities, in the meanwhile, was not a “common” stance. He then in contrast the problem of trans inclusion to previous civil rights actions, together with ladies’s proper to vote, racial segregation and even “ending slavery,” claiming that advocating for these points was additionally not common previously.
“Civil rights will not be a recognition contest,” Bolling mentioned.
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