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Steve Garvey calls for prevention of trans inclusion in women's sports, defends forfeits that protest it
EXCLUSIVE: Former Dodgers World Series champion Steve Garvey is running for U.S. Senate as a Republican in California, and revealed his stance on one of November’s sudden hot button issues to Fox News Digital ahead of L.A.’s title bout vs. the Yankees.
Garvey made it clear that he opposed trans inclusion in women’s sports, and insists biological boundaries should be set to define biological gender. He also specified that he believes transgender athletes should only compete against each other.
“This is an issue I’ve talked to a lot of people. I just believe it’s defined by biological men and women, and I think that God gives us freewill and choice, and if you choose to transgender, say from male and female, then you should compete against those people that have done the same thing,” Garvey said.
Garvey cited his experience as a father to his two daughters, Krisha and Whitney, for his stance.
“I have daughters, I care about their safety, I care about their freedom, and I think it’s just not fair to have that kind of competition, that a woman is always going to be at a deficit,” Garvey said.
Former President Trump has gone so far as to advocate for a ban, while Democrats, including Vice President Harris and Ted Cruz’s Texas seat opponent Collin Allred, have distanced themselves from support for transgender athletes in women’s sports over the last month.
Harris has sidestepped questions of transgender rights in recent interviews on Fox News and NBC News, while Allred’s campaign has had to go so far as to release TV ads where he says he is against “boys in girls sports.”
Garvey believes that the nation’s leadership must take action to define the distinction between biological men and women.
“I think it gets back to leadership, we need to really define this even further,” Garvey said.
In Garvey’s state of California, San Jose State University has been at the epicenter of the heated election-month debate.
On Friday, the university’s volleyball program received news that an opponent would be forfeiting for fifth time this season alone, as the program is embroiled in a national controversy over a lawsuit by one of its players against the NCAA, alleging that she was never told that her teammate is a biological male.
Brooke Slusser joined a lawsuit headed by OutKick host and former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines against the NCAA due to its policies on gender identity. Slusser joined this lawsuit because she claims that she has had to share a court, a locker room and even a room on overnight trips with her teammate Blaire Fleming without having ever been told that Fleming was transgender.
INSIDE SAN JOSE STATE’S POLICE BATTLE TO PROTECT WOMEN’S ATHLETES THREATENED BY A TRANSGENDER CULTURE WAR
The University of Nevada, Reno announced it would be officially forfeiting its Saturday match against San Jose State after a tense dispute between the Nevada players and their athletic department. The players voted to forfeit the game, and made it public that they intended not to take the court against San Jose State. Sources told Fox News Digital that the players even approached the athletic director Stephanie Rempe to request the match be forfeited.
But Nevada didn’t officially forfeit the program until Saturday when they deemed that they didn’t have enough players to participate in the match, after a very visible protest by the players over the last week.
Garvey defended athletes and all the other volleyball programs that have forfeited games over their refusal to compete against a transgender opponent.
“I hate to see women lose the opportunity to compete, but what they’re doing – and this has become part of their freewill and choice – is to choose how they’re going to make a statement,” Garvey said.
During his career with the Dodgers, Garvey played in more than 1,700 games over the course of 14 seasons and hit .301 with 211 home runs and 992 RBI. Garvey was also selected to eight All-Star Games and won the All-Star Game MVP Award in both 1974 and 1978. (Steve Garvey)
San Jose State has said it is in compliance with official NCAA rules amid the news of the fifth forfeit of the year.
“Our athletes all comply with NCAA and Mountain West Conference policies and they are eligible to play under the rules of those organizations. We will continue to take measures to prioritize the health and safety of our students while they pursue their earned opportunities to compete,” the university said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Friday.
San Jose State’s Slusser and Nevada’s Sia Liillii have taken leadership roles in vocalizing their opposition to transgender inclusion in women’s sports over the last few weeks.
Republican lawmakers, Idaho Gov. Brad Little and Tulsi Gabbard have praised the players and teams who have refused to play the Spartans. The Trump campaign has pounded his Democrat opponent on the issue in the final weeks leading up to election day.
Former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines took stage at the Turning Point Action conference to precede Trump at the rally in Georgia on Wednesday.
“I could share the grotesque details of what it was like being forced to undress, inches away from a six-foot-four man who watched us strip down to nothing, while he did the same, exposing his fully-intact naked male body,” Gaines said. “There are no words to describe the violation and the betrayal, the humiliation that we felt.”
The Biden-Harris administration issued a sweeping rule that clarified that Title IX’s ban on “sex” discrimination in schools covers discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and “pregnancy or related conditions” in April.
The administration insisted the regulation does not address athletic eligibility. However, multiple experts presented evidence to Fox News Digital in June that it would ultimately put more biological men in women’s sports.
The Supreme Court then voted 5-4 in August to reject an emergency request by the Biden administration to enforce portions of that new rule after more than two dozen Republican attorneys general sued to block the Title IX changes in their own states.
University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines react after finishing tied for 5th in the 200 Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18th, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images.)
However, the issue extends far beyond the borders of the U.S.
The United Nations released study findings that say nearly 900 biological females have fallen short of the podium because they have been beaten out by transgender athletes.
The study, titled “Violence against women and girls in sports,” said that more than 600 athletes did not medal in more than 400 competitions in 29 different sports, totaling over 890 medals, according to information obtained up to March 30.
“The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing against males,” the report said.
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BIGFORK, Mont. — Boaters on the Flathead River near Bigfork will face a temporary closure this week as crews continue work on the new Sportsman’s Bridge.
The Montana Department of Transportation and Sletten Construction will continue constructing the new bridge on Montana Highway 82 northwest of Bigfork by placing steel beams over the east side of the Flathead River. The beams will support the deck of the new bridge.
To safely complete the work, the river beneath the bridge will be temporarily closed from 7 a.m. Wednesday, July 8, to 6 p.m. Thursday, July 9.
No boat traffic will be allowed to travel under the bridge during that time.
The following was sent out by Montana Department of Transportation:
The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) and Sletten Construction will continue constructing the new Sportsman’s Bridge on Montana Highway 82 (MT 82) northwest of Bigfork by placing steel beams over the east side of the Flathead River. These beams will support the deck of the new bridge.
To safely complete this work, the river beneath the bridge will be temporarily closed from 7 a.m. on Wednesday, July 8, to 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 9.
No boat traffic will be allowed to travel under the bridge during this time.
This closure area includes approximately 20 feet upstream and 300 feet downstream of the bridge and applies to all motorized and non-motorized watercraft, including kayaks, canoes, rafts, and paddleboards.
The Sportsman’s Bridge Fishing Access Site will remain open during this time for boaters traveling southbound (downstream) on the river toward Flathead Lake.
No traffic impacts are anticipated for motorists traveling on MT 82 during this work.
Nevada
U. Nevada Reno department merger will study social life via ‘intersectional, decolonial, humanistic’ lens | The College Fix
A ‘place where rigorous social research and critical, decolonial scholarship’ will occur
At the beginning of this month, the University of Nevada Reno merged its sociology department and Department of Gender, Race, and Identity to form the Department of Sociology and Cultural Analysis — dedicated to studying “social life” via “intersectional, decolonial and humanistic” methods.
According Nevada Today, the consolidation “reflects a long-recognized affinity between the two departments. Sociology and GRI share deep commitments to understanding social inequalities, the forces that produce and reproduce them, and the possibilities for transformation.”
The new department will be led by Professors Lydia Huerta (research interests include “critical communication pedagogy” and “feminist, gender and sexuality studies”) and Jared Bok (“globalization and transnationalism,” “religion, culture, organizations”) whom outgoing Dept. of Sociology Chair Marta Elliot (“prejudice, discrimination, stigma and well-being,” “sociology of mental health and illness”) said will “exceptionally well-position” the merger for the future.
The now-former Departments of Sociology and Gender, Race, and Identity taught students “to ask rigorous questions about race, gender, class, migration, health, labor, culture and power,” and the merger won’t change that, according to the report.
Huerta said the new department “will be a place where rigorous social research and critical, decolonial scholarship inform one another and where students graduate equipped to understand and change the world they inherit.”
The Department of Sociology and Cultural Analysis will offer “robust” selection of majors and minors including gender, race and identity, comparative ethnic studies, Indigenous studies, gender and queer studies, and social justice and conflict studies.
College of Liberal Arts Dean Casilde Isabelli said these programs “preserve [both former departments’] unique intellectual traditions while creating new opportunities for collaboration, innovation and student success.”
According to her faculty page, Huerta has written the journal articles “The Exigency of the Anti-Gender Agenda in Latin America: A Transnational Perspective” and “The Impacts of Anti-Genderism on Education in Brazil: Fear and Danger among Professors of Gender” among other publications.
Bok’s offerings include “Religious Exit Costs” and “The Arts in Sacred Spaces: How Religious Conservatism and Cultural Omnivorousness Influence Attitudes about Congregational Involvement in the Arts.”
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The festival was filled with unique booths, shops, shows and contests for paranormal enthusiasts. Roswell Mainstreet says they believe more than 12,000 people were in attendance, although those are preliminary numbers.
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