Anonymous ID: a6338d Oct. 7, 2022, 8:53 a.m. No.17653582   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3771 >>4391 >>4612 >>6713 >>7215

Lia Thomas banned as FINA votes to restrict transgender women from competitions

 

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — World swimming’s governing body has effectively banned transgender women from competing in women’s events, starting Monday.

 

FINA members widely adopted a new “gender inclusion policy” on Sunday that only permits swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women’s events. The organization also proposed an “open competition category.”

 

“This is not saying that people are encouraged to transition by the age of 12. It’s what the scientists are saying, that if you transition after the start of puberty, you have an advantage, which is unfair,” James Pearce, who is the spokesperson for FINA president Husain Al-Musallam, told The Associated Press.

 

“They’re not saying everyone should transition by age 11, that’s ridiculous. You can’t transition by that age in most countries and hopefully you wouldn’t be encouraged to. Basically, what they’re saying is that it is not feasible for people who have transitioned to compete without having an advantage.”

 

Pearce confirmed there are currently no transgender women competing in elite levels of swimming.

 

However, the ruling would seemingly exclude University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas from elite competition.

 

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health just lowered its recommended minimum age for starting gender transition hormone treatment to 14 and some surgeries to 15 or 17.

 

FINA’s new 24-page policy also proposed a new “open competition” category. The organization said it was setting up “a new working group that will spend the next six months looking at the most effective ways to set up this new category.”

 

Pearce told the AP that the open competition would most likely mean more events, but those details still need to be worked out.

 

“No one quite knows how this is going to work. And we need to include a lot of different people, including transgender athletes, to work out how it would work,” he said. “So there are no details of how that would work. The open category is something that will start being discussed tomorrow.”

 

The members voted 71.5% in favor at the organization’s extraordinary general congress after hearing presentations from three specialist groups — an athlete group, a science and medicine group and a legal and human rights group — that had been working together to form the policy following recommendations given by the International Olympic Committee last November.

 

Read further

 

https://nypost.com/2022/06/19/fina-votes-to-restrict-transgender-women-from-swimming-events/

Anonymous ID: a6338d Oct. 7, 2022, 8:53 a.m. No.17653597   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3768 >>4016 >>6113 >>7175

Jane Roe a.k.a. Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey

September 22, 1947 – February 18, 2017

 

I can’t tell you anons much about McCorvey however I can tell you an interesting tidbit about her attorney, Sarah Ragle Weddington whom served in the Carter administration, was the first Woman general Counsel for the Dept of Agriculture and here’s the kicker had many correspondence with Edmund Nichols during that post.

 

Nichols is an interesting fellow and just so happens to be the Father of Kelly Jones who was a radical PETA activist and get this, ex-wife of Alex Jones

 

Here are my notes on Nichols:

 

Edmund Lowe Nichols (SES/China/Japan/Rome/NATO)

-Assistant Texas Commissioner of Agriculture for governmental affairs and administration. 

 

“instrumental in launching the Texas Agricultural Products (TAP) export marketing program”

 

-traveled to Japan and Europe to open markets for such high quality Texas products as Ruby Red grapefruit and beef products. 

 

-TAP delegations to other states, hosting the first “Taste of Texas” events to promote high value foods produced and manufactured in Texas.”

 

-1977, Nichols was appointed Assistant Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D. C.

 

-joined the Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA)

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agricultural_Service) )

 

-served on the President’s Export Policy Task Force where he was named by President Jimmy Carter as a charter member of the U.S. Senior Executive Service

 

SES-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Executive_Service_(United_States)

 

-worked with Congressman Bob Poage, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, to pass the U.S. Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (amended the 1966 Food for peace act)

 

-1979, Nichols was appointed U.S. Agricultural Counselor to Italy, assigned to the American Embassy in Rome, and was later commissioned by President Ronald Reagan to the rank of Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Senior Foreign Service.

 

-Agricultural Counselor to Denmark and Norway and twice as Agricultural Counselor to Spain

 

-1982, he was decorated by the President of Italy as Commendatore (knight commander and is the highest decree awarded by the President of Italy) of the Italian Republic

 

-served as Agricultural Minister-Counselor to the U.S. Mission to the European Communities in Brussels (the EU) from 1989 to 1992.

 

-chairman of the NATO Food and Agriculture Planning Committee

 

-Japan-Texas Association Conference

 

-Of particular note is his correspondence with Sarah Ragle Weddington(the lawyer who represented Jane Roe in Roe V. Wade)

(https://www.baylor.edu/library/index.php?id=)

-Reddington was In the Carter Administration(1979-1981)

-first woman General Counsel for the US Department of Agriculture.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Weddington)

 

Archive: https://archive.ph/WiBUT

 

https://cemetery.tspb.texas.gov/pub/user_form.asp?pers_id=11664

 

https://txarchives.org/baypll/finding_aids/20013.xml