'They will get their blurb for their campaign mailers and they might save their political career, but at what cost? I suppose, their integrity — but clearly, that’s not worth much,' Robert Gehrke writes.
Directed as that anger may be, it is also felt more broadly by all of the other kids who hear the message being sent.
Proponents of banning student-athletes point to the case of Lia Thomas, a University of Pennsylvania swimmer who was recruited and competed as a male before undergoing hormone therapy and winning the women’s 500-yard freestyle . “As a woman in sports, I can tell you that I know what the real threats to women’s sports are: sexual abuse and harassment, unequal pay and resources and a lack of women in leadership,”But even if we accept, for the sake of argument, that Thomas’ case raises issues that need to be addressed, nothing in Utah’s ban touches college athletics. Instead, UtahIf you’re thinking that this disparate and discriminatory treatment is ripe for a lawsuit, obviously it is.
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