This week, a shocking survey released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 3 percent of American high school students identify as transgender. Another 2 percent of students indicated that they are questioning their gender identity.
This growing number of young people believing they are transgender presents several issues, namely, sports. In recent years, there’ve been many cases of men who believe they are women competing in women’s sports. In one state, high school girls are staging a walkout to show they’ve had enough.
This week, the New York Post reported that high school students across New York state will participate in a walkout this month to protest so-called “transgender” athletes from competing in women’s sports.
Reportedly, the demonstration on Oct. 24 is being organized by a conservative group known as The Coalition to Protect Kids.
“It’s not right for boys to compete against girls in sports. It’s a huge disadvantage for girls,” Hannah Pompeo, a 16-year soccer player at Eden High School near Buffalo, told the post. Pompeo is participating in the “Walk Off for Fairness Day.”
“I don’t think it’s right for men to be in our safe spaces. We worked hard for places on our teams,” Millie McCormack, a student dancer at Somers High School in Westchester County, told the outlet.
“Boys have physical advantages we don’t have,” she added.
The groups taking part in the walkout also oppose a measure. Proposition 1, called the “Equal Rights Amendment,” an extreme pro-abortion amendment on the ballot this November (via NYP):
New York already has among the strongest abortion rights laws in the nation and critics claim the ballot measure is unnecessary and just a ruse to try to boost Democratic turnout in competitive congressional and state legislative races, as well as for the White House.
The proposal also asks voters whether they support or oppose adding language to the constitution stating that people cannot be denied rights based on their “race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, creed, religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, reproductive healthcare and autonomy.”
Opponents argue adding such expansive language would open the door to allowing athletes who identify as female and are born male to compete against women and girls, which they claim would discriminate against athletes who are born female.
“Girls are being systematically canceled in this state, and ‘Walk Off for Fairness Day’ will give them a safe opportunity to make their voices heard,” Coalition to Protect Kids-NY spokeswoman Ayesha Kreutz told the Post.
“So many of these young women are afraid of speaking out, so they’re forced to watch as 50 years of female athletic progress gets washed away by destructive ideologues. Girls are not second class citizens, so why are they being treated that way?” she added.
