Coach Linda Blade is the author of Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport. In this episode, she responds to John Oliver’s recent hit piece on SheWon.org, a website that crowdsources information on females who have been denied fair sports victories by male participation.
We discussed the reasons why the number of medals, trophies, and ribbons won by males in female categories is actually even higher than the number John Oliver tried to undermine. Coach Blade also read emails from Canadian parents reporting their girls being denied fair and safe sports, even by much older boys, in the name of “inclusion.”
Dr. Blade founded the International Consortium on Female Sport. Their website is here. You can find her on X here.
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