Excellent article. The Dems and Liberals will stop at nothing to fundamentally change the world as it was created (per Obama). These are satan worshiping people put into power by big money power brokers. These people know no fear, because our constitution has been taken over by bureaucrats that are running the world. I hate to say this, but it is our fault for being so quiet and lazy. I wish I had the capability to fund an Olympic event that was fair. I'm boycotting all TV broadcasts of this year's Olympic events and any sponsor. I know, big deal.
I wouldn't say that a man who wins in a boxing match against a woman has earned or deserves the title. I wouldn't say that Kamala Harris has earned or deserves the Democrat nomination. I wouldn't say that illegal aliens deserve or have earned access to government services or citizenship. I wouldn't say that college students have earned or deserve loan forgiveness. What is the value of anything that is given by diktat yet not earned? Perhaps it holds value in the recipient's mind, but it harms all others who strive to succeed through hard work and merit.
Howdy, Ranger: As a "Satan-worshiping Liberal-Dem" I have to take exception with your assumption that we all support trans athletes (or open borders, for that matter), just as I doubt all of the MAGA crowd are anti-abortion and climate change deniers. Give people a little more credit. For the record, I thought Denise's article was spot on.
Keep in mind that a vote for the Democrat party is a vote for open borders and trans athletes. Your vote does support those actions. Climate deniers is like saying penis deniers. I do not deny that there is climate or that it changes. I do deny that there is any certainty at all that the climate is changing in any significant way which represents an existential threat to humanity and that it is due to the burning of fossil fuel. Neither do I deny that Lia Thomas has a penis or is a man. It seems like all of the denial is on the left?
Robert, thanks for your reply. But I must draw the line due to just trying to "Get Along". No more for me. Liberals just see that as a sign of weakness, no more.
I too am against the slaughter of innocent babies for the convenience of lazy, self center, me crowd people that seem to be what this developed world has become.
Who slaughters innocent babies? No one in Santa Barbara, Ventura or SLO Tri-County area. Tell me who has killed a baby, and I’ll personally report and see through the judicial process. By throwing out ignorant statements with no factual basis, you kill your credibility as a responsible adult. Once trust is eliminated, all your other statements — which may be true — are totally disregarded.
I’m with you Ranger…after watching the opening ceremony (a Satanic ritual), I will not watch or support the games & sponsors. I feel for the great athletes who have poured their hearts & souls into the training required to compete at the highest levels…the news of the female boxer being pummeled by a male is another reminder of the evil promoted by our “leaders”. Let us remember which political party is promoting transgenderism when it come time to vote here at home.
Thank you, Denice. In 2020 you wrote a terrific Noozhawk Opinion piece in which you took apart Randy Alcorn's ignorant dismissal of people who voted for Trump. Four years later, I'm still grateful we have you speaking up about true equality for not just women but all people. Because things have only gotten more entangled in political power games where the word “equality” goes. The Left is waging a war to transform America into a have and have-not nation in which only the Leftist rulers will decide who deserves to get ahead. But it's all wrapped up in a narrative of battling oppression so a lot of women are not just buying it but promoting it. The oddest thing about the “liberal” women who spew their hatred of Trump and his supporters - that they're misogynistic and that Trump wants to set women back fifty years - is they don't see that their support of Leftwing “transgender rights” is actually the real misogyny. It's the real danger to all the advances in women's equality made in this country. Nowhere is this danger more apparent to anyone with any sense than sports.
The gender agenda is diabolical!!! As my friend Gaven Ashenden explained, the opening ceremonies are a kind of "letter to the world" telling us what that country values. The letter from France is a hate letter- hateful to innocence, to our children, to what is good and normal. It is also a a threat to female athletes. It is ironically poetic that unwitting feminists are in many ways getting what they deserve by trying to substitute "equality" and the big lie that "gender roles are socially constructed" as they have sought to dominate "men." The transgender movement is the rotten end of all neo-Marxist movements, especially feminism. Did anyone see the female boxer that quit in 46 seconds because a dude claiming to be a "woman" punched her super hard twice? What a radical insult, but ladies, you asked for it.
It is time to repent from this feminist madness that leads to the gender ideologies- the cyanide at the center of this whole satanic agenda is to destroy our children by perversion. Male and Female He created them and the complementarian nature of the two sexes working in concert is the culture of life leading to abundance, the result of trying to erase "sex" while fetishizing perversion is the culture of death and leads to destruction. How shameful!!!
NO, you are wrong! We did not ask for men to claim to be women; to make deviant our gender, or for millions of public tax dollars to pay to surgically attempt to transform a male into a female. It’s tragic! We only asked for opportunities in sport and for jobs, to be fairly considered IF qualified and IF we meet the requirements for consideration. Females must meet the same qualifications, physically, academically, and on the home front as a male trainee or applicant. That means to me not to be responsible for all caregiving/home maintenance, which diminishes capacity to do most paid work, particularly all executive level work including elected jobs.
As an aside, in 1974, as part of my internship, I was assigned to Kaiser San Francisco’s sex change floor. I got to hear and see first hand many unhappy males in pursuit of happiness. Their choice. I heard their sad life stories. However, they are not females after male puberty any more than a female can become a male. We must acknowledge and tolerate, if not accept, our differences. Female fire fighters, secret service, police officers, must meet the same skill sets and physical standards as a male.
On that note, I’d put a strong female boxer, water polo, or rugby player up against a fat cop or male wimp any day. Not all males are qualified for responder jobs either, but are hired. Remember, it was strong Montecito Firefighter Maeve Juarez who saved and carried on her back, for great distance in thick mud, a broken legged Thomas Fire victim.
Hi Montecito- I suspect you are confusing your personal opinion with the reality that ideas have consequences- it necessarily follows form the befouled principles of feminism that the distinction between male and female be obliterated, it also necessarily follows that with the sexual license, promiscuity encouraged, and equality leads to transgenderism- I am sure there are countless feminists who do not like the realities that necessarily follow, but follow they do. To try to separate the consequences from the principles of feminism is as silly as a KKK member objective to being called a racist-
your female athlete against a fat cop or whimpy guy isn't even a sure thing, though certainly some very fit women might triumph in a few cases, but in general, it is just not the case.
I read this article Titled "Gender Confusion at the Games" by Denice Spangler Adams
I will reply to this article since, way back in the day, "I coached "World Class Female Athletes".
I also competed on the world athletic stage so I may actually know a thing or two about
the difference in Male Vs Female. Maybe just maybe.
For anyone that is confused, first a Women cannot compete against a Male however there seems
to be a high level of confusion in the US, California and Santa Barbara.
I always like to bring it all to home with a new title "Gender Confusion in Santa Barbara" and
would like all to ask themselves does Santa Barbara Government Discriminate in it's hiring DEI Practices? How many Women Vs Men are hired in Executive Positions in Santa Barbara? How many
LBGT (Q-X-Y-Z) are hired in Key Positions in the local Government in Santa Barbara? ALOT.
Has Santa Barbara had any serious problems with their DEI, actually force ideological practices, that now have greatly impacted another agency like the Secret Service and almost got Donald J. Trump Assassinated? Any problems like that here in good ole Santa Barbara California?
The answer is not YES, but HELL YES.
Look at this UTUBE post on Director of the Secret Service Chealte who is questioned by Nancy Mace and if you do not see a problem here than you are blind. That Blindness is right here in the "Good Ole Boy and Gals" City of Santa Barbara. Take a few minutes and listen below>>>
As in a lot of cases where wrongs need to be righted, things tend to go too far in the opposite direction and actually end up biting the recipient in the rear end . I think that is what happened with the feminist movement. I never considered myself a feminist as the theme of that movement got to be more to ridicule and hate men than pass a law assuring women equal protection under the law. We are not all born equal. Some are smarter, some are stronger; we each have our own strengths and weaknesses. That's life. But lowering standards in the work force to be inclusive when it may mean life or death in certain situations is dead wrong. And now, to have the so-called feminists of the past support transgender sports is the height of hypocrisy. Thank you, Denice, for the article. We need more people like you to try to halt this horrendous movement.
Excellent article. I appreciated the history behind the modern Olympics. I was reminded through your statistics, that female equality -- access to equal opportunity -- didn't happen overnight upon passage of the 19th Anendment. Like the Right to Vote, female athletes had a long, lone hard road ahead of them, from grade school soccer and softball, up to acceptance into elite athletics at the Olympic level. Your mother stood among those pioneering athletes. Transgender politics is a slap in the face to biological females and threatens to send women back to the cheering section or relegated to the lower part of the awards platform as a sliced and diced male holds high his Gold.
Having participated in a water polo game or two, I have great respect for those incredible athletes. But the issue is not men playing girls sports...it's men believing they are girls. It's our finest example of how the Prince of darkness has worked his way into our society and convinced many that it's "normal" to something else. All those "confused" people (from the Olympic Committee, the French Government, the transgender athletes and more) are blinded by the demonic forces of this world. Until we bring the Almighty God back into our lives, it will continue to crumble. Seems to be falling apart rapidly doesn't it 🤔
This is a very important essay. Thank you for writing it. The history of women's sports--our opportunity to compete legitimately--has gotten lost in the current debates. As someone who remembers when Title IX passed, and as a result had the privilege of competing in the first state-level competition for women in my sport in high school, I'm grateful to hear such a measured voice in the conversation.
Great article—- Thanks! Sadly, the comments section gets a bit rough, check it out. Maybe you can chime in as the author and let them know that just because “The Democrats & Liberals” have a different play to metaphorically Score a Touchdown for the country to move the Union to a More Perfect Place, we don’t vote for “These…satan worshiping people put into power by big money power brokers”…
Insulting the other side gets nothing accomplished. Coming together with compromise and creativity to solve problems of all types gets us there.
A female boxer from Italy withdrew from her Olympic match today after 46 seconds. Her opponent was male/trans who hit her so hard, she withdrew. After so many struggles in getting women on an equal footing in the Olympic Games, this is a step back. Weep for your daughters and grand daughters who want to compete in athletics.
Are any biological women now competing in "men's sport" categories; or is it only biological males intruding into the previously biological female sports categories?
Thank you Denice, for the Olympics history re-cap and your own mother's early experiences.
Now to research whether biological women competed in the original Greek Olympics, or was this why original competitors were required to participate in the nude.
It is my understanding that the "original Olympics" were exclusively male competitions, and I always thought it was done in the nude for homosexual preference but your comment begs the question that seeing the equipment kept out any females.
This is an interesting summary of the emancipation of women through the years.
We are all the better for that change.
I just read a UCSB research report on the huge multiplicity of gender definitions.
Now, I am just a simple country boy, but it occurred to me that with this explosion of variability from the simple, genetic, male: female definitions that represent 95% of the world's' population, we should consider adding two more sectors, such as, male to female variant, and female to male variant.
Then sports and other activities could be divided into four exclusive categories. In the interests of equality. We already have the excusion of males from female sports and exclusion of females from males sports.
But, I fear that money is the problem. It would be too expensive. That is why all the official sports authorities are trying to force feed biological males into the sports competitions designed for biological females, all in the name of equality.
Thanks for writing. I'm glad that the distinction between male and female athletes is taking place. But, it's not over yet. I saw today that a female boxer decided to forfeit to a questionable competitor - more male than female. Title nine helped to open the door wider for female athletes to get a share of the school funding. Athletic competition must be held to the highest standards and the IOF can help lead the way. Participating in sports is a great family activity building character and responsibility.
Excellent article. The Dems and Liberals will stop at nothing to fundamentally change the world as it was created (per Obama). These are satan worshiping people put into power by big money power brokers. These people know no fear, because our constitution has been taken over by bureaucrats that are running the world. I hate to say this, but it is our fault for being so quiet and lazy. I wish I had the capability to fund an Olympic event that was fair. I'm boycotting all TV broadcasts of this year's Olympic events and any sponsor. I know, big deal.
I wouldn't say that a man who wins in a boxing match against a woman has earned or deserves the title. I wouldn't say that Kamala Harris has earned or deserves the Democrat nomination. I wouldn't say that illegal aliens deserve or have earned access to government services or citizenship. I wouldn't say that college students have earned or deserve loan forgiveness. What is the value of anything that is given by diktat yet not earned? Perhaps it holds value in the recipient's mind, but it harms all others who strive to succeed through hard work and merit.
Excellent and clear point you made.
Howdy, Ranger: As a "Satan-worshiping Liberal-Dem" I have to take exception with your assumption that we all support trans athletes (or open borders, for that matter), just as I doubt all of the MAGA crowd are anti-abortion and climate change deniers. Give people a little more credit. For the record, I thought Denise's article was spot on.
Keep in mind that a vote for the Democrat party is a vote for open borders and trans athletes. Your vote does support those actions. Climate deniers is like saying penis deniers. I do not deny that there is climate or that it changes. I do deny that there is any certainty at all that the climate is changing in any significant way which represents an existential threat to humanity and that it is due to the burning of fossil fuel. Neither do I deny that Lia Thomas has a penis or is a man. It seems like all of the denial is on the left?
Robert, thanks for your reply. But I must draw the line due to just trying to "Get Along". No more for me. Liberals just see that as a sign of weakness, no more.
I too am against the slaughter of innocent babies for the convenience of lazy, self center, me crowd people that seem to be what this developed world has become.
Again, thanks for your reply.
For the record: The only trans athlete I know is Caitlyn (nee Bruce) Jenner, and she's a Republican.
Robert, thanks again for a reply. RINO or aka Repukes in my book are not conservatives either. I lump them with Dems and liberals.
I agree. There can be no unity at the expense of Truth.
Who slaughters innocent babies? No one in Santa Barbara, Ventura or SLO Tri-County area. Tell me who has killed a baby, and I’ll personally report and see through the judicial process. By throwing out ignorant statements with no factual basis, you kill your credibility as a responsible adult. Once trust is eliminated, all your other statements — which may be true — are totally disregarded.
It's is called "abortion". Don't play stupid.
With comments like yours, your credibility never existed.
I’m with you Ranger…after watching the opening ceremony (a Satanic ritual), I will not watch or support the games & sponsors. I feel for the great athletes who have poured their hearts & souls into the training required to compete at the highest levels…the news of the female boxer being pummeled by a male is another reminder of the evil promoted by our “leaders”. Let us remember which political party is promoting transgenderism when it come time to vote here at home.
Thank you, Denice. In 2020 you wrote a terrific Noozhawk Opinion piece in which you took apart Randy Alcorn's ignorant dismissal of people who voted for Trump. Four years later, I'm still grateful we have you speaking up about true equality for not just women but all people. Because things have only gotten more entangled in political power games where the word “equality” goes. The Left is waging a war to transform America into a have and have-not nation in which only the Leftist rulers will decide who deserves to get ahead. But it's all wrapped up in a narrative of battling oppression so a lot of women are not just buying it but promoting it. The oddest thing about the “liberal” women who spew their hatred of Trump and his supporters - that they're misogynistic and that Trump wants to set women back fifty years - is they don't see that their support of Leftwing “transgender rights” is actually the real misogyny. It's the real danger to all the advances in women's equality made in this country. Nowhere is this danger more apparent to anyone with any sense than sports.
Perfect summation!
Thank you. I get a lot from reading your comments,
The gender agenda is diabolical!!! As my friend Gaven Ashenden explained, the opening ceremonies are a kind of "letter to the world" telling us what that country values. The letter from France is a hate letter- hateful to innocence, to our children, to what is good and normal. It is also a a threat to female athletes. It is ironically poetic that unwitting feminists are in many ways getting what they deserve by trying to substitute "equality" and the big lie that "gender roles are socially constructed" as they have sought to dominate "men." The transgender movement is the rotten end of all neo-Marxist movements, especially feminism. Did anyone see the female boxer that quit in 46 seconds because a dude claiming to be a "woman" punched her super hard twice? What a radical insult, but ladies, you asked for it.
It is time to repent from this feminist madness that leads to the gender ideologies- the cyanide at the center of this whole satanic agenda is to destroy our children by perversion. Male and Female He created them and the complementarian nature of the two sexes working in concert is the culture of life leading to abundance, the result of trying to erase "sex" while fetishizing perversion is the culture of death and leads to destruction. How shameful!!!
Beautifully said.
All we ask is for equitable opportunities and for FAIR PLAY as born females.
Steven, you posted “ladies, you asked for it!” https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Watch-the-moment-female-boxer-Carini-quit-her-match-against-transgender-boxer-after-first-punch-1943439.
NO, you are wrong! We did not ask for men to claim to be women; to make deviant our gender, or for millions of public tax dollars to pay to surgically attempt to transform a male into a female. It’s tragic! We only asked for opportunities in sport and for jobs, to be fairly considered IF qualified and IF we meet the requirements for consideration. Females must meet the same qualifications, physically, academically, and on the home front as a male trainee or applicant. That means to me not to be responsible for all caregiving/home maintenance, which diminishes capacity to do most paid work, particularly all executive level work including elected jobs.
As an aside, in 1974, as part of my internship, I was assigned to Kaiser San Francisco’s sex change floor. I got to hear and see first hand many unhappy males in pursuit of happiness. Their choice. I heard their sad life stories. However, they are not females after male puberty any more than a female can become a male. We must acknowledge and tolerate, if not accept, our differences. Female fire fighters, secret service, police officers, must meet the same skill sets and physical standards as a male.
On that note, I’d put a strong female boxer, water polo, or rugby player up against a fat cop or male wimp any day. Not all males are qualified for responder jobs either, but are hired. Remember, it was strong Montecito Firefighter Maeve Juarez who saved and carried on her back, for great distance in thick mud, a broken legged Thomas Fire victim.
Hi Montecito- I suspect you are confusing your personal opinion with the reality that ideas have consequences- it necessarily follows form the befouled principles of feminism that the distinction between male and female be obliterated, it also necessarily follows that with the sexual license, promiscuity encouraged, and equality leads to transgenderism- I am sure there are countless feminists who do not like the realities that necessarily follow, but follow they do. To try to separate the consequences from the principles of feminism is as silly as a KKK member objective to being called a racist-
your female athlete against a fat cop or whimpy guy isn't even a sure thing, though certainly some very fit women might triumph in a few cases, but in general, it is just not the case.
I read this article Titled "Gender Confusion at the Games" by Denice Spangler Adams
I will reply to this article since, way back in the day, "I coached "World Class Female Athletes".
I also competed on the world athletic stage so I may actually know a thing or two about
the difference in Male Vs Female. Maybe just maybe.
For anyone that is confused, first a Women cannot compete against a Male however there seems
to be a high level of confusion in the US, California and Santa Barbara.
I always like to bring it all to home with a new title "Gender Confusion in Santa Barbara" and
would like all to ask themselves does Santa Barbara Government Discriminate in it's hiring DEI Practices? How many Women Vs Men are hired in Executive Positions in Santa Barbara? How many
LBGT (Q-X-Y-Z) are hired in Key Positions in the local Government in Santa Barbara? ALOT.
Has Santa Barbara had any serious problems with their DEI, actually force ideological practices, that now have greatly impacted another agency like the Secret Service and almost got Donald J. Trump Assassinated? Any problems like that here in good ole Santa Barbara California?
The answer is not YES, but HELL YES.
Look at this UTUBE post on Director of the Secret Service Chealte who is questioned by Nancy Mace and if you do not see a problem here than you are blind. That Blindness is right here in the "Good Ole Boy and Gals" City of Santa Barbara. Take a few minutes and listen below>>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv5mzY9DWXY
As Nancy Mace asked Ms. SS Director Chealte was this a Colossal Failure? YES
Has there been a Colossal Failure here in Santa Barbara? YES
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family
Great piece, Denice. Among the great Olympian athletes moments, this appalling moment hit a new low:https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Watch-the-moment-female-boxer-Carini-quit-her-match-against-transgender-boxer-after-first-punch-1943439 . This is misogeny.
Thanks for posting the video, Helene. I doubt the press will cover the story.
As in a lot of cases where wrongs need to be righted, things tend to go too far in the opposite direction and actually end up biting the recipient in the rear end . I think that is what happened with the feminist movement. I never considered myself a feminist as the theme of that movement got to be more to ridicule and hate men than pass a law assuring women equal protection under the law. We are not all born equal. Some are smarter, some are stronger; we each have our own strengths and weaknesses. That's life. But lowering standards in the work force to be inclusive when it may mean life or death in certain situations is dead wrong. And now, to have the so-called feminists of the past support transgender sports is the height of hypocrisy. Thank you, Denice, for the article. We need more people like you to try to halt this horrendous movement.
An Algerian trans boxer clobbered the Italian woman, who quit in 46 seconds.
He didn’t pass the gender test, however his passport claims he’s a woman so he was allowed to stay in the woman’s event.
Where are the feminists!!
Excellent article. I appreciated the history behind the modern Olympics. I was reminded through your statistics, that female equality -- access to equal opportunity -- didn't happen overnight upon passage of the 19th Anendment. Like the Right to Vote, female athletes had a long, lone hard road ahead of them, from grade school soccer and softball, up to acceptance into elite athletics at the Olympic level. Your mother stood among those pioneering athletes. Transgender politics is a slap in the face to biological females and threatens to send women back to the cheering section or relegated to the lower part of the awards platform as a sliced and diced male holds high his Gold.
Having participated in a water polo game or two, I have great respect for those incredible athletes. But the issue is not men playing girls sports...it's men believing they are girls. It's our finest example of how the Prince of darkness has worked his way into our society and convinced many that it's "normal" to something else. All those "confused" people (from the Olympic Committee, the French Government, the transgender athletes and more) are blinded by the demonic forces of this world. Until we bring the Almighty God back into our lives, it will continue to crumble. Seems to be falling apart rapidly doesn't it 🤔
This is a very important essay. Thank you for writing it. The history of women's sports--our opportunity to compete legitimately--has gotten lost in the current debates. As someone who remembers when Title IX passed, and as a result had the privilege of competing in the first state-level competition for women in my sport in high school, I'm grateful to hear such a measured voice in the conversation.
Hi Denice-
Great article—- Thanks! Sadly, the comments section gets a bit rough, check it out. Maybe you can chime in as the author and let them know that just because “The Democrats & Liberals” have a different play to metaphorically Score a Touchdown for the country to move the Union to a More Perfect Place, we don’t vote for “These…satan worshiping people put into power by big money power brokers”…
Insulting the other side gets nothing accomplished. Coming together with compromise and creativity to solve problems of all types gets us there.
A female boxer from Italy withdrew from her Olympic match today after 46 seconds. Her opponent was male/trans who hit her so hard, she withdrew. After so many struggles in getting women on an equal footing in the Olympic Games, this is a step back. Weep for your daughters and grand daughters who want to compete in athletics.
Are any biological women now competing in "men's sport" categories; or is it only biological males intruding into the previously biological female sports categories?
Thank you Denice, for the Olympics history re-cap and your own mother's early experiences.
Now to research whether biological women competed in the original Greek Olympics, or was this why original competitors were required to participate in the nude.
It is my understanding that the "original Olympics" were exclusively male competitions, and I always thought it was done in the nude for homosexual preference but your comment begs the question that seeing the equipment kept out any females.
They just weren't as hung up as christians.
Well hung?
This is an interesting summary of the emancipation of women through the years.
We are all the better for that change.
I just read a UCSB research report on the huge multiplicity of gender definitions.
Now, I am just a simple country boy, but it occurred to me that with this explosion of variability from the simple, genetic, male: female definitions that represent 95% of the world's' population, we should consider adding two more sectors, such as, male to female variant, and female to male variant.
Then sports and other activities could be divided into four exclusive categories. In the interests of equality. We already have the excusion of males from female sports and exclusion of females from males sports.
But, I fear that money is the problem. It would be too expensive. That is why all the official sports authorities are trying to force feed biological males into the sports competitions designed for biological females, all in the name of equality.
I'm sort of stuck on "the most uniquely spectacular Paris Opening Ceremony in Olympic viewing history." (Here's my take: https://jennasside.rocks/p/its-all-fun-and-games)
Thanks for writing. I'm glad that the distinction between male and female athletes is taking place. But, it's not over yet. I saw today that a female boxer decided to forfeit to a questionable competitor - more male than female. Title nine helped to open the door wider for female athletes to get a share of the school funding. Athletic competition must be held to the highest standards and the IOF can help lead the way. Participating in sports is a great family activity building character and responsibility.