Megan Rapinoe is a fake feminist

Give her an L. Call lawmakers to support HR734.

Tonight, speaking with TV host Trace Gallagher about the issue of girls in sports, I wore a shirt with a simple message: “Courage is contagious. Pass it on.”

Long before I became a Muslim feminist challenging the patriarchy in mosques or a mama bear protecting cubs from corrupt school board members, I was a girl lining up at the starting line at the West Virginia University Coliseum. I remember all my rivals: girls with names like Kaye and Bonnie and Lynda and Lisa.

Me with my U15 10K trophy from 1980. 😍

At the starting line, I always had to overcome the fear and anxiety that is a part of sports to act — to put one foot in front of the other to run as hard and as fast as I could to do something very simple: my best.

I was one of two girls on the cross country team in high school. I could never run fast enough to beat the boys to make varsity.

I wish the experience of sports for all children. And I extend my deepest embrace and love to boys who self-identify as girls but we cannot make girls sacrificial lambs for political correctness and allow boys into locker rooms, lacrosse fields and all the other arenas of sports with girls.

Standing last summer with swimmer Riley Gaines and other athletes at a rally for this cause, I remembered my younger self and absorbed the contagious courage of Riley and the other athletes to take a stand for my younger self. Riley Gaines is just the feminist we need for the 21st century.

Who is betraying her younger self? Retired women’s — yes, you read that correctly, women’s — soccer star Megan Rapinoe. Swimmer Riley Gaines correctly calls her a “faux feminist.” Rapinoe is indeed a fake feminist. Having spent a career demanding rights for women in sports, she now hands sports over to boys and men who self-identify as girls and women. It is correct to call her selfish.

Give Rapinoe an L by calling your lawmaker and asking them to support HR 734 to keep girls’ sports FOR girls.

📞 202-224-3121

Here is a summary of the bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/734

Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023

This bill generally prohibits school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women or girls.

Specifically, the bill provides that it is a violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for federally funded education programs or activities to operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities that are designated for women or girls. (Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs or activities.) Under the bill, sex is based on an individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

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