Opinion

Making NC girls compete against males is not fair. Let’s create an even playing-field.

15,000.  I’d like for you to take a minute to consider the meaning of that number.    The number 15,000 could easily represent the number of heart beats the average person has in about five minutes.    15,000 could be the number of days lived by someone who is 41 years old.    For this article 15,000 represents...

Ken Fontenot
Opinion

Former UNC Coach Sylvia Hatchell: Males should not compete on women’s teams

I support transgender athletes right to gender identify as they see fit; however, competitive sport is one of the few places in society where sex differences matter. For this reason, transgender males should not compete on women’s teams. It isn’t fair to women athletes, and it completely undoes much of the progress achieved through Title...

Sylvia Hatchell
Opinion

Letter from former UNC female athletes: Will NC stand up for women’s sports?

As former varsity athletes at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, we knowwhat it takes to compete. We applaud efforts in the North Carolina legislature to support equal athletic opportunity by preserving single-sex competition for female athletes. In the world of competitive sport, single-sex categories are the only way to achieve equality for women...

CJ Editors
Opinion

I’m a female athlete, mother, and Democrat calling on NC to save women’s sports

In 2018, I was an athlete at Track Cycling Worlds in Los Angeles, where the first trans-identified male secured not only a women’s world title, but a women’s world record. As female athletes, we were frustrated that policies we were instructed to trust failed us. We were told not to question them, or to speak...

Evie Edwards

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