Christian Olympic champion in women's wrestling prefers to compete against women only



A female Olympic gold medalist in wrestling has weighed in on men competing in women's sports, saying she prefers wrestling against men only "in practice."

Tamyra Mensah-Stock, 32, recently traveled to the Tilles Center for Performing Arts in Brookville, New York, for the sixth annual FOX Nation Patriot Awards. Wearing glasses, dreadlocks, and a gold cross around her neck, Mensah-Stock stopped to answer whether she had ever competed against so-called transwomen athletes in freestyle wrestling.

"No, thank goodness. But I know a few people that have," she replied.

When pressed about whether she might consider doing so in the future, Mensah-Stock hesitated.

"I'll just say this. I've wrestled plenty of guys in practice, and I will only wrestle them in practice — because wrestling men is very, very difficult even when they are 20 pounds smaller than me," she explained.

The thought of competing against a man in her weight class then seemed to give her further pause. "If they're the same weight as me ..." she said, trailing off. She then came to a firm conclusion: "I just keep it in practice."

'It’s just by the grace of God that I’m just able to even move my feet,' she explained. 'I just leave it in his hands.'

Mensah-Stock first captured the hearts of Americans everywhere with her exuberant demonstration of patriotism immediately after she took the gold medal in women's freestyle wrestling at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021.

"I love representing the U.S. I freaking love living there," she gushed with a grin on her face and an American flag wrapped around her shoulders. "I love it, and I'm so happy I get to represent U-S-A!"

Overcome with emotion, Mensah-Stock then expressed thanks to God, crediting him with giving her the talent and means to achieve her dreams.

"It’s just by the grace of God that I’m just able to even move my feet," she explained. "I just leave it in his hands. I prayed that all of the training and practice, the hell that my freaking coaches put me through pays off. Every single time it does. I get better and better. It’s so weird that there is no cap to the limit of what I can do."

"I’m excited to see what I have next."

Because of her love of country and her honorable representation of the United States at the Olympics, Fox Nation named Mensah-Stock the Most Valuable Patriot of 2021.

In May 2023, she signed a contract with WWE to become a professional wrestler. She has not ruled out wrestling against men as part of that agreement.

The FOX Nation Patriot Awards aired on the Fox New Channel on Sunday night.

H/T: the Daily Mail

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Transgender Volleyball Player Allowed To Compete On Women’s Team, Court Rules

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'Trans' male athlete caused her brain bleed — now she’s speaking out



Payton McNabb is a former volleyball player who suffered devastating injuries at the young age of 17, when her team was faced with a transgender player on the opposite end of the court.

“I’m not tall enough to block, so I never block. I always just do tips, and it works for every other team except for this one,” McNabb tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.” “I was back there and I got hit right in the face, they guess it was about 70 miles per hour."

“It knocked me unconscious, he spiked the ball,” she says, adding, “I love sports, it’s brought so much into my life. But unfortunately, everything was taken away that day, because of a boy. And it was just completely avoidable, which is the thing, so that’s why it’s so frustrating to me.”


While women who play sports are told that injuries are unavoidable no matter who’s on the other team, McNabb completely disagrees.

“You’re going to get hurt, which like obviously, but not to that extreme of an injury, unless you’re playing against a boy,” she says.

McNabb recalls being unconscious for 30 seconds, and when she came to, she heard a scream in the background, while the rest of the gym went silent.

“Once I woke up, the trainer for the other team, he asked me if I knew what just happened to me. And I was like, ‘Yeah, that boy just hit me in the face,’” McNabb explains. “We were not allowed to talk about it, so he didn’t know what to say, so he just kind of rushed me off the court.”

The doctors immediately referred McNabb to a neurologist when it became obvious that she was suffering from a brain bleed.

“I was just completely off, I was repeating things over and over again, I was sleeping all the time, didn’t have any balance really, was falling everywhere, my memory was just not good. It was a really hard time,” she explains, noting that her official diagnosis was a brain bleed, a concussion, and permanent whiplash.

“You’re lucky that your neck didn’t or your spinal cord didn’t actually snap,” Stuckey says, disturbed.

“That’s what the doctor said, and they were so confused on how I got this bad of an injury in a high school volleyball game,” she says, adding, “so then my mom finally had to be like, ‘Well, it was a guy.’”

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Boy can continue playing on girls' soccer team in New Hampshire after judge temporarily blocks new state law



A New Hampshire boy claiming to be a girl will be allowed to continue playing on a girls' soccer team after a federal judge granted an emergency request to block a new state law in his case for the time being.

On Sunday, the Fairness in Women's Sports Act went into effect in New Hampshire after Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed it last month. The law prevents males in 5th through 12th grade from participating on sports teams designated for females only.

Under FWSA, New Hampshire parents can sue a school district that allows boys to play on girls' teams, the New Hampshire Bulletin reported.

'It takes a lot of nerve for a judge to block this good and just law in the immediate aftermath of SCOTUS striking the regime's malfeasance with Title IX on this same issue.'

On Monday, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Landya McCafferty, an Obama appointee, issued a temporary block in the case of a 15-year-old boy attending Plymouth Regional High School. Blaze News is not naming the boy and will refer to him only as P.T.

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire sued on behalf of P.T. and a 14-year-old boy in the Pemi-Baker Regional School District, claiming that FWSA violated Title IX and constitutional equal protections.

Plaintiffs requested a "temporary restraining order" of the law in P.T.'s case since he currently plays on the girls' soccer team at Plymouth Regional and had practice on Monday night. They claimed missing practice would have a "permanent, stigmatizing impact" on him.

They further argued that P.T. and the 14-year-old plaintiff had no physical advantage over biologically female competitors since they have been taking puberty blockers to stunt their male development.

"They’re not going to be any faster or any stronger than typical girls," Chris Erchull, an attorney for GLAD, said in court.

Michael DeGrandis, an attorney for the state, did not contest that claim about physical advantage and even conceded that missing soccer practice would be "stressful and straining" for P.T. However, DeGrandis insisted that such stress and strain should not mean the law should not apply in P.T.'s case.

"Does that rise to the level of irreparable harm?" DeGrandis asked.

Judge McCafferty apparently believes it does. She granted the emergency restraining order and indicated that plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits of their lawsuit.

McCafferty further claimed that P.T. has "no physiological advantage" over his female counterparts on the athletic field because of the puberty blockers he has been taking. She insisted this was an "uncontested reality" and not a matter of personal opinion.

McCafferty's ruling applies only to P.T. since the 14-year-old plaintiff is not planning to participate in girls' sports until the winter.

Both sides of the lawsuit now must schedule a hearing to consider a temporary block of the FWSA for all of New Hampshire while the litigation process continues through the court system. That hearing is expected in the next few weeks.

"We are very happy with the judge’s order. It is also what we expected, because we know that this law is unfair and violates the rights of transgender girls of New Hampshire," Erchull stated after the ruling.

Not everyone in the state is cheering, however. Republican State Rep. Mike Belcher described the whole issue as "absurd" and argued that McCafferty's ruling not only overrides state law but a recent Supreme Court decision to allow states to ban men in women's spaces while Title IX cases continue.

"It takes a lot of nerve for a judge to block this good and just law in the immediate aftermath of SCOTUS striking the regime's malfeasance with Title IX on this same issue," Belcher told Blaze News.

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ESPN reportedly axes Sam Ponder in surprise move — but many believe her criticism of men in women's sports played role



ESPN has reportedly let go of two its most recognizable on-air personalities: Samantha Ponder and Robert Griffin III.

On Thursday afternoon, Andrew Marchand of the Athletic reported on X that ESPN had fired Ponder and RGIII to cut costs.

ESPN has fired hundreds of employees in the past several years as part of larger restructuring efforts. However, this fiscal year, Ponder and Griffin appear to be the only ones getting the boot, Marchand noted.

Griffin, a former Heisman winner who spent several seasons in the NFL, most notably with the Washington Redskins, joined the network in 2021 and still had two years left on his contract.

He had also recently been demoted from his role on "Monday Night Countdown," according to the New York Post.

Griffin also appears to be taking the news in stride, posting to X a short, humorous clip from the movie "Friday" in which character Willie Jones asks his son Craig: "How the hell you gonna get fired on your day off?"

'She had the wrong politics and dumping her salary frees up cap space for ESPN to overpay Stephen A Smith.'

Ponder's apparent firing is more surprising. She has been with the network since 2011 working as a sideline reporter. She made frequent appearances on the hit show "College GameDay" and eventually become the host of "Sunday Night Countdown."

However, she has also repeatedly criticized male infiltration into sports and teams reserved for women and girls.

"What's happening to women in sports is insane," Ponder tweeted in April 2023, "and any reasonable person knows it."

A month later, she expressed support for those cowed into silence on the topic out of "fear of lost employment/being called hateful."

"It is not hateful to demand fairness in sports for girls."

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Now, many believe that Ponder is the one who has "lost employment" for demanding "fairness in sports for girls." Awful Announcing noted that she had "increasingly strayed" from ESPN's request that on-air personalities "stick to sports."

Riley Gaines also weighed in, noting that with former "SportsCenter" co-host Sage Steele gone as well, the Worldwide Leader in Sports now has no woman there who wants to preserve women's sports for women only.

"So ESPN fires @samponder, the only woman at the network who was publicly said men don't belong in women's sports. 3 weeks before football season?" Gaines wrote. "Sam is one of the most beautiful, genuine women I've ever met along with @sagesteele who had a similar fate....not a coincidence."

Bobby Burack of OutKick agreed, telling Blaze News that it makes no sense for ESPN to fire Ponder, whom he described as ESPN's "lead NFL host," three weeks before the NFL season kicks off just to save a few bucks.

"Keep in mind, Sam Ponder was the only woman left at ESPN who has publicly rejected the idea that we should celebrate men for calling themselves 'trans' and competing against women in female competition," Burack told Blaze News.

Jason Whitlock, host of BlazeTV's "Fearless," also indicated to Blaze News that Ponder's "politics" almost certainly played a role in the decision.

"A lot of factors at work with ESPN releasing Sam Ponder," Whitlock told Blaze News. "She had the wrong politics and dumping her salary frees up cap space for ESPN to overpay Stephen A Smith."

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ANOTHER scandal at the Paris Olympics involving 'the MOST dangerous sport' sparks outrage



The blasphemous opening ceremony that boldly mocked da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” isn’t the only scandal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Two biological men are also being allowed to compete against women in the boxing division — “the most dangerous sport,” according to Jennifer Sey, founder and CEO of XX-XY Athletics.

“It’s happening in the Olympics; it's happening at the NCA finals; it's happening at the state track championship in Oregon and in Washington; and it's happening at the local high school. It's happened over 700 times in the last few years alone that males have stolen medals and trophies from females,” she tells Jill Savage and the “Blaze News Tonight” panel.

But what’s perhaps most upsetting is the IOC’s insistence that the two athletes have met gender eligibility requirements.

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Despite the fact that Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan and Imane Khelif of Algeria failed the gender eligibility tests at the 2023 women’s world championships because their results revealed XY chromosomes, proving that they were in fact male, the International Olympics Committee has attested that Yu-ting and Khelif are female because their passports say so.

“The IOC spokesperson said, ‘Well, it says female on their passport so we're going to just trust that,’” says Sey. “Do you really think that individuals and governments wouldn't lie about the status of an athlete on their passport in order to win medals?”

The IOC spokesperson to whom Sey refers is Mark Adams, who indeed attested that they are “complying with the competition eligibility rules.”

“They are women in their passports, and it’s stated that that is the case — that they are women,” Adams said, insisting that “they are eligible by the rules of the federation, which were set in 2016.”

“These hard-working female athletes, these boxers ... are being told that in order to be nice, they need to sit down, get punched in the face, and give up their medal and their trophy and everything they've worked for because ‘oh they're abiding by the eligibility rules,”’ Sey condemns.

To make matters even more upsetting, Yu-ting and Khelif “don’t even seem to be pretending to be female.” Images from the Olympics show the two in the area looking every bit like males.

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Florida school district employee faces termination after she let her son play on girls' volleyball team



A woman in Florida may soon be fired from her job with the Broward County school district after she apparently allowed her son to play on the girls' volleyball team at his high school.

Last November, Jessica Norton was one of several members of the faculty and staff at Monarch High School near Fort Lauderdale to be reassigned to jobs at "non-school sites" after then-Superintendent Peter Licata discovered that a boy may have been playing on the school's girls' volleyball team, as Blaze News previously reported.

'I saw the light in my daughter’s eyes gleam with future plans of organizing and attending prom, participating and leading senior class traditions, speaking at graduation, and going off to college.'

That boy turned out to be Norton's son, though she routinely refers to him as her "daughter." She also indicated that his name and gender have both been legally changed, and Florida law does permit minors to legally change their gender on birth certificates and driver's licenses so long as they have parental consent, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality.

However, another Floridian law, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, signed into law in 2021, forbids biological males like Norton's son from joining sports teams reserved for women and girls. Not only did Norton apparently violate this statute by knowingly permitting her son, now 16, to play on the girls' team, but she also allegedly kept his gender listed as "female" on school records and checked "female" on a form asking about his sex at birth.

Norton was an information management specialist at Monarch as well as the school's junior varsity volleyball coach, though whether her son played on her team or another volleyball team is unclear. She was then transferred to a district facility where she was assigned janitorial tasks in defiance of a district collective bargaining agreement which requires her to be given clerical work comparable to her original position, she alleged.

Meanwhile, an initial district investigation into whether she violated the FWSA failed to clear her of wrongdoing, escalating her case to a professional standards committee. In March, that committee recommended that Norton receive a 10-day suspension, but then-Superintendent Licata and current Superintendent Howard Hepburn overruled that decision and recommended termination instead.

The Broward County School Board was scheduled to consider her termination at a meeting on Tuesday, but that agenda item was pulled a few days before. No explanation for the last-minute change was given.

Nevertheless, Norton and her husband, Gary, attended the meeting where Norton proceeded to sing her own praises. "I don’t have to tell you about all the heart that I bring to the Monarch High School community. The public statements of support that you have received on my behalf tell the story of who I am and what I have meant to countless students, colleagues, and families at Monarch High School," she gushed.

She also congratulated herself on how well she has handled the investigation into her alleged FWSA violation. "For 203 days, I have been forthright and honest," said the woman who calls her son a girl, "and have not been treated with a shred of respect or simple decency."

She even cast herself as the "hero" in her son's transgender drama. "It’s all right if I’m the villain in [the administration's] story because I am the hero in my daughter's story," she averred.

Norton also spent considerable time explaining how her son was "flourishing" at Monarch High while masquerading as a girl. "I saw the light in my daughter’s eyes gleam with future plans of organizing and attending prom, participating and leading senior class traditions, speaking at graduation, and going off to college with the confidence and joy that any student like her would after a successful and enriching high school experience," she claimed.

That "light was extinguished" when her son was "outed" as transgender last fall, Norton insisted. "Not one person in the District who is responsible for her checked-in on her safety or well-being," she complained. "They claim to care about all students but they didn’t care about my child."

Norton's fate with the district is now scheduled to be considered at the school board meeting next month. Her son, whose identity has not been released, currently attends virtual school.

Norton also has two older children. Their genders are unknown.

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'I don't think that scientific literature supports that': Nonbinary author says male advantage over women in sports not proven



A nonbinary writer said that "broad-based" restrictions of males in female athletic competitions were likely unfair because scientific literature has not yet proven that men have athletic advantages over women at all times.

The writer was commenting on the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, which recently voted to ban transgender athletes from competing in sports against the opposite sex.

The 20-0 vote limited participating in female sports to those who were born female. The NAIA also ruled that athletes who are on hormone therapy as part of gender transitioning may also not compete in those competitions.

Katie Barnes, who claims to be nonbinary and uses "they/them/their" pronouns, appeared on CNN's "The Lead" with Jake Tapper to discuss the recent rule change.

"I think it is reflective of the times that we are in," Barnes said of the policy. "The last three or four years, we have seen most policy updates, when it comes to transgender athletes, be reflective of restriction and be more restrictive policy."

Host Tapper then stated that there is a "narrative" that "transgender female athletes have an advantage" over actual women in sports. Tapper added that that is the reason "men and women generally compete in separate, gendered categories," because it is not "particularly competitive for men."

"Do studies support that?" Tapper asked.

Barnes' defense appeared to be that while there could be certain advantages for men when competing against women, it is not fair to create all-encompassing rules to keep men out of female competitions.

"The reality is that from a scientific perspective, we know that there are differences in sexes, and we know that the differences do tend to lead to athletic performance differences, as well," Barnes replied. "However, when we look at broad-based restriction at all levels of sport, it's very challenging to say that that is scientifically supported in all cases."

"Something that may be appropriate for swimming does not necessarily apply to basketball. When it comes to individual sports versus team sports and as well as level of competition," the author added.

Disgusting. CNN's Jake Tapper brought in a non-binary ESPN writer (who uses "they"/"them" pronouns) to denounce the #NAIA's new policy to protect women's sports from biological men.\n\nThe guest, Katie Barnes, claims that it's not scientifically proven that biological men would\u2026
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Barnes went on to claim that it remained unclear if "transgender women have an advantage in all sports at all times," regardless of medical procedures. "I don't think that scientific literature supports that, at this time."

As footage of Barnes' interview circulated online, the ESPN writer fell back into the position that no clear opinion was given during the CNN segment.

"Me: I don't think it's right for me to say whether or not a policy is fair. Them: Look at this they/them reporter condemning a policy," Barnes wrote on X.

Me: I don't think it's right for me to say whether or not a policy is fair. \n\nThem: Look at this they/them reporter condemning a policy.
— (@)

At the same time, Barnes has published the book "Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates." Multiple reviews have revealed that the book discusses "the difference between using testosterone to medically transition and using it for competitive advantage" in sports.

According to a review by NBC News, the book also stated that there is no scientific or empirical evidence to support categorical bans in sports on people who believe they are the opposite gender. At the same time, Barnes said in the book that there should be some restrictions for collegiate-level sports (or higher) for individual competitions.

However, Barnes also said there should be a pathway for all transgender athletes to compete in the category of their choice.

The above sentiments are quite a distance from the claim it was not "right" for Barnes to state whether or not a policy was fair.

it\u2019s happening! My book, Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates is out TODAY! Get a copy, tell a friend, tell 10. I\u2019m so excited this is out in the world and really proud to share it with all of you.
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NAIA unanimously votes to ban transgender athletes in women's sports, LGBTQ+ groups are outraged



A national college organization voted unanimously to ban transgender athletes in sports on Monday.

The Council of Presidents on the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics voted 20-0 to expand their previous restriction on postseason competition to all competitions.

"We know there are a lot of different opinions out there," NAIA president Jim Carr said to CBS Sports.

"For us, we believed our first responsibility was to create fairness and competition in the NAIA," Carr added. "We also think it aligns with the reasons Title IX was created. You're allowed to have separate but equal opportunities for women to compete."

The new policy restricts athletes from competing in female sports to those who were born female. It also restricts those competitions from athletes who have begun masculinizing hormone therapy as part of gender transitioning.

"It's important to know that the male sports are open to anyone," Carr said.

Council of Presidents chair and St. Ambrose University president Amy Novak explained the reasons behind the vote.

"The task force spent nearly two years reviewing research, meeting with experts to better understand potential policy challenges, and obtaining feedback from multiple membership groups," said Novak.

"With this policy, the NAIA has made its best effort to allow for the inclusion of transgender athletes in any way which does not impact the competitive fairness of women's sports," she added. "Our priority is to protect the integrity of women's athletics and allow them equal opportunity to succeed."

National Women's Law Center special counsel Shiwali Patel expressed outrage against the vote.

"This is unacceptable and blatant discrimination that not only harms trans, nonbinary and intersex individuals, but limits the potential of all athletes," said Patel in a statement on the website. "It's important to recognize that these discriminatory policies don't enhance fairness in competition. Instead, they send a message of exclusion and reinforce dangerous stereotypes that harm all women."

The sports LGBTQ+ organization Athlete Ally also registered its outrage against the NAIA.

“This policy is a failure of leadership by NAIA and marks a sad day for women’s sports,” read a statement from the group. “We hope other sport governing bodies don’t also succumb to political pressure, and instead fight for a future of sports where everyone belongs.”

Patel went on to demand that the Biden administration clarify Title IX rules in order to classify transgender bans as unlawful.

The NAIA is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and governs athletic competitions at 241 small and private colleges.

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