Today is XX, Real Women's Day. Here's how to celebrate

Happy Real Ladies Day!

What does this mean? Let's go back to March 2023. Some of you may not have known. March is traditionally known as Women's History Month, an annual event that recognizes and celebrates the unique contributions of women throughout history.

Growing up in a family of athletes, ESPN was always on in our house. One day last March, when I was barely paying attention to the TV, I heard one of ESPN's favorite female commentators discussing swimming. This was a rare topic on the network. It was part of a Women's History Month special. I got interested. Which swimmers were they going to focus on? Katie Ledecky? One of the Walsh sisters? Kate Douglas?

No, networks began promoting “women” who overcame enormous persecution to accomplish the seemingly impossible of winning a national title. Of course, they were using this special to honor Leah Thomas, who swam three years ago and was average at best in her original category.

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But ESPN wasn't the only one being ideologically captured.

Hershey's featured a man, Faye Johnston, as the face of its International Women's Day campaign, “Her for She.”

The White House, particularly Jill Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, presented the man, Alba Rueda, with the International Women of Courage Award.

In 2022, USA Today named Rachel Levine, President Biden's nominee to serve as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health, as one of its “Women of the Year.”

Do you see the trend yet, or shall we continue? The message I received loud and clear was: All the best women are men.

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So we started brainstorming. How can we get back to respecting real women when they should be valued? I remembered October 10th. It is October 10th, when it was demoted to ○○ in Roman numerals. If you took Biology 101, you probably remember that the chromosome that makes a human female is XX.

Thus, the real Women's Day, celebrated on October 10 (XX), was born.

Last year, Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) introduced the following resolution on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives:

Designate October 10th (XX) as “Real Women's Day” to recognize the fundamental biological differences between men and women; Recognize the emotional pain, loss, denial of opportunity, and trauma inflicted on biological women who have lost their lives. Sports.

Since last year's first Real Women's Day, I have traveled to more than 50 college campuses across the country to educate students, athletes, and administrators about how women are being harmed under the guise of “progress.” I've been talking to him.

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I listened as they shared with me their own experiences with the movement and how it negatively affected them. These experiences serve as a reminder that what my teammates and I faced at the 2022 D1 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships was not unique.

Last week on XX, I spoke on the Penn State campus, and it didn't go without a hitch. In the end, the university canceled my talk a few days before it was scheduled, so I showed up with a bullhorn and spoke on the public lawn.

This year, I will be speaking at Caltech's College of Statistics. I'm going to insert myself into the belly of the beast, but it's the beast who needs to hear the message the most.

The Riley Gaines Center has deployed activity kits to 48 states. These kits include baseballs, baseball nets, and speed guns. For a chance to win a prize, people passing by can throw the ball as fast as they can into the net, where someone records their speed in miles per hour. This is a more interactive way to express the point I've been making to my face that men and women are biologically different.

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It's only fitting that XX-XY Athletics, the clothing company founded by former Levi's executive Jennifer Sey, would announce its first Courage Wins recipients on Real Women's Day.

This is a first-of-its-kind celebration of female athletes who have shown immense courage and leadership by saying “enough is enough” and speaking the simple truth that there are only two genders and you can't change them. This is the first monetary award. Each of the four winners will receive a $5,000 scholarship.

To be clear, it's not just sports where women's unique existence is denied. It's inside a sorority. Remember Artemis Langford from the University of Wyoming who joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter? Girls were promised sisterhood, but instead got a brother they didn't want.

It's inside the prison. I spoke with female prisoners who were sexually assaulted by male prisoners who identified themselves as women and entered women's facilities. I have talked to women who have become pregnant by these men. I spoke to women who currently have AIDS/HIV. Because AIDS/HIV is prevalent in the men's facilities where these men are being transferred.

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Our language is being manipulated to be more “gender-inclusive.” The word “woman” is unpleasant. You are the one who gives birth, the one who has the cervix, the one who owns the uterus, the one who menstruates, the one who bleeds, the one who makes eggs, or any other meaningless phrase that reduces women to biological functions and abilities. Have you ever tried using it?

In my opinion, the stupidest and most redundant language change of them all is to refer to ourselves (or any human being) as “biological” male or female. This is a way of unconsciously forcing society to accept that when there is no “non-biological” alternative to man or woman. We ask that you use clear, gender-based language, because people crave it.

It is clear that women are being erased, even if men are winning awards or accessing once gender-segregated spaces. real women.

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We encourage everyone, not just women, to join us on Real Women's Day to celebrate who we are and stand firm against ideologies that seek to erase our identities. . Please post about it. Please talk about it. We have arrived at a situation where this absurdity has become the norm. Because we, as a whole, have not done these things.

Don't be afraid to speak out loud when they ask us to be silent, and don't back down when reality is at stake. For more information, including campus visits and Title IX training, visit rileygainescenter.org.

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