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NCAA Transgender Policy “Forced Androgen Reduction” with no supporting facts, science or evidence to support their policy.

Met with great sadness and concern for athlete safety,  the NCAA’s announcement of September 13th, 2011 regarding policy development around the projected assumption of “inclusionary” practices and protocol for transgendered male and female athletes in US intercollegiate and high school sport. Many academics were taken back, how a policy of such a large institution such as the NCAA could ever develop and write a policy with NO FACTS let alone NO SUPPORTING SCIENCE OR EVIDENCE.  All to familiar as this is exactly what the International Olympic Committee [IOC] did in 2003 in development of the Stockholm Consensus regarding transitioned women in participation and in International and Olympic sporting events. Which misled sport, sport organizations and media around the world. Leading to projected ignorance, which has led to the most humiliating and catastrophic circumstances for so many women in international sport. Never actually testing one single  transitioned high performance athlete.

This is NOT an LGB – T issue, nor is it a transgender issue, gender is everyone’s issue. The very fact the NCAA has developed and published such a policy, targeting a specific “type” of woman and or man, isolating them speaks volume how little the NCAA understands, let alone those hired to consult them.

Androgens are a hormone property of both women and men. It is not just a male hormone. Women’s ovaries are males testicles, where the majority of testosterone is developed for both (sexes). Do to the influx of the Y chromosome after 10-12 weeks of gustation, as we ALL start off as female the Y chromosome signals a rise in the production of testosterone, thus creating common male sex characteristics. Important to note, we as human-beings require testosterone as the very foundation of our bodily functions. As science illustrates, like men, high performance female athletes have elevated testosterone levels min. 4-6 times greater then non-athletic women. This is caused by years of training, as recovery signals the pituitary gland to the ovaries, to produce more androgens to assist in body recovery and muscle development. A similar response by the hypothalamus occurs signaling higher production of the  natural human growth hormone [HGH] too.
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NYTimes – April 24th, 2011 – Redefining the Sexes in Unequal Terms
Author: Prof. Alice Dreger, clinical medical humanities and bioethics.
Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Most importantly and keeping this simple, the World Anti-Doping Agency[WADA] in the anti-doping testing program does NOT test for female and or male natural developing serum bio-testosterone levels and or HGH levels. All they test for is irregularities in levels, and for synthetic androgen and or HGH compounds in the blood.

WADA could NOT tell you what the serum bio-testosterone levels for women is, thus too if they could though testosterone is available in a person(s) individual body higher or lower then their competing athlete and colleagues, the androgen receptors is unique in each person, and use it more or less from one and other. A number, it they did have that measurement, it depends on the individual athletes body and how it uses it.

Like the men, we too take advantage of women’s higher then normal levels, which is part and parcel of their physiology traits together that make them exceptional.
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The NCAA Press Release States:

A trans male (female to male) student-athlete who has received a medical exception for treatment with testosterone for gender transition may compete on a men’s team but is no longer eligible to compete on a women’s team without changing the team status to a mixed team. A mixed team is eligible only for men’s championships.

A trans female (male to female) student-athlete being treated with testosterone suppression medication for gender transition may continue to compete on a men’s team but may not compete on a women’s team without changing it to a mixed team status until completing one calendar year of documented testosterone-suppression treatment.
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When knowing the facts, these statements are IMPOSSIBLE and in-fact UNTRUE. Moreover, why anyone would suppress anyone’s androgen levels in the first place is ridiculous, as there are dozens of reasons why athletes male and female athletes out perform one athlete over an other. Usain Bolt, Mike Phelps and Serena Williams are great examples of this who dominate their competitors. Very little to do with androgen levels, but part of a combination excessive physiological and biological variables. Not pinning their performances to just one hormone – ANDROGENS.

Furthermore, which I(we) found interesting was that the NCAA feels androgens are the problem and determining factor of (male performance over women).  Which leads to the bigger question when you suggest you want to suppress a students levels of androgens, as we explained above and is critical to this discussion, you have NO CLUE WHAT LEVEL/NUMBER YOU WOULD SUPPRESS AN ATHLETES ANDROGEN LEVELS? As well, could not give either for what purpose and or reason? Too ensure like the IOC has done, they are unable to compete in their chosen sport, let alone well and to their very best ability? Moreover,  impossible to regulate such a process, of which leading international organizations such as WADA are just starting to do through the TUE and Passport system, and with the right expertise.

What the NCAA needs to understand, you are forcing a young person into “forced menopause.”

Low testosterone levels parallels symptoms that would be seen with individuals (women and men) who suffer from Hypogondism which are distinguishingly different from an normal aging adult going though gradual menopause over a 20 year period. The effects are;
- Weight Gain – Metabolism issues
- Losing Muscle – decreased endurance and becoming weak
- Fatigue – (Muscular, respiratory and psychological)
- Muscle Atrophe – Unable to develop muscle, let alone retain muscle
- Amemia – Red blood cell count decreases – less ability to carry oxygen to large muscle groups. Body actually suffocates during high performance activity
- Depression and Anxiety
- Poor Memory
*Treated through Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT)

The NCAA is setting themselves up for Human Rights issues, let alone how scientifically and socially unethical this policy is. For the very purpose of sport participation, without any facts/science willing to suppress a young person(s) androgen levels into oblivion (of which you have no safe markers) to fit into a man-made system which not one person fits into, with no knowledge, and or understanding the physical and physiological impact to an individual athlete.

For reasons above is reckless and medically and socially unethical. I can give over a dozen international examples of outcomes onto women athletes causing, global humiliation, poverty and attempted suicide do to poor, misinformed and unnecessary gender policies.

Policies like gender testing (1967), the Stockholm Consensus (2003), hyperandrogenism regulations (2011) and the most recent NCAA policy  are developed tools of oppression towards women specifically and not designed on fact and or science supported, but speculation and have only led to profound catastrophic circumstances for so many athletes around the world over (4) decades. Creating tools/policies to control women’s gender and athletic development and performances, where for men, there are NO MAN-MADE IMPOSED LIMITS OR BARRIERS BASED ON ONES SEX.

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO LEARN?  HOW MANY WOMEN HAVE TO BE HURT OR EVEN KILLED BEFORE THIS IS STOPPED?

Getting educated and moving away from de-criminatory and exclusionary practices (which the NCAA calls inclusion) and development of such polices as recently
the NCAA has done and as many experts greatly surprised with ALL the NCAA’s resources available, once educated and understand the the truths, there
was never a need for policy, but more time spent on education and part of the greater issues of diversity of which each one of us are part of ONE TEAM.

Gender in sport is EVERYONE’S ISSUE!

Published September 2011

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Immediate Response to  IAAF approving the adoption of new rules and regulations governing the eligibility of females with hyperandrogenism to take part in women’s competition:

The Guardian “IAAF approves new rules on hyperandrogenism”
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Press Association

IOC Press Release – IOC addresses eligibility of female athletes with hyperandrogenism – Adopts the Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport (CAIS) Recommendations.

The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today confirmed the need to set up clear rules to determine the eligibility of female athletes with hperandrogenism in female competitions, starting with the Olympic Games in London next year.

“Important to Note: This statement by the IOC is a public omission that “gender testing” of female athletes was never needed. Many athletes in the last several years so physically and publicly violated (human rights/discrimination) by gender testing which proves nothing, could have been so simply dealt with as simply as a blood test within the anti-doping model.”

IOC Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport (CAIS) Recommendations:
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Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport (CAIS) Recommendations:
The Guiding Principles for Inclusion in Sport “Click Here”

An incredible moment (6) years of hard work and amazing support from experts around the world and support of Canadian Sport leaders made it possible.  We will never see one more athlete in modern sport history receive such harm by failed policy as it pertains to ones individual diversity and or identity.

Published April 5th, 2011

YouTube – Mianne Bagger – Tournament in Spain 2010/Talks about gender challenges in sport

Entrevistas 425 : Mianne Bagger

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Published March 29th, 2011

An approach to the biological, historical and psychological repercussions of gender verification in top level competitions

Martínez-Patiño et al. / Gender verification in top level competitions JOURNAL OF HUMAN SPORT & EXERCISE – VOLUME 5 | ISSUE 3 | 2010 |

MARÍA JOSÉ MARTÍNEZ-PATIÑO1, COVADONGA MATEOS-PADORNO2, AURORA MARTÍNEZ-VIDAL3, ANA MARÍA SÁNCHEZ MOSQUERA1, JOSÉ LUIS GARCÍA SOIDÁN1, MARÍA DEL PINO DÍAZ PEREIRA3, CARLOS FRANCISCO TOURIÑO GONZÁLEZ1
1Faculty of Science Education and Sport, University of Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain.
2Department of Physical Education, University of Las Palmas, Campus Universitario de Tafira, Spain
3Special Didactics Department. Faculty of Science Education. University of Vigo. Orense, Spain

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Published March 22nd, 2011

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Olympics Wise Up On Gender Testing, Finally
Jeremy Hsu
Originally Published August 5th, 2008

“No competitive advantage

Good intentions did not turn up any imposters during gender screening. Instead, the gender tests punished athletes with disorders that affected their sex chromosomes or genitalia appearance.

“It was unfair not to allow them to compete, particularly since there’s no plausible reason to think they would have had an advantage,” Simpson said.”

“I lost friends, my fiancé, hope and energy,” said Martinez-Patino in a 2005 editorial in the journal Lancet. “But I knew that I was a woman and that my genetic difference gave me no unfair physical advantage.”

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Lancet 2005; 366: S38 María José Martínez-Patiño – Personal Account A woman tried and tested

As well…

An approach to the biological, historical and psychological repercussions of gender verification in top level competitions
Martínez-Patiño et al. / Gender verification in top level competitions JOURNAL OF HUMAN SPORT & EXERCISE – VOLUME 5 | ISSUE 3 | 2010 |

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Genel when referring to Santhi’s case at the Asian Games December 2006 in Doha:
“My suspicion is that she has one of these rare disorders of sexual development,” Genel said. “The way it was handled with all the publicity was totally inappropriate. Part of the rationale to come up with concrete procedures was to avoid this.”

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Published March 18th, 2011

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The University of Western Ontario Medical Journal

Gender verification testing: Necessary for the integrity of international athletics, or inexcusable breach of personal privacy?

Colin Meyer Macaulay (Meds 2012), Moska Hamidi (Meds 2013),
and Karline Treurnicht-Naylor (Meds 2013)
Faculty reviewer: Dr. Cheril Clarson, Department of Medicine, UWO

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Volume 79, Number 2 – Endocrinology
Published Spring 2010

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Published March 18th, 2011

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CBC’s The Passionate Eye – Too Fast to Be a Woman
Wednesday March 9 at 10 pm ET/PT & Saturday March 12 at 7 pm ET on CBC News Network

As Caster Semenya achieved her dream of winning the 800m World Championship in 2009, rumours of a failed gender test spread. A vicious and voyeuristic media storm erupted and Caster’s triumph was turned into public humiliation. With exclusive access, this film follows the shy teenager from a remote South African village as she struggles to come to terms with what has happened and fights to return to competition.

With the support of her family, and a top legal team, Caster takes the fight to the IAAF, the world’s leading body for the sport of athletics. As international lawyers and eminent scientists thrash out what it means to be a woman, the 19 year old at the centre of the storm wants only to run. A heart-rending and uplifting story of a young woman who overcame incredible odds to become the world’s best, only to find that her biggest challenge still lay ahead.

Produced and Directed by MAXX GINNANE, Rise Films Ltd., for the BBC.

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As a personal note, the Canadian connection, and Canada’s commitment and engagement to stopping the horrible acts carried out by false developed policy against women leading to HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE AND RAPE by the IOC/IAAF over several decades, touching on the extreme simple and vulnerability of the women, Caster, Santhi Soundarajan and other great women and athletes who lives have been devastated do to the “social ignorance” of the IOC/IAAF as it relates to gender.  The women, coming from rural areas of their countries – and the viciousness and vulnerability to an athlete is massive, with little to no recoil with those who committed the harm in the first place. Now with the understanding, their policies and practices prove nothing other then great harm.

It is important to note with all the sensational reporting that created a hyperbole of hysteria of a global proportion in international sport never seen in our history. Experts and international sport those engaged behind the scenes for the 11 month period recognize the IOC/IAAF had committed tragically the worst human rights abuse and rape of young healthy women in international sport history.

We have ethical protocol, set standards and guidelines through our universal anti-doping program citing the highest standards, to protect the very identities of athletes who are using drugs and other techniques to cheat the sports system. In-fact, millions of dollars are paid to the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) by governments around the world as part of the commitment to the Olympic family. But when it comes to a person(s) gender, the most private and very essence of a human being, we project globally – The IAAF goes even one step further Friday September 11th, 2009, STATEMENT ON CASTER SEMENYA, creating a Press Release of her very personal matter making it the worlds business.  Where in-fact in the end, sadly none of it was true.  Only to be seen as furthering the tragedy, moreover the incompetence, lacking ethics and accountability of the IAAF and IOC, and assuring Caster the athletes privacy and her protection.

The production touches on IOC/IAAF did not want to see this go to court, as it would open pandora’s box, regarding gender testing and the history and impact on dozens of women, over several decades. The hesitation of Caster’s reinstatement back into World Athletics had nothing in-fact to with Caster. But all to do with the IOC/IAAF concerns of the public awareness in-fact what they had done to her and women before her. Hence the (2) line press release by the IAAF the first week of Tuesday July 6th, 2010, releasing Caster into competition anywhere in the world, without any explanation from the IAAF.

Logistically for the IOC and IAAF, a public relations nightmare was about to unravel for them. Ironically, if there is any found humour in any of this, sadly they got caught up in their own policies and practices around gender, gender verification testing and Stockholm Consensus, committing the offenses themselves.

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We society, sport leaders and media let it happen, thinking the IOC and IAAF new what they were doing. In-fact, we accepted and we felt we could punish the athletes and felt we even had a right to do it, for (their) normal human difference due to our own ignorance.  In-fact like so many athletes, Caster being one of them deserved it!

It is the IOC and IAAF that need to be punished and held accountable now, not the athletes. This is a man-made issue at the highest level of international sport.

THAT’S ABOUT TO CHANGE… AND CANADA IS LEADING THE CHARGE! AWESOME!

This production put a smile on my face, and to know having such amazing effect and reaching those and making a difference for those around the world.

HUMAN DIVERSITY IN EACH ONE OF US IS TO BE CELEBRATED!

I don’t say this very often as there has been few well-done productions that articulate the issues accurately around gender in sport –

Bravo CBC and BBC! GO CANADA GO!

We will TOGETHER stop this, and assure safety and inclusion for all to participate in sport and in society, no matter ones individual diversity.  This will only happen through a collective effort and education on how we understand NORMAL human development and what “diversity” really means.

Caster will be the last woman this will ever happen too!

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Published March 13th, 2011

Transgender Student-Athletes and Sex-Segregated Sport: Developing Policies of Inclusion for Intercollegiate and Interscholastic Athletics

Erin Buzuvis
Western New England College School of Law – July 20, 2010

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Abstract:

Educators have long recognized the physical, psychological, social, and educational benefits that sport provides to students. Yet today, the barriers to athletic participation that exclude the increasingly visible population of transgender students are largely ignored. With a few notable exceptions, most governing bodies of scholastic and collegiate sports have yet to meaningfully consider how to incorporate transgender students into the existing athletic structure, which for the most part divides male and female athletes into separate programs. Many athletes and sport organizers assume that transgender athletes have an unfair advantage when they compete in sports consistent with their gender identity, whether due to residual, natural physical traits associated with their natal sex (in the case of male-born, female-identified athletes), or with the hormone therapy transition (in the case of female-born, male-identified athletes). At the same time, transgender students may be excluded, discouraged, or simply feel uncomfortable participating in athletics programs that match the sex of their birth but which are inconsistent with their gender identity and gender expression. As a result, for students whose gender identity is inconsistent with their natal sex, the entire sex-segregated world of athletics may be formally or effectively off limits.

A few associations of educational institutions have responded to this problem by adopting policies governing transgender athlete participation. After describing, contrasting, and evaluating these policies, this Article concludes that the best policies are those that, as a general rule, allow athletes to participate in sex-segregated sport in a manner consistent with their gender identity rather than their natal sex. In support of this conclusion, this paper will show that neither law nor science gives clear, dispositive guidance to policymakers seeking to balance the right of transgender athletes to participate with the perceived fairness concerns related to their cross-sex participation. Thus, educational considerations should play a primary role in creating participation policies. These considerations include the physical, academic, and socio-emotional benefits to individual athletes as well as the value that diversity brings to teams, schools, and communities. To best serve these goals, which educators claim as the basis for educationally-supported athletics in the first place, policies governing secondary school and college athletics should allow athletes to participate in a manner consistent with their genuine gender identity. Any exceptions or limitations to this default rule must be made with educational values in mind, and must be narrowly tailored to demonstrable, concrete concerns about fairness.

Published February 8th, 2011

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Dear Mr. Dolan,

I have a couple of questions for you – I was quite interested in your response to CNN – reading over morning coffee.

You expressed;
“He told CNN: “It is easy for Mianne Bagger to have those views because she was well-established on her European tour. The view from the top always looks rosier.”

Could you explain, how one Mianne is established in the European Tour? She in-fact broke through (2) tours to participate as a female in professional golf. As well have been working with ALL tours over the last couple of years very progressively -

Could you as well explain your comment when you spoke about Mianne;
“The view from the top always looks rosier”

You never knowing Mianne, moreover her life experience to over the last (8) years what she has experienced and the level of hate she has had to overcome to play the game she is so passionate about. I would suggest you use GOOGLE as a starting point, before you make such comment;

“The ‘female at birth’ ruling had been set in stone and despite Miss Bagger’s good intentions over the years, nothing had been changed and there was no indication that things would have been changed,” added Dolan.

Yet again you are incorrect – and have been working with all (5) tours on this, and Anti-doping… Mianne has made enormous progress for golf, and is why she is so supported and loved by ALL tours, including the LPGA. As well an educator and well supported amongst national, International, Olympic and Anti-doping circles… Engaging  ALL sport around diversity and normal human difference which impacts each one of us -

So it is clear, as a collective we are working with International sport, Olympic, International and anti-doping partners US and European meeting/collaborating over the next few months to bring global change, led by Canada. This will no longer be an issue in sport as the goals are focused for 2011, prior to London Olympics in 2012. As 2012, will have the most diverse participation in any games history to date.

This is what Mianne Bagger has done – at great risk to her personally and her professional career. She unselfishly has sacrificed herself for the betterment of others.

She(our) focus is much different then yours and your clients. We made clear to you several times, we are NOT the same nor do we support your agenda, and clearly it is personal, and NOT reflective of greater interest of sport, women and of diversity.

Continue reading ‘For Immediate Release: Response Letter – Chris Dolan, Lana Lawless lawyer – CNN’s article – Transsexual golfers prove drivers for change’

Public Health Agency of Canada
Questions & Answers: Gender Identity in Schools

First published in 1994 and revised in 2003 and 2008, the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education (Guidelines) were developed to assist professionals working in the area of health promotion and sexual health education in programming which supports positive sexual health outcomes. Feedback from a national evaluation of the Guidelines indicated the need for companion documents to provide more detailed information,,evidence and resources on specific issues. In response, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) identified a ‘question and answer’ format as an appropriate way to provide information to educators and other professional working with school aged populations. The Questions and Answers styled documents are intended to cover a range of topics reflecting current issues in sexual health education with school-aged populations, are evidence-based and use inclusive language as reflected in the Guidelines.

This document, Questions & Answers: Gender Identity in Schools, is intended to address the most commonly asked questions regarding the gender identity of youth in school settings.  The goal of this resource is to assist educators, curriculum and program planners, school administrators, policy-makers and health professionals in the creation of supportive and healthy school environments for youth struggling with issues of gender identity.
Revised Document Published – April 8th, 2010

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Congratulations to Michael Whan (Chair) LPGA, Athletes, Coaches and LET Touring Professional Mianne Bagger.

A huge thank-you to Michael for his leadership and the LPGA community for their courage and commitment to facilitate greater awareness and social change, that is dynamically occurring in international sport around the world on how we as a ONE society TOGETHER understanding our individual diversities, cultural, social and physical differences which embraces each one of us.  Understanding as a global society, we have way more in common then we do difference. No matter the colour of ones skin, culture, sexuality, gender and or physical needs, that each one of us is unique and special.  As today, was yet another example by many around the world in our global system taking steps to removing the boxes and stereotypes that divide us as a society and taking a moment to understand and appreciate each person(s) diversity – as each one of us has a story, no greater or less than anyone else as part of the greater NORMAL.

The LPGA recognizes they are not alone, but has become part of a greater family today within international sport, committed to sport and greater social inclusion. Moreover understanding the power of sport off the playing field, on how far reaching it can be to bring greater social awareness and change effecting millions of lives so positively around the world.

WELCOME LPGA TO THE GLOBAL TEAM!

One other comment I feel is fitting personally, as I would like to dedicate this moment to game of golf’s pioneer, Ms. Mianne Bagger. Who since 2002, courageously on her own stepped into the world of professional golf as the pioneer on her own with no support.  With absolute grace, composure, professionalism and leadership, Mianne  has brought great understanding and embrace, bring  change to policy in (4) of the (5) professional tours since she became a professional.  Through Mianne’s career, she has educated and created a language where athletes around the game of golf, other professional sports as well sport international leaders, embrace her for what she has done and given of herself to the game of golf and international sport, to drive social change on how we understand diversity.

There are few people I know or have met like her in my lifetime.  A true champion in every respect, recognizing here accomplishments and legacy to the game of golf will one be her great game play on the course, but as well off the course, the lasting effects and greatest contribution will be the laying of the foundation for young athletes that come behind her, that their individual diversity will not prevent them from seeking their dreams  and participating in the game of golf or any other sport.

Janice Moodie LPGA Tour player said in a Golf Digest Interview on December 1st, proceeding the vote;

“The girl on the Ladies European Tour [Mianne Bagger]  is really nice, and I don’t think there seems to be an issue over there,”

Mianne, has been a courageous face and professional for the game of golf at every level around the world, carrying and respecting the game she so passionately loves and those within it, and continues to play as a touring professional.

I am honored to know her, and to work with her professionally and continue to bring greater education, language and universal awareness around diversity in international sport around the world.

Brilliants in sport occurs in many ways – and this is on of those moments. Congratulations and thank-you ALL for your courage, expertise and commitment to social ethics and inclusion, and a sports system that properly reflects our dynamic, diverse and ever changing global society.

Professional Regards,

Kristen Worley
Canadian High Performance Track Cyclist

Lawless’ Legal Case Against the LPGA “Appalling”. NOT a “transgender” issue, but one of Education, Language and Social Ethics.

I woke this morning, deeply disturbed by what I was reading in USA Today titled;
“Lana Lawless’ suit puts gender in sports in spotlight again”.

Sadly, what journalist Douglas Robson wrote is NOT factual and untrue.  There is great work going on behind the scenes internationally. Saying this, since Mr. Robson felt he could use my name and Mianne Bagger’s and write about us which is also untrue (not thinking the impact on us to be presumed associated let alone how we felt about it – god forbid you actually ask the athletes), as neither of us are “transgendered”. Furthermore do NOT approve of Lana Lawless’ efforts to sue a private organization such as the LPGA because she wishes to play in women’s golf in the United States.

In the real world it does not work this way. We live in a world of give-and-take, of which Mianne and I have worked tirelessly over many years with sports leaders and experts around the world behind the scenes with the leaderships of Canada to drive universal change through research and language, of which diversity effect’s each person as EQUALS.

This is a continuum of a much greater social ethics issue, NOT a “transgender” issue as is being presented and great example yet again, of our societies inability to understand ‘NORMAL’ human difference because of lacking education, to appreciate each one of is diverse either it be cultural, social or physical, or a combination there of which effects each one of us universally around the world.

Working behind the scenes, with international leaders from around the world get this very clearly. But it is incidents and articles just like this that is a proven example of how hatred and violence towards those most vulnerable in society are portrayed, and that because of our societies lacking understanding impacts their lives greatly.

I want to make very clear;

“I do NOT support Lana Lawless, as you do not sue a private organization because you feel you deserve something and suggesting this is a “human right”. The world does not work that way – This is an education issue, NOT a human right issue. EFFECTIVE CHANGE comes through EDUCATION and GREATER LANGUAGE, bringing together expertise with a broader brush approach, as DIVERSITY effect’s each one of us EQUALLY –

You get a lot more bees with honey.

It is being presumed we are the “SAME” in the media because one has transitioned in their life.  It is like saying because I was a breast cancer survivor as was another girlfriend of mine, one that our experience was the same dealing with it, and that our lives are the same as well too.  That is just not so for anyone. Moreover, Ms. Lawless and Ms. Richard’s  are (2) generations older than either me or Mianne. Our experiences are very very different in EVERY way.

Our goals are to create awareness and support of young people and their families to help empower and educate to create opportunities, education and language as equal participants through extensive leadership bringing global stakeholders together in and out sport to change the NORMAL of greater society which effects each one of us.

IT TAKES TEAM WORK BY EVERYONE.”

Continue reading ‘Lawless’ Legal Case Against the LPGA “Appalling”. NOT a “transgender” issue, but one of Education, Language and Social Ethics.’

Breaking the Silence – IOC/IAAF the Biggest Threat to Women’s Participation and Growth in International Sport – Gender, Diversity and Social Ethics in International Sport.

This in response to Stephen Wilson’s of the Associated Press [AP] on November 19th, 2010 titled; IOC, IAAF finalizing rules on gender cases.

*This made my heart ache to read this article, and to hear from athletes around the world of what Ljungqvist has said and presented in the AP. Hearing from Sports and Legal experts just aghast and lost for words by what he has done after so many warnings.

In response direct to Mr. Wilson’s article, it is unrepresentative of the truth of the issues around gender in sport and gender testing. Though consistent in the last year of the International Olympic Committee [IOC] and International Association of Athletics Federation [IAAF] around these issues, moreover consistent over several decades of the miss handling of gender in sport, thus (25) years of Arne Ljungqvist failure en-fact, decades of human right abuse and psychological and physical rape of high performance female athletes, most recently as it was determined with young Caster Semenya by the IOC and IAAF, August 2009. Of which it was determined, Caster gender in-fact was never and question, and that in-fact the she had been raped, leading to human rights abuse by the IAAF of which they have been trying to cover up ever since.

Continue reading ‘Breaking the Silence – IOC/IAAF the Biggest Threat to Women’s Participation and Growth in International Sport – Gender, Diversity and Social Ethics in International Sport…/’