Posts Tagged ‘Mayes Middleton’

Texas Outlaws Men In Women’s College Sports

Tuesday, August 8th, 2023

Many U.S. states have outlawed men from participating in women’s college sports. (An absurdity that would never have to be outlawed in sane times, but social justice and transexual madness has rendered this an insane society.) Now Texas has officially joined their ranks.

In a ceremony at the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame in Denton, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law the Save Women’s Sports Act. The new law is designed to protect women’s collegiate sports and competitions from men masquerading as women.

“We’re here because women’s sports are threatened across the entire country,” said Abbott. “Some women are being forced to play against biological men. … College records that women set are being threatened. Women’s sports, women’s records, women’s teams, women’s locker rooms all are jeopardized when biological men are allowed to compete for those titles, for those teams, for those records.”

Now, according to Abbott, “the legacy of women’s sports is safeguarded by the law for generations to come.”

The legislation, Senate Bill 15 by State Sen. Mayes Middleton (R–Galveston), bans Texas’ public universities and colleges from allowing biological men to compete against women.

Brady Gray, president of Texas Family Project, told Texas Scorecard he was “proud to be present for the historic signing of SB 15.”

“We are thankful for the work of Riley Gaines and others who helped champion this historic legislation to save women’s sports,” said Gray.

Gaines, a former collegiate champion swimmer, was forced to compete against a biological male and even lost championship titles due to his biological advantage. She was also forced to change with him in a locker room.

“This new law will protect the integrity of women’s sports,” said Gaines during the ceremony.

“It’s pretty amazing that this law is even necessary,” she continued, stating it’s obvious that “men are––and this is a fact––on average taller, stronger, more powerful, [and] can jump higher than women.”

Slowly but surely, sane states are pushing back against transsexual madness, as well as all the other social justice insanities. And ordinary Americans, even many who previously thought themselves Democrats, are growing increasingly fed-up with the crazy spewing from the loony left.

Faster, please.

LinkSwarm for January 4, 2019

Friday, January 4th, 2019

Welcome to the first LinkSwarm of 2019! If things seem a little thin, I worked most of the week and threw a New Year’s Eve gathering, so things are a little discombobulated right now. Hopefully next week I’ll be back in the groove faster than you can say “Antidisestablishmentarianism.”

  • Jobs Blowout: December Payrolls Soar By 312K As Wages Jump Most Since 2009.”
  • More on that jobs report:

  • Democratic Party “charity” in action:

    The caucus of black New York state lawmakers runs a charity whose stated mission is to empower “African American and Latino youth through education and leadership initiatives” by “providing opportunity to higher education” — but it hasn’t given a single scholarship to needy youth in two years, according to a New York Post investigation.

    The group collects money from companies like AT&T, the Real Estate Board of New York, Time Warner Cable and CableVision, telling them in promotional materials that they are “changing lives, one scholarship at a time.”

    The group — called the Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators, Inc. — instead spent $500,000 in the 2015 – 2016 fiscal year on items like food, limousines and rap music, the Post found.

    The politicians refused to divulge the charity’s 2017 tax filing to the Post despite federal requirements that charities do so upon request.

    Its main activity is holding and selling tickets to an elaborate party each year intended to raise money for its stated mission of providing scholarships for youth. But year after year, essentially all the money simply seems to go to festivities.

    (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)

  • President Trump’s Iran sanctions are destroying their economy. “In the fallout, the Iranian rial has lost more than a quarter of its value against the dollar, sending the prices of food and other basic commodities soaring.” (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
  • Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson says that the newspaper is indeed obviously biased against President Trump.
  • She also says publisher Arthur Sulzberger “drafted a letter ‘all but apologizing’ to the Chinese government for a tough investigative story about corruption in the country.”
  • “Over a decade, police investigated more than 520 cases of juvenile sexual assault and abuse in Chicago’s public schools.” (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)
  • “Stoneman Douglas commission calls for arming teachers.
  • Related: I think I missed this is 2018:

    AKA “the resource officer who infamously failed to confront the Parkland shooter.”

  • “A California congressman is introducing articles of impeachment against President Trump on Thursday — the first day of the new Democratic majority in the House.” Because evidently they learned nothing from the Clinton impeachment…
  • A Democrat also filed a bill to eliminate the Electoral College. Priorities.
  • Apple iPhone phishing scams are getting cleverer at fooling people.
  • Speaking of Apple, their stock just lost the value equivalent to Facebook’s market cap after announcing they would miss iPhone targets.
  • Southwest Airlines founder Herb Kelleher dead at 87.
  • Cracked takes on health care sacred cows. Worth a read. (Hat tip: Ashe Schow on Twitter.)
  • UT makes Campus Reform’s top five crazy stories list.
  • Outgoing Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill disses incoming House Democrat and “shiny thing” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Hat tip: Director Blue.)
  • “State Rep.-elect Mayes Middleton has filed priority legislation, House Bill 281, to end tax-funded lobbying.” Good.
  • Convicted felon and Democratic state representative Ron Reynolds released from prison just in time for the legislative session.
  • Facebook temporarily bans Billy Graham’s son for having the unmitigated gall to say that men and women are biologically different…back in 2016.
  • The Babylon Bee takes on Mitt Romney’s criticisms of President Trump. You know, I’m getting the impression here that the Bee is not a big fan of Mormon doctrine…