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29-Year-Old Biological Male Bests 13-Year-Old Girl in Women's Skateboarding Tournament

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Transgenderism in sports is a hot topic, and the skateboarding community recently felt some heat.

As relayed by Fox News, this weekend saw the women’s division finals of The Boardr Open in New York. Among the top six finishes were a 10-year-old, a 12-year-old, and a 29-year-old biological male.

Leading the pack was Ricci Tres.

In a November interview, Ricci talked of transformation:

Here’s the skater qualifying for the Red Bull SOLUS, a men’s and women’s competition in California:

Ricci made the SOLUS. And on Saturday, the skater took The Boardr Open — pocketing the women’s division’s $500 prize.
Of the top half-dozen, two-thirds were 16 years old or younger.

Second place — and $250 — went to 13-year-old Shiloh Catori, who currently resides at 133rd in the Boardr Global Ranks.

Ricci — who, according to the Daily Mail, is a “divorced, ex-Navy father-of-three” — ranks 838th.

As noted by Fox, not everyone was impressed:

Many on social media excoriated the tournament for the biological and age disparities between the competitors, including female skateboarder Taylor Silverman, who spoke out in May after having repeatedly placed second in skateboarding contests against biological males.

“I have been in three different contests with trans women, two of which I placed second,” Silverman wrote in an Instagram post on May 17, which met with a barrage of negative comments. She went on to explain that the transgender competitor she lost against in a Redbull Cornerstone skate event took home $1,000 in qualifiers, $3,000 in finals and $1,000 in best trick.

As you know, the world of athletics has entered uncharted territory. For a few years now, arenas of sport have let males identifying as women compete with females. Testosterone testing has varied from sport to sport. But some fields are beginning to tighten rules in ways that will shut out previously-allowed competitors:

Transgender Swimmer Lia Thomas’ Professional Career Hits a Brick Wall After Major Ruling

Another Sport Bans Biological Males Like Lia Thomas From Women’s Athletics

Additionally, states such as Alabama, Louisiana, and South Dakota have banned biological males from girls’ athletics.

But certainly, not all sports are following that line:

Report: Soccer May Eliminate All Testosterone Requirements for Transgender Athletes

Back to New York’s Boardr Open, many would argue that a 29-year-old — no matter their sex — would have an advantage, at least in experience, over kids. Christina Pushaw — spokeswoman for Gov. Ron DeSantis — would be one of those. On social media, she asked why someone Ricci’s age was “competing against children.”

Podcaster Tim Pool pointed out that males have “higher centers of gravity, granting advantages that cannot be removed with [hormone replacement therapy].”

Speaking of, The Post Millennial reports that Ricci recently failed to qualify for a tournament:

Tres submitted a virtual run for the USA National Skateboarding Championships, but was unable to meet the deadline for submitting hormone level testing. Later, Tres’ testosterone levels were deemed to be “much higher” than the levels required two compete in the women’s division.

In an interview with USA Skateboarding around this time, Tres revealed that the athlete was around 190 units over the required testosterone levels for International Olympic Committee Standards.

The world of sports is in flux, in a way it’s never been before. What’s around the corner? It’s impossible to tell. But even though we’re dealing with all-new phenomena, it reinforces an old idea: The battle of the sexes is far from over. The same goes, evidently, for the battle of the ages.

-ALEX

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Alabama Judge Grants Emergency Motion on Abortion, as a Contrast of Two Americas Sharpens

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Where abortion is concerned, Alabama just became a different state — not only compared to its former self, but to other areas of America.

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing a federal right to abortion, Alabama has outlawed the practice — with one exception.

The process began in 2019, when Gov. Kay Ivey signed the Alabama Human Life Protection Act. As noted by WBRC, “The law made performing an abortion at any stage of pregnancy a felony unless the mother’s health was in danger. It did not provide any exceptions for rape or incest.” However, a preliminary injunction was imposed against the ban.

But in light of Friday’s SCOTUS decision, Attorney Steve Marshall filed an emergency motion to lift the injunction.

Channel 6 reports:

Attorney General Steve Marshall gave notice that “[b]ecause neither the United States Constitution nor the Alabama Constitution provides a right to abortion, Alabama laws that prohibit abortion and that have not been enjoined by a court are in full effect.”

As for the injunction:

Plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Marshall claiming that the act violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. With the Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday, Marshall claims the lawsuit, “no longer holds true.”

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In the emergency motion, Marshall said the Supreme Court’s ruling, “extinguishes Plaintiffs’ claims, because their sole challenge to the Act was that it allegedly “violates the rights to liberty and privacy secured to Plaintiffs’ patients by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

Part of the Alabama Human Life Protection Act makes it unlawful for someone to intentionally perform or attempt to perform an abortion unless an abortion is necessary in order to prevent a serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother.

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit claimed that portion of the act directly conflicted with the Roe v. Wade decision.

More from the AG’s motion:

When the Court entered the preliminary injunction, precedent dictated that result. It now dictates the opposite. As the Supreme Court now recognizes — and as Attorney General Marshall has argued all along — the Constitution contains no right to an abortion. Plaintiffs’ claims therefore fail on the merits. Attorney General Marshall will soon file a dispositive motion seeking a judgment in his favor. For now, the Court should immediately dissolve the injunction so that Alabama can enforce the law its legislature passed more than three years ago.

Friday afternoon, Judge Myron Thompson granted AG Marshall’s motion to dissolve the injunction.

Alabama’s restrictions were already more constrictive than many states. In 2011, it banned all abortions after 20 weeks except in medical emergencies. Still, there’s quite a big difference between some and none.

The attorney general called Friday “a truly historic day,” and he’s right. In addition to it changing the landscape of American abortion, more generally, it furthers the country’s increasing divide according to blue or red. Much has been made of a tearing at the seams, as the values of the Left and Right grow progressively at odds. It’s been said we’re becoming two nations. Personally, I don’t see much evidence to the contrary. With the SCOTUS ruling, conservative states such as Alabama will align more accurately with the will of their citizens. And The Yellow Hammer State isn’t just a section of the Bible Belt; many say it’s the buckle. It’s representative of conservative culture, in contrast to that of states such as California. “AL” and “LA” are opposites, and not just in a configuration of letters. Now, that polarity — as well as the contrast between other blue and red states — will become even more strident.

Of course, Alabama isn’t a monolith. And as the state ends its previous abortion allowance, Attorney General Marshall has promised to prosecute “to the fullest extent of the law” any violence or vandalism “against any crisis pregnancy center, church, or other pro-life entity in retaliation for today’s decision.”

Any organization in violation of the Alabama Human Life Protection Act, Marshall said, “should immediately cease and desist operations.”

-ALEX

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Alabama Runoff: Trump-Endorsed Katie Britt Beats Back Mo Brooks for Republican Senate Nod

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In case you didn’t know (between the horrid “bi-partisan” gun bill the Senate is attempting to pass and the distressing news out of Uvalde), there are several primaries and runoff elections happening tonight.

One race that RedState has watched closely is the Alabama Senate contest. Former President Donald J. Trump first endorsed, then pulled said endorsement from U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, and instead backed his challenger Katie Britt, a former Chief of Staff to Sen. Richard Shelby, who is retiring from this Senate seat.

The runoff contest became a choice between the true MAGA candidate and the Republican establishment candidate.

On Tuesday night, Britt was declared the winner.

The voters of Alabama can decide which category Britt fell into.

Katie Britt, a former leader of the Business Council of Alabama, has defeated Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., in the Alabama GOP Senate primary runoff election as she aims to become the Yellowhammer State’s first elected female senator later this year.

The runoff election between Britt and Brooks came after neither candidate garnered more than 50% of the vote in the May 24 primary election. Both candidates were running to replace retiring Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., who has served more than 35 years in Congress and tossed his support behind Britt.

In an interview with Fox Digital, Britt affirmed that because Trump chose to endorse her, she was the true MAGA candidate:

 Britt said she was “excited and grateful” to have Trump’s support as “people are ready for new blood.”

“Alabamians loved the president,” she said at the time. “They miss the America First agenda and they are ready for our country to get back on track.”

Despite losing Trump’s endorsement, Brooks did his level best to maintain his MAGA creds and paint Britt as a bought-and-paid-for establishment candidate who would be a rubber stamp for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The whiff of outside money from New York and Texas, as well as some shifty PAC transactions, lent some credence to this.

Brooks, who recovered from his earlier struggles on the campaign trail and forced Britt into a runoff, was hoping to engineer a “David versus Goliath” comeback of his own.

Despite losing Trump’s endorsement and seeing his pleas for the former president to “#ReEndorseMO” fall on deaf ears, Brooks continues to run as the true pro-Trump candidate in the race. The congressman has accused Britt of being an establishment sellout who will kowtow to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Trump has been attempting to foment a rebellion against McConnell for nearly a year; that has not appeared to help Brooks, either.

But with Trump’s endorsement, Britt saw a surge in the polls that helped her make it to a runoff on Tuesday. Polls closed in Alabama at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. Two hours later, the race was called for Britt who had garnered 79 percent of the vote.

Brooks posted a concession of sorts on Twitter:

Every single person who helped this campaign is a patriot who loves America, and I thank you for it. This isn’t the outcome we wanted, but I am proud to have fought for our country. America, and you all, are worth it. God bless.

-Mo

Britt will challenge Pastor and former Democrat Party Chair Will Boyd on November 8. With Alabama being bright red, and the Democrat Party imploding, Britt is expected to win handily.

RedState will continue to keep an eye on the race.

LIVE ELECTION RESULTS: Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, DC

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Another Tuesday, another set of primaries. This week, it’s primaries in Virginia and Washington D.C. and runoff elections in Alabama and Georgia. Here’s what to keep an eye on:

Alabama

While the focus in many recent elections has been on which candidates were endorsed by President Trump, Tuesday’s runoff elections in Alabama and Georgia will heighten that scrutiny, as the former president has chosen sides in each of those elections. In Alabama, it’s the runoff for the US Senate seat being vacated by Republican Richard Shelby, who is retiring after 45 years. The runoff features Katie Britt and Mo Brooks.

Per Fox News:

Katie Britt, a former longtime Shelby aide who served as the senator’s chief of staff from 2016-2018 and who later became the first female president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama, is considered the favorite in the Alabama runoff, against Rep. Mo Brooks, who was one of Trump’s top allies in the House.

Trump backed Brooks last year when the congressman was the front-runner in the race, but the former president took back his endorsement earlier this year as Brooks struggled in the polls. And after criticizing Britt last year, Trump praised her as he endorsed her a week ago, after new polls indicated Britt surging.

Alabama also has a Republican runoff for the Fifth Congressional District between Dale Strong and Casey Wardynski, and a Democrat gubernatorial runoff between Yolanda Flowers and Malika Sanders-Fortier.

Georgia

Meanwhile, in Georgia, there are four Congressional runoffs for Republicans. The higher profile races feature Jake Evans and Rich McCormick in the Sixth District and Mike Collins and Vernon Jones in the Tenth. Evans and Jones both have Trump’s backing, while McCormick has Senator Ted Cruz’s and Collins has Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s.

Additional runoffs include the Second and Seventh Districts for the Republicans and the First and Tenth for the Democrats.

Virginia

In Virginia, the Democrats have a primary election in the Eighth District, where incumbent Don Beyer faces off with Victoria Virasingh.

The Republicans have primaries in the Second, Third, Sixth, and Seventh Districts.

Washington DC

In DC, there are primaries for both the Democrats and the Republicans (for US House, Nonvoting Member). Republican Nelson Rimensnyder is running unopposed, while Democrats Wendy Hamilton and Kelly Mikel Williams are challenging incumbent Eleanor Holmes.

See below for live results, and stay with RedState for the latest election coverage throughout the night and into Wednesday. (Click the “Change Race” option at the upper right of each map to toggle between the races.)

Alabama

Georgia

Virginia

Washington D.C.

“Suspicious person” shot and killed by school resource officer outside elementary school

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A man was shot and killed by a police officer serving as a school resource officer in Gadsden, Alabama on Thursday after allegedly attacking the officer in the school’s parking lot.

We don’t have a lot of information yet, but according to initial reports the man was first spotted acting suspiciously  outside the school building.

Etowah County Sheriff Jonathon Horton tells The Gadsden Times there was a report of someone trying to get into either Walnut Park Elementary School or vehicles outside the building on Thursday morning.

The city runs summer programs for children at the school. Horton says a police officer working as a school resource officer encountered the person, got involved in an altercation and called for backup.

Once additional officers arrived on scene the suspect was shot and killed, with the original officer reported to have suffered minor injuries.

The Gadsden-Etowah County Emergency Management Agency advised people in Facebook posts to avoid the area because of an “ongoing police incident.”

All children at the school were reported safe. According to Gadsden City Schools Superintendent Tony Reddick, children in the system’s program were to be bused to Gadsden City High School. Parents were asked to bring identification when picking up children.

Summer school programs are being run out of the elementary school, which means that there were dozens of children and staff inside the building at the time, but it’s unclear at this point whether the individual who was shot and killed by the school resource officer was specifically targeting the building or had any weapons on him. Initial reports indicate the suspect did repeatedly try to enter the building, however the doors were all locked.

Gadsden City School Superintendent Tony Reddick said 34 children were in the school at the time of the incident.

There were reports of a suspicious person at the school trying to get into vehicles and buildings. Reddick said the person “aggressively” tried to open several door ways. The school went into lockdown, following protocols, Reddick said. It’s unclear what touched off the incident.

“We’re just so thankful that none of this involved the children,” Reddick said. “Everyone followed the safety protocols that we’ve drilled on.”

That makes a difference, as did the fact that a school resource officer was on campus and able to respond right away. In my recent conversation with Dr. J. Eric Dietz of Purdue University’s Homeland Security Institute, he told Bearing Arms that according to his research, the presence of an SRO who can engage an active shooter reduces casualties by 70%, while adding a few armed staff members who can shelter in place with students can reduce casualties by more than 80%.

Again, at this point we don’t know what the suspect’s motivations were, and it may be some time before we learn any more details given that he’s not able to be interviewed by investigators. It could be that he was a moron looking to steal items from unlocked cars or from the school itself, but an elementary school parking lot is a particularly idiotic place to engage in auto burglary right now.

We’ll keep our eyes out for any new information or developments and pass them on as they become available, but in the meantime we can all be thankful that none of the students or staff inside the building were harmed.