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Texas Woman Starts Campaign To Revoke Caitlyn Jenner's Olympic M

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by: ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 12:44am  
June 04, 2015 3:25 PM
 

 

 
Texas Woman Starts Campaign To Revoke Caitlyn Jenner's Olympic Medals
 
 
Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. 
 
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There were hopeful signs in the public reaction to the coming out of Caitlyn Jenner as transgender, particularly how she outpaced even President Obama in Twitter followers.
The initial reaction seemed much more positive than expected. But we
all suspected the negative blowback was lying in wait, mumbling and
grumbling and plotting the slinging of transphobic mud. 
Timbaland and Drake Bell attacked Caitlyn on Twitter. Tom Cruise's twenty-year-old son Connor Cruise, complained she didn't deserve the Arthur Ashe Courage award. And a Fort Hood, Texas, woman named Jennifer Bradford, has started a Change.org petition
asking the International Olympic Committee to revoke the gold medal
Bruce Jenner won in the men’s decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Olympics
(photo below.) Ms. Bradford reasons that because Caitlyn Jenner says she
always felt like a woman, the competition was unfair to the other male
athletes.
Here's the entire disingenuous letter: 
 
Dear International Olympic Committee,
It
has recently come to light that gold medalist Bruce Jenner is in fact
transgender, and therefore, identifies as a woman. We congratulate Ms.
Jenner on these new developments and wish her the best. However, this
creates somewhat of a problem as Ms. Jenner (as talented as she is)
claims that she has always believed herself to be truly female, and
therefore, was in violation of committee rules regarding women competing
in men's sports and vice versa. Therefore, it is with a heavy heart
that we must ask whether or not it is proper that Ms. Jenner should
retain her olympic records in light of this, as we must now either claim
that Bruce Jenner and Caitlyn Jenner are two entirely different people
(which we know is not true), or that Bruce Jenner was, in fact, a woman
participating in a men's event. It is only fair to all involved that
women receive their credit as champions of the Decathalon and that the
men racing Ms. Jenner are not expected to compete with a superior,
streamlined being such as herself.
We urge Ms. Jenner to support the transgender community by giving up the medals earned by competing against the wrong gender.
Thank you, and congratulations to Ms. Jenner for her courage!
#givebackthegold.
 

As I write this, Ms. Bradford's letter had over 10,000 signatories. As Taylor Swifts says, haters gonna hate.
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Leentje Active Indicator LED Icon
~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 12:52am  
Ridiculous!!!!!!! 4951
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 2:20am  
question is....why do so many of these loons embarrass us by being from texas? no wonder people from other states look at us that way 4951
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DVaz Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 3:10am  
He/she does not deserve an ESPY award for courage. There are athletes facing cancer. Jim Kelly should be getting it or the softball pitcher with the brain tumor.
 
What a joke. And Michael Sam got it last year just because he's openly gay and plays football; Tries to anyways as he isn't playing in the NFL. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 7:55am  
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KellyG Active Indicator LED Icon 3
~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 8:01am  
He/she does not deserve an ESPY award for courage.
 
@DVaz:
 
This petition isn't about the ESPY awards.
The IOC did reply.
www.washingtonpost.c om/news/morning-mix/ wp/2015/06/05/no-the -ioc-will-not-r 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 8:29am  
Folks sure throw that hate word around...haters gonna hate etc.  4951
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imadrummer2k Active Indicator LED Icon 3
~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 8:32am  
Wait, this isn't real is it? This has to be an Onion article. Right? 4951
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 8:41am  
I was reading this and my initial reaction was it is stupid.But then I started thinking (I know dangerous pass time), so bear with for a sec.If a man competes, wins, and later becomes a woman, who says always thought they were a woman, should the winnings be taken away? I mean they competed as a man, won as a man, in a man's sport.But lets expand that a second.So we have a man, who becomes a woman, and then competes in a woman's sport, and wins.Is that fair? Does the now woman still have more strength or stamina from being a man that gives her an unfair advantage compared to "real" women?And on the other foot, if a woman becomes a man, and wants to compete in a man's sport, but thinks he has an unfair disadvantage because he was a woman, should a handicap be assigned?So where do we go considering these type of choices? Bar transgenders from sports (and what else)? Are we trying to be maybe a too open society? Should there be a limit?In our bid to be fair, could it make some things unfair to those that did not go through the same thing? And if that is so, is that unfair? 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 9:01am  
I am stumped as to why so many people think he is "brave". What's so brave about going public with a sex change in a society that embraces depravity ? He is NOT brave. He is a publicity hog who should keep his private life private. No apologies from me for not being politically correct, or for not saying how happy I am for him. Impressionable young adults are receiving the wrong idea of what a role model should be. Thanks, media. As for the article, he should keep his medals. He earned them. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 9:40am  
The have to agree with @topcat and even if you don't look at it that way, what is so brave about being who you say you always were?  So Bruce Jenner had some plastic surgery and is going to make a bunch more money off a reality show.  What is courageous about that?To me, having a child with a horrible, deadly condition, loving them, starting a foundation to support others in similar situations, running camps and other programs from needy kids, facing cancer, remaining in the spotlight despite the effects of the cancer and being a motivational speaker, fundraiser, philanthropist, and remaining involved with your team and your community 20 years after leaving the sport is courageous.Or, knowing you are going to die of cancer at only the age of 19 and continuing to play basketball, be  a part of your team, inspire others and raise money for cancer research up until the day you die.  That is courageous.There are so many others.  Having plastic surgery and being an attention ***** does not make your courageous.  It makes you mentally ill. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 9:51am  
The have to agree with @topcat and even if you don't look at it that way, what is so brave about being who you say you always were?  So Bruce Jenner had some plastic surgery and is going to make a bunch more money off a reality show.  What is courageous about that?To me, having a child with a horrible, deadly condition, loving them, starting a foundation to support others in similar situations, running camps and other programs from needy kids, facing cancer, remaining in the spotlight despite the effects of the cancer and being a motivational speaker, fundraiser, philanthropist, and remaining involved with your team and your community 20 years after leaving the sport is courageous.Or, knowing you are going to die of cancer at only the age of 19 and continuing to play basketball, be  a part of your team, inspire others and raise money for cancer research up until the day you die.  That is courageous.There are so many others.  Having plastic surgery and being an attention ***** does not make your courageous.  It makes you mentally ill.
 
@HotterThanYou:  Bruce might have come across as "brave" to some folks, but once I heard that the magazine cover story was curiously timed to the launch of his new reality TV series??? Uh huh. He's just out-Kardashianing the Kardashians. The man has serious mental issues, and I believe that once the dust has settled,  he'll discover that he really is not a different person after all.
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KellyG Active Indicator LED Icon 3
~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 10:27am  
And none of that has any bearing on the fact that Bruce Jenner competed and won at the Olympics.
 
Plastic surgery, a name change and reality tv shows can't ever delegitimize that accomplishment.
 
As for the points @FoFa brought up, the IOC has created a policy to address all of those issues.
 
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KellyG Active Indicator LED Icon 3
~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 10:35am  
On the topic of trashy reality tv shows that are making news, someone needs to pull the plug on all things Dugger. I cannot believe that a mother could possibly be ok with her daughters sexual molestation by rationalizing it away with comments like, "they were asleep".
 
Incest is never ok. Not even if the victims were "asleep".
 
I'm so disappointed that Huckabee is defending them.
 
They all need help. And prayers. And why haven't the rest of those kids been removed yet. The parents are on record with downplaying incest as no big deal. Sick and wrong! 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 10:38am  
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~ 8 years ago   Jun 5, '15 10:47am  
question is....why do so many of these loons embarrass us by being from texas? no wonder people from other states look at us that way
 
@ProblemAgain: you can stand atop of Williams tower wearing clown makeup, a purple tutu, a helicopter hat, a Bernie Sanders for President shirt and doing the hokey pokey, doesnt embarass me to be from Texas in the least. Just like this lady's campaign doesnt. Just like Bruce Jenner's cover on Vanity Fair doesnt embarrass me to be from America.
 
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