Tea at Trianon: Ohio’s “Save Women’s Sports Act”

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Ohio’s “Save Women’s Sports Act”

From Activist Mommy:

A pair of Ohio Republicans have proposed a bill that would stop all male-born student athletes from competing as females once and for all. According to a statement from Rep. Jena Powell (R-Arcanum), HB 527, titled the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” would apply to “all public schools and colleges and any private schools or colleges that are members of a state or national athletic association.”

If passed into law, the bill would ensure that women are not “forced to compete against men playing on women’s sports teams,” requiring that male and female sports teams be based upon the biological sex of an individual.

“The Save Women’s Sports Act is a fairness issue for women,” said Powell. “This bill ensures that every little girl who works hard to make it on a podium is not robbed of her chance by a biological male competing against her in a biological female sport. We want every little girl to achieve her athletic dream here in the state of Ohio.” Powell pointed to the Connecticut case in which two different biological males stole 15 championship titles that were previously held by nine different female athletes. Neither Powell nor the bill’s co-sponsor, Rep. Reggie Stoltzfus (R-Paris Township) knew of a similar case in Ohio, which was all the more motivation to pass the bill as quickly as possible. (Read more.)