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Heat's late rally falls short but Davion Mitchell gives them a road map to win Game 3 nytimes.com/athletic/6304157/2 The Heat, led by the man known as Game 2 Spo, nearly pulled off the comeback against the Cavs, setting the stage for a showdown in Miami. #Sports #News

The Athletic · Heat’s late rally falls short but Davion Mitchell gives them a road map to win Game 3By Jared Weiss

Source: @ErinInTheMorn

From the article: "On Easter Sunday, the New York Times published a longform story about Blaire Fleming, a senior public relations major at San Jose State University. She's a student volleyball player who, like many other trans athletes, has found her identity, body, and very existence quite literally dissected down to the bone by anti-trans activists, politicians, the courts, journalists, doctors, her friends, her teammates, her coaches, her rivals, and spectators around the world.

“One factor that vexes the debate over trans women in female sports is that no one can agree on—or even determine—just how prevalent they actually are,” The Times’ Jason Zengerle wrote. He goes on to cite hundreds of supposed instances of trans women in sports, courtesy of “HeCheated.org, which describes itself as ‘working to document every instance of men and boys stealing from female athletes in women’s sports.’” On the other side, Zengerle says, is John Oliver, “who has used his HBO show ‘Last Week Tonight’ to advocate for including trans athletes in women’s sports, [and who] looked at this same state of affairs and concluded that there are ‘vanishingly few trans girls competing in high schools anywhere.’”

"Indeed, in a segment aired earlier this month, “Last Week Tonight” debunked HeCheated.org’s predecessor, SheWon, which had gone viral over the highly misleading claim that “900 medals” in women’s sports were “displaced”—meaning, given to a trans woman instead of a presumed-cis woman. Erin in the Morning uncovered the seedy origins of these anonymous websites and raised serious doubts about their findings, tracing them back to the fringes of anti-trans internet hate."

#Transgender #Women #Sports #Misinformation #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

erininthemorning.com/p/fact-ch

Erin In The Morning · Fact Check: Lists Claiming Hundreds Of Trans Women Are Dominating Sports Are Dangerous and IncorrectBy s. baum