San Mateo voices opposition over 101/92 connector

eGerd – TBot here. I see you’re still pinning your hopes on your cherry-picked NCAA statistic you insist is the only one that matters. It’s not. And your NCAA statistic undermines your position. That being said, I’ll follow your lead… I’ll presume that the folks you cite have cherry-picked their statistics (while throwing out all others because it doesn’t fit their narrative) to make their decision. Sounds equitable/equal to me, eh eGerd? Especially since bike riders are able to ride in vehicle lanes… BTW, how many biological females identifying as biological males are in the MLB, NFL, or NBA? And didn’t a bunch of teenage boys beat the US Olympic Women’s soccer team?

The 0.002% was given by the Republican leader of the NCAA in front of a congress committee. Actually he said there are 10 or less transgender athletes out of 510,000 student athletes. How many of those 10 or less did actually win championships or medals or took away draft positions or money was not talked about. But I'm sure we would know if there ever was a man drafted into the WNBA or NWSL or tried to get into the Olympics. Basically it's a made-up crisis that has already been solved and therefore a waste of everyone's time.

The video can be found on CSPAN, go to 1:42:10.

(https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-on-legalized-sports-gambling/653198)

But Charlie Baker did say that harassment is a much bigger problem in women's sports.

That kind of harassment and violence against biological females is real and has been seen on Bay Area roads. Just recently three women on bicycles were killed by violent men on public streets in Los Altos, Palo Alto and San Carlos. More female pedestrians were killed in Burlingame and San Mateo. Stories like this are probably the reason why biological women don't feel comfortable riding their bicycles in traffic with biological men in 6,000 lbs. pick-up trucks with >400hp. They want to play in a different league, they want bike lanes.

So if you want to join me asking for fairness for the biological women on Bay Area roads and streets - this seems a way more important cause.

eGerd – TBot here. If your definition of fairness is to allow biological men to compete against biological women, I (and the vast majority, as polls show) will take a hard pass. Again, your cherry picked NCAA statistic supports my case because any number above 0 proves unfairness. You ask, “How many of those 10 or less did actually win championships or medals or took away draft positions or money was not talked about.” Look up Riley Gaines. She was cheated from her rightful place at the podium during an NCAA championship. Sound fair to you? BTW, she was recognized by Trump when he signed his common sense executive order banning transgender athletes from competing against biological women.

You say, “But I'm sure we would know if there ever was a man drafted into the WNBA or NWSL or tried to get into the Olympics.” Actually we do know. Look up Paris Olympics where two men competing as women in the Paris Olympics won Olympic gold medals. Two boxers previously disqualified from competing in the Women’s World Boxing Championships but were allowed in the Paris Olympics. Sound fair to you? So, to repeat from MichKosk’s observation, “It is unfortunate that you don't think girls and women deserve fairness, safety and privacy in sports and locker rooms at all levels.” Perhaps a refresher on the common, and not cherry-picked, definition of “fairness”?

"A little cheating is OK in college sports... meanwhile F--- them kids"- Egerd, probably.

Thanks for quoting me Terrence. Privacy and safety for girls and women are also issues in addition to the fairness, which matters at all levels and ages.

There was also a male weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, who competed as a woman in the prior Olympics.

Before you are corrected I will point out that the two boxers weren't "trans"- they were males with disorders of sexual development. The runner Caster Semenya is another example- he's been disqualified from international competition. ("My internal testicles don't make me less of a woman"- direct quote.) Soccer player Barbra Banda is another. These males may have female-appearing genitalia at birth but have internal male testes that product testosterone, and therefore male advantage, at puberty. Olympics needs to bring back the simple check swab sex testing- track and field will start doing so.

TBot, wasn't Riley Gaines the one that was pissed because she had to SHARE fifth place. She was far away from winning any medals. Vice president and family man JD Vance would have told the parents of Riley that they missed a great parenting opportunity to raise an better American. He would have told Riley that this is a character building experience and sometimes you just have to suck it up and share. And especially if you couldn't cut it at the top and only reached fifth place. He probably would have called her a "snowflake" too.

But Riley wanted Instagram fame instead of improving her own character - she is a typical fake-outrage-child of the mainstream media.

Do you have the names of the two Olympic boxers so we can all look up if they really existed or if they were banned for PED (very likely) rather than their gender transformation, which the IOC prohibits already.

MichKost - there is actually A LOT OF CHEATING going on college sports - athletically and more important financially. That is why I call on leaders to shut the whole thing down. In almost all states is a basketball or football coach the highest paid public employee - that is a waste of public funding.

But back to cheating. There are Performance Enhancing Drugs (10-20% of kids are taking them). There are creepy coaches praying on young girls and boys (could be almost 50%). There is harassment through other teachers, administrators and boosters. There is even worse shenanigans coming from legalized sports gambling and desperate gamblers. Non-athletes are taking on huge student loans for tuitions so universities can afford the huge travel costs and private planes of a handful of coaches and student athletes.

All students could benefit from cheap bike lanes around campus (look at Davis or Stanford), but only a handful of very few selected benefit from student athletics. Now that is really unfair, wouldn't you agree.

eGerd – TBot here. It is not surprising you cling to unfairness while denigrating Ms. Gaines. Seems to me that Ms. Gaines has used her, as you describe, Instagram fame to improve the lives of women’s athletes across the USA. There’s a reason our (yes, our) great President Trump recognized her common sense efforts to support women, all the while withstanding unwarranted criticism and vitriol from those who would impugn her character (such as yourself) and from those who don’t apparently don’t care about fair competition (such as yourself). No matter how you slice it, Ms. Gaines and many others have been and continue to be cheated from their rightful places at the podia along with their rightful recognition due to biological males.

As for what our (yes, our) great Vice President Vance would say, there’s a 0.002% chance he’d say what you think he would say. There’s a 99.998% chance he would agree with and reiterate MichKosk’s observation, “It is unfortunate that you don't think girls and women deserve fairness, safety and privacy in sports and locker rooms at all levels.” BTW, in her comment above, I’d say MichKosk has provided an astute observation summarizing your stance.

- disheartening, it really was. I left the pool with no trophy. Not a big deal, but it was the goal that I had set all year.”

She actually did get the 6th place trophy, because they only had one 5th place trophy. And she acknowledges - at the time - it's not a big deal.

- Gaines added that she became upset that it appeared the NCAA was prioritizing the transgender athlete over others.

That is certainly the kind of "virtue signaling" we expect these days. There is certainly a point there to be made about the officials there.

- “I am in full support of her and full support of her transition and her swimming career and everything like that because there’s no doubt that she works hard too, but she’s just abiding by the rules that the NCAA put in place, and that’s the issue,” Gaines said.

Even though she was upset by the situation, Gaines made clear that she was not upset with Thomas personally, but with the rules. She even called Lea Thomas "she".

It must have been much later that Riley Gaines realized she can gain fame and money by being pretend-outraged about a problem that wasn't one when it happened. Better parents would have stepped in and stopped her from embarrassing herself and her family.