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Backlash Rolls In After Rutgers Womxns Rugby Name Change Welcomes Men Who Identify As Female
Authored by Jennifer Kabbany via The College Fix,
A female recreational rugby team at Rutgers University is facing backlash for changing its name to "Rutgers Womxn's Rugby" to signify inclusion and the intent to allow biological males who identity as female to play on the team.
The criticism was swift and severe, prompting the student-run team to turn off the comment section of its announcement on Instagram before deleting the post completely.
However, while the announcement was deleted, the team's account name remains "Rutgers Womxn's Rugby." Its original Sept. 24 post had stated:
We're excited to announce that Rutgers Women's Rugby will be making the change to Rutgers Womxn's Rugby! This change reflects our team's commitment to creating a welcoming, inclusive and supportive environment for our players. Inclusivity is an important part of who we are, and we want every member of our team to feel valued and represented through our organization. We are continuously evolving and want to properly reflect the standards of inclusion. We're proud to continue building a rugby community where everyone belongs."
But Fox News reported that World Rugby "bans biological males from women's divisions, pointing to clear science showing extreme injury risks during hard tackles. Rebranding a student club is easy, but letting biological males into female sports divisions lands universities in hot legal water."
Fair For All, a group fighting to protect women's sports, pointed out that "Depending on what 'Womxn' includes, the substantive change could also be a violation of Title IX."
Rutgers Women's Rugby Team is renaming themselves as "Womxn's Rugby Team" to be inclusive.
Is @RutgersRugby Men's Team also changing its name to Mxn's Rugby Team?
Why is female sports the only battleground for ideological push to include those outside of the female sex... pic.twitter.com/j4WMRrQybF
"Inclusion of athletes who are not women is not fair to women and will not make female athletes feel valued. Female athletes will opportunities and will be excluded. When that happens, they will not feel welcomed or represented," the group added.
The Post Millennial reported that several club women's rugby teams across the country have "ditched the women's category in favor of a newly created 'open' category so men can play on their women's teams."
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Guinness Pulls Plug On Baltimore Brewery As Costs Soar In Democrat-Run State Amid Consumer Beer Retreat
The first Guinness brewery to open in the US in more than 60 years, located in the Baltimore metro area, will shutter operations next month as shifting consumer demand and the challenges of operating in the Democrat-run state have made the operation increasingly difficult to sustain.
Diageo, the British alcoholic-beverages company that owns Guinness, operated the brewery for eight years, during which the site attracted more than 2 million visitors.
Local outlet WMAR-TV reported that the shutdown is due to soaring operating costs, shifting consumer tastes and broader economic pressures that made the brewing location unsustainable.
The decision followed a "careful review of our operations and long-term business priorities," a Diageo spokesperson said.
The shutdown comes three years after Diageo slashed the workforce at the Halethorpe site by 100 jobs and ended most commercial brewing at the plant. Its taproom, restaurant, beer garden and experimental brewery remained open.
This closure leaves Chicago as the brand's only US brewery and raises a difficult question about whether shifts in consumer demand for beer are only one part of the story.
The other part of the story is easy to understand: Maryland faces competitive pressure from neighboring states. Its negative net migration only suggests that the Democratic kings and queens who control the state under one-party rule are running its economy into the ground.
Neighboring states are cutting taxes or adopting flat-tax systems, while lefty Annapolis lawmakers are hell-bent on a parasitic mission to extract as much tax money as possible from mom-and-pop businesses, medium-sized and large companies, and taxpayers to pay for their progressive experiments.
The result of lefty activists running the state is negative net migration, and the latest example of these state-killing economic policies is a major brewer shuttering operations.
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