Alaska Democratic Party is threatening to sue the Division of Elections over a correction flyer that the division intends to send to House District 15 voters.
The correction is to fix the problem found on Page 19 of the printed version of the voter election pamphlet, published before every state election.
On Page 19, the pamphlet lists Republican Mia Costello as a Democrat, when she is in fact, a lifelong Republican. In another location in the pamphlet, her party is correctly listed.
In a letter to Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher, the Democrats’ executive director says that any communication to the district must also include the names and parties of the other candidates, both of whom are Democrats.
“From news reports, we have learned about a proposal to correct one error on page 19 that identifies Mia Costello as a Democrat, even though she is correctly identified as a Republican on her candidate profile on page 69. Any partiality in communications to one candidate by the Division of Elections would be an infringement on each of the candidate’s right to fair treatment, leading to claims of discrimination and bias a potentially causing additional voter confusion. Such paid communication from the State of Alaska would amount to the State inappropriately advertising directly in favor of one candidate in a contested State House race,” wrote Lindsey Kavanaugh of the Democratic Party.
Kavanaugh said the other candidates need to be listed on any correction sent to the district — or else.
“Any postcards or other official communications that fail to provide equal and unbiased coverage to these candidates will undermine the integrity of our electoral process and potentially expose the State to legal action,” Kavanaugh threatened.
What happened on Oct 7, 2023 was not just a massive attack on innocent people inside Israel, it was the equivalent to about 36,000 Americans being massacred and burned in their homes in one day and about 9,000 of our fellow Americans being taken hostage.
Pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic protests in our country are shocking. But it also has been predictable: The same protests have been occurring in Europe for years, as Muslims have increased their presence in European countries as “refugees” from Muslim countries only to become violent within short times and reluctant to assimilate with the host country. European politicians have stood by, watched, and let it continue to happen.
Certainly, rather than learning from the European mistakes, the United States has followed suit and welcomed, indiscriminately, radicalized Muslims to this country, too.
It’s no surprise in today’s political environment that university presidents will defend the rights of Muslims while ignoring those very same rights for Jews and others deemed in the “majority.” Even when hate speech is expressed directly at Jews, “woke” authorities simply turn their heads.
Elite university presidents are afraid to do anything that might subject them to criticism for not being “woke” enough. This is the American society that the progressive and far-left activists have been pushing on Americans for years with their identity politics: Draw lines between people, make them feel persecuted and sorry for themselves, and get them to hate each other.
But a real irony is that most Jews in the U.S. have been strong far-left activists for many years; I wonder how long it will take my Juneau Synagogue friends to begin rethinking their blind allegiance to far-left politics and activism.
The other irony is that the people most blind to antisemitism and far-left ideology are the so-called “educated elite.” It’s the working-class people whose common sense screams at them that this is messed up. However, the power in our society resides with the oligarchs and the “educated elite.” The “educated elite”—products of those same universities (e.g., Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Cornell) that started “Wokism.”
Politics of the pro-Palestinian activists prioritizing their radical beliefs and values; and it clouds their judgment for human rights and justice. Pro-Palestinian activists also misinterpret and misuse the concepts of apartheid, genocide and occupation in reference to Israel’s governing and political standing.
The apartheid and oppression in South Africa (1948 to 1994) was the racial segregation under the all-white government, which dictated that non-white South Africans (most of the population) were required to live in separate areas from whites and use separate public facilities.
Today in Israel, Jews make up the majority at 73% (about 7.145 million individuals). The Arab community, spanning various religions, accounts for 21% or nearly 2 million individuals. They are citizens of Israel with equal rights, political participation, and representation.
Genocide is an internationally recognized crime with the intent to exterminate a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Between 1950 and 2023, the Palestinian population in Israel, Gaza and neighboring territories grown from 944,807 people to 5,371,230—an increase of the population by 468.5% in 73 years.
Occupation. The Jewish presence in the Israel-Gaza region is, archaeologically and historically, well documented; it is clearly described in every high school and college world history textbooks. The Land of Israel has changed hands many times over the centuries. But it has been the homeland of the Jewish people for nearly 3,500 years.
Indeed, pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic rhetoric is a classic example of the confusion that far-leftist politicians, media, and educators has created in our youth. In fact, it is not surprising that many of our youth now proclaiming support for the Palestinians in Gaza, even that the Palestinian Hamas terrorists committed atrocious crimes against Israel.
Many rational and peace-seeking Americans are outraged by the Gaza (via Hamas) atrocious attack on Israel on Oct. 7 of last year, killing, mutilating, and kidnapping nearly 1,500 individuals in Israel. It is inconceivable how anyone can find moral equivalence between the two sides in the present conflict between Israel and Gaza/Hamas. What Hamas terrorists did was savage, primitive, and far beyond any justification.
World-wide antisemitism, triggered by Israel/Hamas-Gaza war, is a direct result of the far-left ideology that is prevalent today in the West. Progressive and far-left activists attempting to create an ignorant, self-important generation of youth with a corrupt moral compass. Pro-Palestinian activism stems from the far-left ideology of white privilege doctrine, critical race theory, systemic racism and transgenderism.
Clearly, school administrators and teachers’ unions are turning the public schools into the “Blue Cities” with the far-left, “woke” ideology.
Alexander B. Dolitsky was born and raised in Kiev in the former Soviet Union. He received an M.A. in history from Kiev Pedagogical Institute, Ukraine, in 1976; an M.A. in anthropology and archaeology from Brown University in 1983; and was enroled in the Ph.D. program in Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College from 1983 to 1985, where he was also a lecturer in the Russian Center. In the U.S.S.R., he was a social studies teacher for three years, and an archaeologist for five years for the Ukranian Academy of Sciences. In 1978, he settled in the United States. Dolitsky visited Alaska for the first time in 1981, while conducting field research for graduate school at Brown. He lived first in Sitka in 1985 and then settled in Juneau in 1986. From 1985 to 1987, he was a U.S. Forest Service archaeologist and social scientist. He was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Alaska Southeast from 1985 to 1999; Social Studies Instructor at the Alyeska Central School, Alaska Department of Education from 1988 to 2006; and has been the Director of the Alaska-Siberia Research Center (see www.aksrc.homestead.com) from 1990 to present. He has conducted about 30 field studies in various areas of the former Soviet Union (including Siberia), Central Asia, South America, Eastern Europe and the United States (including Alaska). Dolitsky has been a lecturer on the World Discoverer, Spirit of Oceanus, and Clipper Odyssey vessels in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. He was the Project Manager for the WWII Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease Memorial, which was erected in Fairbanks in 2006. He has published extensively in the fields of anthropology, history, archaeology, and ethnography. His more recent publications include Fairy Tales and Myths of the Bering Strait Chukchi, Ancient Tales of Kamchatka; Tales and Legends of the Yupik Eskimos of Siberia; Old Russia in Modern America: Russian Old Believers in Alaska; Allies in Wartime: The Alaska-Siberia Airway During WWII; Spirit of the Siberian Tiger: Folktales of the Russian Far East; Living Wisdom of the Far North: Tales and Legends from Chukotka and Alaska; Pipeline to Russia; The Alaska-Siberia Air Route in WWII; and Old Russia in Modern America: Living Traditions of the Russian Old Believers; Ancient Tales of Chukotka, and Ancient Tales of Kamchatka.
A recent public vote on the $38.5 million South Peninsula Hospital bond proposal should send a message to those administrating and governing healthcare on the Lower Peninsula, and the message is that they are not truly representing their community. With official results now in, the bond went down in flames with 62% of voters rejecting the proposal.
Ryan Smith, the CEO of South Peninsula Hospital, stated on a local podcast that the bond had been vetted unanimously by 60 employed medical providers, the hospital operating board, the Kenai Borough Assembly, and the borough mayor. If that is the case, how can there be such a disconnect between the desires of the community and the direction hospital management has taken?
Smith also reported that the current net revenue of the hospital is $150 million and that they own or lease 32 properties in Homer. The hospital has 640 employees. The CEO and board have stated they have a master plan; however, when confronted while on the podcast as to what was the final goal, a definitive answer was not given. Is that goal $300 million revenue, $600 million revenue, or $900 million in revenue? No answer was given.
South Peninsula Hospital is a critical access hospital that is limited to 25 inpatient beds, yet the focus has not been on the quality of the services offered but instead the quantity of services offered.
The hospital has now recruited a plastic surgeon. Typically, it takes a population over 80,000 to support this service and how does this fit with the notion of a critical access facility? Is the end goal to have every service that is usually reserved for a secondary or tertiary facility? At what cost to the community is this rapid expansion of infrastructure and services?
The one answer that was given when asked was whether the cost of healthcare would be lowered by these expansions, Smith and the Borough Mayor answered, “No.”
The community has spoken loudly that they do not approve of proceeding with an open checkbook on what appears to be management that is more focused on revenue and monopolizing healthcare delivery than on the needs and desires of the community that they were established to serve.
This is not a problem that can be attributed solely to the CEO or the hospital board. This is primarily a systems problem. We are told that the process is transparent, but it far from it. The South Peninsula Hospital Operating Board is a self-appointed board made up of community members that have been recruited to serve. Although they may all be well meaning folks, the result is that there is no diversity of thought as the makeup of the board does not truly represent a cross section of the community. If a member of the public attempts to attend one of these meetings, they quickly learn that these meetings are much different than public meetings.
The board typically goes into executive session to discuss much of the business while you sit in the hall. When they come out of the executive session and you are allowed back into the meeting, motions are made and voted on and you are left with very little insight as to how the decision was made. Furthermore, if you review the minutes for last 15 years, an alarming pattern emerges. At no time is there a dissention in the vote.
The board always votes unanimously, further supporting the tenet that there is no diversity of thought on the board. Unfortunately, our borough assembly likewise has taken the board at their word and has almost always approved any request from SPH administration and board unanimously.
This recent vote should be interpreted by the CEO, the South Peninsula Hospital board, the borough Assembly, and the borough mayor that there is overwhelming disapproval of the direction this administrative body is managing our community healthcare dollars and services. Smith reported during the podcast that their surveys had demonstrated excellence in patient satisfaction; however, in the minutes from the September hospital operating board, the Press Ganeyscores for satisfaction of their outpatient services was at the 13th percentile, while their rating for their SPH clinics was at the 44th percentile.
These are hardly numbers that back up that claim.
Smith also reported that none of the medical providers were paid based on their production. They were all paid at 75th to the 90th percentile of medical management group association provider compensation survey data. This model presumes all physicians are equally skilled, equally productive, and most importantly perhaps, equally motivated to work in the group’s best financial interest. That means “high producers” have little long-term incentive and low producers may be allowed to ride on the financial coattails of the more productive physicians. On what basis does South Peninsula Hospital determine if the provider is earning their salary and truly striving to serve the needs of the patient or the community?
It is my opinion that it has been a disservice to the residents of this community to employ and recruit providers from other facilities in the area to monopolize healthcare and alleviate options for the community. It has resulted in skyrocketing healthcare costs for the community and by their own published data has resulted in overall dissatisfaction with the outpatient care they are receiving.
It is time to revisit how healthcare is delivered locally. If the hospital administration and board truly desire to meet the needs of the community they serve, they will take the necessary steps to address these concerns. Unfortunately, I feel it is unlikely to change and the community will continue to watch private properties taken off the tax rolls, active suppression of competitive options, South Peninsula Hospital entering into non-healthcare businesses such as real estate and daycare, decreasing healthcare delivery choices, and further fueling the increasing costs of medical care to residents of the lower Kenai Peninsula.
According to filings with the Federal Communications Commission, the station assets of KTVA are being sold to Alaska Public Media for $200,000. Alaska Public Media is a PBS affiliate and owns KAKM.
In 2021, the CBS affiliation of KTVA was spun off to KYES, which is owned by Gray Television, which owns KTUU. The two stations are essentially combined.
But KTVA itself was not sold, and remained an orphan property of Denali Media Holdings, which is a subsidiary of GCI.
The news of the KTVA sale was first reported on Friday by Radio & Television Business Report, a website reporting on the business of broadcasting. The story is behind a paywall at this link.
Adam Jacobson, editor of RBR.com, said that Gray wanted a second station in Anchorage, but any purchase of KTVA as a CBS affiliate ran afoul of FCC rules that prohibit a station from owning two of the top-four stations in a market. Gray did a workaround by simply moving the CBS affiliation to a station few tuned into. See the FCC sanctions that resulted at this link. The fine levied was over $500,000.
That the PBS-affiliated organization will now have two stations in the same Nielsen Designated Market Area market will not likely raise the same concerns, but the FCC still must approve the sale, something it is expected to do within a few months, or at least before the next president has an opportunity to reappoint a new chairman for the FCC. It’s not clear what Alaska Public Media will do with its new acquisition.
Over the past few years, GCI was sold to Liberty Broadband in 2020. Liberty is now in the process of merging with Charter Communications.
GCI was Alaska’s first technology startup, beginning in 1979 out of an apartment in Anchorage by company founders Ron Duncan and Bob Walp, who launched it by rebranding phone cards and ultimately created create a long-distance phone service provider that gave Alaskans more affordable options to communicate across the country.
At that time GCI started, long-distance phone calls cost Alaskans $1 per minute. But after GCI pioneered DAMA satellite communication to deliver in-state long distance, and introduced competitive facilities-based local phone service, costs came down dramatically.
Thursday was a debate marathon for Rep. Mary Peltola and her Republican challenger Nick Begich, who ran circles around the out-of-sorts Democrat, who continued her pattern of looking up at the ceiling and saying “um” whenever faced with a question, and repeatedly asking for the question to be asked a second time.
There was the Alaska Chamber of Commerce debate at noon, and then another debate, this one televised by KTUU, in the evening.
Peltola spoke in vague generalities in the KTUU-Alaska Public Media debate. While she continued to take credit for things she had nothing to do with, such as the Willow oil project on the North Slope, she could not answer basic questions posed by the two moderators, who were sympathetic left-leaning Rebecca Palsha of KTUU and Lori Townsend of Alaska Public Media.
For example, when asked about the $2 million in donations her campaign has received from a major crypto political action committee, Peltola said she had no idea what crypto even is. Fairshake PAC has mega-donors such as Marc Andreessen, who gave the political committee more than $19 million to spend on candidates. It has put $2 million into supporting Peltola, and Begich pointed out that this is how politicians end up getting bought — taking money from industries they don’t even understand.
But what caught the attention of many in the viewing audience is that when asked about Israel, Peltola would not say that she supports the country’s right to exist.
In fact, she would not even say the term “Israel” in her answer. Instead, she said, “The conflict in Palestine and, uh, in Gaza is terrible. It’s a real humanitarian crisis. And as a mother of seven, as a grandmother of two, of course, I want peace and prosperity everywhere. I think that it’s really important that we continue to provide humanitarian relief wherever we can. We need to make sure people are getting adequate amounts of food and water, and that we are preventing as many youth, um, civilians from being killed as possible.”
The terms “Palestine” and “Gaza” mimic how Israel is referred to by Rep. Ilhan Omar, who Peltola supported when Omar faced removal from the Foreign Affairs Committee due to her radical anti-semitic takes.
But then Peltola pivoted, and said clearly said she supports helping Ukraine and its fight against Russian aggression.
“I think that they’re fighting our war in many ways and I do support the efforts that they’re making,” Peltola said.
She just refused to make that same statement about Israel.
She also refused to say who she will vote for as president, and when challenged by the moderators, she snipped back at them: “It’s a secret ballot.”
While she wore a fisherman’s knit sweater for the Kodiak fish debate over the weekend, Peltola dressed in more business attire for the KTUU Debate for the State event. She wore black.
“Life as a moderate at the highest levels of American politics can be simultaneously frenzied and monotonous,” writes Michael J. Mooney, a writer at Deseret News of Salt Lake City, in an extended political profile of Alaska’s Sen. Lisa Murowski.
Mooney interviewed liberal politicos and pollsters in Alaska to pull together his report, in which he shows that Alaska conservatives think poorly of Murkowski, who is Republican on paper., She survives with the support of Democrats and undeclared voters. One thing that binds her to her Democrat supporters is her hatred of Donald Trump.
Murkowski “regularly collaborates and socializes with colleagues across the political spectrum. But her most obvious defiance of party dogma has been her repeated criticism of Trump. She’s called him ‘spiteful’ and ‘flawed to his core.’ She said she wouldn’t vote for him in 2016 or 2020 and has already said she won’t vote for him in 2024. She was one of only seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict Trump during his 2021 impeachment trial, saying at the time that she’d seen ‘clear evidence that he attempted to overturn the 2020 election after losing it.’ And she’s the only one of those seven who’s faced voters since then,” Mooney writes.
Mooney quotes Alaska’s leading liberal pollster Ivan Moore as saying that among self-described Alaska conservatives, a mere 27% have a positive view of Murkowski, and 69% have a negative view. Among Alaska moderates, 55% have a positive view. Among progressives, the senator has a 72% positive rating, and only 21% see her negatively.
While Republicans typically don’t vote for her, she more than makes up for it with independents and Democrats, Mooney explains of the mystery of why Murkowski has been able to remain in office for 22 years.
“Moore told me she’s almost certainly the only Republican officeholder in the country who’s more popular among progressives than conservatives,” Mooney writes. “I asked Moore if Murkowski would have any chance of winning a Republican primary. ‘No, none,’ he said. ‘It’s categorically zero.'”
And then comes the kicker: Murkowski may switch parties, but not just yet.
Moore is also quoted as saying that Murkowski will not give up being a Republican while her father, former Senator and Governor Frank Murkowski is alive. “As long as Daddy’s still alive, she ain’t switching,” Moore is quoted as saying. “I think Daddy would be very disappointed.” Frank Murkowski is now 91 years old.
Lisa Murkowski would not grant an interview to Mooney for the profile, but he interviewed about 20 other people for his profile,which can be read at this link.
Mayor Suzanne LaFrance has hired a retired epidemiologist from Oregon who has extensive experience working in China to be Anchorage’s new medical director.
Dr. George Conway retired from a similar position at Deschutes County, Oregon, where Bend is the county seat. During the Covid pandemic, the county allowed employers to require workers to receive a Covid-19 shot, with limited exceptions. Over 73% of the population of Oregon took the Covid shots, which the State of Oregon has officially deemed safe for everyone. Shot mandates were not controversial in Oregon, as they are in Alaska.
According to the Deschutes County web page dedicated to Covid information, “All of the COVID-19 vaccines being given in Oregon are safe for everyone, even if you’re pregnant. The vaccines have been tested with thousands of people around the world. Black, Indigenous, Latino/a and people of color have chosen to be part of these research studies to make sure the vaccines are safe for our communities. We know they are safe and work very well to keep people from getting sick with COVID-19.”
That would be in line with the thinking of the Anchorage Assembly, which must approve his hiring. The doctor who worked for Mayor Dave Bronson took a different approach to mandates and masks.
“Mandates are a political action,” Savitt told reporters, referring to Covid shot mandates. “That’s not something that will be a recommendation coming from us.” His hiring was widely criticized by the news media and was highly politicized by Democrats. Savitt so angered Democrats in Anchorage that it led to a ballot question to voters this year, who approved the Assembly now having the power to approve or disapprove the hiring of every medical director.
Conway will likely receive a pass from the Alaska news media and Democrats in Anchorage.
His biographical summary at the Oregon State Legislature says he has worked in Alaska, the Arctic, and in other extreme environments, and is known for his work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has “extensive international experience in designing, implementing and managing successful health programs to address public health threats,” his bio states. He also teaches at Oregon State University.
From 2012 through 2015, Conway was assigned by C.D.C. to serve as Senior Advisor to the Chinese Centers for Disease Control as well as Public Health Attaché for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing where he provided assistance in environmental health and occupational health and safety to the U.S. mission in China, including supporting the mission’s effort to address severe air pollution conditions impacting the U.S. Embassy workers.
As health director for Deschutes County, in addition to leading over 300 county-employed public health and behavioral health specialists, Conway advised the residents and governments during episodes of heavy wildfire smoke, providing guidance and recommendations during numerous local town hall meetings to community members and local businesses.
Conway is a past president of the International Union for Circumpolar Health. He has expertise in dealing with multiple public health issues including HIV/AIDS as well as health, safety, and environment in the fishing, agriculture, aviation, and oil and gas industries; and his work on air pollution and other environmental hazards includes over 100 scientific articles, monographs, and book chapters and is often cited. He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences.
Conway holds a medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and a masters of public health from the University of South Carolina. He is board-certified in general preventive medicine and public health.
His appointment is subject to confirmation by the Anchorage Assembly. There is no mention as to whether he is going to move to Anchorage or work remotely from Bend, but Anchorage city workers are largely working from their homes these days, and so Conway will likely travel back and forth from Oregon.
The Anchorage medical officer for Mayor Dave Bronson was paid $143,936 a year for his services, but the amount paid to Conway has not been announced yet.
Other appointments to top-tier positions in the Anchorage Municipality include positions that have been paid over $140,000 a year in the past:
Chief Fiscal Officer Philippe Brice has served the Municipality of Anchorage as the acting Information Technology Director since May 2023, after being named Deputy Director in 2021.He worked as the Chief Financial Officer for several private-sector businesses and has a degree and a professional background in accounting. Purchasing Director Chris Hunter has been acting director since July 2024. He has been at the municipality more than nine years, serving as deputy director since 2021 after over 30 years working for ConocoPhillips Alaska. Information Technology Director Sioux-z Humphrey Marshall returns to her2018-2021role, when she adapted the city for pandemic remote work, and migrated the organization off of the mainframe systems. Internal Auditor Alden Thern has been serving as Chief Fiscal Officer since May 2023. He was Municipal Projects Director from 2019-2023 and Deputy Municipal Manager from 2015-2019.
Planning Department Director Mélisa Babb is a land-use planner and licensed landscape architect with site design and project management experience across Alaska. Babb replaces Planning Director Craig Lyon, who has announced that he will retire in2024. Project Management & Engineering (PM&E) Director Melinda Kohlhaas is a professional civil engineer with over 30 years of experience. Kohlhaas has worked at PM&E for the last 16 years, including as its acting director, and has been with the municipality since 2005. Public Works Director Kent Kohlhase has worked for the municipality since 2013. He served as Private Development Manager in the Development Services Department and Engineering Design Manager for PM&E, as well as the department’s director. He worked as acting Building Official and Director of Development Services as well as Municipal Manager from December 2022-July 2024. Health Department Director Kim Rash began her career in Section 8/Housing Choice as a receptionist before her promotion to manager, then spent over nine years assisting individuals with SNAP and Medicaid benefits at Arapahoe County Department of Human Services.
Suicide Basin, alongside the Mendenhall Glacier, disgorged its water earlier this year, causing extensive flooding in Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley.
Since that major flood on Aug. 6, the base has apparently stopped draining and is now refilling with water that comes from glacial melt, rain, and snowmelt.
“The current water level in the basin is near 1230 feet as seen on the pool height sensor. The rate of rise has slowed due to the lowering freezing level below 5000ft, but the rate of rise can increase again from rising freezing levels and/or rain events. Ice bergs may move in and out of the laser sensor’s view, which may make the data jumpy at times,” the National Weather Service said.
The current levels are similar to what was observed in the end of early July 2024, a month before the major glacial flood that impacted entire neighborhoods in Juneau’s most populated area.
“If the basin released all its known water today, the lake would reach around 11.0 feet, which is above moderate flood stage of 10.0 feet. In 2023, there were multiple releases after the very large one from Suicide Basin. Another release may occur again this year. Please continue to monitor this page for current conditions as the basin refills through the fall season,” the Weather Service said.
Images from the entire 2024 season camera on Suicide Basin can be viewed here.
A new report from the United Nations on violence against women and girls says that the recent of inclusion of men in women’s sports has resulted in physical harm to women and persecution of women who stand up for themselves.
Alaska Rep. Jamie Allard of Eagle River has stood up for girls and women in the Alaska Legislature, sponsoring legislation to ensure that teen boys and men are not allowed to create an unfair playing field for girls and women by “identifying” as females.
Although her legislation passed in the house and did not advance in the Democrat-controlled Alaska Senate, Allard has not given up. See her latest salvo on the topic, taking on the entire Democrat caucus of the House, in this video that has gone viral:
Allard’s video takes on the Democrats in the Alaska Legislature who say that boys taking over girls’ athletic competitions is not a problem. Rep. Andy Josephson is heard on the video saying he would “rather be mowing” his lawn than talking about the topic, he thinks it is so unimportant.
The United Nations report on violence against women and girls in sports called for separate sports for males who identify as “transgender persons,” saying that there are many instances where girls are being injured, having their teeth knocked out, experiencing concussions that result in neural impairment, and are getting broken bones and skull fractures because, “the least powerful man produced more power than the most powerful woman.” Men have punching power that is 162 times the strength of a woman’s punch.
“Male athletes have specific attributes considered advantageous in certain sports, such as strength and testosterone levels that are higher than those of the average range for females, even before puberty, thereby resulting in the loss of fair opportunity. Some sports federations mandate testosterone suppression for athletes in order to qualify for female categories in elite sports. However, pharmaceutical testosterone suppression for genetically male athletes – irrespective of how they identify – will not eliminate the set of comparative performance advantages they have already acquired. This approach may not only harm the health of the athlete concerned, but it also fails to achieve its stated objective. Therefore, the testosterone levels deemed acceptable by any sporting body are, at best, not evidence-based, arbitrary and asymmetrically favour males. Females are usually tested randomly to ensure that they are not using performance-enhancing drugs, while males are often not monitored to ensure that they are taking testosterone suppression drugs. To avoid the loss of a fair opportunity, males must not compete in the female categories of sports,” the United Nations report says.
