The Silent 80%: Why Your Voice Matters in Protecting Women’s Sports

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We Challenge the Narrative, Again

The fight for fair competition and free speech in women’s sports isn’t over. Many think the battle has been won, but real victory will only come when the silent majority joins the brave few who are already speaking out.  

Please join us on 10/10 -- X/X Day or Real Women’s Day – and wear our XX-XY Athletics Logo Gear to support the protection of women’s sports. We can win, but not without you.  



The Facts

  • 80% of Americans agree that girls and women’s sports should be protected. For girls and women only.

  • Most of those stay silent, fearing harassment, ostracism—even violence—from a bullying minority.

  • Meanwhile, girls lose out as boys continue to steal team spots and awards from deserving female athletes, with agenda-driven states like California fighting to keep it that way.

  • The silent majority waits for others to take a stand, leaving the burden to the youngest female athletes.

 

Our New Ad

We created a new ad leaning into this insight. We tapped a range of women who have spoken out and suffered the consequences of doing so. They share their view of how we’ll know when it is really over.  

Until these things happen, we continue fighting for women and girls and we continue to appeal to the silent 80%. We can’t do it without them. And the fight isn’t over.  


The Women Speaking Out

Rebekah Allick – Standout volleyball player for #1 University of Nebraska and advocate for female athletes.  


Alexa Anderson – Oregon high school track and field athlete ushered away by officials after stepping off the podium in protest when a male athlete displaced girls in the female high jump category at the Oregon state track championships. 


Melissa Batie Smoose – San Jose State University volleyball coach whose home was shot at after she stood up for female athletes. She was removed from her assistant coach position for standing up for the women on the team.  


Natalie Daniels – Six-time marathon winner and new mom who was attacked by Olympian Nikki Hiltz and her own run club for stating the women’s category should be for women leading into the Boston Marathon this year. She was kicked out of her run club 2 days before the marathon. 


Kara Dansky – Lifelong Democrat and leading face of the radical feminist movement for sex-based rights. 


Julie Lane – “Big lesbian” @SF_TERF_CENTRAL, member of CA-based group Women Are Real & star flag football quarterback. 


Miki Lorren – A powerful voice pushing back on the manufactured consensus that gender is a spectrum; as an adolescent, Miki was repeatedly told she was born in the wrong body. She is the chapter lead in Nashville for Gays Against Groomers. 


Payton McNabb – Injured in her senior year of high school when a male player spiked a volleyball in her face at an estimated 65 mph, causing a brain bleed in 2022.


Meghan Murphy – Canadian writer, journalist and long time TERF, Murphy was kicked off Twitter in 2018 for “misgendering.”  


Julie Potter – @JFPrapz, rap artist who was kicked out of a gay bar for performing a song about women’s sports while wearing XX-XY Athletics gear. She was accused of being “transphobic” for standing up for women and girls.  


Jennifer Sey – Fearless truth-teller and athlete advocate, twice canceled by corporate America. Now the CEO of XX-XY Athletics.  


Alanna Smith – Top Connecticut sprinter erased by a male competitor who spoke up when few dared to. 


Michele Tafoya – Sportscasting great and long time NFL sideline reporter, Michele is now a fearless voice challenging the cultural status quo.


Jessica Tapia – Tapia was a public school teacher in Riverside, CA and was fired for refusing to comply with gender ideology and pronoun policies; now Tapia is an outspoken advocate for free speech and parental rights.


Maddie Wilcken – Wrestled an 18-year-old male at age 13 and later spoke up about it at a school board meeting.


Annemarie Wiley – Wiley is a nurse anesthetist and former Real Housewives cast member who was smeared as a bigot for her support of President Trump.


Their stories can inspire others to cross the chasm from agreement to action, with us. 


Please join us.  



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