A female fencer has refused to compete against a biological man in a tournament at the University of Maryland. She took the knee and laid down her sword. The judges disqualified her. She is a true champion.
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How do I even repay that?
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#love. Ben describes perfectly and with great humor the uneasiness many of us centrist Dems feel about our left flank. When I watched student protestors at elite colleges saying ridiculous things like 'We're Hamas, we're all Hamas!" and heard a DEI manager at the university where I work instructing us to treat students differently based on race, I thought: do I laugh, or do I cry? Either way, this aint the party I grew up with.