Belarusian tennis player Aryna Sabalenka, ranked No. 3 in the world among female tennis players, reached the final of the Cincinnati Open by beating top-ranked Iga Świątek of Poland on Sunday.
Sabalenka dominated Świątek, winning in straight sets (6-3, 6-3).
That’s a big story in the tennis world, but viewers noticed something very interesting during the broadcast on TV.
One of many coaches for Belarusian tennis star Aryna Sabalenka wore a hat supporting XX-XY athletics, an organization devoted to defending ladies’s sports activities.
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It’s normal for tennis broadcasts to indicate the gamers’ coach’s field, the place the participant’s coaches sit (clearly). Often, it is when the coaches are speaking with the gamers.
However there was one thing attention-grabbing about one of many coaches within the field on Sabelenka’s aspect.
He was sporting a hat bearing the emblem of XX-XY Athletics, an organization devoted to defending ladies’s sports activities.
OutKick has lined XX-XY Athletics prior to now, together with their ban from TikTok promoting as a result of they aired an commercial that confirmed organic males injuring females throughout athletic competitions.
The founding father of the corporate, Jennifer Sey, has additionally written an op-ed for OutKick.
The mission assertion on the corporate web site states clearly: “We’re unapologetic about our purpose. We’re right here to guard ladies’s sports activities and areas.”
Whereas the corporate’s final purpose is to make and promote athletic attire, Sey and the model make it recognized that they battle to maintain organic males out of ladies’s sports activities.
Riley Gaines is an envoy for XX-XY Athletics and a distinguished determine within the battle for equity in ladies’s sports activities.
(XX-XY Athletics)
That is a hot-button subject, significantly proper now after the controversy on the Olympics the place two boxers with XY chromosomes received gold medals in ladies’s boxing.
Increasingly more, individuals are talking out towards having individuals with XY chromosomes competing in ladies’s sports activities due to the clear and apparent biologically-afforded bodily benefits.
Seeing the coach of a prime ladies’s tennis participant sporting a hat sending that message is an efficient signal that the tide is popping towards the madness of permitting organic males to compete in ladies’s athletics.
Frequent sense, hopefully, is beginning to win out.
