{"id":12092,"date":"2019-04-03T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12092"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:09:27","slug":"fact-check-ilhan-omar-says-its-a-myth-that-transgender-women-have-a-competitive-advantage-in-powerlifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/fact-check-ilhan-omar-says-its-a-myth-that-transgender-women-have-a-competitive-advantage-in-powerlifting\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Ilhan Omar Says It\u2019s A \u2018Myth\u2019 That Transgender Women Have A \u2018Competitive Advantage\u2019 In Powerlifting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fact Check: Ilhan Omar Says It\u2019s A \u2018Myth\u2019 That Trans Women Have An \u2018Advantage\u2019 In Powerlifting\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NppdpQF87Bw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>CHECKYOURFACT<\/strong>,  by Caitlin McFall | Contributor &#8212; March 2, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Congresswoman <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/04\/01\/ilhan-omar-investigation-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ilhan Omar\u2019s<\/em><\/a><em>  comments have gotten her into hot water recently, but she also said  something that largely slipped under the radar \u2013 that it\u2019s a \u201cmyth\u201d and  \u201cunscientific\u201d that transgender women have a \u201cdirect competitive  advantage\u201d in women\u2019s powerlifting.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/02\/06\/ilhan-omar-transgender-powerlifting\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Omar<\/em><\/a><em> wrote a letter to USA Powerlifting after it refused to let a transgender women enter a Minnesota competition.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI  urge you to reconsider this discriminatory, unscientific policy and  follow the example of the International Olympic Committee,\u201d she said.  \u201cThe myth that transgender women have a \u2018direct competitive advantage\u2019  is not supported by medical science, and it continues to stoke fear and  violence against one of the most at-risk committees in the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, video and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2019\/04\/02\/fact-check-ilhan-omar-myth-that-transgender-women-advantage-powerlifting\/\">https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2019\/04\/02\/fact-check-ilhan-omar-myth-that-transgender-women-advantage-powerlifting\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHECKYOURFACT, by Caitlin McFall | Contributor &#8212; March 2, 2019 Excerpt: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar\u2019s comments have gotten her into hot water recently, but she also said something that largely slipped under the radar \u2013 that it\u2019s a \u201cmyth\u201d and \u201cunscientific\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/fact-check-ilhan-omar-says-its-a-myth-that-transgender-women-have-a-competitive-advantage-in-powerlifting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12093,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions\/12093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}