FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Almost three-quarters of voters say they believe medals awarded to biological men who beat females in sports should be given instead to the women who lost. Female athletes worldwide have lost nearly 900 medals to transgender-identifying rivals competing against them in women’s sporting categories, according to a United Nations report released last week. Fully 72% of voters say those medals should be awarded to the biological women who would have won them otherwise, and 68% say women’s sports records set by biological males should be thrown out so that women’s sports records are restored to biological women.  This is according to a poll released Thursday from Napolitan News Service, which surveyed 1,000 registered voters from Oct. 28-29. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. The new U.N. study demonstrates that, across 29 sports, over 600 female athletes have lost to male competitors who identify as women. “The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing against males,” the report says. In America, the issue of biological males playing in girls and women’s sports is “moving the needle in some key Senate races and possibly having an impact on the presidential race,” said Scott Rasmussen, president of RMG Research, which conducted the poll on behalf of Napolitan News Service. “Some Senate campaigns are running hard on that issue, gaining some traction,” Rasmussen told The Daily Signal. “And one of the reasons it’s effective is [that] to most people, it’s idiotic to let boys play in girls sports. It’s common sense.” Biological males competing in girls or women’s sports is expected to be a “sleeper” issue in the Nov. 5 election across the nation.  For instance, a debate moderator asked Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, about an ad from his opponent in Texas’ Senate race, Republican incumbent Ted Cruz, that accuses Allred of refusing “to protect the integrity of women’s and girls sports.” In response, Allred denied what his voting record shows. He said Cruz’s attack ad was “a desperate, last-second attempt … to distract you because he can’t defend his own record.” “Ted Cruz was running a lot of ads,” Rasmussen said of the incumbent senator’s ads directed at Allred. “His challenger felt he had to respond. And when he did, [he] kind of tried to sound like he was agreeing with Ted Cruz. The progressives attacked him.” An ad targeting Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, argues that Brown is “too liberal for Ohio” because he voted “to let transgender biological men participate in women’s sports.” Brown’s reelection campaign cut an ad in response saying that it’s a “total lie” to suggest that Brown had voted to allow transgender athletes to participate in girls sports. The ad also reminded voters that Ohio already banned biological males from playing girls sports, garnering Brown criticism from LGBTQ groups. “You want to protect women, and you want to protect women’s sports, but some of the progressive Democrats have a hard time letting go of that issue,” Rasmussen said, “and so it’s something that is shaking up the race again, perhaps just on the margins.” The post Most Americans Say Women Deserve Medals Lost to ‘Transgender’ Athletes Who Are Biological Males appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) marching band, The Panther Marching Band, has a cute and ‘Golden’ member stealing the show – Winnie the Golden Retriever, a service dog to a UNI sophomore. In an interview with KCRG, Winnie’s hooman and UNI sophomore Gabi Riessen said, “I’m part of the marching band, so that means she is, too.” Winnie, a Golden Retriever, is Riessen’s service dog. In a UNI article, Riessen revealed her relationship with Winnie and how she ended up in the marching band with Winnie. Riessen is a transfer majoring in elementary education from Denison, Iowa. From her previous school, she was “met with obstacles” to participate in band and theater because she has a service dog. In the article, Riessen reveals that she chose to transfer to UNI because two of her friends attended the school. And because she hopes to get the full college experience, with Winnie by her side, at UNI. “One of my best friends, Ren — she’s on the color guard team, and she told me about how much she loved it and how amazing Director Justin Mertz is,” said Riessen. “So she gave me his email, and I reached out to him to see if being in the band with my dog could even be a possibility, and we met and talked about it. I think he’s more excited to have a dog in the band than I am.” Today, Winnie is part of the Panther Marching Band. She marches with Riessen and stays by her side in the frontline. Riessen even reveals, “Honestly, I think she’s a better marcher than me. She’s just really good at adapting to any situation I put her in.” Also reveals that Winnie loves the attention she gets as a marching band member. Riessen reveals, “There’s so many people watching her, and she eats it up.” However, before being a Panther Marching Band member, Winnie is, first and foremost, a service dog to Reissen. As a service dog, Winnie helps Riessen manage her postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) – a chronic disorder that causes problem in a person’s autonomic nervous system. Riessen explains POTS in simple terms saying, “For me, it means that I pass out randomly without warning. Like my heart rate just fluctuates more than most people.” Winnie is trained to pick up on changes in Riessen that indicates a fainting spell. She will then alert Riessen of an upcoming fainting spell, allowing the UNI sophomore to get to a safe spot to avoid hurting herself. She will then lie beside Riessen and protect her. Riessen said Winnie provides her with a “sense of normalcy”. “Winnie has made it where I can be like a normal person again,” said Riessen. “I can do band, because she’ll let me know if I’m okay, and I can go to my classes. Before her, we didn’t know if college was going to be an option.” And while service dogs cannot be pet during their “work hours”, Winnie is different. Riessen reveals that she does not mind when people pet Winnie, giving back the sense of normalcy that the pooch has been providing her. “If we’re not doing anything, I’ll let them pet her because she deserves to be a dog and to have fun because I would hate for her to just be so structured that she misses out on that,” she said.

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