Oberlin Athletics Wins NCAA LGBTQ Award After Demoting Coach Who Spoke Out Against Men in Women’s Sports
“This award comes with a great sense of pride. It also comes with a great sense of responsibility. We cannot become complacent. We must constantly commit ourselves to maintaining and improving inclusivity on our campus.”
While the saying “go woke, go broke” definitely applies to Oberlin College considering its infamous history, there are some silver linings for Oberlin; namely, the NCAA awarded the school last month with the “2023 Division III LGBTQ Athletics Department/Conference of the Year” award.
In their write-up as to why they chose Oberlin for the distinction, the NCAA specifically cited their stated commitment to DEI:
Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the forefront of Oberlin’s mission. The school’s expansive efforts supporting LGBTQ student-athletes and staff include required education, physical and financial resources, campus and community partnerships, and panel discussions.
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Among Oberlin’s inclusion efforts are requiring staff and student-athletes to complete microaggression, pronoun and allyship trainings. The school has also hosted Pride-themed basketball games and 5K races to raise money for The Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization focused on suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ youth. OneTeam trainings have been offered to anyone in the athletics department, as well. The school is mindful of pronouns for all staff and student-athletes, maintaining a master list with those details to use in any print or digital materials. Transgender athletes have also been brought to campus to speak to student-athletes and staff. In 2018, Oberlin dedicated a locker room to be an all-gender changing space for transgender student-athletes and community members. In 2023, Oberlin student-athletes started a Queer Student Athlete Group to create a safe space for queer athletes to feel heard, represented and appreciated.
Their athletic director, Natalie Winkelfoos, declared in her video acceptance speech that “This award comes with a great sense of pride.”
“It also comes with a great sense of responsibility,” she also said in the clip below. “We cannot become complacent. We must constantly commit ourselves to maintaining and improving inclusivity on our campus.”
Maggie Balderstone, an Oberlin basketball player, zeroed in on transgender issues as one area where she believed the college and its woke students excelled.
“We do the work to kind of deconstruct the ideas about what a trans athlete is, what a queer athlete is” Balderstone stated.
Watch:
The statements about “inclusivity” are rather interesting considering in September, Oberlin demoted their then-women’s lacrosse coach, Kim Russell, to what was essentially a desk job as an Employee Wellness Project Manager, all for the crime of publicly defending herself after stating she believed women’s sports shouldn’t be opened up to men who identify as women.
In the lead-up to that, Russell – a long-time coach at the high school and collegiate levels – was subjected to disciplinary hearings in front of administrators who she said “burned me at the stake” for her views on protecting women’s sports. In some of the recordings Russell took during those hearings, administrators like Winklefoos and some student-athletes complained that the “period talks” Russell would sometimes have with female athletes made some of the students, presumably transgender “women,” feel “a bit unsafe” and unwelcome:
🚨NEW: Oberlin College retaliates against lacrosse coach for standing up for female athletes.
Administrators punished Kim Russell, the head women’s lacrosse coach, for encouraging her female athletes to harmonize around their menstrual cycles.https://t.co/tnK0jVU1gt pic.twitter.com/vMFlqWwHQt
— Independent Women's Forum (@IWF) September 29, 2023
In a statement she gave during a GOP Oversight Committee hearing in December 2023, Russell noted that she was actually a liberal who believed that people should be who and what they want to be but noted that the reality about biology and the physical differences between men and women can’t and shouldn’t be denied:
Kim Russell details her horrific injury after a male athlete fell on her during a co-ed field hockey game. This experience led her to advocate against men in women’s sports.
Oberlin College put woke ideology over the women’s lacrosse team’s safety when they fired Coach Russell. pic.twitter.com/OFUPMnST92
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) December 5, 2023
Though it was Oberlin who won an award, it’s Russell who stands out as the real winner here, having parted ways with the school in October 2023 and never looking back. She’s now a full-time advocate for saving women’s sports, standing alongside Riley Gaines and other prominent female sports figures who are unafraid to say “Enough is enough,” and who understand what the world will be like for future generations of women if the gender identity politics-obsessed left have their way.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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Who would have dreamt during the cold war that it would be Russia we must look to for moral guidance?
How would have also thought what present American Global(its) Hegemony would look like? Land of the Brie , Home of the Slave.
I hope they lose millions in court.
Oberlin has one of the worst athletic programs
almost every junior college will kick their Blank in big time routs
along with most every high school program will beat oberlin in every sport.
Hence why they welcome Trans
They want to win and don’t care of they destroy their women’s programs to do it
And even more important than sports are academics, Oberlin is turning out entitled snowflakes who will be worse than useless hires.
You’re not lying. Despite being in a very talent rich area of NE Ohio, their football has to be one of the 5 worst. They have not one, but TWO FEMALE FOOTBALL COACHES, including the offensive line coach. What in Blue Hades does a woman know about line play, let alone coaching it? Kinda need an Alpha Male there. I am an alum and a former OC athlete and they continue to embarrass me and other alums over 40.
It makes perfect sense that the utterly vile, hypocritical and evil Dhimmi-crats would gleefully embrace both “trans” narcissism/totalitarianism and the supremacist, totalitarian and belligerent ideology of “Submission” — the two most brazenly and blatantly misogynist ideologies on planet Earth.
It seems that the Dhimmi-crats are content to expose all of their decades of self-styled “feminist” agitation and “women’s rights” activism, as an utter sham and fraud.
It’s hard for
People today to put women s anything into perspective these days. It’s been so distorted, abused and used for revenge, but it wasn’t that long ago that women literally couldn’t get into Med/Law school, told to get married, have kids and be happy with your lot.
Sports? Outside of women’s ice skating and a few track stars, there was literally no women’s sports programs or money to run one.
My HS counselor told me to
Get married and drink
2 martinis a day like his wife.
I told
Him if I were married to him I would drink a lot more than 2.
We did come a long way baby, and then we threw it all away….
This cracked me up: “I told
Him if I were married to him I would drink a lot more than 2.” Hilarious!
The times that you mentioned were before the idiocy of title IX. I think it’s title nine that mandates that women’s sports has to equal men’s sports. Even if the women don’t want to go out to those same sports. I guess that makes me a spoil sport.
It wasn’t that long ago… as a woman of some age, I remember it well
Barbra Jordan,
First black woman from
Texas elected to Congress said,
“ I have been discriminated more in life because I am
A Woman, then because I’m black.”
I am SO sick of this crap. I am seriously thinking that I will only vote for “public servants” I can actually critique and push back on, and right now, that is only straight white males (and SOME black, female, etc. conservatives, but obviously NOT Nikki Haley who is riding the racism and misogyny progressive identity train like anyone gives a damn).
My personal feeling right now is that I will not vote for anyone who is not a straight white male until we can openly critique everyone else’s policies, agenda, and actions. I am just so over this crazy. If I can’t tell you you’re a commie nutter who has no business in an elected position without being called a racist, misogynist, whatever-phile, screw you. I won’t vote for ANYONE to public office that I can then not criticize. Period. I’m done.
“…I will only vote for “public servants” I can actually critique and push back on,”
Excellent plan. Without feedback things can go sideways without limit. Why, one might end up with unequivocal plagiarism in the president of one of our flagship universities.
Or an administration shuffled in because they declared they’d make all the symbolic, first of type appointments, which is actually keeping that one campaign promise.
I think Churchill said something similar.
Wasn’t the last time that was true more than a century ago?
“Men make the best women. Long live the patriarchy.” – satan
“Natalie Winkelfoos, declared in her video acceptance speech that “This award comes with a great sense of pride.”
How apt. I have heard a couple of Hollywood personalities say the same thing after winning Razzie Awards. Both of them were comedians — that is, people who drew a paycheck for being clowns. And now we have another.
This is ALL on women athletes. They need to refuse to suit up if there’s a male in the competition.
Stand together or lose it all together. It’s 100% their own destiny.
The school that paid out $35 million to Gibson’s Bakery is showing it has learned nothing about that experience, but will cling to the “progressive” narrative of the day, regardless of the narrative’s lack of correspondence with reality.
How have applications trended at Oberlin?
After their humiliating loss in court to Gibson’s bakery, and their humiliating loss on appeal, you would think they might have considered overturing a new leaf.
But no, they triple-down on their failed ideaology.
They must be crushed.
Erronius
Oberlin should actively recruit MtF transgender basketball players. A starting five consisting of all six foot and above transgenders would enable Oberlin to win a real sporting award. Beating the second best female team in the country in the NCAA tourney on national television 100-26 might change some hearts and minds about this issue.
I am thinking that “LadyBallers” won’t be making the rounds of college campuses anytime soon.
I wonder if Bob Neil’s Germany Since 1914 will be updated with Oberlin Since 1984. Only the names have changed.
Oberlin is a dedicated Komsolmol academy and will toe the party line on anything. We should encourage MtF transexuals to go to Oberlin and try out for the sports teams [probably on athletic scholarships]. If any or all of the “womens” sports teams become all or primarily transexual, eventually there is going to be an uproar from the biological females.
Bring popcorn.
Subotai Bahadur
no athletic scholarships in DIII, and Oberlin Athletics are an afterthought at best. A pity that the last school from Ohio to beat Ohio State on the gridiron (7-6 in 1921, look it up) is such trash.
It’s one they live in a sealed-off sound-proof bubble.
Impervious to outside of dead
Like a cult
Like a citizen of North Korea
Real life must seem so daunting to them. How sad.
Btw is there anything more inconsequential in the universe than anything related to Division III athletics?
/smh
It’s as if they live in a sealed-off, sound-proof bubble.
Impervious to any outside data…….
Well, they got what they were going for by doing what they did. In their terms, it worked.
Whether we want to fund, accommodate, or tolerate this are separate questions.
Is someone with different agenda recruiting that prof? Seems like a possible talent worth grabbing.
again
b/c the other end is working on the changing of the birth certificate ( legal in many states) to any gender you choose and the hippa laws will or DO INCLUDE you not being *allowed* to ask what your actual gendre was at birth
THENNN FEMINNAZIS CAN SAY
SEE, WOMEN ARE JUST AS GOOD AS MEN
and guess who brought this alll to you
women with p
envy