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The biological male injured a female volleyball player with a powerful spike shortly after transitioning, according to Ahlayn Labuanan, whose daughter Destiny was a member of the same team as the transgender athlete. The injured girl was diagnosed with a concussion, Labuanan adds, temporarily taking her out of school and practice. But her daughter Margaret Oneal Monteleone, 16, a sophomore at a Catholic prep school in Maui, Hawaii, placed second behind her transgender competitor. As some of her female athletes prepared to compete against a biological male, she says, they thought they had no chance of winning.

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I feel so sorry for every girl that has gone through this,” she says. “I know what it feels like because I’ve had to go through this experience as well.” Our own viewing of the film satisfies us that Carnal Knowledge could not be found … to depict sexual conduct in a patently offensive way. Nothing in the movie falls within … material which may constitutionally be found … "patently offensive" … While the subject matter of the picture is, in a broader sense, sex, and there are scenes in which sexual conduct including "ultimate sexual acts" is to be understood to be taking place, the camera does not focus on the bodies of the actors at such times. There is no exhibition whatever of the actors' genitals, lewd or otherwise, during these scenes. There are occasional scenes of nudity, but nudity alone is not enough to make material legally obscene… Appellant's showing of the film Carnal Knowledge is simply not the "public portrayal of hard core sexual conduct for its own sake, and for the ensuing commercial gain" which we said was punishable… Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution: the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p.291. ISBN 9780835717762. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada

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By contrast, she says, she heard that the transgender athlete had “only been training about two weeks beforehand.” A Nationwide Concern That HHSAA policy states, in part, that “a student has the right to participate in athletics in a manner consistent with the sex listed on their school records.”

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To those who may be doubting that this is really happening, it’s happened to both me and my mom,” Margaret says. “This is really happening to girls all across the country, all across the world, and opportunities are being taken away.” The changes in the morals of American society of the 1960s and 1970s and the general receptiveness by the public to frank discussion of sexual issues was sometimes at odds with local community standards. A theatre in Albany, Georgia, showed the film; on January 13, 1972, the local police served a search warrant on the theatre, and seized the film under local obscenity laws. [6] In March 1972, the theatre manager, Mr. Jenkins, was convicted of the crime of "distributing obscene material". The Directors Guild of America and the Motion Picture Association of America appealed this ruling. [6] His conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court of Georgia. On June 24, 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the State of Georgia had gone too far in classifying material as obscene in view of its prior decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15(1973) (the Miller standard), and overturned the conviction [8] in Jenkins v. Georgia, 418 U.S. 153(1974). The court also said that, Vagg, Stephen (September 6, 2021). "Surviving Cold Streaks: Ann-Margret". Filmink . Retrieved March 9, 2023.It was very disappointing,” Margaret says of the race she lost to the transgender athlete, adding: “I’ve been training the entire year.” In 2018, Monteleone qualified for Team USA at the World Masters Athletics Championships in Málaga, Spain. There, she faced off in the women’s category against Yanelle Del Mar Zape, a biological male from Colombia. Darren Pai, director of strategic communications for Kamehameha Schools Maui, told The Daily Signal that the K-12 campus would have no comment for this report. It’s easy to place a label on someone, but to walk in their shoes is another story. Have they competed against someone who has a clear biological advantage? Have they trained hours and hours to have a chance for victory? … This is not about us. This is not about my story and [my daughter’s] story, it’s about the young girls that I coach in elementary school who see that hard work pays off.