Save Women’s Sports posted an item yesterday:

The Save Women’s Sports flag was raised this morning over Nashua City Hall, where it will be flying through Friday! Thank you to Beth Scaer for your dedication to our movement! Ask your city if they offer this option and we can send a flag your way!

But it got taken down today. A Nashua group page patted itself on the back for silencing women.

Yesterday morning, a flag was raised over Nashua City Hall in support of a transphobic organization, with the expectation that it would continue to fly until Friday. As word spread through the community, the response was clear – this isn’t what Nashua stands for. Many folks reached out to Nashua government officials and city employees, others posted publicly about the issue. As of this morning at 8:30 AM, the flag is down.

Many thanks to Jim Donchess for your quick response, Jan Schmidt and Jenn Morton and Mutual Aid & Defense NH for the calls to action, and everyone else who stood up for our Trans neighbors. Hate has no home in Nashua, full stop. I’m looking forward to updated guidelines from the The City of Nashua regarding usage of the Citizens’ Flag Pole to ensure that future flag requests are vetted more carefully.

It’s not “hate” to say that women’s sports should be for women, or that women have the right to have sports for women. If women can’t have sports for women then they can’t ever win at anything. It’s not “hate” to say that’s not a good outcome.

It’s probably the case that trans women are a bit stuck if hormones make them less strong than the average male, but it’s still also the case that it shouldn’t be women’s job to solve that problem. Maybe that’s just the price trans women have to pay, or maybe they can continue to play on men’s teams despite the disadvantage, or maybe they’ll decide sport just isn’t in their future anymore, but what they don’t get to do is trash women’s sport.