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XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey Smed Nike over his alleged financing of a study of puberty blockers for children and how it would affect their athletic and training performance.
The research is looking to find out how much medical intervention there should be for a man to “pretty much” compete in girls and women’s sports.
The first view that Nike was allegedly funding was in an article in the New York Times that was published this weekend about the situation with Blaire Fleming-San Jose State Spartan’s transcend female volleyball player who played a controversial role in the 2024-25 NCAA women’s verge season.
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A Nike Swoosh logo on Nike of Eugene. (Kirby Lee -usa Today Sports)
Outkick pointed out that the play mentions Joanna Harper, a trans woman who is studying transient athletes, “is currently conducting an ambitious study of trans young people who measure their results on a 10-step fitness test before starting hormone therapy and then, after starting medical transition, every six months.”
The article then read, “But she told me when we talked in February, ‘The current climate makes the study somewhat insecure.’ I assumed she was referring to the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Institutes of Health Research Grants, but she said money was not a problem: the study is funded by Nike.
Pakinomist Digital has reached Nike for comment. The company has not yet offered any clarification on the case, according to Outkick.
Sey appeared on “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich” and completely devised the idea of the study that even happened.
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Jennifer Sey Founed XX-XY athletics in March 2024. The message of the name of the brand “is that there is empirical truth. Biology is true,” she said. (Xx-xy athletics)
“She tries to understand what they call ‘preserved male benefit’, and is a little enough of it for these boys to pass to compete with girls,” Sey said. It’s so wrong on so many levels. . . . Why is a shoe brand involved in this at all?
“But from the perspective of a woman and girls, we are not impaired boys. It’s so degrading to think of us that way. Would we do a study that says, ‘How many fingers can we cut off a boy to make it ok for him to compete in tennis with a girl?’ That’s what we’re doing here.
Sey said she thought the decision to finance a study like this may have happened many years ago.
“Senior leaders probably didn’t know what happened. This is something that happened deep in the organization,” suggested Sey. “And this Harper thought he was proud of it and he talked about it … I think Nike is like, ‘Oh, crap. Now we have to defend ourselves.'”
April 7, 2017; Arcadia, CA, USA; An athlete has a Nike logo -relay stick in the starting blocks during the 50th Arcadia Invitational at Arcadia High. (Kirby Lee -usa Today Sports)
Sey said Nike should just come out and apologize and remove the funding for this kind of research.
