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A question for schools: Which sports teams should transgender students play on?
washingtonpost.com ^ | October 2, 2014 | Sandhya Somashekhar

Posted on 10/04/2014 3:55:10 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012

It had been a relatively quiet policy debate until the full-page ad appeared in the local newspaper. “A male wants to shower beside your 14-year-old daughter,” it said. “Are you OK with that?”

The ad, placed by a socially conservative group in Minnesota, was meant to snap attention to a proposal to allow transgender students to play on teams based on their preferred gender rather than the sex assigned to them at birth.

It appears to have worked. More than 100 community members flooded a meeting this week near Minneapolis, and thousands more sent e-mails. In response, the quasi-public body governing high school sports in Minnesota decided to delay a vote on a new policy covering sports participation by transgender students. Members of the board of directors said they needed more time to study the issue.

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I am so old I remember when there were just boys or girls.
1 posted on 10/04/2014 3:55:10 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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I'm Alice and this is Wonderland. There shouldn't be transgender students. This is a societal problem caused by sexuality being forced on children when many are too young to deal with sexual identity.

The answer, starting from this crazy premise, is they should only be on teams that are already defined as co-ed.

2 posted on 10/04/2014 3:57:46 AM PDT by grania
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To: ilovesarah2012

We live in a “sexy” world today. Toothpaste, shampoo, shoes, cars, you name it, everything is “sexy.” No wonder the kids are messed up.


3 posted on 10/04/2014 4:03:58 AM PDT by FES0844 (lAID)
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These children, and their crazy parents, should be in intense counseling.

Transgenderism Is A Mental Illness, Not A Civil Rights Issue

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/09/30/transgenderism-is-a-mental-illness-not-a-civil-rights-issue-n1898464


4 posted on 10/04/2014 4:05:19 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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Dodgeballs.


5 posted on 10/04/2014 4:17:25 AM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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rather than the sex assigned to them at birth

When the doctor says "it's a boy!" that's a statement of fact, not an assignation.

6 posted on 10/04/2014 4:26:31 AM PDT by Moltke ("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
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LOL


7 posted on 10/04/2014 4:31:47 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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"Transgender" boys (boys with mental health issues) should play on the boys team while getting help in dealing with their delusions. "Transgender" girls (girls with mental health issues) should play on the girls team while getting help in dealing with their delusions. We should stop pretending that you can be whatever you want to be.

Or if a kid wanted to compete in the Westminster Dog Show would liberals support that too? "He identifies as a purebred poodle, he has a right to compete!"

Nathan narrowly defeats his boy in the finals.

8 posted on 10/04/2014 4:32:11 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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An observation even.


9 posted on 10/04/2014 4:32:27 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I think they should be into “water sports.”

Ya know what I mean....wink.....wink.....wink.


10 posted on 10/04/2014 4:33:27 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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The ad, placed by a socially conservative group normal people in Minnesota

The Left has to push this agenda ad absurdum. If they don't and Americans catch on that "transgenderism" is a mental illness, where does that put homosexuality?

11 posted on 10/04/2014 4:37:00 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Pollster1

That poodle obviously has issues. I imagine the owners do as well.


12 posted on 10/04/2014 4:37:39 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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Yes. Any self-respecting poodle would have torn out the throat of anyone giving him a haircut like that.


13 posted on 10/04/2014 4:43:20 AM PDT by sphinx
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Showing with chicks and being a basketball star on the girls team (even though I couldn’t make the guys team).

Can’t say I wouldn’t mind going back to high school these days.


14 posted on 10/04/2014 4:57:05 AM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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Exactly! LOL


15 posted on 10/04/2014 5:01:01 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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Next, the transgender born a girl but wants to dress as a boy, who plays on the boys’ team will sue for discrimination because the reason he/she isn’t starting is OBVIOUSLY because he/she is transgender. Meanwhile, the girls’ team (formerly known as the mens’ JV team), will be taking the state title.


16 posted on 10/04/2014 5:09:18 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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“Transgenderism Is A Mental Illness, Not A Civil Rights Issue”...

Nothing more needs to be said as the above statement says it all.


17 posted on 10/04/2014 5:09:22 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: ilovesarah2012
Queers' Spelunking and Staying There Team*


* must be accompanied by any lunatics responsible for same

18 posted on 10/04/2014 5:32:31 AM PDT by tomkat
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...the sex assigned to them at birth

The way in which this is worded strikes me as very odd. The preceding words to it too, which make it sound if you can just "choose" your sex, like picking a channel on a television set. That is not the way nature works, leftists.

19 posted on 10/04/2014 5:33:00 AM PDT by Bettyprob
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NONE.
All sports federations leagues etc have rules against performance enhancing drugs because it can provide an unfair advantage to a person or team. The same should apply to male student being on female teams and female student being on male teams.
You are going to find more males in high school over 6 feet then females. So would not 2-3 of them being on the female volleyball team be an advantage? The reason this is wrong and a terrible idea are legion!


20 posted on 10/04/2014 5:33:28 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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