Posted on 05/11/2025 5:05:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
OPINION: What are the chances?
That thing that “never happens” happened yet again last week: A biological male competing against females won first place in two track events.
It happened in (surprise!) Maine, which so far has held firm against President Trump’s executive order banning biological men from competing against women in interscholastic athletics.
In what appears to have been a tri-meet, North Yarmouth Academy junior Soren Stark-Chessa won the girls 800 meter and 1600 meter (mile) runs, the latter by almost 20 seconds.
As noted by Outkick, the 800 event was a closer race with Yarmouth High’s Lilah Connor finishing second by one-and-a-half seconds. In a video (below) you can see Connor shaking her head in dismay after crossing the finish line.
The hilarious thing about Stark-Chessa’s victories is that his winning times suck. He won his events with a 2:43.31 and a 5:57.27 respectively.
Given that the meet appeared to have been a local one between three schools, I had a sneaky suspicion he did “just enough” to win … without making it look too lopsided.
Lo and behold it appears I was right: Last year as a sophomore, Stark-Chessa won the state “Class C” girls 800 championship with a time of 2:19.72 (ten seconds ahead of the second place girl, which is rather substantial for that distance), and finished 3rd in the 1600 with a 5:10.08, both substantially faster.
VIDEO AT LINK.................
But even those (girls’) championship times are at best mediocre for high school boys. Had he run in those boys’ championship competitions, Stark-Chessa would have finished 19th in the 800 meters and 22nd in the 1600.
(Disclosure: Yours truly was a track guy who ran the 400 and 800 meters in high school — best times 49.8 and 2:03.00 respectively — but I ran a 5:03.5 mile in 8th grade. My younger sister would go on to heights of much greater magnitude.)
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Stark-Chessa (pictured) apparently began identifying as female sometime between his freshman and sophomore year as he competed on the boys’ track team in 9th grade, according to Outkick.
Stark-Chessa also has been an all-state “girls” cross country runner and an all-conference “girls” Nordic skier. In the fall of 2023, a parent of two girls who raced against Stark-Chessa in cross country said her kids were in a “lose-lose situation.”
“They don’t want to pretend Stark-Chessa is a girl and congratulate him on beating females,” the parent said according to The Lion. “But they fear they will be seen as ‘hateful’ or bad sports otherwise.”
Oddly enough Stark-Chessa’s parents are both college professors. Soren’s dad, Frank Chessa, is a professor of medicine and associate course director of ethics and professionalism at Tufts University School of Medicine.
He also serves as director of clinical ethics at Maine Medical Center the Gender Care Clinic of which provides “treatment to patients of all ages with both pediatric and adult services.”
The Lion reported the Gender Care Clinic offered “surgical consultations to both children and adults”; however, the clinic’s website currently states such is offered only to those over age 18 (and with a “mental health letter of referral”).
Soren’s mom, Susan Stark (pictured), teaches philosophy at Bates College where she’s at work on a pair of projects, according to her faculty page.
The first is “a defense of the moral and social imperative of making reparations, not only for institutionalized slavery, colonialism, and genocide, but also for ongoing racist policies and white supremacy.”
In a 2022 paper, Stark notes one reparative approach is returning “stolen” land to descendants of original indigenous inhabitants (“historical injustices must be acknowledged, addressed, and repaired—that their significance overrides any harm caused by returning the stolen land”).
The second project deals with “reproductive ethics” for which Stark argues that “reproductive justice […] requires that midwifery and obstetric care address structural racisms and other forms of oppression in their practices and in the education of their practitioners.”
I’d say you’re right.
Those “new” men are actually women says the left. Don’t worry there are still plenty of the old guard around that do enjoy being men.
The “mother” is just a man pretending to be female.
And those liberal idiots once just picked fashion poodles as accessories not trannie/gendering their offspring for fashion.
I noticed that. When Cher’s REALLY cute daughter, Chastity, turned FUGLY GUY, I thought it was because Cher was so EXOTIC looking and popular that Chastity couldn’t COMPETE with her!!!
Maybe that’s what’s happening to all these other Hollywood kids.
Memo
To: HR
From: The Boss
Subject: New Hires
Don’t hire any one applying from Bates College in Maine
That sign should be slightly altered. It should read, the weakest men compete against girls. Not with girls. Pedantic, yes. But more correct than the former. You fight with your compatriots to fight against your enemy.
**Soren’s mom, Susan Stark...**
...the mentally ill mother of the mentally ill son..
I watched the clip. At the end the real female winner was congratulated by what looked like a boy teammate that probably runs distance for the boys at the same school. His display of celebration shows he wanted to emphasize his school’s female teammate was the real winner.
“Boy wins girls HS track events in Maine; parents are both college professors”
Ignorance is bliss
The mom wants to give back stolen land to the ethnic tribes who lived on them. Okay, Toots, you first. Give your house back to the descendants of the first arrivers who lived where you currently live.
As my Sicilian grandmother would say, faccia brutta!
Bates College? There’s gotta be a joke there somewhere.
The Bates college was named for the founder Master Charles Bates. Master Bates made his fortune by providing those that go to sea with all the material provisions and gear they needed
(Hat tip to Charles Dickens and the Artful Dodger)
Did I understand correctly,or not, that Trump was going to have federal funds withheld to states that insist on letting both sexes compete in athletic events equally?
Before I retired, I worked as an automotive tech, and “tranny” meant something entirely different.
Sadly spot on.
“They don’t want to pretend Stark-Chessa is a girl and congratulate him on beating females,” the parent said according to The Lion. “But they fear they will be seen as ‘hateful’ or bad sports otherwise.”
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The rotten fruit of “tolerance.”
It's up to the Trump administration to make the next move.
Since February: "Trump threatens to withhold federal funds from Maine over transgender athletes"
The time for threats is over, President Trump, it's time for action.
Otherwise this will happen again and again and again - and the EO ignored in blue states and cities, with more and more ignoring of EOs.
Yeah. It was a whole lot better growing up in an era where saying you blew a tranny at a drag race involved a mechanical failure at an automobile race.
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