Posted on 06/03/2015 3:57:23 PM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
A petition posted on change.org is urging the International Olympic Committee to take back the gold medal Caitlyn Jenner won in the 1976 Games in Montreal.
Jenner, who announced her new name as Caitlyn on Monday and said she has always known she was a woman, competed in the Olympic decathlon as Bruce Jenner. In 1976, Jenner, who was married at the time, was not taking hormone therapy; she may have known she was a woman for her whole life, but she was living as a man, no matter how unhappily, at that time.
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Go back to DU noobie
Mean-spirited stuff like this helps no one.
The person is still Bruce, still a male...
Males have XY chromosomes.
Females have XX chromosomes.
The person getting overwhelming media adulation is a male, no matter how many body parts he cuts or distorts or tucks or how many chemicals he injects into his body.
Period.
Full stop.
End of story.
For a society that somehow thinks of itself as educated and scientific, we sure have found a way to pervert PERCEPTION over REALITY.
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