Posted on 11/30/2014 6:59:11 AM PST by Kaslin
The inmates are running the asylum in Indy.
Until recently I had not heard of the National Federation of State High School Associations, or NFHS. This Indianapolis-based organization has, since 1920, developed and published playing rules for high-school sports in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Like so many other national organizations charged with establishing curricula, policies and practices for primary and secondary education (consider the NEA), the NFHS has become completely overrun by radical leftists and sexual extremists. It has placed political correctness and the adult “LGBT” political agenda above the welfare and safety of the boys and girls it purports to serve.
This week, I received an email from a concerned public educator. He is also an NFHS member and high-school sports announcer: “I wanted to pass along to you an advisory that the National Federation of State High School Associations recently released on ‘Developing Policies for Transgender Students on High School Teams,’” he wrote, adding that, “in light of [his] positions,” and the threat of near-certain employment termination, he wished to remain anonymous.
And so I clicked on the link provided. It led me to an NFHS advisory penned by University of Massachusetts “social justice education” professor emerita Pat Griffin. (In other words, “Dr.” Griffin has a PhD in BS and has made a good, taxpayer-funded living shoveling it into that expansive black hole known as the “collegus craniumus.” As I have addressed before, “social justice” is simply code for “social-ism,” or, more precisely, cultural Marxism.)
Writing on behalf of the NFHS, Griffin advises every high school administrator in America that, according to the Federal Office of Civil Rights, Title IX requires that boys pretending to be girls, and girls pretending to be boys, must be permitted to compete on, and share locker room and showering facilities with, the sports teams of the opposite sex.
This is a bald-faced lie.
Griffin then lays the fantastical foundation for her entire “advisory”: “It is important for policy-makers to understand that transgender girls (who were assigned a male gender at birth) are not boys.”
This, of course, is objectively, “I am Napoleon,” house-full-of-kitty-cats cray cray. (Figure out a way, Ms. Griffin, to do a full override of a “transgender” kid’s reproductive system, give him a fertile uterus, vagina, birth canal and the like, preform a complete DNA/chromosome reversal, and we might at least have a place to begin a discussion. Until then, seek therapy. Your Huxleyan delusions are hurting, not helping, the sexually confused children you claim to serve. Besides, it makes you look nuttier than squirrel poop.)
Griffin then states the obvious, complaining, “School officials often see transgender students’ interest in participating in sports according to their affirmed gender identity as disruptive.” She further objects, “[P]ractices such as requiring them to use locker rooms and bathrooms that correspond to their gender assigned at birth discourage participation.”
“Gender assigned at birth.” Get that? Orwell would be proud. As if a person’s immutable, biological sex is both subjectively determined and arbitrarily “assigned” to them by our “heteronormative” American patriarchy.
You’re assigned homework, Ms. Griffin. You’re not assigned “gender.”
Therefore, administrators have a “responsibility,” she demands, “to ensure that transgender athletes have access to athletic teams according to their affirmed gender identity and that these students are safe in locker rooms and on the playing field.”
Girls playing boys’ football, boys playing girls’ basketball and coed showers – what could possibly go wrong?
Griffin then acknowledges, and promptly dismisses, “four major concerns” raised by mentally stable parents and school administrators. To the person who even dabbles in objective reality and speaks English only, the following will appear as gibberish. Fortunately, I speak fluent Moonbat and have translated accordingly.
“These concerns,” she writes, “are: 1) transgender girls [meaning boys pretending to be girls] are really boys [meaning real boys] despite their affirmed gender identity as a girl; 2) fear that non-transgender boys [meaning boys not pretending to be girls] will pretend to be girls [like 'transgender girls' do, only, in this case, just pretending to pretend to be girls] to win championships or get more playing time on girls teams; 3) transgender girls [meaning boys pretending to be girls] pose a safety risk for non-transgender girls [meaning real girls] in some sports, like basketball or field hockey; and 4) transgender girls [meaning boys pretending to be girls] have a competitive advantage over non-transgender girls [meaning real girls].”
“The belief that transgender girls are not ‘real’ girls is sometimes expressed as a concern,” she adds.
Ya think?
What a tangled web of gender identity disorder and “progressive” pathology we weave. Note that all of the “concerns” Griffin rejects happen to be 100 percent legitimate and fact-based. It is not a “belief” that “transgender girls are not real girls.” It is an empirical, biological fact that “transgender” girls are not real girls. They are, have always been and always will be boys, no matter how deep-seated their sexual confusion.
Still, the main issue here, the one that exposes the NFHS as nothing more than a dangerously reckless vehicle for radical “social change,” is the issue of safety.
Continues Griffin: “Some sports leaders and parents express concerns that allowing transgender girls [meaning high school boys] to participate on girls teams will pose a safety risk for non-transgender girls. This concern is based on an assumption that transgender girls are bigger, stronger and unable to exercise adequate body control resulting in an increased risk of injury to other participants.”
Again, this is utterly surreal. It is not an “assumption” that post-pubescent boys are “bigger” and “stronger” than girls, it is an irrefutable fact that they are. Girls, with the rare exception, are physically weaker, slower and less aggressive than boys. They have far less testosterone, muscle mass and a skeletal frame that is smaller, less dense and, therefore, more frail by comparison.
Pumping kids full of dangerous hormones or mutilating their genitalia changes none of this.
It’s easy enough to dismiss Ms. Griffin as the left-wing extremist she is. It’s not so easy, however, to dismiss the NFHS, which has both authorized her to represent the organization and to develop highly dangerous policies that will be adopted by high schools nationwide.
As a licensed attorney, and having once worked for years in the insurance industry, I can tell you that if a high school permits a sexually confused boy to play on a girls’ sports team, and that boy hurts a female player, that school has exposed itself to tremendous liability.
My suggestion to parents? If your high school allows boys to play on your daughters’ sports teams, sue, sue, sue.
And if, God forbid, one of those boys actually injures your daughter, then don’t just sue the school – sue the NFHS and Pat Griffin.
They’re ultimately accountable for this foolishness.
How many girls will just drop sports altogether or transfer to all-girls schools?
This as I begin coaching HS softball. Oh boy...uh, girl...uh, what?
“OK, you can shower with the girls but if that thang pops wood, off it comes!”
The people who are nodding this through do so because they such cases will be extremely rare, and it is easier to close one's eyes and go along than to risk being the target of an endless hate campaign from a pack of howling lunatics. And that may be generally correct. A serious injury will raise some eyebrows, but since injuries happen anyhow, it will be discounted. What will really rile the natives is when one of the "transgendered girls" turns out to have a bit of talent, and his team wins three consecutive state basketball championships, there not being any 6'10" legitimate girls who can check him. Pick your scenario for any other sport in which size and strength matter.
Or even better, wait until three or four guys turn it into a joke, and try out for a girls team together.
“all-girls schools”
Sadly, that’s next.
“These concerns,” she writes, “are: 1) transgender girls [meaning boys pretending to be girls] are really boys [meaning real boys] despite their affirmed gender identity as a girl; 2) fear that non-transgender boys [meaning boys not pretending to be girls] will pretend to be girls [like ‘transgender girls’ do, only, in this case, just pretending to pretend to be girls] to win championships or get more playing time on girls teams; 3) transgender girls [meaning boys pretending to be girls] pose a safety risk for non-transgender girls [meaning real girls] in some sports, like basketball or field hockey; and 4) transgender girls [meaning boys pretending to be girls] have a competitive advantage over non-transgender girls [meaning real girls].”
It’s translated from the original Martian. Imagine trying to be an non-native English speaker and trying to parse this. Even with the bracketed explanations, it reads like pure gibberish.
FReegards
Yes but boys who think they are girls-transgenders must
be admitted to those schools; if not it is discrimination.
This is great. Transgenderism meets feminism.
Two certified victim groups claiming rights they don’t deserve.
I love it. So a man who had his schmeckel lopped off can go into a boxing ring with a woman and beat the intestinal matter out of her, because he calls himself a she, and the media uses “she” with him.
Or how about the advantage a man has in golf. Does the man-minus-weewee get to play the womens’ tees?
Or sprinting. Last time I looked men and women did not run against each other in the same race. Because men would have the advantage.
It’s all crap, but I love it when the clash of claimed rights proves the inherent contradiction in their claims.
Yep, all of this is inevitable. I think the locker room will be a real issue before anything else though. From what I have heard, homosexual males are prone to strutting their “stuff”. Exhibitionists. I doubt protective fathers of X-Chromosome girls are going to put up with that for long. And the anticipation of rape charges ought to keep the school officials constantly on edge.
The leftist moonbats won the debate when we allowed them to say “gender” instead of “sex.”
Gender is for Spanish nouns.
Another problem with all this crap.
Checking off the wrong box when you are filling out a physician’s information sheet. If you are a man, and you had your schmeckel chopped off and you are trying to speak one octave higher, you are a man, not a woman. So if you check “female” you are lying, and the treatment you get will in some cases not be appropriate for you.
The physician has been lied to, and can not be held responsible for failed treatment that doesn’t work because you lied about your sex.
There should be a few more boxes to check.
____male, sacrificed male organ, and passing as a female
____female, had facsimile of schmeckel grafted, and trying to grow a beard and act gruff
Checking either one of these boxes gets you an interview with a shrink.
UMass proudly offers the Doctorate in Social Justice, as crazy and offensive a major as one can imagine. Thoughtfully, the "School of Education" at UMass (from which Bill Cosby received his Ed.D.) is placed as far away from the chemistry and engineering buildings on campus as possible less the ed majors attack the chem and eng majors for being symbols of the hated white, hierarchical, patriarchal, homophobic, achievacentric, rational, oppressive, angry majority.
We need a top down, one size fits all policy for transgendered high school athletes, rather than let each district set its own policy. Everyone knows there are hundreds of thousands of high school jocks who are trapped in the wrong sex. Right?
There won’t be any true all girls or all boys schools if we keep going with this madness. Hopefully the lunacy will be called out before then.
"Element e. Socio-cultural and historical contexts for, and dynamics within and among the specific manifestations of oppression (adultism, religious oppression, ableism, classism, ethnocentrism, heterosexism, racism, sexism, transgender oppression) in educational and other social systems;"
"Element J: j. Social justice intervention strategies methods such as critical pedagogy, anti-bias education, popular education, youth empowerment, dialogue across differences, participatory action research, alliance building, collaboration, or advocacy."
http://www.umass.edu/sje/
Under this logic, I defy you to describe an “all girls school”. I’ll bet today it’ll include athletes who wear a cup.
To the list add 5) boys on sexual overdrive trying to get into the girls' locker room for an added thrill of showering with naked girls. Maybe one will try and "save" him.
The Left hates any hint of conversion therapy but it seems to me that placing a boy claiming to be a girl in the shower with the girls tennis team would be a potent conversion treatment.
I tight be a good idea for employment applications to be expanded and detailed to ask questions revealing personality disorders that can cause liberalism. Liberals are factually more likely to cause workplace conflicts and become toxic employees engaged in EEOC complaints and litigation. In education they are often destructive to the moral balance of their students.
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