Posted on 12/01/2014 11:48:49 AM PST by xzins
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.
Griffin continues: “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.
Matt Barber is founder and editor-in chief of BarbWire.com. He is an author, columnist, cultural analyst and an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. Having retired as an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer, Matt has taken his fight from the ring to the culture war. (Follow Matt on Twitter: @jmattbarber).
The problem is that the people making these asinine decisions are not held personally financially accountable for them.
Shaniquaxx
Yes, Shaniqua, you have a question?
It's completely different. Aside from the risk of injury, the rare girl who wants to play with the boys is usually volunteering to spend most of her time on the bench.
It's an odd choice, but (as the father of two soccer playing daughters) I know of several girls who chose to stay with coed club teams rather than playing on a girls team. The rationale seems to be that they will elevate their skills as much or more playing coed rec, as opposed to switching to girls travel. As a practical matter, I imagine they got attached to their teams and teammates at ages 9-12, like their guy pals, and don't want to bust up the gang. Or, in some communities, there may not be an equivalent sports league for the girls, or maybe a girl just loves football.
In any event, the odd girl playing on a coed or boys team (which then becomes a coed team) isn't going to wreck the competitive dynamic. But the reverse is not true. Boys in any numbers playing on girls teams will ruin the game for the girls. If you value girls/womens sports, you have to oppose the gender benders.
Sir,
Having a girl on a boys team puts every boy on that team, and every boy on the opposing teams, at risk. The courts of the land have said that is what we have to do.
Those guys who went out for wrestling and find themselves facing a teenage girl did not put themselves into that risk of a sexual harassment lawsuit. The girl, and her lawyers, did. The young man has little choice in the matter other than to forfeit the match (which often is what happens). The risk is his, not hers, and was not his choice.
So while your argument is good sense, it is not what the law says. In fact, I suspect some of the coaches of say girls volleyball are trying to find some guys to come and play gay for the season.
The precedent has been set. And yes, girls will get hurt because of this. I am just tired of rule after rule targeting boys sports, and yet protecting the girls sports. If you mandate that all mens teams must be co ed, then all girls teams should be also.
So you are for ruining the dynamic on the boy’s team then?
If you are connected with a boys team that will be disrupted by a wave of athletically superior high school girls taking over and driving the boys to the bench, freepmail me separately. I know a couple of woebegone boys teams that would like to schedule you.
Unfortunate individuals are born with conformation and even chromosomes that aren't obviously one sex or the other. . .
These conditions are very rare. I've seen 1:1500 to 1:2000 tossed around. That's a small number to rearrange your entire society around.
There is that what used to be called hermaphroditism and is now termed "intersex," meaning that one's biological sex is not distinctly identifiable as male or female.
But LGBTQWXŸZ advocates like the ones in this article and other social justice warriors talk about being "assigned" a gender at birth, they are drawing a nonsensical distinction between one's objective biological sex, and one's subjective experience of his/her/hir/xir/whatever's own "gender" that they identify themselves as. In our anti-intellectual world, what you actually are is less important than what you believe yourself to be, which is why a man can one day declare, "I'm a woman," and all the socially conscious nimrods will immediately fall over themselves to affirm the new "Chelsea" and call him "her" and "she."
(Just what is it with the trans* crowd and the name "Chelsea," anyway? If I ever get set up on a blind date with a woman named Chelsea, I'm demanding a DNA test before I buy drinks.)
If you want to see a great example of this, have a gander at all the affirming comments when American Atheists' PR head Dave Muscato came out as a transgender woman named Danielle, in spite of his headshot still showing him to be a balding, bearded dude. (American Atheists exists to deny that there is a God, but can't seem to find it in themselves to deny that there is a Danielle.)
This of course leads to all sorts of insane nonsense such as traditional women's colleges having to ask new students what they identify as and what personal pronouns they want to be addressed by. Even better, there's an even weirder subculture known as "otherkin," who self-identify as non-human. (And yes, that means that "otherkinphobia" is also a thing.)
As an English graduate, I find the (often torturous) changes to the language that result from the present age's most extraordinary popular delusion. Orwell was prophetic, but he didn't see the half of it coming.
We ought to protect the girl athletes. We ought to make them all wear jockstraps.
LOLZ!!!
Human beings have sexes—not genders. Genders are for plants and Latin languages. See what allowing linguistic activism has brought us.
And don’t bother trying to argue in favor of the recent linguistic activism for social pathologies with me. I’ll never agree with it or bow to it while writing or speaking.
The Germans were big on hormone treatments. Probably pumping the women full of testosterone. A lot of the drug cheating came from their research. They didn’t allow outside testing of their contestants.
Government and sports don’t mix. In fact, most things and gov’t don’t do well together.
The parents who advocate for their confused children should be party to torts on the same side as the negligent schools along with queer clubs promoting this nonsense. Include as many idiots as possible in these torts.
Agree.
If you can’t have a real team for your kids, then at least you should have the money.
This is probably one area where liberals will love tort reform.
I’m really Half-Elven but chose the path of Elros, not Elrond
a short cut to return to Illuvatar. ; )
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