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The Latest Absurd Manifestations of Transgenderism
Crisis Magazine ^ | July 18, 2017 | PAUL KENGOR

Posted on 07/18/2017 3:45:24 PM PDT by NYer

At Cromwell High School in Connecticut, a 15-year-old boy with a mustache recently crushed female competitors in track and field, to the great dismay of the girls who have spent many intense days training so hard.

This doesn’t seem fair, does it?

It does in the left’s brave new world of fundamental transformation.

The boy, you see, calls himself a girl. That’s his self-proclaimed “gender identity.” And all’s fair in the bizarre universe of modern-day LGBTQ liberalism.

The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference permits students and their schools to decide which teams they can join. The conference is abiding by state and federal laws mandating that students have the ability to compete on sports teams that accord with their public “gender identity.”

And 15-year-old biological boy, Andraya Yearwood, identifies (at least for now) as a girl. And get this, sports fans: He’s only a freshman.

He could easily dominate the girls’ meets for four years.

Too bad, ladies. You’ve come a long way, baby, but liberalism’s new world is erecting some brand spanking new obstacles to your progress.

So, if your daughter runs track at Cromwell High, she better be able to run faster than a boy.

The (real) girl who finished second to Andraya, a junior named Kate Hall, was tearful over her loss. “It’s frustrating,” Hall said. “But that’s just the way it is now. … I can’t really say what I want to say, but there’s not much I can do about it.”

No, there’s not. Kate is clearly scared to say what she really wants to say. She doesn’t want to be denounced as a “hater,” as an intolerant “bigot” toward LGBTQ persons. As “trans-phobic.”

Ditto for Hall’s coach, Ben Bowne, who’s no doubt terrified about saying anything that would bring him the enmity of the nature redefiners at the government school. The coach lamely told the Hartford Courant: “Kate was emotional. She works really hard. She’s a very competitive athlete. She hates losing to anybody.”

Yes, poor Kate. Emotional girl.

Her coach continued: “I’ve just told her all year run your best. If this girl has better times than you, she’s going to help you as a runner. That’s what we focused on.”

Okay, coach. You go right ahead and focus on that.

As for the father of the transgender “girl,” he’s fully on board the LGBTQ-liberal train. He apparently has been sufficiently indoctrinated into the progressive worldview, and thus is tolerating no objections. He told the Hartford newspaper: “If someone says, ‘Why is your daughter running with the girls?’ I say because she’s my daughter, much like the reason your daughter is running with the girls.” The dad barks: “She’s running exactly where she should be running!”

The dad, of course, is merely mimicking the prevailing progressive zeitgeist, exhaling the left’s cultursmog. Note how he cleverly uses all the right liberal language to silence any critics who dare suggest this was an unfair race biased toward his “daughter.”

And good for him. The well-coached dad is simply taking a page from the Bible of liberalism, The New York Times, which, in a breathtaking February editorial titled, “Welcoming Transgender Boy Scouts,” authoritatively stated: “The Boy Scouts are recognizing transgender boys for what they genuinely are: boys.”

Well, okay, liberals. If these are your rules, then let’s play by ’em. On your mark, set, go!

So, liberals, if your daughters lose their track meets, or swim meets, or tennis tournaments, or golf tournaments, or whatever other sporting events to inherently stronger biological boys declaring themselves girls—and perhaps lose D-1 scholarships in the process—then suck it up and take one for the liberal team.

You’ve created this monster. And now you can live with it.

Personally, my favorite spectacles have been the transgender girls (read: biological boys) who are trouncing biological girls in weightlifting competitions. They do so, hoisting huge barbells over their heads and then hoisting glistening trophies from the winner’s platform, as everyone in the room politely stares, mouths agape, terrified to dare raise nary a peep of protest—at the risk of being excoriated for their “hateful” “intolerance.” (Click here and here and here, among others.)

The absurdity is surreal. It’s comical. It’s like we’re watching at an old Monty Python skit, except this is no gag.

Many more such incidents will follow, including at the collegiate level, which should send Title IX academic feminists into fits of whirling rage as college women lose to college men calling themselves “women.” (But then again, radical feminists have always told us that a girl can do anything a boy can do, including physically.)

It’s less a triumph for this or that transgender girl than it is for the insanity that is liberalism/progressivism. It’s a gold medal for liberalism, a trophy for the dictatorship of relativism, where everything is redefinable, including one’s own definition of one’s biological reality, despite what over a trillion chromosomes tell a person his or her gender truly is.

Like communism, liberalism inevitably implodes under the weight of its own unnatural and unsustainable contradictions. And, frankly, sometimes the implosion can be fun to watch. Really, I can’t help but cheer on these transgender gals, who are giving liberals a heaping dose of their own medicine.

The madness of progressive ideology is giving birth to these strange beasts, which, in turn, ultimately eat their own.

The left is like Saturn. It eats its own children. Enjoy the feast you’ve prepared, liberals.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: biologydeniers; liberal; transgender
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To: NYer

If he was really like a woman, he would have been frantically plucking all signs of a mustache away. But he is just a liar and a cheat.

Not a girl.


21 posted on 07/18/2017 5:56:33 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: NYer
The TERFs could win this argument before 2020, if they would nationalize their movement to draw in all women, in order to defeat identity politic politicians.

Et sequentia, the sun sets on Bizzaro World the day a 7-2 Court assembles...

22 posted on 07/18/2017 6:43:53 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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To: NYer
I see where this is inevitably going to go.

Under competing political and legal pressure between "transgender" men who want to compete with women, and feminists who realize that women will disappear from every competitive sport entirely, school boards and universities are simply going to shut down their sports programs completely.

How can a school meet its Title IX obligations under Federal law if its men's teams are filled with men and its women's teams are filled with men claiming to be women?

23 posted on 07/18/2017 7:13:28 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: SaveFerris

My husband and I were just talking. Perhaps “Caitlyn” Jenner should start competing again, and this time, he can win as a “woman”.


24 posted on 07/18/2017 8:20:22 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: FamiliarFace

Sounds about right. It can go to the Olympics again.


25 posted on 07/18/2017 8:21:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 21:36 KJV Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all...)
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To: Alberta's Child
How can a school meet its Title IX obligations under Federal law if its men's teams are filled with men and its women's teams are filled with men claiming to be women?

One feminist has already recognized the implications of this on Title IX and begun to rally the troops. In response to Obama's transgender bathroom mandate last year, Kara Dansky of the Women’s Liberation Front or (WoLF), appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show.

“We think that ‘women and girls’ are a meaningful category worthy of civil rights protection,” she said. “If we define sex, under Title IX, to mean gender identity, what we’re essentially saying is that ‘women and girl’ can mean anyone who self-identifies as ‘women and girl,’ which makes the category ‘women and girls’ meaningless as a category.”

You can read the rest of the interview and watch the video HERE.

26 posted on 07/19/2017 4:04:22 AM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: NYer

Old article...Cromwell will have their local elections in November like all CT towns (some small towns in CT had elections in May), but I’m going to watch the school board election to see if there’s a switch...


27 posted on 07/19/2017 5:58:22 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Alberta's Child

Wait until girls/women want to play on men’s teams, many can out shoot some of these male jocks, and have the height to do it. Many are much better free throw shooters too.

TN Vol girls under Pat Summit won big games against big time schools, with 6ft or taller young women.


28 posted on 07/19/2017 6:14:34 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: GailA
That will never happen. Even the best women's teams would be hard-pressed to beat a mediocre men's team in any major sport.

The U.S. women's national hockey team -- comprised of current collegiate players and former collegiate players in their 20s -- included some games against men's teams in their Olympic preparations in 2014. They lost about half the games they played against high school boys teams.

Just think about that for a second. The U.S. women's national hockey team -- comprised of the best female adult hockey players in the country -- plays at a level comparable to a high school boys team comprised of local players. The women's national team would have been destroyed by the boys Under-18 national team.

29 posted on 07/19/2017 6:26:42 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: NYer
To me the really funny thing about all this 'trans' stuff is that it is going to absolutely destroy Title 9.
30 posted on 07/19/2017 9:18:24 AM PDT by zeugma (The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
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To: Alberta's Child
Under competing political and legal pressure between "transgender" men who want to compete with women, and feminists who realize that women will disappear from every competitive sport entirely, school boards and universities are simply going to shut down their sports programs completely.

Personally, I have no real problem with this. Unfortunately, nothing is going to be allowed to destroy college football. There is actually money involved there.

31 posted on 07/19/2017 9:24:30 AM PDT by zeugma (The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
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To: zeugma

See my post #26.


32 posted on 07/19/2017 3:00:13 PM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: GailA

Geno has his women’s practice against guys. I guess they (UConn’s women’s) could beat small college men’s team, but Duke men’s would beat them in a close game...


33 posted on 07/19/2017 5:06:10 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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