Posted on 03/04/2022 7:28:25 AM PST by george76
No men pretending to be fake women competing fraudulently in women’s sports 🤪
What an amazing concept 🙄
Yeah, and their Aqua Vulva aftershave too!
“State elected officials need to stop targeting trans youth and their families,” said GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis. “As a parent, my heart goes out to all the young people in Iowa who were just cruelly kicked out of school sports by the unjustified law @IAgovernor Kim Reynolds signed today.”
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It would be interesting to see how many tranny kids “CEO” Sarah Kate Ellis represents in her GLAAD organization IN IOWA.
My quess is less than 100.
I agree, go on chromosomes not birth certificate because birth certificates can be and have been changed through legal manipulation. All transgender folks would have to do is find a judge sympathetic to their cause to rule transgenders have the right to change their certificates.
I was filling out some paperwork at the hospital a couple months ago. One question was, “What gender were you the day you were born?”
I wrote in my answer, “Honestly, my memories of that day are pretty sketchy.”
#“State elected officials need to stop targeting trans youth and their families,” said GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis. “As a parent, my heart goes out to all the young people in Iowa who were just cruelly kicked out of school sports by the unjustified law @IAgovernor Kim Reynolds signed today.”
They are welcome to indulge in their mental problems all they want, but they shouldn’t force the rest of us to pretend the are normal or sane.
This fixes an obvious problem. Post-puberty boys are stronger, thus their competion isn't fair to girls. Or at least will fix once it survives the legal gauntlet. But I'm courious whether it affects a less discussed situation: biological girls wanting to compete—as girls—in "boys" sports. I offer an anecdote with Iowa cred as an example.
Recent Iowa woman's basketball star, Megan Gustufson, grew up in a very small town in NE Wisconsin. Her junior HS didn't have enough interested to field a girls BB team, but there was a boy's team. Megan petitioned to join that and played with the boys for a couple years. Prepuberty the strength differences are much less. Moreover the girls tend to enter puberty a year or so earlier than the boys. At that age the size differences are minimized. And Megan was destined to become unusually tall for a girl, 6'3". So at those ages she could compete with the boys. In fact some of the opposing coaches accused her of being TOO physical against their boys. Come HS there were enough girls she joined her own team. She eventually broke the state girls career scoring record. Leading to a scholarship at Iowa, becoming woman's national player of the year and a pro career. The experience she gained playing against boys closer to her own size and strength doubtless helped her development. Not to mention her being able to play at all, her area was too sparsely populated to offer other options.
Should she have been allowed to play with the boys then? Should females capable of competing physically with the boys (more common at younger ages and in certain sports) be allowed to try? Should they only be allowed to try when no girls teams are available or should they also be allowed to play with the boys instead when they demonstrate the ability?
Just what accommodations are available may become an issue. Should lawyers be able to shut down a whole league for boys because it can't afford to provide suitable accommodations for one interested girl? It's not hard to imagine such a case.
Depending on the ages and sport issues of the how they contact each other within the sport may occur. Female wrestling has been an issue in Iowa. Wrestling in general is very popular here so our eventual solution was to establish parallel girls wrestling programs. They're currently outside our main HS sports umbrella, but will join it soon. And Iowa is becoming the first power five school to have a college woman's wrestling program. But much of the country is still at a stage where the only kids the rare females can find to wrestle are males. Because their weights are bracketed the strength differences are reduced, especially in younger age groups and with less elite boys. But whether to let them compete that personally is controversial.
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