Coaches, Parents Question Policy For High School Transgender Athletes

CTNow ^ | 6/05/18 | Lori Riley

[Libloather]

The success of transgender female athletes participating in high school track and field events has parents, athletes and coaches in some communities calling for a change in the current rules, as they question a possible competitive advantage.

The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which governs high school sports in the state, allows athletes to compete in the gender specific sport in which they identify. Continued success by transgender athletes has prompted two petitions — one started in Glastonbury and another in Plainville — from critics who say transgender athletes have an advantage. Together, the petitions have about 150 signatures, though neither has been submitted to CIAC officials.

“I think it’s unfair to the girls who work really hard to do well and qualify for Opens and New Englands,” said Glastonbury sophomore sprinter Selina Soule, who finished sixth in the 100-meter State Open final Monday. “These girls, they’re just coming in and beating everyone. I have no problem with them wanting to be a girl.”

[I want the USA back]

Great! Finally some people seeing things as they are. Unfortunately, the few who dared fight the establishment will be silenced, $hit upon and punished. You are not allowed to say the truth in the USA, and you will be forced to think correctly. A voice spoke up for a short time. Don’t forget it, because it will soon be suppressed and the person will be doing penance for thinking truth.
There is no such thing as transgender. These are not girls. These are boys.

Says the idiot: “A transgender girl is a girl and ought to be treated like a girl” Completely wrong.

[SamAdams76]

They’ll burn it all down. rather than admit they are/were wrong.

That is absolutely correct. Leftists are the most stubborn people on earth. They will never, ever, admit they were wrong on anything.

Take Global Warming. Despite all evidence to the contrary, such as the fact that we are shoveling more snow and heating our houses longer than ever, they are still 100% convinced we have global warming.

Take socialism. Despite the fact that all socialist states eventually fail, such as Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, etc., they still insist that this nonsense should be brought to the U.S.

Take Trump. Despite the fact that our economy is booming, the world is becoming a more peaceful place and government corruption is being addressed, the leftists still insist on hating Trump and wishing for him to fail.

Take a look at this unhappy, perpetually angry, disheveled leftist who is so much a failure that he has to live with his "bigoted" father-in-law because he is unable to provide for himself and his wife. Do you ever see him admitting he was wrong...about anything?

Yes, I know he's a TV character but Norman Lear knew exactly how to cast a typical clueless leftist.

[metmom]

Maybe for laughs, but that wouldn’t stop the left from pushing it and lauding it as if it were the best thing since white bread.

[lurk]

Equality. It seemed like a good idea.

[Alberta's Child]

Winning trophies by competing against the girls isn't going to interest a lot of male athletes.

But winning women's athletic scholarships to top Division I schools is a whole different story.

[NativeSon]

The left are zealots and their religion is a powerful, controlling government.

Their faith allows them to simultaneously maintain objectively clear, contradicting positions; "the death penalty is wrong, we are not g0d, no one can take a life!"
"a woman's right to choose is a human right! Hands off my body!!, my body, my choice!!"
"We demand 0bamaCare!"...

[Jim Noble]

"I have no problem with them wanting to be a girl"

That's your problem right there. If high school students are so miseducated as to believe that a boy can become a girl, then there's really no point in further discussion about this specific issue.

“You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.” - George Orwell, 1984

[Jim Noble]

as they question a possible competitive advantage.

Possible? POSSIBLE?

You mean, it's "possible" that boys are stronger, faster, and more aggressive than girls?

[mulligan]

Transgender. No such animal. That is an oxymoronic word. How can so many people be that ignorant and stupid? Wake up to reality.

[maddog55]

No such thing as a transgender anyway just people with severe psychological issues.

[cgbg]

“These girls, they’re just coming in and beating everyone. I have no problem with them wanting to be a girl.”

Young lady, you just earned an "F" for being Zucking Stupid.

You _do_ have a problem with them wanting to be a girl--wake up and speak truth to power!

[Kozak]

“Continued success by transgender athletes has prompted two petitions — one started in Glastonbury and another in Plainville — from critics who say transgender athletes have an advantage. “

Well only among Faux Females.
I don’t think the Faux Males are going to have any success at Football, Baseball, Hockey, Lacrosse or Track.....

[Kozak]

Naw. If the girls don’t get 1/2 the slots on the teams it will be because of “sexism”. They will figure a way to quota it to make it “fair”....

[VRW Conspirator]

Liberals ruin everything.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

....transgender female athletes....

Why, by definition, is their premise confirmed? These are MALES that are "transgender". These are MEN playing at being Women, nothing more. Once I see the media's confirmation of a lie, I read no further.

[Ikeon]

There was a recent story about a h.s. boys soccer team playing a professional aomens soccer team. The game wasn’t even close https://www.dailywire.com/news/6072/australias-national-womens-soccer-team-lose-7-0-amanda-prestigiacomo

[pinkandgreenmom]

“A significant number of second-string boys -— and it only takes a few-— are going to discover that they can win trophies by competing against girls. That’s all it will take to destroy girls’ athletics for the foreseeable future.”

I agree with you. At my son’s high school, it is virtually impossible to get on the boys baseball, lacrosse and basketball teams. They beg anyone with a vagina to please come play softball, girls lacrosse, and girls basketball just so they can field a team.

[Ikeon]

Seriously, Stop all anti bullying programs. teach kids to deal with bullies and stop telling them they can be whatever they want to when they grow up. Life is unfair, if you aren't willing to scratch and claw your way in the world expect to be treated like a door mat. You have rights, but with those rights comes responsibility, Like if you want to shasha down the hall expect to be called a fag and maybe be shoved into a locker or beat up by some hormonal adolescent having a bad day looking to take it out on somebody, and you stick out like a sore thumb with your earrings and your make-up, ya buddy, that's his own hair. that little faggotz got his own jet airplane, that little faggot he's a millionaire. nod to dire straights.

[Lizavetta]

If there was ever an emperor has no clothes moment in American history it has to be this transgender silliness.

Everyone knows these people are boys and are afraid - AFRAID - to say they're boys.

[Lizavetta]

Take a look at this unhappy, perpetually angry, disheveled leftist

"Disheveled leftist" ... I love it. :)