Posted on 02/04/2021 1:38:22 AM PST by RandFan
In a hearing for President Biden's nominee for education secretary Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) pressed Dr. Miguel Cardona to weigh in on the ongoing debate about how transgender students should compete in sports, describing the concept of students competing with their corresponding gender identity as “bizarre” and repeatedly mislabeling transgender girls as “boys.”
In a line of questioning that’s since drawn criticism on social media, the Republican senator repeatedly asked Cardona if he thinks it’s fair to have “boys competing with girls,” arguing it will “completely destroy girls’ athletics.”
Paul specifically drew on findings published by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights last spring that stated Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conferences decision to allow transgender female athletes to compete in women’s sports violated Title IX.
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Rand is pragmatic and persistent — hard to beat that.
Can’t ask logical questions in Clown World.
Don’t worry, guys. They’re the party of science.
the only way to put end to this is encourage ALL males everywhere to start competing in girls sports, going into girls locker rooms/bathrooms, attending ‘all girls’ schools etc - so that it completely destroys girls ability to compete on a fair platform anywhere, or have any place away from males.
Only then will it piss off enough soccer moms that support this crap to get them to see the insanity.
Sorry but we heard for decades thst girls can do everything boys can do and should therefore play in boys sports. Now the batch when the tables are turned o them? Sorry but what’s good for the gander is good for the goose.
Science
Sexual dimorphism is real. Humans are a species with significant sexual dimorphism.
“Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.[1] The condition occurs in many animals and some plants. Differences may include secondary sex characteristics, size, weight, colour, markings, and may also include behavioral and cognitive differences.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism
XX vs XY matters, and it matters a lot in athletics. Science.
Saying it doesn’t is absurd, yet here we are. It’s a pure political power play divorced from reality.
“The average basal metabolic rate is about 6 percent higher in adolescent males than females and increases to about 10 percent higher after puberty. Females tend to convert more food into fat, while males convert more into muscle and expendable circulating energy reserves. Aggregated data of absolute strength indicates that females have, on average, 40–60% the upper body strength of males, and 70–75% the lower body strength.[94] The difference in strength relative to body mass is less pronounced in trained individuals. In Olympic weightlifting, male records vary from 5.5× body mass in the lowest weight category to 4.2× in the highest weight category, while female records vary from 4.4× to 3.8×, a weight adjusted difference of only 10–20%, and an absolute difference of about 30% (i.e. 472 kg vs 333 kg for unlimited weight classes)(see Olympic weightlifting records). A study, carried about by analyzing annual world rankings from 1980 to 1996, found that males’ running times were, on average, 11% faster than females’.[95]”
Good for Rand that he’s pushing back on the absurdity.
Gender is not sex. As a doctor, Rand knows when he’s talking about boys he’s talking about genetic sex. That has nothing to do with gender identity. Gender identity as a basis for athletic participation robs girls of opportunities which was his point.
It’s a bit off-topic, but I wonder how things would have been different had Trump picked Rand Paul for VP instead of Pence.
> the only way to put end to this is encourage ALL males everywhere to start competing in girls sports <
I would love to see some men self-identify as women and start competing in women’s professional golf and women’s professional boxing.
But please, leave women’s beach volleyball alone.
Did he say this "without evidence"?
Was his statement quickly "debunked"?
Did anyone complain about journalism's "bias"?
We will likely get to see in 2024.
^
I love this man!
But Forbes, not so much:
“Repeatedly mislabeling” transgenders as boys?
Look between their legs. They are indeed boys.
Why is this cr*p coming up now? It seems to be the only topic of conversation!
Now that’s one fascinating thought experiment.
Remember when many of you said that if homosexuals were allowed to marry each other the dam would break and we’d be flooded with all kinds of perverts and sickos?
Well, it’s happened, just like you said. The perverts are here big time.
Not that long ago, the idea of boys competing as “girls” in girls’ sports was ludicrous.
Now, it’s becoming the norm.
Our culture is being lost.
The only solution is either an old fashioned Christian revival or secession.
They enjoy unfair “Developmental privilege,” to use Leftist jargon.
about how transgender students should compete in sports, describing the concept of students competing with their corresponding gender identity as “bizarre” and repeatedly mislabeling transgender girls as “boys.”
Once again, Rand needed to just say this: “Why aren’t you following the Science?” And see what snarky answer this duplicitous bureaucrat hisses...
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