Maine trans girl does it again: First place in 18:09! Do the parents of the competing girls not care?!

Yes and when it comes to low math test scores etc, save that for the college crowd too. Don't be criticizing the educational system below college level, protect the kids!

Ridiculous.

Kids are being told they can be the opposite gender and make the world play along. It stops only when the world doesn't play along. This is one of the most absurd naked-emperor effects in the western world atm.

We live in a world in which science has allowed us to move beyond the “appeal to nature” fallacy . Like, you’re posting on an internet message board, fool

What is the appeal to nature fallacy?

So just let men compete in women's events?

Adults are telling people that a magical man in the sky cares how you live and demands you hate others. Spare me the lecture

The idea that nature should dictate what is right and wrong

Wokeism is the new religion

Humans seem to need a religion

The question is whether it is better or worse than the traditional religions

The wokeism code makes the group weaker

Typically, religions which thrived have a code that makes the group stronger

It’s difficult to believe that wokeism will be around for that long

What does it even mean to “make the world play along?”

People love to say that “science says that there are only two genders.” Science is nothing but observing the way things are and trying to find patterns and structures that are revealed. If enough people are identifying as transgender, then a true scientist should look at that and say, “I guess there are more than two genders. I can observe this based on the data.”

The world is going to do what the world is going to do. It doesn’t care about your feelings.

Only fools naively misapply the appeal to nature policy. For instance, polio is natural, so it must be good, right? No one is saying that certain male advantages are better or worse or are the basis for social policy, although evolution has a pretty good track record of explaining behavior and some conclusions from it can be based on common sense. There are whole departments, fool, based on evolutionary psychology. Sounds like a Christian idealogue to me. I don't think anyone is going to be nailed on an internet message board for espousing the physical consequences of evolution. The accusers would look stupid, much like the accusers in the Snopes Monkey trial, which involved Christian idealogues. It is amazing how history repeats itself.

The poor kid is just trying to race. Leave it alone. It's like .1% of cross country races.

Outcast? No. Shame? Certainly!

If some people are going to be hateful towards another group of people in the way that anti-trans folks are, then I’m going to shame them.

I, on the other hand, am unshameable as I am only operating from a place of acceptance and respect for all the varying forms of humanity in society.

In what is (currently) post 32 in this thread, I wrote:

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"Expecting people to accept that a boy is a girl is mean and condescending, but that concept seems to have eluded you. It is another manifestation of the leftist propensity to label those disagreeing with leftist positions as haters, xenophobes, homophobes, transphobes, misogynists, etc."

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And Dexter St. John in post 46 and the "unshameable" (his word about himself from post 53 though preening Pharisaic popinjay seems more apt) Lenny Leonard quoted here from post 53 substantiate my statements by calling their opponents haters. This seems to have been the schtick of leftists for years now: declare that their preferred groups have been the victims of hatred and that their opponents are haters.

Hey, Dexter and Lenny, here's another reality you have difficulty grasping or admitting: few people hate folks with gender dysphoria. But a great many people are deeply saddened, even aghast, that people with this dysphoria and because of it are poisoning themselves with opposite-sex hormones and same-sex hormone disruptors and amputating properly functioning body parts and fashioning fake ones so that they, somehow, can become the people they feel they were meant to be because, somehow, they were born into the wrong body. It's far, far, far, easier to believe that these people are thinking terribly badly and terribly self-destructively.

Really? Who are they? Is there a list of all those All American trans athletes?

nobody told you that. you're just making things up.

Yeah, if only there were another category he could compete in....

Christ, get a life, you unbelievable tools.

It's truly hilarious how much of a loser you'd have to be to scroll through high school XC results just to find things like this, get mad, and then share it with other losers to get mad about on an Internet message board.

If the girls who were behind the runner in question want to do something about it, fine. But I will bet a large amount of money that they don't care at all; it's only the pathetic loser parents living through their kids who are mad that their little Emma finished 5th instead of 4th or whatever, as if it robbed her of some amazing glory that she doesn't really care about.

Could you mix in a little punctuation?

What does woke mean?