Transgender runner wins regionals by over a minute

The days of competitive sports for women is over. I hate to see it but even women wanted it this way, because they wanted to be politically correct. Now it's come back to haunt those who it truly affects. You can't have it both ways folks. I think they should just create another gender category and let those that are confused about what they are compete against each other.

You could've also quoted the competitor in the Press-Herald article who "said she had liked having Stark-Chessa in the conference meet. 'Having competition in the conference meet was great.'”

Most of the Maine athletes I've talked to are supportive of trans athletes and resent the outsiders that are bullying their 15-17 year old peers and trying to make their sport more toxic and hostile.

I wish the culture warriors could see, or cared about, the damage they're doing. The last thing we need in Maine is less participation.

"Ugh. I was being sarcastic"- well yes, obviously, but a term like 'outdated' implies public perception of a topic- and the public (minus a few blue haired extremists) are very much on her side.

A boxer can objectively change weight. They can't change sex. Noone can change sex. If they could change sex then your analogy would make sense. But they can't so it doesn't. What you are in fact advocating for is a 210lb heavyweight boxer who strongly feels like he is a flyweight to fight against flyweights.

I guess this is the point of contention where we can never hope to move beyond. You say that you can’t change sex, I say you can. I am not advocating for boxers to say they “feel” a certain weight. You made that up.

Your whole argument against transgender participation in sports is that transgenderism does not exist. I get it. For the sake of consistency, do you also feel that transgender people should use the bathroom of their birth-assigned sex? Would you say, “I’m not denying you the right to use a bathroom. Im just saying you are male, so you have to use the male bathroom.”

+1. Let girls run against girls and stop trying to make everyone believe that a biological male is a female who requires exceptions at the expense of fairness.

I'm guessing that in high school there is no hormone therapy going on. Is this just simply a boy who says I'm a girl?

In 1976 I was an 11th grade boy running 2:00 for 800. I rarely won races. If I identified as a girl I would have had a shot at making the Olympic Team.

It's just not as simple as saying I'm a girl.

And notice- you never see girls who identify as boys in the boy's race.

I think this has to be addressed. It's not fair to biological girls that they have to compete against a biological boy who's only change is his name from Michael to Michelle.

I see this happen all the time where I live. You don’t see it because you live in a MSM bubble.

You're identifying as a Wise Old Man...you're not. You might in fact be Old, but Wise is a word too far.

I attend a lot of meets. I've personally never seen either. I live in a place that has fairly moderate politics. I've only heard of these stories out of politically homogeneous "progressive" states. Maine, California and Washington are the salient examples this year. Connecticut was the first time I had heard of a real-life example...when 2 average athletic kids ran as boys for indoor track and 3 months later voila they finished 1-2 at outdoor state.

Just to be clear, this is not woke nor liberal. I am a liberal progressive, but the women's category is that for a reason, and it's unfair to women to have trans runners in their category. It's that simple. Not political. Not woke. Unfair and thus inappropriate. I don't know any liberals or woke-type folks who support this. The defining line can be unclear at times, as it was with Caster and others who lived as female from birth, but once defined it is important to honor that line. This does not.

And this is why no one takes CA seriously anymore. You all are so married to your religion of wokeness that you don't see its insanity. We are all laughing at you.

It's Maine. Class C

No you don't. You're full of crap. This is a serious issue and must be addressed intelligently. Obviously, you should not be a part of it.

The NCAA and other organizations need to enforce registration by BIOLOGICAL sex, in other words - Birth Gender, so we can stop hurting women's sport. This doesn't need to be controversial or difficult.

Yes, I agree- there is no possible way we can rationally discuss this if you think a human being can change sex. I think a person can go to fairly extreme measures to impersonate the opposite sex but that is hardly the same thing. I could take extreme surgical and cosmetic measures to look like a chimpanzee. I could even manipulate my hormones to grow more body hair. Some people might even mistake me for a chimpanzee in passing. What's more, I could honestly and sincerely believe that I am a chimpanzee and that I was born with a chimpanzee brain but in the wrong body. But I wouldn't be a chimpanzee. And I could never be a chimpanzee. A chimpanzee isn't just a surgically altered human; and a woman isn't just a man without balls.

I agree. Glad we found common ground, even if it is in this insane topic which no one here is discussing.

"Your whole argument against transgender participation in sports is that transgenderism does not exist. I get it." I'm not sure what you get because I do believe that some people are distressed about their gender and feel like they need to live as the opposite sex. I simply believe that the desires of those individuals to be 'affirmed' shouldn't trump hard-fought single sex spaces and sports for women and girls.

"do you also feel that transgender people should use the bathroom of their birth-assigned sex?" First off, their sex is recorded, not assigned. Secondly, yes, noone born male should be using any single sex space for women and girls. Hope that clears that up.

The fact that we are even having a discussion on whether a male can race in a female's race is absolutely bonkers.

Go back to 2003 right now.

If this thread was posted everyone would think it's a joke but people have been so brainwashed that we are normalizing mental illness.

And your daughter had the advantage of not having to train through a Maine winter.