You know that the TikTok post is incorrect. The 6A girls HJ Champion is very much a female. Maybe they have used the wrong event. They should really double check this. I know this girl and she truly is a girl. Trying to figure out how they F'd this up. If I was the parents of this state champion, I would be looking to thrash these "Libs of TikTok" and Riley Gaines. Please do your homework before you make accusations. By the way, I am in support of no males competing against females.
How many events were contested in state meets that did not feature transgender athletes? Why do we always get the few examples that actually exists & is it worth the amount of time spent? There are very few transgender athletes winning events like this. The girls who walked off have been led to believe it's some widespread thing that needs action like this. It isn't. Nobody lost a scholarship or anything real. They didn't win the high jump & their feelings of hate probably prevented them from enjoying the meet.
Everything trans must be resisted at every level, all the time, because it is a zero sum game. Either you agree with the grooming and gaslighting of children into surgical/chemical mutilation of their bodies, which they by definition can't consent to, or you're a moral human being who fights for human rights even under persecution of the Democrats trying to ruin your life and career, make you homeless and end you.
How many events were contested in state meets that did not feature transgender athletes? Why do we always get the few examples that actually exists & is it worth the amount of time spent? There are very few transgender athletes winning events like this. The girls who walked off have been led to believe it's some widespread thing that needs action like this. It isn't. Nobody lost a scholarship or anything real. They didn't win the high jump & their feelings of hate probably prevented them from enjoying the meet.
As I've pointed out before, this issue is related to defintions of categories and therefore has consequences for absolutely everybody in society. The trans issue doesn't hinge only on the number of males taking female sporting opportunities away. But if you want to get into that, I'll simply observe that the low number of trans-identified males competing in girls and women's sports only bolsters the arguments of those who are against it. The number of championship titles won by males relative to their representation among state and national champions demonstrates the enormous magnitude of their average advantage over females and the absurdity of allowing them to compete in that category.
But back to my original point. Despite your desire to arrogate moral authority, you have no answer for the fact that re-defining sex categories impacts every single person in society. You fail to acknowledge that the same policies used to "include" males in female sporting categories also lead the state to put males in female prisons alongside women who may not want to share living spaces with bepenised individuals. Within this system, a man flashing his penis in a public park is committing a crime, while the man who does the same thing in a women's locker room can now accuse his victims of being hateful bigots. Somehow the misogyny of misfit young women posting on pro-trans reddit threads about "yeet(ing) that tiddy meat," looks like compassion and justice to you. Males put on puberty blockers before the penis fully develops will never have an orgasm, but this somehow amounts to "love." Tell us why we should buy this line of nonsense. You haven't justified why your opinion is somehow on the side of justice while others' opinions are "hateful."
You just come back to the same dog any pony show--the inaccurate claim that this issue only impacts a few people and that those speaking out about it are nasty and ignorant. You haven't done anything but shame people, but I guess that's not surprise. There's a pretty compelling argument that what we call "woke" has roots in Puritanism and Quakerism; it's a combination of the nonjudgemental Quaker attitude grafted onto the moral superiority of Puritans.
Everything trans must be resisted at every level, all the time, because it is a zero sum game. Either you agree with the grooming and gaslighting of children into surgical/chemical mutilation of their bodies, which they by definition can't consent to, or you're a moral human being who fights for human rights even under persecution of the Democrats trying to ruin your life and career, make you homeless and end you.
Realistically a genitalia check gets rid of 99.9% of cases. we aren’t seeing DSD athletes in American HS.
And no that isn’t a big deal. Every boy shows his genitalia to the doctor to be groped before playing sports in the states I am aware of.
Wow.
To be clear:
As an advocate for protection of girls in sport, you are proposing that all middle-school and high-school girls will be subject to a genital examination before participation in sports???
That is frankly absurd.
As a parent and a doctor, I propose that we stay with self-declaration which has worked well for decades. (And I certainly never had a genital exam to play school sports, by the way.)
Rather than basic declaration of gender by a child's parents (which has worked well in youth sports for decades), Republicans are apparently now calling for the genital examination of all middle school girls, with the findings of these exams to be reported to the state.
(Because they support freedom and government non-interference, don't you know.)
Respect to them. If you are born a male you should compete in the male division. Open and shut. We can dither about the specifics for intersex people and other weird cases but I cant think of any major intersex cases in American HS sports.
Literally the only feasible and verifiable system for mass-participation children's sports.
Or please, tell us your better idea.
I was at a track meet this weekend with well over 1000 girls competing, mostly aged 12-17. Should every one of them need to submit a doctor's note?
And what information should that doctor's note have, pray tell? A genital exam? Because that wouldn't rule out Semenya? Chromosomal testing? To run middle school track?
As a parent and a doctor, I respectfully encourage you to think a bit harder of the implications of what you are proposing. (Which are MUCH more onerous than the minimal impacts of a trans kid being in a few girl's races.)
Calling for millions of girls to have genital exams completed and the findings reported to the state is simply batshot crazy stuff.
For people who are tolerant of males in women's sporting events, I have two questions.
Do you want to abolish gendered sports in general, or do you support gender-divided sports?
Are there bounds to your tolerance? How many males in a womens sporting event would you be comfortable with? For example if half of a girls volleyball team were males, would that bother you at all? Would you even think it was important? How about all of them?
I'm trying to get my head around the way y'all see this.
How many events were contested in state meets that did not feature transgender athletes? Why do we always get the few examples that actually exists & is it worth the amount of time spent? There are very few transgender athletes winning events like this.
If just a few boys take videos of themselves raping girls and then show the video to the internet while bragging about it and shaming the girls - do you seriously think that's okay? If so, there is something seriously wrong with your brain.
How many events were contested in state meets that did not feature transgender athletes? Why do we always get the few examples that actually exists & is it worth the amount of time spent? There are very few transgender athletes winning events like this. The girls who walked off have been led to believe it's some widespread thing that needs action like this. It isn't. Nobody lost a scholarship or anything real. They didn't win the high jump & their feelings of hate probably prevented them from enjoying the meet.
As I've pointed out before, this issue is related to defintions of categories and therefore has consequences for absolutely everybody in society. The trans issue doesn't hinge only on the number of males taking female sporting opportunities away. But if you want to get into that, I'll simply observe that the low number of trans-identified males competing in girls and women's sports only bolsters the arguments of those who are against it. The number of championship titles won by males relative to their representation among state and national champions demonstrates the enormous magnitude of their average advantage over females and the absurdity of allowing them to compete in that category.
But back to my original point. Despite your desire to arrogate moral authority, you have no answer for the fact that re-defining sex categories impacts every single person in society. You fail to acknowledge that the same policies used to "include" males in female sporting categories also lead the state to put males in female prisons alongside women who may not want to share living spaces with bepenised individuals. Within this system, a man flashing his penis in a public park is committing a crime, while the man who does the same thing in a women's locker room can now accuse his victims of being hateful bigots. Somehow the misogyny of misfit young women posting on pro-trans reddit threads about "yeet(ing) that tiddy meat," looks like compassion and justice to you. Males put on puberty blockers before the penis fully develops will never have an orgasm, but this somehow amounts to "love." Tell us why we should buy this line of nonsense. You haven't justified why your opinion is somehow on the side of justice while others' opinions are "hateful."
You just come back to the same dog any pony show--the inaccurate claim that this issue only impacts a few people and that those speaking out about it are nasty and ignorant. You haven't done anything but shame people, but I guess that's not surprise. There's a pretty compelling argument that what we call "woke" has roots in Puritanism and Quakerism; it's a combination of the nonjudgemental Quaker attitude grafted onto the moral superiority of Puritans.
Very thoughtful, and articulate. Thank you. For me it would have helped (me) get the gist and the pov of your comments with at least a couple of succinct thematic statements , maybe using “in other words” or a couple analogies.
They are mentally unwell because they are not accepted as the gender they identify with. Their mental health drastically improves when their gender is affirmed.
That does NOT mean we should use high school sports as their therapy. But conversion therapy has never worked and never will.
They are mentally individuals who expect society to affirm their delusions...Democrats gladly play along...Republicans, who are more honest and acknowledge reality, do not.
Yes, the paragon of your party is famously known for his honesty and close, heart-to-heart relationship with reality.
How many events were contested in state meets that did not feature transgender athletes? Why do we always get the few examples that actually exists & is it worth the amount of time spent? There are very few transgender athletes winning events like this.
If just a few boys take videos of themselves raping girls and then show the video to the internet while bragging about it and shaming the girls - do you seriously think that's okay? If so, there is something seriously wrong with your brain.
There is literally a trial about something like this happening right now.
Junior ice hockey players have been the subject of sexual assault investigations by police fifteen times since 1989. In 2022, Police were investigating three sexual assault allegations that happened in 2003 and the 2018 Hocke...
For people who are tolerant of males in women's sporting events, I have two questions.
Do you want to abolish gendered sports in general, or do you support gender-divided sports?
Are there bounds to your tolerance? How many males in a womens sporting event would you be comfortable with? For example if half of a girls volleyball team were males, would that bother you at all? Would you even think it was important? How about all of them?
I'm trying to get my head around the way y'all see this.
I didn't even say I want males in women's sports.
But EVEN LESS THAN THAT do I want my children and every girl in America to be subject to a genital exam with the findings reported to the state.
Get it?
I thought Republicans were supposed to be AGAINST government interference, not for it.
For people who are tolerant of males in women's sporting events, I have two questions.
Do you want to abolish gendered sports in general, or do you support gender-divided sports?
Are there bounds to your tolerance? How many males in a womens sporting event would you be comfortable with? For example if half of a girls volleyball team were males, would that bother you at all? Would you even think it was important? How about all of them?
I'm trying to get my head around the way y'all see this.
I didn't even say I want males in women's sports.
But EVEN LESS THAN THAT do I want my children and every girl in America to be subject to a genital exam with the findings reported to the state.
Get it?
I thought Republicans were supposed to be AGAINST government interference, not for it.
These are the same idiots who think Trump represents honesty and truth, so...
Realistically a genitalia check gets rid of 99.9% of cases. we aren’t seeing DSD athletes in American HS.
And no that isn’t a big deal. Every boy shows his genitalia to the doctor to be groped before playing sports in the states I am aware of.
Wow.
To be clear:
As an advocate for protection of girls in sport, you are proposing that all middle-school and high-school girls will be subject to a genital examination before participation in sports???
That is frankly absurd.
As a parent and a doctor, I propose that we stay with self-declaration which has worked well for decades. (And I certainly never had a genital exam to play school sports, by the way.)
Ah so now that the "it's not happening" line is invalid you pivot to "if you disagree you must be gay and/or a pedophile" How original.
If you actually played sports yourself, you would know that yes, a full physical is required for competition.I have had to get one for middle school, high school, and NCAA competition. The fact that you think this normal check up makes physicians pedophiles says more about you than anything else and I seriously doubt you are actually a doctor.
Finally, this is all a mute point anyway because this information can be gotten through simple cheek swabs. Now how about you defend men in women's sports on it's merits and not the ridiculous strawman fallacies.