The event where this male athlete will be competing for a female state title is the NHIAA high school varsity Indoor Track Championships (Division I and II) - to be held on Sunday, February 11, 2024 at Plymouth State University in Holderness.
Seriously?? You're encouraging people to buy tickets to harass a 15 year old?
Nice bit of projection there, mate.
In response to other posters who suggested that the upcoming meet mentioned in the OP isn’t really happening, I provided detail showing that the meet is real.
The only person who’s mentioned going to the meet “to harass” the 15 year-old boy set to be competing in a girls’ championship is you. The thought never occurred to me until you brought it up.
All you’ve done here is project your own nasty thoughts onto me so that you can get on your high horse and accuse me of being a bullying, bigoted meanie who’s trying to whip up a personal harassment campaign against the boy in this case.
For the record: the people actively engaged in the controversy over so-called "trans rights" who have form for engaging in bullying, harassment and physical violence against their opponents are the militant trans activists - most of them male - not women like me. And the people that these mostly male militant trans activists aim the bulk of their name-calling, screaming, shouting, doxxing, pushing, shoving, spitting, slapping, punching, rape and death threats, and constant admonitions to "sxck d..." at tend to be female people like me who won't bow down to the male supremacist agenda that the militant trans activists are trying to impose.
But have at with the DARVO. Women aren't going to roll over and give up the hard-won rights that generations of us had to fight tooth and nail for simply because blokes like you have come up with novel ways of demonizing us.
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RunRagged continues to scour the internet for any and all instances of trans athletes living their lives and enjoying track and field. Every link I have found on the internet concerning Jacques either grossly miscommunicates her performances, equates her to a sexual predator or makes some kind of crude sexual innuendo about her.
I just read one that said she "dominated' by jumping "over an inch higher than her closest competitor." First, she effectively tied at the height. Second, winning the high jump by one inch is not domination.
If your argument is not effective without resorting to hyperbole, 'slippery-slope' arguments, or scare tactics, then you don't really have an argument.
RunRagged continues to scour the internet for any and all instances of trans athletes living their lives and enjoying track and field. Every link I have found on the internet concerning Jacques either grossly miscommunicates her performances, equates her to a sexual predator or makes some kind of crude sexual innuendo about her.
I just read one that said she "dominated' by jumping "over an inch higher than her closest competitor." First, she effectively tied at the height. Second, winning the high jump by one inch is not domination.
If your argument is not effective without resorting to hyperbole, 'slippery-slope' arguments, or scare tactics, then you don't really have an argument.
Would it be bad form for her to compete with individuals who share a similar life status? Currently she is the minority but over time there will be more - probably enough to have another category or division of athlete?
RunRagged continues to scour the internet for any and all instances of trans athletes living their lives and enjoying track and field. Every link I have found on the internet concerning Jacques either grossly miscommunicates her performances, equates her to a sexual predator or makes some kind of crude sexual innuendo about her.
I just read one that said she "dominated' by jumping "over an inch higher than her closest competitor." First, she effectively tied at the height. Second, winning the high jump by one inch is not domination.
If your argument is not effective without resorting to hyperbole, 'slippery-slope' arguments, or scare tactics, then you don't really have an argument.
Would it be bad form for her to compete with individuals who share a similar life status? Currently she is the minority but over time there will be more - probably enough to have another category or division of athlete?
She is a girl who competed against other girls. That is the definition of similar life status. There is nothing bad form about that.
In all seriousness, competing in both the HJ and 1500m in meets is such an odd combination to me. It's not like the team needs her to do that double (her 1500 time isn't all that impressive - FYI, it was 8 seconds out of scoring).
In all seriousness, competing in both the HJ and 1500m in meets is such an odd combination to me. It's not like the team needs her to do that double (her 1500 time isn't all that impressive - FYI, it was 8 seconds out of scoring).
The advantage of being a male competing against females is that you have a better chance of being competitive in all events, even ones that don't typically use the same skills.
In all seriousness, competing in both the HJ and 1500m in meets is such an odd combination to me. It's not like the team needs her to do that double (her 1500 time isn't all that impressive - FYI, it was 8 seconds out of scoring).
I know a high school student who competed in mid-d and pole vault. She was mediocre in running, but was the only female vaulter in her high school.
In a more odd combination, Erin Donohue not only competed in javelin, and actually won an ACC title.
In all seriousness, competing in both the HJ and 1500m in meets is such an odd combination to me. It's not like the team needs her to do that double (her 1500 time isn't all that impressive - FYI, it was 8 seconds out of scoring).
A local girl near me tripled at the district meet, running the 1000m (3:03), 1600m (5:07), and the HJ (5'0"). She won all three. None of those are her PRs either. She also ran 17:42 in XC. More mid-distance athletes should try the jumps.
I’m not arguing that. But you can become a girl if you want to and take actual steps to do it beyond just “wanting it.” I can “want” to run a PR in the marathon, but I have to do more than that to make it happen.
The winner is female. Whether trans or not doesn't matter.
Good for her and everyone like her that finds happiness in their new identity. Only a monster would try and take that away.
The winner is not female, and hopefully knows that. An honest trans girl would know she has an unfair advantage and would not compete in the girl’s division. The problem is not the desire to be female , or the desire to be seen as female, it’s taking that desire into inappropriate areas. This should not be encouraged.
RunRagged continues to scour the internet for any and all instances of trans athletes living their lives and enjoying track and field. Every link I have found on the internet concerning Jacques either grossly miscommunicates her performances, equates her to a sexual predator or makes some kind of crude sexual innuendo about her.
I just read one that said she "dominated' by jumping "over an inch higher than her closest competitor." First, she effectively tied at the height. Second, winning the high jump by one inch is not domination.
If your argument is not effective without resorting to hyperbole, 'slippery-slope' arguments, or scare tactics, then you don't really have an argument.
Huh? Your post makes it clear that you're the one who has scoured the internet looking for any mention of this athlete.
What's more, your post shows that when your search results gave links to sites where this teenager from New Hampshire has been mentioned, you clicked on the links, read what other people have said and commited their unkind, stupid and hyperbolic comments to memory so that you could come on LRC and spread what people have said elsewhere on the internet to this particular corner of it.
Yesterday, I posted a link to the page on a well-known track & field site giving the results of Sunday's meet. I didn't give a thumbnail sketch of all the asinine, mean-spirited remarks posted about this kid by randoms all over the internet. You did.
I'm not the one scouring the web for idiotic gossip so that I can spread puerile tittle-tattle and trash talk further by posting it on other parts of the internet, mate. You are! These are your words, not mine:
Every link I have found on the internet concerning Jacques either grossly miscommunicates her performances, equates her to a sexual predator or makes some kind of crude sexual innuendo about her.
You're also one of the several LRC posters who has form for making baseless claims and assertions on the topic of "trans" that you never back up. I try to share factual information about the topics that are relevant to the discussion - policies, laws, compeitions, athletes, wins/losses, records, biological differences between the sexes, court cases and decisions, the tenets of gender identity ideology, the flaws and illogic and regressive sexism I see in that ideology, and the harms I think occurs when gender identity ideology is used as the basis for sports categorization and public policy, and when adherents of gender identity ideology try to force their belief system on everyone else against our will and turn gender identity ideology into a de facto mandatory state religion.
When I make the case for why I think girls and women should be allowed to have female-only sports from which all males are excluded, I try to lay out my line of reasoning so that it's transparent and clear enough for others to see and easily grasp. When I cite factual info, I usually give sources, and often provide links.
Whereas you usually just make baseless assertions, claiming that anyone male is and must be regarded as female, a girl, woman if he and you say so.
In the rare instances where you mention sources, the sources you point to are unhelpfully non-specific - "Every link I have found on the internet" - that no one else can verify or check for themselves.
I also don't resort to the other tactics used by random yahoos on the interet that you're now attributing to me in a lame attempt to lend an air of credence to your pronouncement that those of us who hold that all males should be excluded from female sports competition "don't really have an argument."
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