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From the June 4th Danbury (CT) News-Times coverage of the Connecticut Girls Track Championships:
So now women will be referred to as “genetic women”? I guess men are “genetic men”? Good grief.
I failed to add that this just didn’t have adverse effects on the girls that directly competed against the boys (and those who were denied spots in those races.) By allowing the boys to compete and win against the girls it also rearranged the team standings.
This is sick
If I had a daughter competing in track and field I’d be totally pissed. This is insane.
An eternal optimist, I cling to the hope that this won’t end up a win for the “it’s all about frame of reference” crowd. If the vast majority of the parents of those defeated or of those whose teams dropped in the standings aren’t thinking “this is crazy,” we’re in pretty bad shape.
I also wonder how those who think everything should “empower women” feel about the fate of the losing biological women. Were they “empowered”?
Maybe there is a free market solution here. Form the ACAA (American College Athletic Association) that doesn’t subscribe to this nonsense, and let colleges join and compete under their auspices. In a few years, the NCAA might be totally irrelevant.
If these are the rules, then it follows that athletic directors and coaches in college are being derelict in their duties if they are not recruiting male-to-female trans athletes for their women’s squads.
They are, are they not, tasked with recruiting whoever they need in order to win within the rules, are they not? Then, it seems, they ought to be redshirting men not quite good enough to make the male squads, and let them transition into women.
College is expensive. Is identifying as a lady and taking hormones for a while worth free college?
There are over 300 Division I schools. If we are right, and I think we are, the first athletic program cynical enough to play this to the hilt and load up on male-to-female trans students, that school ought to dominate all the women’s sports.
It would be bigger than LSU’s legendary attempts to recruit Arvydas Sabonis from behind the Iron Curtain.
But would you sue? The unfortunate fact is that a lawsuit is the primary way to make noise on an issue today. If this was an issue that cut the “other way,” I guarantee someone would sue.
Thank you for summarizing this, EJHill. It is at least as bad as this and may be worse.
Why is there no shame, no opprobrium directed at the lads who cheat in this fashion? Why are their coaches not shunned? Why do their PARENTS permit such a travesty? If one of my lads (now 33 and 29) had tried to pull a stunt like this I would have kept him home from school.
One wonders, how would Braasch have done after a full 6-pack?
Insanity.
I’m sure they’re thinking it; it’s whether they have the stones to say it.
And in a sane society, the suit would be dismissed with prejudice. Why do judges agree to hear this BS?
I find it hilarious.
There’s at least two lies being played out, and one is exposing the other.
To anyone on the left: Which is it? Boys and girls are “equal,” or should there be boy sports and girl sports?
I would like to see trans teens taking all the female scholarships, then You’ll see people raise hell.
But for now:
Girl losing race,”that’s not fair!”
Winner,”there’s always Home Economics.”
From Wikipedia: Braasch was described by one journalist as “a man whose training regime centered around a pack of cigarettes and more than a couple bottles of ice cold lager”.
As for “shaming” the transgendered athletes that’s not the answer. The problem is deep and societal. The same people who slam conservatives and people of faith as being “science deniers” will argue until they’re blue in the face that a person with a penis and testicles between their legs are not males, simply by declaring it to be different than what it is.
Because those on one side are committed ideologues with lawyers and money (no guns) and those on the other side are busy earning a living and building a family. And then one of the family loses a “women’s race” to someone with a penis. Too late.
Sure. But judges can say “This is BS,” and dismiss the case.
They could and perhaps should, but many of the judges come from the same backgrounds as those lawyers and are often overly impressed by “creative” lawyering on “civil rights” issues.
Edit: We also don’t know whether any of this has ever come before a judge. It’s possible that whatever body administers this is simply following administrative directives on what’s necessary/permitted. I’d be curious to know who is making the interpretations that are noted in the O/P.
I am SO glad I didn’t become a lawyer.
I think I ran a 57 second 440 when I was a freshman in high school. So this guy is just lousy at guy sports.
I am sorry, and trans athlete that goes to compete against women like this knows damn well what he/she is doing.
Notice, there is not any movement the other way.
Au contraire, mon ami.
In Texas they have the opposite problem. There one must compete according to the gender on their birth certificate. They are one of eight states that have championships for girls in wrestling. This year a girl transitioning to a male made mincemeat of the field of girls. Which she should have since she was hopped up on testosterone.
Either way, it’s the girls that get the shaft.
I’m waiting for the 240 lb “girl” to show up to put the shot.
Or for the Cavaliers to put on dresses and transfer to the WNBA?
Nah. Why sign on to a failure?
I see what You did there….
I sometimes think that Republicans should run on the platform, “Democrats are insane. They believe insane things. They make people do insane things. Normal people have to stop them by voting for Republicans.”
I know nothing about golf, but isn’t there something like an old-timers tour, so the senior citizens are just competing against each other and not with 30-year-olds? Can a guy in his 30’s declare that he feels like an old man and play in the seniors tournament? Or maybe someone who is 20 can declare that he feels like a kid and play in Little League.
There is a senior’s tour, and for a while it was where the big money was, as a bunch of famous guys got old together.
There is a PGA Seniors Tour. (They renamed it the Champions Tour because it sounds better.)
If you went transgender you could hit from the front tees.
Of course it’s absurd but I’ve got to admit that I’m rather enjoying the schadenfreude of it all. These types of stories have the potential to reset things back to the norm. It forces these fools to seriously reevaluate their assertion that there are no differences between the sexes. They have been pushing this sex = gender BS for a good decade. Fine, give it to them good and hard – at events like these, in government contracting and corporate ‘set-aside programs’.
New rules and they have to live by them too. They’re gonna hate it.