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Identifying as a Champion
From the June 4th Danbury (CT) News-Times coverage of the Connecticut Girls Track Championships:
“Terry Miller of Bulkeley won the 100 meters in 11.72 seconds, beating the previous State Open record, set in 2004 by Shanea Calhoun of Wilbur Cross, by one-tenth of a second. She also won the 200 in 24.17 seconds, breaking thye (sic) previous State Open record of 24.24, which was set in 1997 by Shayla Wallace of Northwest Catholic. Miller also placed fourth in the 400 (57.61).”
Sounds like a pretty straight forward report, doesn’t it? Except for one thing. Terry Miller is a boy. He has the body of a boy. The entire body of a boy. He says he psychologically identifies as female but he has not undergone either hormone treatments or reassignment surgery.
Miller competed on the boys team during the indoor season this winter. And this is the second year in a row that the girls 100 and 200 meter races have been won by boys.
The Executive Director of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Karissa Niehoff was quoted in The Connecticut Post as saying, “A lot of people have asked, can you run a separate race, can you put an asterisk next to their name, do something that shows there is a standard that is different from that? When you get into that playing out, you have got civil rights issues.
“Then within the same gender, you are taking one population of the gender and you’re separating them and creating another class. That’s what Title IX speaks to. That’s what Office of Civil Rights guidelines speak to. You cannot discriminate based on gender. And in our case in Connecticut, gender is gender identity.”
That is the law in Connecticut. Once a child decides it wants to be something its not the adults are required to play along. Records must be altered to reflect the lie. And the press is willing to spread and protect the lie, too. The Hartford Courant explained their lack of truth thusly:
“First, there are no rules being broken… Second, the big picture issue here is the policy and the standards, not any individual athlete… Third, and this is critical — we are talking about teenagers here, not professional athletes.
Last, there are those who argue we are ignoring the fact that a transgender girl may have an “unfair” advantage. But what is fair or unfair in sports is, to a degree, subjective. Tall people have an advantage on the basketball court. Athletes whose parents can afford to send them to year-round training have a clear-cut advantage in soccer, tennis and other sports. Our notions of what is fair and unfair are often driven by our own frames of reference.”
See? We changed the rules so everything is ok to begin with. And you don’t get to tell us what’s fair or unfair. That’s just your flawed “frame of reference.”
Canadian journalist Jonathan Kay tweeted out, “Another example of how trans women aren’t letting transphobia prevent them from destroying the competition in athletics. In this case, trans women grabbed 1st AND 2nd place, leaving cis ladies to compete for bronze as they contemplated their cis privilege.”
That generated snark from Jim Slotek, the movie critic for The Toronto Sun. “Yeah, all those US Opens Renée Richards won really demoralized Chrissy and Martina,” he subtweeted.
Richards, born Richard Raskin, was the first transgender athlete who demanded to compete with women. But inadvertantly, Slotek’s tweet pointed out the absurdity of his own argument. When Richards competed against Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova he (she) was well past his (her) prime as a tennis player. Richards was 18 and 20 years their senior respectively. Still, in February of 1979 at age 45 Richards was ranked as the world’s 20th best female player. In contrast, by age 45 Evert was no longer competing and Navratilova was no longer ranked.
Tennis has a long history of staging “Battles of the Sexes.” In every one of them either the male was disadvantaged by rules or age difference. In 1998 the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, boasted that they could beat any man outside of the top 200. The German Karsten Braasch, then ranked 203rd volunteered to take them on at the Australian Open. After a round of golf and two beers, Braasch dispatched Serena 6-1 and then Venus 6-2. Then the Williams’ re-figured their challenge to anyone 350 and higher.
For Richards, he came to believe that his post operative success at that age was indicative of the unfairness of it all. In 2015 he told Slate, “Having lived for the past 30 years, I know if I’d had surgery at the age of 22, and then at 24 went on the tour, no genetic woman in the world would have been able to come close to me. And so I’ve reconsidered my opinion.”
For their part, the NCAA and the International Olympic Committee has decided that transgenders can compete after only a year of hormone therapy and no longer require surgery, despite medical findings that it may take up to 15 years for bone density to change. They only have to show a current testosterone level comparable to their biological competition.
Between the lies, the identity politics and the chemicals it has become a twisted tale, a mash-up of Orwell’s 1984 and the Soviet bloc athletic teams. Something tells me we’re about to issue an apology and reparations to a lot of former East Germans.
Published in Sports
His winning times are well short of making most male track teams. The kid has graphically demonstrated just how absurd the whole movement is, shown school officials across the state to be mindless cowards, he gets some medals in the process and probably gets to shower with the chicks. I’d say he’s got a good thing going for him. Everybody else? Not so much.
I’m on My way to a basketball tournament. I’m identifying as an 8 year old and am going to win that coveted Little League Basketball first place trophy that I was denied thirty years ago.
And reality passes your sarcasm by…..
Husband and father-of-seven, 52, leaves his wife and kids to live as a transgender SIX-YEAR-OLD girl named Stefonknee
IF SNL had any spine at all, that would make for an hilarious bit of filmed satire. But they would never dare poke fun at the Left.
EJ,
It really is quite simple. There are not 47 genders but 2 that correspond to the 2 human sexes. There is no such thing as transgenderism only sexual schizophrenia. The insistence on believing otherwise has produced this truly assinine result.
When the lunatics run the asylum this is what you get.
Regards,
Jim
It’s official. We’re insane.
If a transgender individual became lost in the desert and the only thing that was found later were their skeletal remains, how would a forensic scientist identify them? Cosmetic surgery or mind games does not alter the basic, underlying truth.
Fair enough. My point was that you do not see people putting themselves at a disadvantage and doing this.
How long before we scrap “women’s” sports all together? We can have all sports be “co-ed” and then then schools can focus on the money makers (Bball and Football). Scholarships and travel budgets for softball and “women’s” soccer will fade away. It will be like 1950 for the non-money sports. Title IX will be irrelevant.
This is brilliant, and you don’t even have to argue for ‘co-ed’. Biological sex is irrelevant, and there is an infinite spectrum of genders. So, just one competition, and if a biological male, who identifies as male, presents as male, and is heterosexual wins practically every time, I’m sure that’s just coincidence.
You know the part that really bugs me about this guy? The K is silent. If you want to be Steffany, spell it that way, dammit! Mental illness is one thing, but when you intentionally give yourself a name with weird spelling, that’s an act of hostility.
Stephanie. Ahem.
I’m starting to wonder if this is what women get for over 40 years of invading every space in which men used to go to interact with each other, every space to which boys went to learn to be men. To me, it’s like a lot of transgender “women” are actually practicing a kind of unconscious and spiteful man-spreading in revenge for the stress women brought to men’s lives whenever, in different ways, they engaged in the practice of the more benign kind.
Recently, I also heard that the bikini competition will be dropped from the Miss America Pagent. If you remember that male comedian who, maybe 20 years ago, had this uproariously funny routine of being a supposedly female weight lifter, it isn’t hard to figure the real reason the bikini contest was dropped: It’s anticipated that soon there will be trans “women” beauty contestants. And, while we’d now be too frightened to laugh at that comedian’s old routine, nobody seriously thinks of a bulge in the front of a bikini bottom as part of female beauty.
In the Middle East, women who had once worn modern clothes disappeared back into burqa dress. Transgenders are certainly proving there are other ways women can be nudged into the background.
I identify as a 118-pounder and demand to wrestle in that weight class. The fact that my (hating) scale displays 190 pounds is irrelevant…
I identify as the Winner of the wrestling match, so no need to wrestle. Give Me the trophy.
You can actually make that argument. Biological sex is more profound than weight. For example, if you go into orbit you’re weightless, but you’re still a man. So, if sex doesn’t matter, weight can’t.
A funny semi-related story:
My daughters’ high school track team had two girls who were national champions in their key events. Regular track meets provided absolutely no competition for them.
In their very last meet of their senior year, they wanted to run in the boys’ 4x400m relay. Our coach thought it was a great idea, and the opposing coach agreed that it was OK.
The two boys in our team were good high school runners (went on to run Division 3 in college), but not great. Still, they ran their legs about 5 seconds faster than the girls did.
The news got out of the time this relay team set, which would have crushed the national girls’ record. Everyone knew who the two girls were, but nobody had ever heard of the two boys, so with the four last names listed, people assumed that it was a girls’ relay team. There was quite a fuss across the country for a few weeks.
Now I wish that some of this had come to pass some decades ago. I liked being a girl, but I also liked being a tail back. But school football teams in Chicago in the late 1960’s were all guys.
I got to play a lot because the local gang of “older boys” saw me running home from school and thought I’d do well on their “street team.” That run home from school was something I tried to accomplish in under 4 minutes. (We lived approximately one mile from the school.) But freight trains and stop signs interfered – I have no idea how fast I could have made it without the inconveniences.
At twelve, I figured by the time I was 17, society would have changed and I’d be getting a football scholarship to college. But by thirteen my mom said, “You wear a bra – I am not letting you leave the house to play with those older guys. They only asked you cuz they have one thing on their mind.” (Not true – they thought of me as a decent tailback. They had their girlfriends, and to them, I was just their “buddy.”)
Anyway, timing can be everything. I did play in a coed basketball team with a local police department when I was in my mid twenties. But I always remember my football dreams with a sigh. It is also true I doubt I’d be willing to pretend I am trans gendered just to play in sports. But maybe, now, if they had offered me the quarterback position…
What astonishes me most is that he would let those pictures of himself be published. I get that people do some freaky things in the privacy of their own bedrooms, but one would think he’d at least be embarrassed and ashamed to have such photos published for all the world to see.
This man has very very serious mental health issues, and is being exploited by people with an agenda.
Other examples he could have used:
He can change his sex and age on a whim, but changing his height, suddenly that’s a bridge too far?
what should happen to girls who have naturally high testosterone ? Caster Semenya for example?
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/05/ajee-wilson-hasnt-thought-much-new-iaaf-hyperandrogenism-regulations-glad-caster-semenya-can-still-race-now/
Maybe we just do away with sex classifications in sport. Let everyone compete in the same events, and let the chips fall where they may.
Caster Semenya is a dude, I don’t care what the “experts” say. It’s a sad state of affairs when we enjoy watching dudes beat (up) a bunch of girls. But, hey, at least it’s “fair” to everyone…???
How do you define dude?
Seymenya may indeed be a freak of nature. Since I wrote the original post I did a little more research. There’s a lot of literature on hip structure being a prime component on men’s ability to run faster than women. That’s one thing that never changes.
Seymenya has had to subject to the IOC’s sex test. I don’t know how extensive that is nor have they ever released the details.
Morphologically, semenya presents as male. That s/he has accompanying high testosterone just supports what we see on the outside.
So your definition is muscle tone and testosterone level and doesn’t involve genitalia or chromosomes? A lot of trans gender peeps would approve,