Not doing that
National Organization for Women:
ACTION ALERT: Urge your Senators to vote against the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act
Yes hello we are the national organization for women and we are telling you to vote against keeping men and boys out of women’s and girls’ sports. We are telling you to campaign not to exclude men and boys from sports for women and girls. We are, in short, telling you to ruin sports for women and girls. Are we progressive or what.
This bill prohibits school athletic programs from allowing trans women, or individuals not assigned female at birth, to participate in school athletic programs. This endangers all players on women and girls’ sports teams no matter their age, sport, or level of competition.
Wrong, you horrible fools. Allowing boys to participate in school athletic programs for girls is what endangers girls. As you must know, even as stupid as you are.
They never explain how, exactly, it endangers women and girls to exclude men.
Takshak, it’s the Genital Inspection Gambit. The idea is that if there’s a girl on the team who’s particularly strong or fast or tall or muscular or tomboyish, the parents of the other girls will make malicious “that’s a boy” reports to get her thrown off the team, and this will involve intrusive medical examinations by creepy sports doctors. (After Larry Nassar, I completely get why people might be suspicious of doctors who specialise in treating young female athletes.) This isn’t helped by the fact that a lot of adult AGP men have sexual humiliation fantasies about forced genital inspections, and like to to go into lurid detail about the possibilities.
Has there been a case of a “trans man” (ie woman) petitioning to play on a girls’/women’s team? (Sub question: and would anyone care?)
Mike B: it happens quite often (the Canadian national women’s football team has a they/them woman named Quinn). Provided they’re not on testosterone, nobody cares.
Thanks, Piglet. This is infuriating. If I understand correctly: If an athlete is a woman who claims to be a man, she can get around playing against men by claiming to be, not “he,” not “she,” but “they,” and therefore is allowed to play against other women like herself, which is where she should be in the first place.
Pray tell–how many transwomen (men) claim to be “they/them” in order to join a men’s team?
There’s no end to the bullshit here.
For thousands of years women were held back, put down, denied opportunities, because they were seen as lesser than men (by men, of course), because men were bigger, stronger, and most importantly, smarter than women.
A few feisty women decided enough was enough, up with that they would no longer put, and demanded, fought for, and gained improvements in their status, standing, and rights.
If the last decade has taught us nothing else, it has taught us that men were right all along, they are far smarter than women. A slap of lipstick, a swirl of a skirt, and the slightest tilt of a head and introducing the all new and improved wonder woman made up of 100% male. The finest woman you will ever see.
And almost as one* the women fell at the feet and adored Her. They carried Her high on their shoulders, brought Her into their sacred spaces, and revealed unto Her the hidden secrets of their hitherto exclusive knowledge.
And She looked around Her and saw that it was good, and she took it all for Herself, leaving noting but dried up husks for the older, original, superseded woman of yore.
The men have won. Again.
I wish I could end this with /s, but it really is too close to the truth.
*Obviously, not all women, just too many of the fawning women who control too many women’s organisations.
Tempted to write mine to abstain… Really the best I could hope for considering they represent the whole state’s population.
Yeah, they like to pretend it’s the 1950’s and we don’t have cheek swabs. What’s annoying is the number of people who unthinkingly parrot it.
And of course, the whole specter of “genital inspections” can be prevented by not allowing the alteration of birth certificates; the parents show up with the document, the kids keep their pants on.
The spectre of “genital inspections” is also raised, apparently earnestly, even by people concerned that they will be deployed in elite level sports, like the Olympics. These people are apparently completely unaware of mandatory drug testing, and how it’s done.