To politicize
CHARLESTON – A federal judge has ruled a state law passed in 2021 keeps a transgender student-athlete who was born male from participating in girls’ sports.
In his 23-page opinion issued January 5, U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin said he suspects the aim of House Bill 3293, which was known as the Save Women’s Sports Bill, was “to politicize participation in school athletics for transgender students.”
Why is it “politicizing” to keep boys out of girls’ sports but not politicizing to let boys invade women’s sports? Who politicized first? Why is it political to protect girls’ sports but not political to destroy them?
“Nevertheless, there is not a sufficient record of legislative animus,” Goodwin wrote. “I find that it is substantially related to an important government interest.”
What kind of animus, flowing in what direction, from whom?
Heather Jackson filed her complaint in federal court in May 2021 on behalf of Becky Pepper-Jackson against the West Virginia Board of Education, then-Superintendent Clayton Burch, the Harrison County Board of Education, county Superintendent Dora Stutler and the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission. Becky is 11 years old [and] identifies and lives as a girl.
In other words Becky is a boy.
In 2021, as she prepared to enter middle school, Becky expressed an interest in trying out for her school’s girls’ cross country and track teams. The school informed her mother the decision to let Becky participate depended on the outcome of HB 3293, which then was pending in the state Legislature. When the law passed, the school told Becky she could not try out for the girls’ team.
Goodwin says the law “was clearly carefully crafted with litigation such as this in mind.”
That’s because it’s not fair to girls and women to let male people compete against them.
A spokesman for the West Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which was co-counsel on the case for the plaintiffs, said it is reviewing the ruling with co-counsel to determine the next steps.
Of course it is. The ACLU is hell-bent on destroying women’s sports.
What a strangely worded lead in. Yes of course it keeps that individual from participating; that individual is male and therefore ought to be kept out. Only after reading the article do I see what is meant by that wording; something like “A federal judge has ruled a state law passed in 2021 is permitted to block transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports.”
Holms I was just about to write something similar. ‘keeps a transgender student-athlete who was born male from participating in girls’ sports’ seems to anyone not blinded by this ideology to be perfectly clear. Yes, that is correct–if you were born male, you don’t participate in girls’ sports. How much clearer does that need to be?
Inspired by Lord Acton, one might posit that: people tend to write unclearly when they are not thinking clearly; people who have the capacity to think clearly but are inhibited from exercising it by the fear that doing so would lead them violate a taboo will write with absolute obscurity.
Something tells me that our Becky is a pawn in his parents’ game. The idea that one can be “transgender” before they even reach the age of consent flies in the face of what we know about child development.
But Mike, haven’t you heard? A three year old child can know they are the opposite sex! You must always agree with a baby who throws blue booties over the side of the crib in preference for pink ones that they are really girls! Affirm validate rinse repeat.
Believe the kids, they know who they are!
Believe the kids, they know who they are!
This has moved so far beyond gender ideology it’s not funny. This is the current educational model being forced on us. We should let the kids (in our case, adult children with brains not yet fully developed) decide (1) how we teach; (2) what we teach; and (3) how we assess their knowledge.
Because they know themselves better than we do.
Okay, but do they know Biology better than we do? Do they know education better than we do? The reality is, most of them don’t know themselves that well at all…at least, no better than I know myself, and I have a lot of years experience on them.
We are not always the best judge of who we are or what we need.
(Is it any wonder I’m retiring at the end of this semester? If I had any doubts, the meeting we had this week, in which they informed us this model would be taking place starting in the fall semester, would have quelled them. They’ve been trying to push us in this direction for years; now they’re going to drag us, tied and hobbled, into the worst educational model in history.)