From the moment transwomen began competing in women’s sports, we knew something was going to have to break. The harsh reality of biology was being ignored in the name of “compassion” for a tiny minority, including no desire to accept that some might just lie so as to get a competitive advantage.
You weren’t allowed to question or voice concerns. JK Rowling did and has been eviscerated despite previously being a bit of a lefty icon.
No, you were just supposed to accept that when someone born male decided to step in and compete in a female-only sports division, it was legit.
But for the girls and women being impacted, it wasn’t exactly something they could or should overlook.
A wonderful protest recently happened when girls at a track meet refused to compete against a biological male in the shot put. Instead, they simply stepped into the circle, stepped out, and called it a scratch.
It reminded me of the end of the movie Stick It, now that I think about it.
The girls weren’t disrespectful. They just refused to play in an unfair arena. Good for them.
They were, of course, suspended from future competitions.
Now, we’ve got a lawsuit on our hands.
A few weeks back, we told you about five middle school girls in West Virginia who took a stand against transgender wokeness by refusing to compete in a shot put competition against a male who identifies as a girl, Becky Pepper-Jackson.
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The good news? The state attorney general and parents of four of the girls are fighting back. The parents filed suit last Friday against the Harrison County Board of Education, and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has filed an amicus brief in hopes the state Supreme Court will step in.
The suit contends the district has violated the girls’ First Amendment rights as well as their right to due process.
West Virginia has a law banning males from participating in women’s sports. However, two days before the competition, a federal appeals court overturned the law — as least as it applied to Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old boy taking puberty blockers and estrogen injections.
It’s a shame it came to this, but it was always going to come to this. Then again, this isn’t the only case likely to result in a lawsuit.
We have two cases here, one is whether Pepper-Jackson should be allowed to compete against middle school girls (we won’t get into whether a middle schooler should be on hormones or puberty blockers today). The other is a free speech issue.
I’ve already made my thoughts on whether Pepper-Jackson should compete against girls clear. There are too many biological advantages at this point that can’t be suppressed simply because they’re taking certain drugs. Admittedly, this is less likely to be an issue in middle school than in adulthood, but it’s still an issue.
Beyond that, though, there is the free speech issue, and this is what I think is going to break the authorities’ back.
See, the courts have long ruled that kids still have the right to free speech, particularly in school. That would presumably cover school-based activities like sporting events. The rule is generally so long as the free speech isn’t disruptive.
Yet student walkouts aren’t exactly unheard of. If everyone getting up isn’t disruptive, then one has to ask just what is?
Certainly, it’s not refusing to compete against someone you believe has an unfair advantage over you, particularly in the manner these girls did.
The problem is that you’re really not allowed to speak freely in schools no matter what the courts say. What you’re allowed to do is voice the same positions as those in charge. If you don’t, that’s what’s truly considered disruptive.
In this case, trans people are given special status among the left—who, it should be remembered, make up the lion’s share of teachers—and criticizing them is forbidden. Had they refused to compete against an Israeli exchange student, they’d have been applauded by the athletic association, I suspect.
But they didn’t. They didn’t want to step into a game they were never going to be allowed to win. They weren’t the first and, unfortunately, they weren’t the last.
Nor were they the first or last to voice their opinion of it.
Lawsuits were inevitable. They didn’t have to be. Officials could have opted for trans divisions or some other way to allow those students to compete but not give them an advantage over their competition. They didn’t. They decided that “transwomen are women” applied to a degree that goes beyond compassion and entered insanity.
So it was inevitable but it didn’t have to be. It became inevitable once it was clear that certain parties refused to recognize the issue and kept arguing disagreement equaled hate.
So be it.
I hate. I hate what they did to these girls and what they’re doing to legions more. I’ll make no apologies for that.
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The girls on the track team are an example that should be followed by all women's teams. Don't play. Refuse until the interloper(s) are removed. They will be removed at some point. If all women's sports teams did this and kept it up, the whole thing would be over fairly quickly.
They don't think they are women; they can't win against men and they want to beat someone. The worst kind of bully. We can't beat them physically (they're bigger and more aggressive than we are and obviously are not afraid of hurting us) so we just refuse to compete.
Mischief Managed™.