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On every level, this is just wrong
I do not expect the world to revolve around my sense of morality, especially since I have a hard enough time trying to live up to my own sense of morality.
I generally figure people should be free to do what they wish so long as they’re not hurting anyone else.
So when it comes to trans people, I generally don’t care if they’re trans. They are free to live their lives as they want. The problem is, at least in many cases, they want special accommodations that result in harm to some degree or another.
Take transgirls in girls’ sports.
Biologically male athletes playing on girls’ teams have caused injuries.
As a result, girls have a reason to have opinions on the matter, especially in high schools when scholarships could also be on the line.
And, unsurprisingly, at least one school official has their moral compass so screwed it it’s just spinning wildly.
A student at a California high school said female athletes were stabbed in the back by their administrators when they expressed concerns over boys being in their change room.
During a board meeting for the Riverside Unified School District in California, an unnamed 16-year-old girl spoke out about a male athlete competing on the girls cross-country team.
"I run on the cross country team. So I'm constantly affected by these actions that have taken place this season," the young girl began. "I have been around the females and just my team in general who have felt almost silenced to speak out about it because the whole LGBTQ is shoved down our throats; it is put in our face."
Martin Luther King High School and the school district were recently sued by two female athletes who accused them of violating Title IX along with their First and 14th Amendment rights.
The girls said they were told by school officials that wearing a shirt that read "Save Girls' Sports" on the front was akin to wearing a swastika.
After saying that it feels "almost impossible" for girls to speak out on this topic, the 16-year-old told the district that the school's athletic director has completely failed the students who were brave enough to say something.
"I went myself to have a discussion with the athletic director when nobody really felt comfortable enough to speak out. ... To see the athletic director turn around and tell my teammates that their shirts that say 'Save Girls' Sports' be compared to a swastika, that is not okay."
No, it’s not.
It’s most definitely not OK.
First, it’s not like the Nazis just didn’t want Jews in the locker room. They tried to systematically exterminate an entire people. The only symbol with anything close to the cultural baggage the swastika has is the hammer and sickle, and that’s only true of people who understand history and economics.
Claiming shirts saying “Save Girls’ Sports” is remotely akin to this.
But this is part of what’s happening.
First, let’s understand that this approach is nothing more than an attempt to keep people from speaking out. Telling kids that wearing a shirt with a statement like that is like wearing a swastika creates at least an implication that they can’t do any such thing, that it goes beyond free speech.
Except that it doesn’t.
Honestly, as I get into things, what I see here is a microcosm of so much of what’s wrong in this day and age.
First, we have the idea that school authorities are beyond questioning, especially by students. It doesn’t matter whether officials are wrong or not, what matters is obedience to authority, and students who don’t respond to that are the problem, not the faulty authority.
We have the idea that the LGBT agenda matters more than literally anything else, including girls’ safety.
See, while I’m not saying this biologically male student would have any nefarious interest in assaulting any of the girls, the same can’t be said of everyone who might decide to say they identify as a girl. That means this is, in fact, a matter of safety, and blowing it off is a big problem, especially when “you need to change in this other room” is hardly the worst thing in the world.
Then you couple that with girls’ safety on the field of play. We know biologically male athletes have injured female athletes before, some seriously. That should also be cause for concern, and one that no one seems interested in addressing because the narrative said it’s hateful to do so.
We have a school administrator—the athletic director is also the assistant principal, apparently—trying to shut down speech she, personally, doesn’t agree with because of that agenda.
Everyone seems to be failing these girls. They deserve better than this.
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