How many times have you heard complaints about trans athletes? One thing they forget is that there are also trans male athletes, so when you force athletes to only play in their gender assigned at birth that creates major problems.
I bring this up now because there is a federal court case about trans athletes that is winding its way through the system now.
This brings up a pet peeve of mine, too much emphasis is to high school sports at the decrement of other after school activities. When you read the newspapers how many time have you read that the school budget was cut and they have either cut back or eliminated all after school activities except for sports.
Students get scholarship in other activities besides sports but that does count, only almighty sports are important. You hear how sports builds self-confidence and self-esteem, teamwork, leadership, social skills, and discipline; well I have news for you so do other after school activities.
The high school robotics team won first place in the New England regional tournament they got one square inch in the town newspaper while on the other page they devoted a whole page to the winning quarterback. Don’t you think that the robotics team at the very least deserved to have their names in the paper?
At my 50th high school reunion most of the football players were all walking around with canes… Just saying.
17-Year-Old Transgender Boy Wins Texas Girls' Wrestling ChampionshipAnd it is not that he wants to compete against the girls,
NPR
By Camila Domonoske
February 27, 2017
The Texas state wrestling championships aren't usually national news. But they made headlines this weekend when a 17-year-old transgender boy — barred by state rules from competing in the boys' league — won his weight class, against girls.
Mack Beggs, the teenage boy in question, hasn't sought the spotlight. By all accounts he just wants to wrestle.
But media attention found him anyway. In part, that's because some parents of female wrestlers have vocally objected to the fact that Beggs, who has been taking testosterone as part of his gender transition, is wrestling girls. One parent even filed a lawsuit against the league that organizes public school sports.
"He wants to compete against boys," Merritt says. But under Texas rules, boys can't compete against girls, and students must compete as the gender marked on their birth certificate. That meant if Beggs wanted to wrestle, he had to do it in the girls' league.In their anger they want us to compete in our birth gender but they don’t think it through because one there are trans male athletes and also what happens when we change our birth certificates?
I bring this up now because there is a federal court case about trans athletes that is winding its way through the system now.
This brings up a pet peeve of mine, too much emphasis is to high school sports at the decrement of other after school activities. When you read the newspapers how many time have you read that the school budget was cut and they have either cut back or eliminated all after school activities except for sports.
Students get scholarship in other activities besides sports but that does count, only almighty sports are important. You hear how sports builds self-confidence and self-esteem, teamwork, leadership, social skills, and discipline; well I have news for you so do other after school activities.
The high school robotics team won first place in the New England regional tournament they got one square inch in the town newspaper while on the other page they devoted a whole page to the winning quarterback. Don’t you think that the robotics team at the very least deserved to have their names in the paper?
At my 50th high school reunion most of the football players were all walking around with canes… Just saying.
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