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| Transgendered Track Star Proves We're All Insane |
| 2017-06-15 |
| [PJ] Imagine this: Your daughter has been training and running track for four years. She's a senior and she's made it to the state finals. College recruiters are in the stands and this is her day to shine (and possibly get a scholarship so you don't have to go bankrupt trying to fund her education). Except that doesn't happen for her because a boy, claiming to be a girl, handily steals the title from her. She's devastated, but when asked how she feels about it, she's terrified to be truthful that she (rightly) feels she was robbed by someone who shouldn't have been competing against her. "I can't really say what I want to say, but there's not much I can do about it," Kate Hall said after the race, alluding to the fact that she had to compete against Andraya Yearwood, a biological boy. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #16 steveS good point but Richards 'became a woman' at age 43; even then a lot of women refused to play against her if this had happened when Richards was, say 30, it could have destroyed the women's circuit for years |
| Posted by: lord garth 2017-06-15 21:29 |
| #15 THIS is my Kate. She runs like a demon as well. http://www.pressherald.com/2017/06/09/cascos-kate-hall-captures-ncaa-long-jump-title/ |
| Posted by: Black Bart Gonque6441 2017-06-15 20:04 |
| #14 Damn, sorry all; WRONG KATE HALL. I shot my mouth off wrongly. Abject apologies. Still think it is BS tho. |
| Posted by: Black Bart Gonque6441 2017-06-15 20:01 |
| #13 I know Kate personally. She has guts, and will say what is what when she can. She was devstated that this was even allowed. It is criminal. |
| Posted by: Black Bart Gonque6441 2017-06-15 19:33 |
| #12 I'm waiting to see what happens when something like this occurs in the women's pro tennis. Renee Richards back in the mid 70s. Wikipedia |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-06-15 19:04 |
| #11 Transgender black will win a lot of Pokémon: Victim! contests, bonus points from the removing testicles kind. Hey Kate; call Bullshit! garth, I have heard bits and pieces that this may already be occurring in Olympic qualifiers. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-06-15 18:55 |
| #10 high school sports are one thing I'm waiting to see what happens when something like this occurs in the women's pro tennis. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2017-06-15 18:44 |
| #9 And if boyfriends of some of the girls do the right thing - it'll be called a hate crime and will get more coverage than the attempted assassination of Republican congressmen. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-15 16:58 |
| #8 Deacon, to these people you might as well be speaking in cursive. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-06-15 15:17 |
| #7 No more a woman than Peter Mayhew is a Wookie. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-06-15 15:16 |
| #6 I'm not insane, but I may be a half a bubble off plumb. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2017-06-15 14:00 |
| #5 Truth--it all begins and ends with truth. I don't know much about Truth but the facts are pretty clear and this is just another label to segregate the masses. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-06-15 13:06 |
| #4 I posted the following just before rollover last night--it fits here equally as well: Everyone can't be "Hitler". Islam is a morally challenged belief system (to put it mildly). Men and women are different. One can't change one's "gender"--they can only butcher their body. Its not a "clump of cells"--its an unborn child. These are only a few of the things that most people understand almost inherently, yet we now live in a society where voicing such common sense risks a public outcry. Truth--it all begins and ends with truth. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2017-06-15 10:22 |
| #3 I wonder if Bruce Jenner (Caitlyn) had decided to become a transgender before the Olympics whether he/she would have ever won a gold medal for the decathlon or appeared on Wheaties box? (I don't really wonder--just a rhetorical question.). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-06-15 10:15 |
| #2 I'm wondering if the East German female runner that was disqualified circa 1970 for having male chromosomes has considered filing suit for her unethically deprived gold medal. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-06-15 09:55 |
| #1 Actually, its long time to end 'separate but equal'. The gals demand equality. Give it to them. No male/female segregation in sports. May the best person win. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-15 08:21 |