8th Place: A High School Girl’s Life After Transgender Students Join Her Sport
Daily Signal,
by
Kelsey Bolar
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
5/6/2019 8:53:39 AM
When two high school athletes who were born male but identify as female took first and second place at Connecticut’s girls indoor track championship this year, it wasn’t just a local news story. To some, it was a story of triumph and courage. The winner, a junior from Bloomfield High School, set a girls state indoor record of 6.95 seconds in the 55-meter dash, and went on to win the New England titles in both the 55-meter dash and the 300-meter dash. (snip) Is this the end of women’s sports? To Selina Soule, a 16-year-old runner from Glastonbury, it was personal.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jinx 5/6/2019 9:08:07 AM (No. 79096)
I have several thoughts: How would these transgender "girls" do if they were required to compete against boys? Probably not very well. Are they claiming to be transgender in order to win? Our culture is being turned upside down. When are we going to stand up and say enough! Men are now surgically getting fixed to compete in beauty contests. That too should be against the rules. ENOUGH!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
smcchk 5/6/2019 9:09:48 AM (No. 79078)
As a parent of 2 girls who competed at state level, I would be furious. Considering how invested so many parents are in their children’s school athletic careers and complain about everything, it is chilling that they are afraid to complain about the biggest inequality of all, boys competing against girls.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Daisymay 5/6/2019 9:10:35 AM (No. 79082)
Nothing will change until the PARENTS of these Students take charge and boot out the people who are making the Rules. Yes, it goes all the way to the top, but there is safety in numbers, so the Parents need to band together, town after town, until they have numbers that matter. Then they need to go after those who set the Rules allowing the Trans students participate in girls activities, essentially stripping those girls of the opportunity to gain a Scholarship to the College of their choice. Time to go back to COMMON SENSE. Boys will beat girls, every time! These trans boys should wear their girly clothes and participate with the Boys!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
tnorling 5/6/2019 9:12:51 AM (No. 79080)
This bizarre inclusion of males in female sporting events must end. This is a mental illness. It is like affirming that Napoleon in the loony bin is really Napoleon and giving him an army. Real life repercussions result. The medical community, like the department of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, needs to stand up to this nonsense.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/6/2019 9:19:17 AM (No. 79104)
FTA:
“While the debate over transgender athletes and fairness is complex,…” No not really, watch “Kindergarten Cop” and see if that doesn’t clear things up for you.
The article also goes on to quote the young lady as saying:
“It’s not like we’re saying that we don’t like transgender people,”
You know what Miss Soule, I don’t hate the confused victims of a cruel hoax brainwashed by a sick society either. But I do hate what they have done to you. Go ahead and prance around in your fantasy world be whatever you think you are but to take your male appendages into a competition against young ladies is abhorrent behavior.
As a side note I have a daughter who went downstate as a sprinter and in multiple field events and went on to make the NCAA nationals. She had one Division One one full ride scholarship offer.
I was just as miffed that she had to compete against girls who juiced up in High School.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 5/6/2019 9:35:58 AM (No. 79098)
Tyranny. So we’re going to be ruled by 1/2 of 1/2 of 1% of the population (or whatever the “protected class” flavor of the day is).
I’ll bet George, John, Thomas et al are spinning in their graves. This is NOT what they had in mind when they founded this country.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/6/2019 9:40:26 AM (No. 79084)
So what motivation do female athletes have even starting in a sport? XY´s will always have the advantage over the XX´s.
Can hardly wait for the Olympics to be destroyed through this abhorrent, mutant behavior, wherein boys who can´t make 8th place decide to become 1st place by calling themselves "female." Such is the sickness of our anti-God society.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
plomke 5/6/2019 9:40:57 AM (No. 79100)
Cry me a river.
I have absolutely no sympathy for the fools who voted in the idiots who allow the normalizing of mental illness.
The blame for this insanity rests solely on the shoulders of an ignorant populace more concerned with feeling good about themselves that with dealing with disordered minds.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
FunOne 5/6/2019 9:48:15 AM (No. 79102)
The reality is that there is no such thing as a "transgender". Impossible to happen.
The mental sickness of "Pretend Transgender" can be realized by cosmetic surgery, but no one born a male will ever give birth, and no one born a female will produce the seeds to cause pregnancy. These people do not need a cosmetic surgeon, they need a psychiatrist.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PChristopher 5/6/2019 9:48:27 AM (No. 79109)
Now they call them Transgenders....in the Olde Dayes, they were called the East German Women´s Team.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 5/6/2019 9:49:43 AM (No. 79114)
so much of the anguish seems to center on the impact it has on the girls acceptance to colleges based on athletic ability. I may get flamed, but why should athletic ability get you a seat in a college, a supposedly academic institution, based on a physical ability? Doesn´t this mean academically superior people are discriminated against in favor of physical abilities? Doesn´t this show collegiate sports are a blatant example of discrimination?
Yes, i do think sports in college the way it currently is organized wrong and corrupt/
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
J F Ackerman 5/6/2019 9:49:55 AM (No. 79093)
Our girls are under siege everywhere. There are stories about how they are not using their own school´s bathrooms because males are in there harassing and humiliating them. It is an absolute outrage and parents must get over being silenced by the Left´s militant censorship regime and go to war for our girls. For goodness sake, people!
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I hate to point this out but this mess has been created by the feminist movement which has been pushing this absurd idea that men and women are the SAME not equal but the SAME. We are not the SAME we are different than men in many many ways not just physically and to pretend otherwise which is what the progressive community wants is insane.
So go to your pink hat protests and then deal with what you have wrought. I have little sympathy because I have seen all these young millennials protesting the values that the conservative community has tried to maintain. Well, this is the curse, "May you get what you wish for". Looks like that is exactly what has happened. Perhaps this will bring this generation to its senses and sober them up to the real world not the utopia that they seem to think they can achieve. After all the word Utopia means NOWHERE and maybe it is time for some people to learn that lesson.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Eagle4ever 5/6/2019 10:03:55 AM (No. 79087)
The end of Title IX
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Safari Man 5/6/2019 10:05:10 AM (No. 79107)
Its all about the locker room
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
pros7767 5/6/2019 10:10:06 AM (No. 79091)
Create new "transgender teams". Make the transgenders compete amongst themselves and see how quickly they go back to being male!
I´m really glad I don´t have a daughter in this day and age.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
red1066 5/6/2019 10:31:04 AM (No. 79092)
Sports and the boy scouts. Stop this meandering BS and go where the good Lord made you.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
His_Highness 5/6/2019 10:43:00 AM (No. 79079)
Perhaps what is called "sports" should no longer be divided into male / female, but by differing degrees of testosterone. Otherwise, there will be no "women´s" or "girl´s" sports, but activities dominated by men / boys who could not win as men / boys, but who want so badly to win that they compete as women / girls.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
JackBurton 5/6/2019 10:44:50 AM (No. 79105)
FTA: “It could be potentially very dangerous if you have a transgender female that’s competing in basketball, soccer, lacrosse, field hockey because they are so physically superior to females,” her daughter Selina added.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 5/6/2019 11:02:05 AM (No. 79094)
As for the . . . . errr . . . "girls" who won: Congratulations! You now have a unique claim to fame that everyone will be envious of: You couldn´t beat the boys, so you beat the girls!
(Except . . . I´m not envious . . . I´m laughing at you!)
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
KatieJo 5/6/2019 11:02:56 AM (No. 79106)
I would take my child out of the school.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
fishbone 5/6/2019 11:07:08 AM (No. 79095)
Don´t forget, the feminists started it first with DEMANDING that girls compete in boys teams. I don´t agree with either situation.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/6/2019 11:14:17 AM (No. 79111)
In the dark ages and a time long long ago these ´transgender´ males were called ´cross dresser sissies´. There´s no such thing as transgender or gender fluid it´s all to break into the girl´s locker room. In so many ways this is wrong and harmful to real female athletes. A male juiced up on drugs does not make him female especially if he still has ´junk´ in his running trunks.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/6/2019 11:14:31 AM (No. 79112)
I don´t have much sympathy for the oh-so-woke liberals whose daughters lose out on scholarships to young men pretending to be women. They brought it on themselves by voting in politicians who pretend that gender dysphoria isn´t a mental illness. As for the rest, if they are too cowardly to fight back, they get what they deserve.
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We still have hope:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/05/league-revokes-female-weightlifting-records-claimed-transgender/
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 5/6/2019 12:10:09 PM (No. 79083)
Only a few special people have Rights these days. I´d sue for a few million due to these girls may have been able to go professional, now so likely.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
ginadee 5/6/2019 12:20:34 PM (No. 79113)
My daughters were High School and beyond athletes. One still has an unbroken record on the high school level. I honestly think she could have beaten a boy.
But my opinion, boys are boys and girls are girls. If either one are mixed up about that then they need a psychiatrist´s couch. Take mom and dad with them.
What, if when they get older they change their minds again?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 5/6/2019 12:34:30 PM (No. 79108)
"Women´s" sports is DONE. Unless normal XX women rise up and just STOP this, there will never be another XX woman finishing higher than 3 or 4th or something like that, beaten by mentally ill men.
This needs to just stop. If you have a Y chromosome, regardless of ANY OTHER FACTORS, whatsoever, you should be forever, and always barred from ANY "female" sport.
This really isn´t that complex.
XX women need to just REFUSE TO COMPETE against mentally ill men. They will not enjoy it if the crazies are the only ones who show up. Just boycott it, and say loudly that they are NOT women. "Transgendered" is just as impossible as it is for them to become a giraffe.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Rama41 5/6/2019 12:35:21 PM (No. 79101)
I´m sure this question will arise during the Democrat primary debates. (Just kiddin´.)
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/6/2019 1:14:56 PM (No. 79099)
What are the odds that these transgender boys are incapable of competing successfully in boys sports so they decided they will compete against girls.
These boys aren´t athletes. They are anti-competitive. Most likely straight boys and girls view these transgender boys with contempt. Girls should stop competing against them. Its a farce.
It will be interesting if girls can figure ways to compete successfully against transgenders and beat them. What will the transgenders do then?
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Anything other than OPEN competition is a farce. Boys, girls, trannies and whatever else should compete on a common footing. May the best being win.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
DVC 5/6/2019 3:08:59 PM (No. 79103)
#34, then the boys will always win.
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#35 - So? Females and others want "equality". That should extend to the athletic fields. Want a spot on a team, or a gold medal, earn one. Everything else is diminished or meritless.
Girls can play in any man´s league, if up to the challenge. Men can´t play in any women´s leagues. Seems like that´s unfair to me...the girls always win under those circumstances.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 5/6/2019 11:52:35 PM (No. 79089)
To some, it was a story of triumph and courage. Actually it´s more like the opposite. I wouldn´t call men beating women courageous.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Faithfully 5/7/2019 12:34:05 PM (No. 79090)
Children can´t make life changing decisions such as marriage, joining the military or even drinking yet they are allowed to change their gender. Otoh the olympics will be a hoot.
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