In California, where the boy was allowed to participate in the track and field finals this weekend, there were protests and counter-protests.
The first paragraph of a story from the Daily Mail:
Protests broke out at the California high school track and field championships, resulting in at least one arrest, as a transgender athlete stormed ahead of her female rivals.
It’s not until the fourth paragraph that we find out that the persona arrested was an LGBTwhateverthefuck activist. Who bashed in the window of a car with a flagpole.
The author of the article kept calling the boy ‘she’ throughout the article. Of course the boy, who wouldn’t have placed if he was participating in the boys’ competitions, has completely blown away his female competitors.
It’s hilarious (to me at least) that the author actually looks at ‘seed’ levels in track and field and apparently unironically states that “This helps in creating fairer competition by grouping athletes with similar abilities together.” If we were grouping fairly, the boy would be in male competition…
We did find out that, of course, the boy (who’s name is Abraham) is being raised solely by his mother and that the father wouldn’t even answer the phone when the press called.
You’ll have to imagine my shocked face…..
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