Posted on 12/06/2012 2:09:55 PM PST by GSWarrior
SAN PABLO -- As the buzzer sounds to announce the substitution, a handful of Mission College basketball supporters chant: "Gabbi! Gabbi! Gabbi!"
Most of the 50 or so onlookers in the dingy, yellow-tinted gym briefly look up from their chili-cheese nachos and smartphones, and then back down. A few whisper and point at No. 42, marveling at her size.
It was the debut of Gabrielle Ludwig, and at 6 feet 8, 220 pounds, with tattoos on her arms and legs, she stands out in the Contra Costa College gym. At 50, the Fremont resident is about three decades older than her Santa Clara community college teammates and opponents -- and much taller.
What many at the 19th annual Comet Classic did not know was Ludwig had only been a woman since July, when she had a sex change operation. They didn't know the long path traveled by the father and Desert Storm veteran, and how she may be the first transsexual athlete to play college sports as both genders.
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BIG asteroid.
Court order notwithstanding, genetically his sex is and will always be male no matter what mutilating surgeries are performed, hormones ingested and clothing worn...
All of the above is cosmetic, for the purpose of passing himself off as something (female) he can never be...
I have to laugh at otherwise sensible people being taken in by this sort of nonsense...Like my liberal friends who marvel at the “miracle” of the “man” who gave birth...
As has been said, if he carries a “Y” chromosome, he is male...Period...
My sympathies to the young women who must now compete, share the court, and the locker room/showers with a man masquerading as one of them...
The mental illness continues...
He should be playing for the St. Elizabeths insane asylum team.
Anybody that ugly that thinks it’s a girl is defiinitely missing some screws.
"Tran-ny! .. Tran-ny! .. Tran-ny!"
Will they show her picture on the Jumbo-Tran?
Rumor has it Liam Neeson is going to portray her/it in the bio-pic.
And he’s a father,too. Dear Lord. I feel bad for his kids.
What a f***ed-up world we live in.
“She” is ugly as sin.
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