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Coaches, Parents Question Policy For High School Transgender Athletes
CTNow ^ | 6/05/18 | Lori Riley

Posted on 06/10/2018 1:38:56 AM PDT by Libloather

The success of transgender female athletes participating in high school track and field events has parents, athletes and coaches in some communities calling for a change in the current rules, as they question a possible competitive advantage.

The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which governs high school sports in the state, allows athletes to compete in the gender specific sport in which they identify. Continued success by transgender athletes has prompted two petitions — one started in Glastonbury and another in Plainville — from critics who say transgender athletes have an advantage. Together, the petitions have about 150 signatures, though neither has been submitted to CIAC officials.

“I think it’s unfair to the girls who work really hard to do well and qualify for Opens and New Englands,” said Glastonbury sophomore sprinter Selina Soule, who finished sixth in the 100-meter State Open final Monday. “These girls, they’re just coming in and beating everyone. I have no problem with them wanting to be a girl.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: athletes; connecticut; education; female; homosexualagenda; transgender
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Back of the bus for those of you born with certain body parts. You will be squished. Although, I hear that this 'resist' thing may get some traction...
1 posted on 06/10/2018 1:38:56 AM PDT by Libloather
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I love that this is happening in New England ... clearly these coaches, parents and born-girl athletes are transophobic and should be condemned widely for their bigotry.


2 posted on 06/10/2018 1:45:01 AM PDT by EDINVA
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I don’t see how this transgender discussion can carry on without saying ‘unfairness is fair’, and emphasizing to the girls that their sports are screwed up. I wouldn’t even bother trying out for any field sport, or basketball, if the school had three or four transgender students participating in girl’s sports.


3 posted on 06/10/2018 1:49:05 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Libloather

Good. If the trannies want to compete, they can start their own tranny competitions.

It’s past time for push back on this atrocity.


4 posted on 06/10/2018 1:49:41 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Libloather

So, the coaches and parents are obviously “haters.”


5 posted on 06/10/2018 1:51:40 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: pepsionice

There were a bunch of girls who are no doubt looking for college scholarships who are getting screwed out of them by trannies.

It’s a pretty weak man who can’t compete with other men and take whatever comes his way.


6 posted on 06/10/2018 1:51:49 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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I predicted years ago that this "transgender" nonsense would inevitably lead to the demise of women's sports.

My next prediction is that once this happens, we will eventually see the end of ALL scholastic sports.

7 posted on 06/10/2018 1:51:58 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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This is the unintended consequence of radical feminism. If the differences between men and women really are nothing more than a social construct, then they shouldn't be competing separately at all.

#MeNeither

8 posted on 06/10/2018 1:57:54 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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The Nazis, East Germans, Soviets and bloc countries committed unforgivable sins when their athletes - men identifying as women - swept sports for decades.

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When we do it it's progressive, and righteous.



9 posted on 06/10/2018 2:04:37 AM PDT by golux
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Can we just admit what everyone knows but are afraid to say: these “transgender girls” are boys.


10 posted on 06/10/2018 3:02:23 AM PDT by Petrosius
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She’s just TRANS-PHOBIC. No other reason to have an issue with biological males competing as females.

Nope, no other reason, not at all. Nope.


11 posted on 06/10/2018 3:11:35 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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This is HYSTERICAL. The Left is now driving school sports to be open-gender. If you want to play “boys basketball” or “girls basketball”, you don’t anymore, you just throw everyone together and call it “basketball”.

Obviously the girls won’t stand a chance, so they’ll either have to form their own leagues, outside of the schools, or go back to taking homemaking classes.

Seems like were were there, before - only boys sports, in the 1950s, with the girls in the kitchen. I guess the Left has gone full circle now.


12 posted on 06/10/2018 3:22:58 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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Part of the lefts belief syste, is that there are ,pre than two genders so let them form other-gender competitions l am sure it will be well supported when it can no longer tear down thd current system /s


13 posted on 06/10/2018 3:25:50 AM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: Alberta's Child

They’ll burn it all down. rather than admit they are/were wrong.


14 posted on 06/10/2018 3:45:21 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: metmom

Hell yeah! Queer Olympics, but would anyone want to watch?/yuck.


15 posted on 06/10/2018 4:18:33 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: Libloather

A significant number of second-string boys -— and it only takes a few-— are going to discover that they can win trophies by competing against girls. That’s all it will take to destroy girls’ athletics for the foreseeable future.


16 posted on 06/10/2018 4:19:52 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Do the right thing.)
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Now THIS...is going to require a massive batch of popcorn! This will be one to savor.


17 posted on 06/10/2018 4:36:37 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: BobL

It’s very entertaining watching them try to put their own genie back in the bottle.


18 posted on 06/10/2018 4:37:08 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: EDINVA

All a part of the lefts ruination of the foundations of America. This is PC mental illness at its best. When this minute minority is now a protected class there is no recourse. When a man who looks sounds and dresses like a man can enter a female bathroom without question and if you question or protest you are the criminal this is the forced acceptance of this kind of mental illness. Sports, scouts, military all a target


19 posted on 06/10/2018 4:38:08 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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“The policy is different on the college level, where transgender females are required to complete hormone treatment for a year before competing. Internationally, testosterone testing is required.”

Now, why should that be? If you claim you’re a girl, you’re a girl regardless of your hormone levels. That should be considered discriminatory and a personal invasion, to be forced to undergo hormone therapy in order to compete. I hope they sue. That would be fun to watch!


20 posted on 06/10/2018 4:46:54 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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