Posted on 04/18/2024 9:50:55 PM PDT by lowbridge
On Tuesday, a United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia law that bars biological boys from competing on girls' sports teams cannot be enforced with regard to a 13-year-old who competes on the girls' track and field team at the athlete's middle school.
"The defendants cannot expect that [this athlete] will countermand her social transition, her medical treatment, and all the work she has done with her schools, teachers, and coaches for nearly half her life by introducing herself to teammates, coaches, and even opponents as a boy," Judge Toby Heytens wrote in his decision, according to the Associated Press.
It's important to note that this ruling does not impact the West Virginia law – it only applies to the individual in this particular case, since the individual began transitioning in third grade, prior to hitting puberty. However, the ruling does potentially pave the way for other, similar cases.
On Thursday, several girls "stepped out" during a meet to protest the inclusion of the transgender girl at the center of this case.
The athlete in the case competes for the Bridgeport Middle School girls' track & field team in Bridgeport, Virginia.
Bridgeport participated in the 2024 Harrison County Middle School Championships on Thursday afternoon at Liberty High School in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
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Several members of one of the girls' shot put teams "stepped in" then "stepped out" to protest the inclusion of a transgender athlete in the meet. The transgender athlete competes in both shot put and discus throwing.
When each of the Lincoln girls had her name called to compete, she stepped into the ring but instead of throwing the shot, she stepped down and refused to participate. They did the same for the discus event.
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What a moron. Would this apply to a pedophile? A practitioner of Necrophilia? Bestiality? They've put so much effort into their perversion that no one has the right to stop them?
God knows a lot more about creation than some hack judge and a ghoulish Doctor Moreau.
This is an inevitable (and comical, in my view) consequence of modern feminism. If men and women are truly equal, then competing in segregated sports programs is a blatant violation of U.S. civil rights laws.
“I feel for the girls” said Joe Biden.
Well, this Court of Appeals now pretty much forced the Supreme Court’s hand, since it seems to directly contradict a “shadow docket” case allowing Idaho’s law to stand. Remember when liberals would insist that federal appeals courts had universal jurisdiction?
About time the girls stop participating and I particularly like the way they protested. This needs to be done time and time again.
That is the only way the war on real women will end. This battle needs to have an emotional component ginning up support for girls. Notice, even the author emotionalized the slant towards the gender dysphoria sufferer who “started transitioning in the 3rd grade, prior to hitting puberty…”
This is insanity derived from emotional anti science zealots. What parent would do that to their 3rd grade child? There’s a genetic defect in this family.
Quite so.
Well, it IS West Virginia. :-P
Boxing has weight categories so the matches are between physically similar individuals. No one wants to see a 200 pound boxer beat up a 125 pound opponent.
The same concept should apply to all physical sports. The male body is in a higher strength category than that of the female.
A solution to the problem is to let females be on what are now all-male teams.
The girl is from Bridgeport, Virginia.
Horrible that schools encourage this sick behavior. This sick society is killing the entire world.
HOORAY women and those who support them.
Great news...West Virginia might be made fun of, but at least girls are protesting MENTALLY ILL boys on girl’s teams.
No, we already have the solution and we have had it for 100 years. We have boys teams and girls teams.
We don’t need to make new rules to accommodate someone’s mental illness.
This “trans” nonsense ends when the girls/women end it.
“since the individual began transitioning in third grade, prior to hitting puberty.”
Unless this child has a serious genetic abnormality every single person involved, parents, doctors, counselors, and teachers, should be sentenced to lengthy terms in prison.
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I was coaching boys wrestling and one kid had girl opponent. He said he didn’t feel like he could wrestle the same way against her (nice kid). I told him to pretend it was his sister. First period pin for him and he apologized profusely to her. She told him he did well.
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Why don’t you see girls competing against the boys teams?
“No, we already have the solution and we have had it for 100 years.”
I think the trannies have gone too far with their demand that biological boys play on girls teams.
“Judge Toby Heytens wrote in his decision.”
A Biden appointee, who looks a little light in the loafers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_J._Heytens
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