Micah: also in most cases the number of trans kids playing high school sports in a given state is single digits entire moral panics centered around attacking one kid

This poor girl was the class president but was a bench warmer on a marginal HS team, got reported, the police were called to investigate her gender, and now she dropped out of school and is taking online classes. She transitioned in 1st grade and never had a whiff of male puberty.

stories like this give the lie to the idea that the right is interested in protecting these children. per their own narrative, this girl is a victim of “gender ideology” or whatever. but the reaction from the right is always hostility, ostracization and violence.

Mom of transgender girl athlete says Florida's investigation has destroyed her daughter's lifewww.yahoo.com A Florida public school employee who faces firing because she allowed her transgender daughter to play girls high school volleyball assailed those who outed her child, saying Tuesday that the ensuing ...

These furors about trans people in girls HS sports are so deeply ridiculous to anyone willing to think for 10 seconds about how low-stakes HS sports are, period. Their primary function is to keep the kids busy from 3:30 until their parent is done with work and ready to pick them up.

also in most cases the number of trans kids playing high school sports in a given state is single digits entire moral panics centered around attacking one kid

Yeah I remember reading that the statewide number in Ohio was I think 3, or 5, or something like that. Just a total non-issue.

Utah was similar when they went off on this bullshit. Maybe half a dozen kids state-wide.

Which the Utah governor noted in his stated reasons for vetoing some garbage transphobic state bill or another.

Doesn’t make Cox any less a piece of shit.

Literally centering Two-Minutes Hates on kids.

Utah couldn't cite a single example 🙃

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