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Inclusion/Exclusion?

“As a human being — not as Andraya’s father — it’s disappointing that, in 2019, we’re still debating who gets to participate and who doesn’t,” Rashaan Yearwood, father of the student in question Andraya Yearwood, told CBS. “You would hope we’d gotten to a place in 300-plus years as a country that we’re not debating who should be included, and who should not be.

There is no place for exclusion.”

Personally, as a human being, I find it disappointing that in 2019 we are debating this at all! The issue of transgenderism in athletics points out just how close to brink of not using any common sense the trend of looney-leftism thinking has driven us!

I am not sure who I feel more sorry for.

I feel sorry for the father, Rashaan, who evidently feels that he has to stick up for his “son-daughter.” But after reading his statement, I think I have some insight as to his “son-daughter’s” confusion. However, I do feel obliged to point out to this confused father that the U.S.A. has not been a country for “300-plus years.”

I feel sorry for the “boy-girl,” Andraya, who not only has to deal with her gender confusion issue, but also for some reason thinks it’s necessary to include him/herself in high school girls track and field events. Andraya Yearwood, a 17-year-old junior at Cromwell High School, is one of two transgender high school sprinters in Connecticut, transitioning to female.

Earlier this year, national attention was drawn to Connecticut after the success of these two transgender athletes who were allowed to compete in what were supposed to be all girls track events. The two athletes in question, not surprisingly, absolutely dominated the rest of the league.

Connecticut is one of 17 states that allow transgender high school athletes to compete without restrictions. Seven states have restrictions that make it difficult for transgender athletes to compete while in school, like requiring athletes to compete under the gender on their birth certificate (Wow, what a novel Idea!) or allowing them to participate only after going through sex-reassignment procedures or hormone therapies.(A truly major step for a high-schooler!)

But the reason that this is now news is that finally someone with “standing” in this matter, and has filed a lawsuit.

“We all know the outcome of the race before it even starts; it’s demoralizing,” Selina Soule, one of the Connecticut students who filed the complaint, said at the time. “I fully support and am happy for these athletes for being true to themselves. They should have the right to express themselves in school, but athletics have always had extra rules to keep the competition fair.” (Very P.C., and very common-sensical.)

The Alliance Defending Freedom filed the complaint on behalf of the girls with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights yesterday. According to CBS, the complaints “cites the federal Title IX rules aimed at equal rights in sports for female athletes.” This lawsuit will most likely eventually end up at the Supreme Court. Hopefully SCOTUS will actually make a ruling based on common sense, instead of sending it back to the lower court for “reconsideration.” I do not want my granddaughters playing girl’s high school lacrosse against 6’5” 250lb. trans-athletes, as this would be much too dangerous for these high school girls.

As opposed to Rashaan Yearwood, I would say, “I would hope we’d gotten to a place in 200-plus years as a country that we’re not debating who should be included, and who should not be. This is no place for inclusion!.”

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