In Washington, the ultimate reductio-ad-absurdum scenario occurred in the ongoing woke insanity of allowing male athletes to compete against females once they “identify” as female. At Camus High, boy’s cross-country team member Logan Mihailoff, a junior, finished 76th in a boys’ JV cross-country race on September 15th. So on September 29th the same kid, with no changes in his anatomy or physiology, joined the varsity girls’ team. He had “identified” as female, see. And miracles of miracles, he went from 76th to first in a track meet against Union High!
The school later took legal action against a father who held up a protest sign against this obvious cheat that was enabled by the woke lunatics in charge of overseeing athletics at the school, and they took legal action against him. He chanted, “Keep boys out of girls’ sports,” and now is banned from campus for a year. OutKick reporter Matt Calkins interviewed parents at Camas High and tried to interview an assistant cross-country coach. “Nobody wants to talk to you,” the coach said. “I’m trying to be nice.” The logical and ethical contrast between the parents trying to protest their daughters’ rights to compete in a fair contest and the woke defenders of an indefensible policy was striking.
“We’re about as liberal as it gets,”said parent Kent Lake. “I just don’t agree with that [boys competing against girls]. I mean, if they find your body in 300 years, what are they going to say you were? Look, you can live any way you want. You got my blessing. But I mean come on, in competitions? It’s like stock car racing. It’s gotta be even, and it’s gotta be fair.”
Not especially articulate, but still clear enough. “When I first heard about this story, I was like, ‘Is this real? That can’t be real’,” said a mother of a cross country runner, who requested anonymity because she was probably was afraid that the woke mob would storm her house with torches and pitchforks. “We have daughters, and it’s robbing them of an opportunity to compete.”
Follow-up question, ma’am? Why do you live in this crazy state?
On the pro-letting boys magically turn themselves into girls so they can win races, games and scholarships side—you know, morons—Outkick got responses like “There are more important things in sports than that” from one experienced progressive rationalizer. (I have heard and read that dodge regarding everything from open borders to DEI discrimination.) There is, in fact, no good defense of what the blurry kid above did. Can you guess which one is the boy?
After the September 29th travesty, a dozen female cross-country runners on the Camas High School team refused to compete against the cheat on October 13. About half of the girls competing in last week’s race walked off the field in protest while the newly minted “Miss” Mihailoff took of with the remaining of female runners. (And what brainwashed woke weenies those girls are on the way to becoming!) The 11 protesting female students slowly walked past the starting line with their arms linked and left the field.
There is hope.
Listen to this babbling idiot, the head of the state’s school system, try to defend the school policy:
Yikes. He also is employing the apparent desperation fall-back position of the pro-trans cheating cabal as Initiative 638 comes up for a vote on November 3. It would keep cheating males like Logan Mihailoff out of the women’s competitions in K-12 sports, so opponents say it will require “invasive” checks. No, it wouldn’t. If the dude didn’t decide he was a she until after puberty, then he’s out. Too bad abut that “inclusivity” thingy, but there’s always the chess team. Also being a member of the boys team two weeks earlier is also a big clue. No ‘nads checks required.
How can Americans vote for these people? I don’t get it.
The big tell is you never see biological girls/women wanting to play on the boys/mens teams.
-Jut
I guess Little League baseball is the only exception? Maybe a field goal kicker or two in high school or college football. I think there have been a few of those where there weren’t any boys who could kick very well. Michelle Wi never made any headway playing against guys. I don’t think Laura Davies ever tried to. But maybe Babe Didrickson tried as well, but maybe just in money games. And then there were Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. But that was just made for TV.
Little League baseball is pre-puberty. The talented female players are all channeled into softball as the boys more into the next level. There’s no reason to do that. On my son’s team, the best player by far was a girl, a pitcher-catcher-outfielder, tall and strong. She was moved out into softball.
I want to ridicule these people.
But searching for some grain of common absurdity in my own life only yields that I hold that Jesus of Nazareth was virgin born and resurrected, two things I can’t prove with science anymore than the boy can justify he is a girl.
I think I am right just as much as Washington thinks it is.
Of course, with religious beliefs we are required to accept each person’s right to those beliefs, and not discriminate based on them – but we’re not required to accept them as true.
By that logic, I should be able to enforce Christian doctrine on every schoolchild in the state. Teachers should be able to force children to recite the Nicene Creed every morning, say the Lord’s Prayer, etc. If the state can enforce one religion, than any religion can be enforced in the public schools.
The folks who say that there’s only a handful in the entire country, so let it go …. they are so wrong. Every day another boy magically becomes trans to join a girls team. And we focus so much about the fairness (really important) without giving full weight to the invasion of privacy!!! These girls have to share crowded intimate locker room space with fully intact males. Title IX never intended this.
I wish the host had asked the governor if he would support the Oregon universities dropping the women’s teams and fielding just one team, and giving scholarships to the people who make that team, if he thinks it isn’t unfair for the girls to compete with the boys.
I know I beat the proverbial dead horse, but the answer to the question is found in the Bible’s book of Romans. Specifically, Romans 1:18-23 and then verses 28-32 of that same chapter.