It's amazing how some activists, many of whom are operating in the nation's various school systems, will deny reality.
Which reality? In this instance, the reality is that there are measurable physical differences between boys and girls, between men and women. There are differences in speed, strength, stamina, and more; these differences are great enough to be differences not in degree but in kind, and a boy or man can "identify" as a woman, a ham sandwich, or a Scottish terrier, and it won't change these facts.
It is just such activists who are conducting an unforgivable act of harassment and lawfare against a Washington state teen, Frances Staudt, a basketball player who refused to compete against a boy and who now faces an utterly ridiculous civil rights complaint.
15-year-old Frances Staudt and her mother, Aimee, discussed how her refusal to play against a biological male ignited a firestorm with the Tumwater School District during “Fox & Friends,” and allegedly prompted a series of threats against their family.
“They [the school district] could have avoided this happening,” Aimee told Steve Doocy on Thursday. “They knew, admittedly, that there was going to be this situation, and they had a meeting, the principal, the superintendent, and the athletic director to discuss the fact that this was a potential situation that was coming up.”
The school district knew but didn't see fit to notify parents that their daughters would be competing in a physical game that frequently involves contact against a boy. I've watched my grandson play basketball, and elbows are thrown. It's a physical sport, and people can get hurt. A boy has no business on a girl's basketball team. He can parade around in a dress all he likes off the court, but if he wants to compete, he should only compete against other boys.
Young Frances objected, and the grievance industry swung into action.
The Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) filed a civil rights complaint on Frances’ behalf to the Department of Education after the school district reportedly launched an investigation into Frances for “misgendering” her transgender opponent.
After warming up for the Feb. 7 game, Frances notified her coach of her refusal to play against the “quite obvious” biological male spotted on the opposing team. Aimee says she then approached the school athletic director, who allegedly responded that the school will not discriminate based on sexual identity in accordance with Washington state law.
Is it necessary to point out that, while we don't yet know all the particulars in this case, it's more than likely that many of these "transgender athletes" are gaming the system to gain recognition, awards, trophies, and even scholarships they couldn't obtain by playing fairly, against other boys?
It gets worse — a school employee actually threatened Frances' brother:
“When [Frances] was leaving, she was so mad, she felt like she had been exposed, and it was just a terrible situation,” Aimee said. “She walked by and said that ‘you’re a man.’ She was so frustrated in the situation, and that is why she has been now charged with bullying, harassment, and intimidation for misgendering this person.”
Then, per the complaint, a school employee allegedly confronted Staudt’s younger brother about taking a video of the game, saying, “You better think twice about what you’re doing right now.”
The question this unnamed school employee should have been asked is, "Or else, what?" If they are going to threaten a child, make them threaten them out loud, on camera.
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There's a good reason President Trump is trying to stamp out this practice; it's horribly unfair to the girls and young women who are forced to compete against boys and men. This is not a matter that's subject to debate; the left loves to invoke science, except when science proves them wrong, and this is one such case.
The gender gap ranges from 5.5% (800-m freestyle, swimming) to 18.8% (long jump). The mean gap is 10.7% for running performances, 17.5% for jumps, 8.9% for swimming races, 7.0% for speed skating and 8.7% in cycling. The top ten performers’ analysis reveals a similar gender gap trend with a stabilization in 1982 at 11.7%, despite the large growth in participation of women from eastern and western countries, that coincided with later- published evidence of state-institutionalized or individual doping. These results suggest that women will not run, jump, swim or ride as fast as men.
Facts. Couched in typically tentative scientific language, yes — that's how actual science works. Any finding is always subject to re-evaluation if new data is uncovered. In this case, that's unlikely in the extreme; men are men, and women are women, and that goes back to the beginning of our species. These are facts.
Frances Staudt, if there is any fairness in the world, will prevail in this case, and the Trump administration should also enforce the president's EO yanking federal funding from these schools. But in the end, these problems will have to be solved at the local level by parents, if necessary, by running against the incumbents in school board elections. K-12 education is primarily a local matter, or at least, it should be — and local actions will address this particular stupidity.
