With all the news surrounding Charlie Kirk's assassination, his accused murderer and the killer's... associations come to light, the transgender issue has rebounded into the news in a big way. But some of the old controversies are still being fought over, and one of those remains the lunatic practice of allowing "transgender" girls and women, by which I mean boys and men, to compete on girls' and women's sports. What's even more lunatic is allowing these boys and men to share the girls' and women's locker rooms and showers.
In California, the school systems appear determined to maintain this policy, despite Governor Gavin Newsom's half-hearted statement about fairness. Now, more young California women are speaking up - one of them with an interesting twist in her objection.
California high school senior Hadeel Hazameh believes she was brainwashed.
For the previous three school years, she had to watch biological male athletes finish ahead of her in at least seven track and field events. But things got even harder during the volleyball season, when she had to share a locker room with a biological male transgender teammate.
She put her inner feelings and religious duties aside to tolerate it.
She should never have been asked to put aside her religious duties, of course. But, as you may have guessed from this young woman's name, her religious duties present California with a dilemma.
"I shouldn't have had to be scared to change in the women's locker room. I'm not allowed to show my hair or my body to biological males, and I shouldn't have had to deal with that. I should have had those privacy rights since the second I walked into the locker room since my freshman year," Hazameh, a practicing Muslim, told Fox News Digital.
"I wish they would just understand there's some things I just can not do because of my religious faith… there's stuff I just can't do and I wish I had more privacy protecting those rights."
Let's be clear about this: No girl, no young woman, regardless of religion or lack thereof for that matter, should be subjected to having a boy or a young man in their private spaces. There is a reason we have sports segregated by sex, and there's a reason that we set aside private spaces for girls and young women to change clothes and shower.
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But here's the interesting bit. In the aggrieved-group calculus of California's governing leftist supermajority, who takes precedence? The transgender women (men) insist they be allowed to cheat by competing on the women's teams? Or the Muslim who is protesting being forced to violate her religious principles?
It may be interesting to see how the California school districts split this baby.
While that's an interesting (and mildly amusing) dilemma for these California school systems, the underlying facts of this remain the same: Young men have significant physical advantages over young women in sports. These young men, regardless of whether they "identify" as a woman, a three-gender nonbinary swamp goblin or a corned beef sandwich on rye, are asking to be allowed to cheat. Young men do, always have, and always will have advantages in speed, strength, and stamina over young women. These are facts. And school district policies should be based on facts, not nonsensical hooraw from young men who want to cheat their way to glory they don't deserve.
Good luck to these outstanding young women. Let's hope they keep up the good fight.
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