Some social and political phenomena just don't pass the stupid test, and letting "transgender girls" - by which we mean, boys - compete on girls' high school athletic teams is one of those. Not only is it hideously unfair to the girls on those teams, but it deprives those girls of trophies, awards, accolades, and possibly scholarships that otherwise may have been theirs. What's more, some of these school districts are also shoehorning these boys into the girls' locker rooms, and telling the girls who express their shock that they'd better shut up and get over it.
Day by day, week by week, month by month, more athletes and more parents are speaking up. The pushback is growing, both from the grassroots level and from the federal level, with the Trump administration enforcing Title IX to stop this practice.
Enter Kendall Kotzmacher, a Minnesota athlete, who intended to take her high school girls' softball team to state championships, until they got shut out by an opposing team who put a "transgender girl" - a boy - on the pitcher's mound. Kendall's not happy about that, and she's making it known. Good for her.
Kendall Kotzmacher will never forget the day she stepped into the batter's box against Marissa Rothenberger.
It was a Minnesota state tournament semifinal. Kotzmacher and her White Bear Lake High School teammates were looking to go on a run to the state championship game. Kotzmacher had just transferred to White Bear Lake for her final year with the goal of winning a championship, alongside her little sister and teammate.
But Rothenberger, a trans athlete, was on the mound that day for their opponent, Champlin Park High School.
Even Fox News gets that one key part wrong. Marissa Rothenberger isn't a "trans athlete." He is a boy. A male adolescent of the species Homo sapiens. He has all of the physical advantages that being a boy gives him over girls in the same age range: He is stronger, faster, with more endurance, more fast-twitch muscle fibers, and more upper-body strength--all advantages that make his presence on that field horrendously unfair.
Kendall Kotzmacher describes it in her own words:
"They're moving ten times more," Kotzmacher told Fox News Digital of Rothenberger's pitches.
"I have seen movement pitches, so when your hands are bigger than a biological female at that age, in Minnesota especially, you're spinning the ball ten times more. And I would actually say that this athlete wasn't on their best game that day, but even at half their best, they're still blowing it past us, spinning the ball more, making it so we can't hit."
Kotzmacher locked in enough to make some contact off Rothenberger that day. But Rothenberger held White Bear Lake to just two runs on seven hits. It was the most number of runs scored off Rothenberger in the entire postseason. But it wasn't enough, because in the last inning, Rothenberger came up to hit too.
After hitting a double to spark a two-run rally earlier that day, Rothenberger hit a double to lead-off the final inning, and set up a pinch-runner to win the game for Champlin Park.
"It was a half-swing. This athlete was not swinging to their full potential, and the ball was still hit extremely hard," Kotzmacher, who played catcher behind Rothenberger that day, said. "It was hard to call pitches, because it seemed like every pitch I called, this athlete could hit."
Kotzmacher's high school career ended right there. She will never get another chance to fulfill her childhood dream of winning a high school state championship. She fell into the arms of her little sister and began to sob.
This should never have happened. This shouldn't be happening now. The Trump administration's Departments of Education and Justice are trying to put a stop to it with Title IX investigations, but it's probably more effective for actual girls and women athletes to take the direct approach of simply walking off the field when confronted by a larger, stronger, faster boy claiming to be "transgender." And you can add me among the ranks of the skeptical in another angle as well; I doubt, to the strongest degree, that most of these boys are actually "transgender." I doubt, to the strongest degree, that any of them actually suffer from gender dysphoria, a psychological condition normally treated with therapy. I suspect (but admittedly cannot know) that most of them are taking advantage of this social contagion to gain prominence that they could not attain playing where they properly belong, on boys' and men's teams.
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But Kendall isn't done with the state of Minnesota yet. Watch as she blasts the state of Minnesota in other areas, including the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul being unsafe to walk the streets in:
Here she's correct, especially in her closing statement. It will take voter involvement to stop this. Not only this idiotic practice of allowing boys on girls' high school sports teams, but all of the other idiotic practices that have made so many of our major cities unsafe. Kendall doesn't come right out and say "vote Republican," but that is her message, sure as anything.
We are seeing more and more pushback on this issue. More and more students, more and more parents, have had enough. That's good. This stupidity needs to stop.
