Some people are so utterly unbound by any notion of reality, are so obtuse, so blinded by personal animus, that some of their utterings are just stunning. Examples abound, but there are few greater examples than the people who deny biological realities in justifying allowing boys and men to compete in girls' and women's sports.
These boys and men, it's a safe bet, seldom actually suffer from gender dysphoria. Granted, none of us can read minds, but it's far more likely, given the sudden advent of this lunatic policy, that these boys and men are cynically taking advantage of a social trend to win accolades that would otherwise be unattainable. In doing so, they are effectively erasing girls and women from the very face of girls' and women's athletics.
So, when the mother of a "transgender girl" - a boy - complains that her son was rendered "invisible" by having to share a victory podium with actual girls, we can see her for what she is: One of those who is not overly burdened by reality. The boy in question is AB Hernandez, and it was his mother who uttered this corral litter.
The mother of transgender high school athlete AB Hernandez claimed her child was rendered “invisible” after the track competitor was forced to share the winner’s podium with other athletes.
Speaking to the audience at the San Francisco Pride Summit Thursday, Nereyda Hernandez decried the decision by the California Interscholastic Federation’s to give first-place honors to the biological female athletes who finished directly behind AB.
“Of course I’m going to be upset,” Hernandez said. “AB put in all the work, all the hours after school, and she got put aside. It was heartbreaking. I knew it hurt her, because she’s physically there but she’s kind of invisible.”
Invisible? The only way this boy, cheating his way to the top of a victory podium, could be invisible would be if he properly refrained from participating. Look at the lead-in photo for this piece. That's what she's talking about. Her son, standing on the 1st place pillar, was actually blocking the two actual girls who shared that spot. That's not "invisible" by any sane definition of the word. In fact, the opposite is true; AB Hernandez and boys like him are the ones who are cancelling girls in sports, who are rendering the girls who have worked and trained and practiced invisible. They are overshadowing girls who got up early to train, then after school, placed friendships and social time behind more training. These girls worked, and ran, and sweated, and trained, only to be rendered invisible by boys with all of the innate biological advantages that come from being male: Greater cardiovascular capacity, longer and heavier bones, more muscle mass per body weight, more fast-twitch muscle fibers, all of it.
These are facts.
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AB's own comments can only be described as condescending and arrogant.
AB took the top spot in several events last month while competing for Jurupa Valley High School in Riverside County.
The athlete’s participation led to protests by demonstrators wearing “Save Girl’s Sports” shirts and carrying signs reading, “No boys. No bias. Just fairness.”
AB, who graduated in May, laughed off the protests.
“I don’t care,” the athlete said last month.
He doesn't care. Want to know who does care?
All of the girls that he overshadowed, including the ones he physically obscured in the photo above. They care. They care about all the work they put in, all the competitions against other girls, all the training, all the sweat, only to have a boy step in and take the front stage.
All of the parents of those girls, who watched their daughters work, sweat, and plan. The parents who drove their daughters to practices, to camps, to events, who cheered them on, who rooted for them, who bought their equipment, often at considerable cost, only to see them obscured by a boy.
All of the other family members of those girls, who watched with great pride and gave their full support, only to see any possible awards and recognition taken by a boy.
Want to know who else cares? Anyone interested in fundamental fairness and sportsmanship. Anyone knowledgeable about human biology. Anyone interested in doing the right thing.
This may be the most outrageous thing AB Hernandez has to say on the matter:
“Track is a very singular sport; it teaches you to rely on yourself. Once you’re on the track, you just stay focused on the track.”
Oh, the irony! AB Hernandez was taught not to rely on himself, but to rely on an unfair biological advantage he has over the girls he is competing against. This is a matter that is not just wrong in certain instances; the biological differences between boys and girls are so significant as to make this something that is wrong in essence.
Fortunately, AB Hernandez would appear to be out of the game, so to speak, for now. NCAA rules don't permit the sort of cheating he did in high school. But there are more out there like him, and they are anything but invisible - they are, literally and figuratively, standing in front of the girls they compete against; it is those girls who are unfairly and unreasonably rendered invisible.
