From 19fd8e9ca41a738dd1ffc84ea8f64c3fd3119c2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 16:31:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] "Questions Such as, What's Wrong With You People?" --- .../questions-such-as-wtf-is-wrong-with-you-people.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/2017/questions-such-as-wtf-is-wrong-with-you-people.md diff --git a/content/2017/questions-such-as-wtf-is-wrong-with-you-people.md b/content/2017/questions-such-as-wtf-is-wrong-with-you-people.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2cb37d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/2017/questions-such-as-wtf-is-wrong-with-you-people.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Title: Questions Such as, What's Wrong With You People? +Date: 2017-06-02 16:05 +Category: commentary +Tags: cathartic, news + +The new [Connecticut Class M high school girls' 100-meter and 200-meter sprint champion is trans](http://www.courant.com/sports/hc-jacobs-column-yearwood-transgender-0531-20170530-column.html), which would be awkward enough on its own—and then you get to the fifteenth graf of the story, which mentions that she's _not on HRT yet_ (!!). + +The poor local sports columnist looks constrained in what he's allowed to say, and the headline writer went with "We Must Acknowledge Many Questions Remain", but I hope the first draft read, "This is _fucking crazy_. The _entire fucking point_ of having sex-segregated sports leagues is because the athletic performance distributions of females and males are sufficiently different such that our fairness intuitions are better satisfied by only comparing athletes of the same sex! The existence of people who, for whatever poorly-understood psychological reasons, wish they could change their sex, and our humane desire to accomodate them when feasible, clearly do not impinge upon this rationale in the absence of physiologically-substantive interventions like hormone replacement therapy! How is this is even a question?! What's wrong with you people?! _Uaaaaaaaaaauuuugh_" -- 2.17.1