ACLU insulting girls and women again
The ACLU talks maudlin nonsense on its pet subject yet again and does it dishonestly yet again. The author is one Gillian Branstetter, communications strategist. I would say her strategy is crap.
Over the last five years, politicians across the country have targeted transgender people and our families.
Ah. “Our” families; so Gillian is trans; so he’s a he.
To the point: it’s not “targeting” men to tell them to get out of the women’s toilets and stop taking women’s jobs and prizes. If anybody is “targeting” it’s men who pretend to be women and take all the women’s stuff.
They’ve banned our health care, censored our speech, and made schools less safe for transgender students. One of the most consistent focus areas for many of these politicians has been the rights of transgender student athletes, specifically the right of transgender girls, to play with other girls. While the overall number of transgender athletes is extremely small–most states have fewer than a handful of transgender students playing sports among 10s of thousands of student athletes– politicians have introduced hundreds of bills over the last few years targeting their ability to play.
Blah blah blah. Not even worth pointing out, it’s so obvious. Boys don’t have a right to play “with other girls” because boys are boys. The fact that there aren’t (yet) many boys cheating girls this way is not a reason to let them keep doing it.
Now, the Supreme Court will hear our challenge against a state law that categorically bans transgender students from girl’s teams.
Liar. The issue is not “transgender”; the issue is boys.
Politicians hope to use the case to legitimize a broad range of discrimination against transgender people (and all LGBTQ people), excluding us not just from sports teams but from civil rights protections and pushing us further out of public life altogether.
Liar again. It’s not about “transgender people” and it’s not about pushing them out of public life. Telling boys they can’t cheat girls is not pushing them out of public life.
Becky Pepper-Jackson of West Virginia is just like any other 15-year-old. She loves spending time with her friends, playing with her brothers, and is active in her school’s band and track & field team, throwing discus and shotput. But under a ban passed by the West Virginia state legislature, Pepper-Jackson would be prohibited from playing on the girls’ team. “She likes to do the best in everything, be it algebra or running or shot put or discus,” her mother told NBC News. “She tries to excel in everything that she does, just like any other kid.”
Except she’s a he, so trying to excel in the girls’ shot put or discus is cheating, and unfair to the girls he’s cheating.
With the help of Lambda Legal and Cooley LLP, the ACLU and the ACLU of West Virginia filed a lawsuit on behalf of Pepper-Jackson and her mother challenging the ban on the grounds it violates her rights under Title IX – the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in public schools – and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
I hope they lose. I really really hope they lose.
Something I frequently hear from trans-activists is that “there are just a few trans girls”. What I want to know is, how do they know this? Is there some central registry where schools have to report how many boys claiming to be girls are playing high school sports? Who is collecting that information, and how do we access their files? Is there some organization that is verifying the accuracy?
“excluding us not just from sports teams. . . ”
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SheHe likes to do the best in everything, be it algebra or running or shot put or discus . . . .”Lies. Nothing but lies. Boys — even the boys who pretend to be girls — are NOT “excluded from sports teams.” There’s a perfectly good boys’ track and field team for him to be included in.
So what he “likes to do the best” in shot put and discuss? N.B., he doesn’t say he likes to do HIS best; no, he wants to do THE best. Guess what? Everyone is limited by their own talents and capacities. Only one person can ever be “the” best at something. Apparently, Pepper-Jack(son) Cheese thinks he can excel and be “the” best at shotput and discus only by competing against — cheating — girls. It’s not good enough for him to do his best in the boys’ competition. He might not be good enough to be “the” best. Welcome to competitive sport. 99% of athletes are not “the” best at whatever it is, because there is only one first place.
‘Politicians hope to use the case to legitimize a broad range of discrimination against transgender people (and all LGBTQ people)’ – ie ‘if you’re not absolutely OK with letting boys and men do whatever they want, gay men and women will lose the civil rights they (and the ACLU) fought for, and we’d hate to see that wouldn’t we?’
Guest, your interpretation is spot-on. All they have ever had is threats: from “Do you want a living daughter, or a dead son?” and “If you don’t go along with our demands, we’ll accuse you of bigotry and get you sacked” to “Stop telling the truth, or we’ll get you arrested for hate speech”. As they have had those threats neutralised one by one by governments and courts, they are resorting to threatening the group of people behind whom they first hid.
They have no legitimate claims, since ‘trans’ is a predatory movement demanding privileges for a select few over and above everyone else, unlike genuine civil rights movements. The movement is parasitical on the LGB rights movement, and parasites inevitably kill their hosts when they have no other immediate means of survival. Here’s hoping that the LGB movement recognises the threat and rejects the parasite before the rest of society decides the only way to get rid of the threat is to get rid of the whole of the El Jibitiqu.
Becky Pepper-Jackson doesn’t sound like any other 15-year-old to me. Well, not female ones. I don’t think female ones enjoy playing with their brothers at that age. Becky sounds exactly like the male 15-year-old he is.
The ACLU is so firmly ensconced in this nonsense that they can’t see what it looks like from the outside. And the Supreme Court majority is on the outside. That means that, from the majority’s legal perspective, ACLU will just ignore and try to hand-wave away substantial matters of fact and precedent. That might work at a PTA meeting or a public library supporters’ group; it will not be effective before the Supreme Court.
Here is what the ACLU considers reasoning:
That will surely raise a round of rousing applause at El Jibitiqu coffee shop. But unless you’re in the cult it seems not reasoning at all but after-the-fact justification, mere specious, cultish nonsense. Look, there is “biological males” in quotes, as if biology has been dispensed with. Sure, the ACLU can believe biology doesn’t exist, and this poor lad can be brought up to believe biology doesn’t exist, but rest assured that the majority of the Supreme Court, like the majority of the American people, believes that biology exists.
What irritates me is the suggestion that LGB people are also impacted by supposed anti-trans policies. Nothing could be further from the truth. The recently victorious English women football and rugby teams have amongst their number several lesbians, who certainly would be affected by having to play against men. Rugby is is a high intensity contact sport … The reason they say LGB people are impacted by the thing they don’t like is to increase the quantity of supposedly people damaged by us not agreeing with them. This, if I may say is BS.
Zinneke, I think it’s true that LGB people are negatively affected by gender nonsense, in many ways. In the first place, most of the children who get transed would otherwise grow up to be gay or lesbian. So they’re harming the baby gays. In the second place, trans activists annoy people so very much that they could provoke a backlash that spills over onto gay people.
“They’ve banned our health care” – a lie;
“censored our speech” – say what you wish, but we’ll call the lie if you call yourself a woman;
“and made schools less safe for transgender students” but made them safer for female students. Sorry not sorry, their need is greater: they are more numerous, and their safety concerns are real and immediate rather than being in due to their own psychology.
As for the flurry of bills in response to only several trans girl athletes per state, well, if those several boys and their enablers stopped trying to cheat by entering women’s sports, there would be no opposition to them.
It’s become their brand, and they’re going to fly it into the ground, destroying a fine legacy of worthy acheivement in the process.
Uh, yes, they are. That’s what the “transness” indicates.
None of that “gender affirming care” turns Pepper-Jackson into a girl. Nothing can. He’s not even a so-called “intersex” edge case. If he was someone with a DSD, that would be put front and centre, so I’m guessing he’s not. So, just a regular, ordinary boy. And, while we’re playing gotcha, I’ll see your “hormone levels” and “muscle mass,” and raise you skeletal structure, cardiovascular capacity, and all of the other male physiological traits that wrong-sex hormones can’t change. Still, these are distracting side-shows: girls sports are for girls. A girl is not just a boy who’s been artificially hobbled by hormones. If you were born male, you can’t become female. No amount of dress, cosmetics, drugging, hormones, and mutilation can change that, and it’s misogynistic to believe, and insist, that they can.
Who’s doing the exploiting here? Tell us why we shouldn’t be concerned about fairness and safety for girls and women. You want to trash these for some sort of bogus, enforced, ideological “inclusion” that cheats and endangers female athletes, while claiming that both science and justice are on your side. They aren’t. The relevant “widely-held assumptions about sex” are the strictures of material reality. Gender has nothing to do with anything in this regard. Sex is real. Gender is bullshit. “Genders” aren’t throwing the shot, swimming the laps, or clearing the bar; sexed bodies are. And those sexed bodies still have to change and shower in locker rooms where, off the field, you want to force women and girls to accept the presence of male bodies. It comes as a package deal with the “inclusion” you’re pushing. This is not scare-mongering or conjectural; it’s already happening. Let me introduce you to two words: “Lia” Thomas. This is what you are defending, upholding, and imposing. You might want to take a closer look at the geography of the hill you’ve chosen to die on. It is well inside the borders of sexist, patriarchal rape culture. Do you really want to continue to be Taliban adjacent?
Yes, and? Sport is about exclusion, otherwise there are no titles or medals. Everyone is on the field, nobody is in the stands, and participation awards for all. You’ll have to do better than that.
This is not “better”. The first thing you have to be, to be in girls sports is a girl. If you’re not, you’re not eligible. Simple as that. “Transgender girls” i.e. boys are being excluded on the basis of their being male. No appeals to hormone levels or muscle mass required. Female sptorts are not a dumping ground for males who don’t make the cut in their own division. To argue otherwise is to destroy women’s sport altogether, and then they’ve missed the cut again. This puts you into a bit of a bind. You need to keep women’s sport so that men can continue to cheat within it, but this only works with a small number of cheaters. If there aren’t actual women for cheating males to beat, then they’re still just mediocre males. You need to do this by redefining “girl” into some sort of performance standard, or narrow hormonal threshhold that any male can attempt, rather than an immutible state of material being from which males are forever excluded. See that first bit about standards and levels? That’s what you’re arguing. There’s your misogyny out in the open. You’ve sneakily tried to swap “gender” for “sex,” in order to declared femaleness open to males.
Being male can give us physical advantages which are often competitively insurmountable by even the fittest, most robust, best trained female athletes. And while you might be patting yourself on the back for sounding feministy when decrying the “petit and weak” stereotype, you’re not doing any favours to women that the disparity between male and female athletic performance is only one of degree rather than kind. Becuse men, on average, are stronger and faster than women. Sure, some elite women athletes can outperform some men, but elite male athletes outperform all women, and most males, athletes or not, are stronger than most women. Men have seldom resisted the temptation to turn difference into hierarchy. Historically, we have leveraged that physical difference to claim and enforce moral, material, and political superiority over women. This ACLU action to push males into female spaces falls right in line with that shameful, poisonous tradition.
Barbyra #1:
One resource is hecheated.org. If you choose a sport and mark the level as “high school,” it will give results with links to verify. In 2024 Track and Field, for example, it looks like high school male athletes were recorded in events 487 times. That’s not 487 participants, of course, since we can see that most participated more than once. Still, that’s just one sport. It’s more than a few.
These results weren’t easy to find, since many schools want to mainstream this by stealth, but all were doublechecked. Sometimes the giveaway came from newspapers which couldn’t help but gush about the brave trans “girl.”
When I searched for this website on google, there was a huge warning in the search results about “dubious” methodology and “connections to extremist communities.” I think that latter means us.