You have got to be kidding me. I mean, you can't make stuff like this up. It's just too weird to believe. How desperate can some people be? You re-read the story, then you check the sources, and yes, it happened. It really did happen. Right here in good old Utah, United States of America.
High school sports. It is like the most important thing that ever happens in the world. Millions upon millions of dollars are waged on high school sports, especially girls high school sports. (Just kidding)
It seems that a female high school athlete right here in good old "we love everybody" Utah (just kidding again) beat two other female high school athletes "by such a wide margin" that the two sets of defeated parents went to the school and complained that their daughters could not have been beat unless the winner was unfairly competing by being transgender. So the school officials checked the winners high school record and found she had always registered as female, and used female pronouns. Not good enough for the parents! No, Siree! There has to more to it. They called Utah High School Activities Association and demanded further investigation. So the USAA and the school went all the way back to the winner's kindergarten records and found that. . . wait for it. . . yes, the winner had always identified as female, and always used female pronouns. All of which they did, by the way, without ever informing the winner, or her parents, they were investigating the female athlete.
I am struggling to find the right terms to describe these parents. Self-centered, privileged snobs that spend way too much time listening to fear-based infotainment radio and podcasts featuring blathering commentators doing their level worst to convince the public that "the left" is working to destroy "our way of life" even down to high school sports by forcing (according to some commentators) schools to allow transgender athletes to play girls sports.
This has reached such a fever pitch in Utah that our legislature, always willing to write a law that will eventually be found unconstitutional, wrote and passed over the governor's veto a bill that outlaws transgender girls from playing in Utah high school sports.
So, high school sports, by no fault of the students who play them with fever and zeal, has now become a football in the grand area of fear based politics, and fodder for talk radio commentators.
What is this country becoming?
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R. M. "Bob" Hartman
I feel this is just a reflection of society as a whole. Personalities and entitlement beliefs are becoming more extreme. This applies to both sides. “Live and let live,” sportsmanship, and fair dealing are forgotten ideals no long practice. I think things will continue to get worse before they get better. Don’t lose hope and love and upright life yourself.
ReplyDelete''The main ingredient in a recipe for fear is the unknown.''
ReplyDelete--- Rod Serling.
Unfortunately Bob, we now live in a world where outright lies are accepted as truth.
Examples include any statement made by RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel. Also, just yesterday, 8-30, just a few hours after Joe Biden gave a speech firmly declaring he believes defunding the police anywhere is absolutely the wrong thing to do, AR Senator Tom Cotton said JB is FOR defunding the police, a flat out lie.
In FL Ron DeSantis said any legislator who voted for the American Recovery Act recently signed into law by President Biden should have their taxes audited every year by the IRS.
So the same people who accused President Obama of weaponizing the IRS now want to weaponize the IRS.
There are literally hundreds of examples of this blatant hypocrisy being posted every day by far RW politicians who will burn this country down if it means they get to maintain power.
As for the parents mentioned in this article who weaponized the school system to invade the privacy of that poor girl and her family, I'm sure they see themselves as fine upright members of the community. They are anything but that. They are vile, evil little people who need to tear others down to maintain their own sense of self esteem.
Perhaps they need a remedial class on The Golden Rule.
Thanks, Bob.
''I would rather have one honest enemy than most of the friends I have known.'' -- E. Hemingway.