A boy who thinks he's a girl beats girls in track

The guy's in green

If you are what you think, why do we put people who think they're God in mental institutions?

An Alaskan high school student with the gender gear of a guy thinks he's a girl. If he thought he was a unicorn, would he able to use the unicorn bathroom? Of course not--no respectable female unicorn would stand for that and she would impale the guy if he put one foot past the bathroom threshold. 

The guy who thinks he's a girl runs on the girls track team and due to basic genetics, runs faster than most of the real girls on the team. The real girls who lost to this confused guy (or guy who's just saying he's a she to beat the slower girls) are upset that they have to compete against someone with male attributes. 

This was the first time in Alaska's history that a dude competed in the girls' state championships and it's upsetting real girls who aren't built like the guy who thinks he's a she.

This is not a transgender milestone. It is not an achievement. It's a farce.

Haines High School senior Nattaphon Wangyot (aka "Ice")  is an immigrant from Thailand and competed in the state championships in May in the 100 and 200-meter dashes. He also competed in girls' volleyball and basketball in the fall.

Saskia Harrison, a real girl and runner from Hutchison High School in Fairbanks ran against the guy and lost. Her time in the 100 was 14.11 seconds and just missed the cut, thanks to the dude. "I'm glad that this person is comfortable with who they are and they're able to be happy in who they are, but I don't think it's competitively completely 100 percent fair," she said.

The president of the Alaska Family Action, Jim Minnery held a press conference. "We are here today as a voice from the community to ensure that female athletes are not denied the playing opportunities and scholarships otherwise available to them and to make the playing field even again," he said.

He said that "allowing students to play on teams of the opposite sex disproportionately impacts female students, who will lose spots on a track, soccer and volleyball teams to male students who identify as female."

But that should make GLAAD glad. 

Freshman/woman Alia Bales said she had no clue a dude was running as a girl. "I didn't even notice it," she said. 

If it's true that transgender guys will push out real gals from championships, then these effects may go unnoticed and be more difficult to see.

If they are going to allow boys to compete with girls because the boys think that they're girls too, then they ought to go through hormone therapy and level the playing field. Otherwise, they should compete with their own gender until they share female hormones.

Even then, boys will have the muscle mass advantage over girls--it's biology, not sexism.


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