U. Maryland Students Sign Petition to Allow Man on Women’s Basketball Team
As transgender mania grips the American left, a reporter for Campus Reform went to the University of Maryland to see how students felt about a man on the women’s basketball team.
Watch below.
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VIDEO: Students sign petition to allow man on women’s basketball team
In recent weeks, the issue of transgender rights has been brought to the forefront around the country.
Last week, President Obama directed public schools to allow students to use whichever bathroom they identified with, and now it seems to be just a matter of time before the same demands are made for transgender athletes.
As a contributor for Campus Reform, I wanted to see just how far young people are willing to go to accommodate those in the transgender community, so I went to the University of Maryland posing as a student who identified as a woman but was unable to try out for the women’s basketball team because of my “assigned gender at birth.”
Not knowing what to expect, I brought along 50 letters addressed to the school’s president, and began seeking signatures from “concerned students.”
Despite making no effort to exude femininity, it soon became apparent that students were more than willing to go along with the idea that I was a woman who had every right to play basketball with other women.
As the day progressed, I began to push the envelope further, calling myself a “hero” and even suggesting the abolition of gender-specific sports leagues. It seemed like the more outlandish my suggestions, the more enthusiastic my supporters became.
Of the 50 students who stopped to speak with me, just one insisted that I was clearly not a woman, and as such, should not be allowed to play basketball on the women’s team.
VIDEO: Students sign petition to allow man on women’s basketball team (Campus Reform)
Comments
The allowance presented in article above (for transgender to play on sports teams of their identified sex rather than their genetically determined sex) has been the law at the high school level in California for some time. We seem to have forgotten whey separate sports teams for girls were introduced in the first place. Boys have a physical and genetic advantage due (indirectly) from the XY genes. We’ve long debunked old notions that girls have a psychological nature unfit for sports. We set up a separate system so that female athletes would not be crowded out by stronger and taller boys.
If one accepts the argument that a transgender female is physically male, but psychologically female, then one must allow the girl or woman to live her life as a female (thus satisfying the psychological need) but also require that she be required to compete for a sport on men’s athletic teams.
To do otherwise (as the law now requires) advances to incredibly sexist notion that girls sports leagues are needed because of psychological differences. Moreover, that requirement violates the Title IX right of genetic females to enjoy equal access to sports programs.
Side note: Some of us oldies remember American indignation at the success of Soviet and East German “women” shot putters and discus throwers who appeared to be men. If the same situation occurred today, would the Iron Curtain sports programs be hailed for their enlightened views?