The Minnesota State High School League overwhelmingly voted
to open up girls sports to transgender (those kids who were born male but
“identify” as female) student-athletes yesterday, December 4th. In
fact, 18 of the 20 board members voted yes, with one courageously abstaining. One voted no.
“ALL
kids deserve respect,” read some printed signs held by supporters of the
measure and provided by the group
‘Transforming Families.’”
Estimates
by the Transgender Law Center itself, based in California, put 0.3% of the
population as transgender. In truth, the other 99.7% were ‘disrespected’ (to use a newly-minted verb I dislike and
rarely acknowledge).
To wit,
the Minnesota Family Council, a Christian-based advocacy group that promotes
and defends biblical principles in public policy matters, proposed a bylaw
change stipulating that a student’s sex at birth be used to determine
eligibility.
It
wasn’t even considered.
That proposal was backed by a petition
of over 5,500 people and a mix of 28
public and private high schools. Those numbers equate to percentages that are
many times greater than the percentage of transgender kids in our schools.
Whose voice is being ignored?
The
board’s vote also added “transgender language”
to its 'fair hearing' procedure.
League
Executive Director Dave Stead said, “There was nothing that was done today that
would prevent a school from being a member of the High School League. Not one
scintilla.”
Poor
use of the language aside, that is
technically true.
And
utterly meaningless in the larger sense.
There
is nothing keeping Protestants or Catholics from joining the Muslim
Brotherhood, either. Or joining a Paganism group. Except of course for deeply
held beliefs, and some of the more fanatical Muslim’s desire to convert or
enslave those who disagree with them.
“Translogic”
has won the day.
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