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Date: June 27, 2018 03:58AM
What Happens When the Trans Movement Meets Sports?
The stories are repeated throughout the women’s sports world. In New Zealand in 2017, 39-year-old Laurel (formerly Gavin) Hubbard set four national records in women’s weightlifting after years competing in the sport as a man.
Fifty-year-old Gabriella (Robert) Ludwig, who stands 6-feet-6 and weighs 220 pounds, joined the girls basketball team at Mission College. Cycling, volleyball, marathons, softball—all have seen the emergence of dominant trans athletes, smashing records and often leaving the female competition far behind.
This isn’t new. The “Barr body test”—an examination of sex at the chromosomal level—was instituted in the 1970s in response to the professional tennis career of Renée Richards (formerly Richard Raskind) who had been ranked No. 13 in the nation in men’s 35-and-over tennis, began competing in women’s tennis after undergoing a sex-change operation (the preferred contemporary nomenclature is “gender-confirmation” therapy) in 1975. Richards refused to take the Barr body test and, after being excluded from the U.S. Open and Wimbledon, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Tennis Association. That was the end of the chromosome test.
Judge Alfred M. Ascione’s opinion in the case is barking mad, entertaining reading, and an excellent foretelling of the Orwellian newspeak regime to come: “When an individual such as plaintiff, a successful physician, a husband and father, finds it necessary for his own mental sanity to undergo a sex reassignment, the unfounded fears and misconceptions of defendants must give way to the overwhelming medical evidence that this person is now female.”
Stop and appreciate that the clause “give way to overwhelming medical evidence that this person is now female” appears in a judicial order suppressing the overwhelming medical evidence that this person is male.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/kevin-d-williamson/transgender-athletes-are-challenging-the-definitions-of-sports