Trans Boy Kicked Off Girl’s Volleyball Team in Florida
I’ve seen these sympathetic articles about the effeminate male who thinks he’s a girl and the big, bad bullies who won’t let him play girl’s sports. But I wonder if the Washington Post would ever do an article about the poor girls who trained all their lives for an event only to be destroyed at the State meet by a boy who thinks he’s a girl? Don’t hold your breath.
I’m going to guess that humans have had tiny, effeminate, no-muscle men with us for some thousands of years. It doesn’t mean they are women.
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Until recently, Norton had worked at the high school Elizabeth attended. But last fall, an armed officer with the Broward County Public Schools Police had told Norton she was under investigation for allowing Elizabeth to play girls sports. District leaders banned Norton from the building. They discussed the investigation on the local news, and soon, everyone in Coconut Creek seemed to know Elizabeth is transgender. (Norton asked The Washington Post to use the child’s middle name to protect her privacy.)
In the nine months since, school officials had talked about Elizabeth as if she were dangerous, but Norton knew they couldn’t possibly be picturing the 16-year-old who stood at the edge of the driveway in Taylor Swift Crocs. This girl loved Squishmallows and Disney World. She had long red hair, and she was so skinny, the principal described her to investigators as “frail.”
Elizabeth didn’t have an advantage, Norton thought. She was a normal teenage girl, and yet her very existence had thrust them into one of the nation’s most contentious debates.
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