After advocating for and celebrating the passage of I-638—which effectively forces every girl to get a genital exam in order to play school sports—one local man says he’s tired of everyone assuming…
I remember it being a tasteless joke about the creepy gym teachers that they were going to have a “penis inspection day” but god damn they went and made “vagina inspection day” real. What the actual fuck
Unironically, this is why EVERY woman should be pro-trans, even if you loathe transgender people. It doesn’t just protect trans people, it protects women too.
Cis women are probably being impacted more than trans-women in many cases just on the mere fact that there are magnitudes more of them and many of them don’t meet the definition of what these hateful people think of what a woman looks like.
Why not a blood test, if they’re determined to be assholes?
The actual answer is because karyotype testing (testing of biological sex determinations) results in a whole bunch of cis people discovering that they are intersex.
Similarly to why they stopped doing eye color punnit squares in schools, because there are a few more factors in eye color and it was leading to kids thinking they were the result of an affair. Any time there is a test that would uppend the life of the person being tested for no real good reason, we err on the side of not causing a problem if we don’t need to.
Should go without saying, but this test should also be included in that, and genital testing should never be a requirement for something as low stakes as sports. We don’t test for hyperflexibility, naturally high T levels, or any other genetic advantage someone could have, and any “advantage” a trans person could have (which has never been proven in any scientific study) pales in comparison to the natural advantage some cis people have over other cis people.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, they should just mind their own fucking business.
I mean, if they’re not on hormone therapy a trans woman would absolutely have an advantage over a CIS woman. Testosterone is a hell of a drug.
Wow I haven’t been super informed about this. How much of a bite will this take out of women’s sports participation?
They are literally throwing a huge hurdle up in front of every girl or woman that wants to play sports just in case one of them might be trans, not to mention anyone with non standard genital presentation or hormone imbalances or any of the other little variations of the human form that they like to pretend don’t exist. These people are the sort who would go target shooting with an ICBM.
Then again a lot of these freaks don’t really get why women would want to play sports when they could be having babies I guess. I swear the sooner we can start putting religion in the rear view the sooner we can start recovering as a species.
Practically, probably very little. Seattle schools has already filed a lawsuit, and it seems pretty unlikely to be upheld by the Washington Supreme Court because it pretty clearly violates equal protection by gender under the law.
It will be a huge hurdle, especially to lower income girls. You think these checks will be free or covered by insurance? Not to mention reinforcing that your body is shameful and must be inspected for ‘purity’ for others.
I was a shy kid but loved playing sports, I know for a fact I would never play another day of sports in my life if in lived under these rules.
To think if I, some minimally enlightened Gen X Cis Het white man from a small town can figure all this out and see the field of red flags waving for attention, what’s wrong with everyone that voted for it? Why are people so narrow minded, ignorant and fearful that they let a bunch of people who just want to push a narrative lead them merrily into damnation?
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Taco BellThe Needling, Seattle’s Only Real Fake NewsEdit: …wait, this is a real bill though? Look, these Onion flavored articles are getting too real. Its unironically getting difficult to tell when theyre joking and not.
Not to take too serious of a turn on all this, but I remember as a young boy needing to get a physical every year to do sports, which included the doc needing to feel something on my scrotum while I turned my head and coughed. I always imagined the girls needing to have something comparable checked.
Would this bill drive a more invasive test than that?
Edit 2: according to Ballotopedia:
The ballot initiative required students seeking to participate in athletic activities designated for female students to submit documentation from their healthcare provider verifying “the student’s biological sex [based on]… reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels.”[
However, the link to the citation appears to be broken
Checking for hernias, something that could give you a lot of grief if it went bad. Arguably not that big a deal not something I hear being done a lot these days. I had to do the same when I was doing flight training. The intent was to prevent a medical issue from blowing up into a much bigger deal, and while potentially embarassing it was minimally invasive.
This, this is not medically necessary this is solely informed by culture war nonsense and transphobia. And once the transvestigators get involved how many girls families will be expected to spend thousands of dollars on genetic and hormone testing? This is being presented as defending women’s sports but it’s actually a potentially massive impediment.
Conservatives and Christians turning women’s sports into the Battle of Bến Tre. What a time to be alive.
They don’t really do this anymore unless you have hernia symptoms and, from what I understand, to check for ovaries in girls requires a much more invasive procedure involving an ultrasound from the inside. You can’t feel for them from outside.
I suppose “reproductive anatomy” leaves room for interpretation. Checking for ovaries does feel really invasive and is more than I would have assumed, but suppose I’m no doctor (let alone a maliciously minded one that thinks this is all necessary), so who’s to say what one of those would deem necessary in the moment.
The sort of Doctor I would want my child seeing would be aghast at this type of unnecessary procedure.
Plus isn’t there the matter of privileged medical information?
So a young girl who goes to a Doctor and is told that there is something that would make her run afoul of these ballot measures won’t be outed, they will just not progress with joining sports. The external difference between a “trans” individual and a girl that won’t or can’t comply will be nil. They aren’t going to get a gotcha, they are just going to get reduced participation.
Does this mean when the fascist pricks that have pushed this shit don’t have hard figures on how many trans kids they have barred from sport they will just take that whole number and claim they have kept that many “trans kids” from sneaking into women’s sports?
Fuck this whole steaming pile of shit gets worse the more I think about how a maximally evil person could manipulate this to push a fictional world view.
