I would venture to say that most of us have had that embarrassing moment when things did not do as hoped, so our parents jumped in to set things straight.
Not enough time on the court, someone else got the lead in the annual school musical, a referee missed a foul and this by itself could be enough to reduce college scholarship possibilities.
The one thing they had going for them was that at least our parents based their complaint or defense on something tangible. They saw us sitting on the bench for most of the game, know we have a better voice than the lead, and, in spite of no foul being called, something made us fall down.
Then tiara for complaining from left field goes to the parents of the two girls who had placed second and third in an athletic event who claimed the first-place winner only won because she was Transgender and that gave her the advantage.
This was news to the first-place athlete and her parents, but the district carried on an investigation and did so secretly without the athlete or her parents knowing about it.
The Utah High School Activities Association decided not to inform them in order to spare them embarrassment and “to keep the matter private,” as the high school went through her school records dating back to kindergarten.
Many Republican run states are passing laws banning Transgender women and girls from sports because the claim is they have had testosterone, even if they are prepubescent, have developed along male lines, and, therefore, possesses an advantage over other women and girls. This ignores the reality that if girls and boys weren’t artificially divided along arbitrary boys and girls things, young kids could choose their sport and begin honing their skills equally from a young age. It also speaks to misogyny as the fear is a Transgender girl will bring her skills and abilities with her which have had the advantage of not being limited by assigned gender limitations, admits to unequal training and the inherit weakness of the fairer sex, yet says nothing about Transgender boys being a threat as their being brought up as girls also makes them inherently weaker.
My cousin’s daughter wanted to play hockey as a little girl. At first it was cute to the adults, but this kid was serious. She was often better than the boys, played on coed teams, and is now an assistant coach to a boys’ college hockey team. She developed according to the opportunities she was allowed to take.
The laws banning Transgender women and girls from playing in the correct sports is based on nothing as there have been almost no cases of potential competitive advantages in K-12 sports in those states.
The parents of the second- and third-place finishers had complained to the athletic association because the winner won first place in an event by a wide margin.
The school then reviewed her high school record and determined she was registered as female, but was advised by the Utah high school association to “double check,” so officials contacted her middle and elementary schools.
A school spokesperson reported that,
“The school went back to kindergarten and she’d always been a female.”
The school may have declined to reveal the student’s grade, school or sport to protect her identity, and may have kept the student and her family in the dark because the investigation might be offensive to them and that the parents would have been contacted “if needed” but it isn’t hard to find out who was so secretly and bizarrely investigated.
Will every female athlete who has done very well in an athletic event now have to go through tests and investigations before they can receive a trophy because some parent wants her child tom be the winner always?
The Utah athletic association has received a few similar complaints since the law was passed in July with at least one based on an athlete not looking feminine enough, but the investigations have concluded that all subjects of complaints have been female from birth.
Lawmakers who learned about the investigation during a hearing on Transgender females in sports didn’t question the process that had the Utah High School Activities Association going through the personal medical records of a student without notifying the student’s parents that this was being done because some Helicopter Parent got her nose out of joint because her princess was bested.
This procedure allows non-medical persons to go through a child’s health records without parental knowledge or consent, and with the basis of the complaints so far being someone won an event, or someone did not look feminine enough, anyone can accuse any athlete who is successful of being Transgender in hopes of taking away a trophy.
And for those who say it is okay because my daughter is not transgender so we will never face such an intrusive and secret investigation, you have seen parents at athletic events going after the refs, coaches, and, sometimes, rather shamefully, the athletes on the field, so you know that as baseless as the angry parent’s claim in order to get her kid the trophy, all it takes is the complaint regardless of known realty to start a secret investigation in which the parents will be involved as needed.
This whiney tactic can be used against any female athlete.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox, a Republican whose veto of the Transgender ban was overridden, said that the parents’ complaint about the girl had crossed a line.
“My goodness, we’re living in this world where we’ve become sore losers, and we’re looking for any reason why our kid lost. Making up allegations like that are pretty disturbing to me.”
The parents of three transgender girls in Utah have filed a suit against the ban as it wrongly keeps their children from participating in the sports and subjects them to the discrimination prohibited by the state constitution and to the denial of equal rights and due process that the state constitution protects
Their attorneys argue it violates provisions of the state constitution that prohibit discrimination and guarantee equal rights and due process.
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