High School Boy Wins All-State Honors In Girls Track And Field

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  1. Kranes56

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    Do you know what common ground is? It refers to the idea that we will accept at least some type of "common ground" when it comes to discussions. They're assumptions of communication we make in order to have conversations and convey ideas. Something like language usage can be common ground. While not the best example in a forum whose official language is English, the fact that you and I assumed English would be a good language to use is common ground.

    But common ground is an assumption. So what happens when people start questioning common ground? Unless the assumption has some logic behind it, it is a false assumption. What you call ignoring, I call questioning. I am questioning why there is a need for sexual discrimination. If you can not come with a reason, then you are clinging to a false belief. So start examining why you believe what you do, otherwise watch as the fallacies multiply.
     
  2. Louisiana75

    Louisiana75 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You are ridiculous! It's not what I believe, it's facts. In your little equal world where men and women can all do the same things, are the men birthing babies too?

    You can dance and skirt all around the facts, like more liberals do, it doesn't change a thing.
     
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    No one is questioning the difference between men and women; women do better is certain fields of study also, should we separate educational and careers by gender also?

    People of African descent also have physical differences comparable to the differences between men and women including:

    Should we call for them to be separated from others? Why? Your argument is that men and women are naturally different.

    Have you ever seen a woman's rugby team? They play rougher than men,
     
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    Louisiana75 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So you see no reason to separate men and women's sports?
     
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    Alaska is a most R state.

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    Alaska is a mostly R state.
     
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    In fact boys are likelier to get hurt as some have been hit in the groin during field hockey games. One boy was struck in the head during one such game and woke up hours later in a hospital.
     
  7. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Who runs this school district?
     
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    It's such an obvious consequence that I find it difficult to see how it could possibly have been unintended. Only the totally nonthinking could not have anticipated this.

    My DD competed in soccer on boys' teams through Middle School after the all-female teams she joined in grade school and early middle school gradually lost membership and finally caved. She considered continuing in High School, but by then most of her male counterparts were already increasing in size, weight, and strength at a much faster rate than she was. She concluded that if she continued in soccer she was just asking for serious injury.

    Even with later hormone treatment, a male will still have the bone growth and size of a male.

    All of that said, there should probably be differing weight and size classes for more sports, as there are in such things as boxing. IMO it is only the excessive focus on competition and resource limitations (coaches; fields) that make us forget this possibility.
     
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    That means nothing really, come to majority republican Tennessee but in memphis it is democrat majority.

    Or go to Georgia , but they have an issue with the democrats in Atlanta.

    Everywhere has their liberal areas just like in liberal states you have conservative areas.
     
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    Sorry, but there is nothing democratic about them...
     
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    Say what? Do you live in science fiction land? All I can say is "lame."
     
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    :wall:
     
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    LOL..my thought exactly! I mean, WTF, 5th &3rd???? What a loser.
     
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    What goes around, comes around.
     
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    The real girls competing made the same commitment.
     
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    Straw man. Substitute the facts for fantasy and argue the fantasy. Is that what happened here? NO
    . Are Serena and Venus Williams not allowed to compete because they have weight lifter arms? NO.
     
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    Only if you make it clear that it's a mixed gender competition.
     
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    They are naturally different. Go ask your parents.
     
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    They are going to say "lol slippery slope isnt valid lol lol". Wait for it to happen and then cringe and move on...

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    All i can say is "facepalm" as there is no "she" involved.

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    He did... By beating out "shes".
     
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    Biology is demeaning?

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    And yet its local politics involved so now what?
     
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    This nonsense about "identifying" as something being more valid than the facts is troubling. Any abusive Husbands can just tell the cops when they show up, that it was simple a cat fight right?
    Just identify as a Woman, and you're no longer the bigger , stronger Man beating up a Woman. A-Ok right libs?
     
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    he has a penis, it's a male
     
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    penis=male

    sounds like a good place to start
     
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    lol this reads like an Onion article. Completely ridiculous that this would be allowed to happen. Letting people identify as what they want is one thing. Letting kids compete in categories that science says gives them an advantage is just silly application of the former.
     
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    Do domestic violence incidents between a married female couple warrant a lesser charge because they're female? I don't think that's how it works.
     

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