Much of the country is coming around on the whole “transgender girls” (boys) on girls’ sports teams issue. It’s one of those 90-10 issues that Democrats are reliably on the wrong side of, and for that much, we should be grateful. But enjoyable as it is to stick our thumbs in the left’s eyes, there’s an issue of fundamental fairness here.
But a California high school girl has the completely wrong take on how this is unfair, and why.
A teammate of a transgender athlete who plays on a California high school girls’ volleyball team spoke out on Monday about teams forfeiting games against them so far this season.
Several schools that were set to compete against the Jurupa Valley High School girls’ volleyball team have already forfeited this season. AB Hernandez, a transgender athlete who stirred controversy during the track and field season back in the spring, plays for girls’ volleyball.
AB Hernandez, by the way, is a boy. He no doubt claims to be a sufferer of gender dysphoria, but I’d bet a sawbuck that he, like so many of these “transgender girls” (boys) is cynically taking advantage of the left’s near-universal acceptance of this practice to make himself a big star when, on the boys’ teams, he would only be mediocre.
The teams that are forfeiting are the ones who are in the right. They are the ones who are standing up, condemning this, and refusing to dignify these proceedings by taking part in them.
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The teammate, Alyssa McPherson, doesn’t understand this.
Alyssa McPherson appeared on Fox News Channel’s “America Reports” and lamented her senior season slipping away from her because of the forfeits.
“I just feel like it’s so unfair that not only am I missing out on my senior season but my other teammates, our JV team and our freshmen team aren’t playing either,” McPherson said. “And it’s just so disheartening that they’re not gonna have a season and we just want to be able to compete, play and have fun.”
Yes, Miss McPherson, it’s unfair. But not in the way you describe. It’s unfair to have a boy on your team, just as it was unfair for AB Hernandez to compete last spring on a girls’ track and field team.
A transgender high school track star in California recently obliterated her competition by winning a girls’ triple jump event by a staggering eight feet.
AB Hernandez, a junior at Jurupa Valley High School, secured the win with a more than 40-foot jump at the Ontario Relays invitational meet back on Feb. 22, records show.
The runner-up managed to jump just over 32 feet in the category.
And again, in May:
Jurupa Valley High School junior AB Hernandez has become the center of national attention following a dominant performance at the CIF Southern Section Finals in girls track and field. Hernandez, a transgender athlete whose gender was assigned male at birth, captured titles in both the long jump and triple jump on Saturday, May 17, qualifying for the CIF Masters Meet scheduled for May 24 at Moorpark High School.
Hernandez’s long jump of 19 feet, 2.75 inches and triple jump of 41 feet, 4 inches — the top marks in the state — secured her two Southern Section championships. She also placed seventh in the high jump with a mark of 5 feet, 2 inches, earning her a spot in the upcoming Masters Meet.
So, yes, Miss McPherson, this is a fairness issue, and yes, you have the “why” it is unfair, catastrophically wrong.
“To me, I feel like this is just a fairness issue,” she said. “I just want to be able to compete and play and have fun in my last year. I feel like I got robbed of that. I’ve been looking forward to it since my freshman year and I don’t have the opportunity to do that this year. It’s just so sad.”
It is sad. Want to know why?
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It’s sad because AB Hernandez is a boy. It’s sad because the coaches and administrators in your school are too cowardly to stand up on their hind legs and say, “No, this kid is a boy, he can’t play on the girls’ team.” It’s sad because boys and men have significant physical advantages over girls and women, and those advantages are present from conception. Boys and men are faster, stronger, have more endurance, more stamina, more fast-twitch muscle fibers, greater muscle mass, greater cardiopulmonary capacity, and greater resistance to pain and injury.
These are facts. And facts don’t care how a kid “identifies.”
It’s unfair, Miss McPherson. It’s cruelly unfair. Just not for the reasons you think – the reasons you’ve been told to think. You have been done a grave disservice by your seniors, by your parents, and by your school, and whether you like it or not, it’s the girls on the teams who are walking away from the games who are in the right on this.
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