I’m glad the people that had emotional meltdowns over the chance of boys being on girls teams… have made a boy, by their own actions and stupidity, be forced on the girls team
The district pointed to a state law enacted in 2022, which mandates that school sports teams must be designated “based on the biological sex of the students who participate” in the sport. A federal judge blocked enforcement of that law in 2023, but only against two trans student-athletes who filed suit against it. (An appeals court upheld that injunction last year, and the Supreme Court declined to take up the case this summer.)
Any chance this is some malicious compliance?
Any chance this is some malicious compliance?
It could be fear. No one wants a bunch of Karen’s screaming in their face. No one wants to be sued or fired. Maybe this is just someone who thinks they need to protect themselves over the kids they’re responsible for
Could be! I was just commenting that the kid could engage in malicious compliance. Let’s see what happens when he exits the girls locker room with wet hair and a towel around his neck.
I don’t see what part of that even requires them to use the birth certificate
It’s the stupid conservative part. If they make an exception for him, then they need to make exceptions for trans girls
It’s really a no win situation though if the boy complies. Newsmax will show footage of a game he plays in as evidence that boys are playing in girls sports, and the idiots who watch will believe it and support even worse politicians and laws.
The law in question doesn’t actually mandate that school sports teams must be designated “based on the biological sex of the students who participate” in the sport. If you read the law, it only prohibits biological males from participating in female sports. It does not prohibit biological females from participating in male sports. Quite the contrary, it specifically acknowledges that all students, regardless of sex or gender, are allowed to participate in “boys” sports.
https://codes.findlaw.com/az/title-15-education/az-rev-st-sect-15-120-02/
What absolute moron is running that school district?
Is it possible they are hoping it gets attention to show how stupid the law is?
perhaps, but that’s also cruel…
Yeah but it’s a hope that perhaps it’s a little less cruel overall than the thought that this one kid is being tortured for no reason at all.
I would guess they’re just trying really hard to avoid triggering Trump’s wrath. A discrimination lawsuit is comparatively small to the devastation you can get from running afoul of the most powerful dictator in history
Not only could the school and state potentially lose all federal education funding, but Trump may go after the school administrators personally. He’s been rather successful lately at going after anyone he disagrees with. Political opponents like Comey and Bolton. Judges like the Oregon one that blocked the National Guard deployments, or the immigration judges that refused to simply dismiss asylum cases without hearing them. Even just random individuals that happen to be negatively mentioned on Fox News have been increasingly under extra-judicial attack by the president
America is now a nation by, and for, Trump
This is the moment that the district admins were waiting for their whole life. It’s their chance to stand against AOC’s liberal woke agenda trying to infiltrate their district with this student. Not on their watch. They’ll hold these troublemaker Demon-rats in line. Anyone who stands in their way is obviously a part of the global Anti-Israeli Gay Marxist Communist Muslim Antifa Jewish Space Laser Council that wants everyone eating crickets. It’s allll a conspiracy. Every part of it!! They hate us for our freedom!!! (/s)
He should slam dunk on those fools. Check and rebound. Can’t take the heat… get out of the way girls.
On one hand, poor guy. On the other, if he’s any good the girls’ team is going to sweep whatever competitions they enter.
Last year, Laker reportedly won a conference championship for the wrestling team at the school.
I wouldn’t blame him if he doesn’t compete feeling that it’s unfair for everyone else.
He should play on all the girls teams, crush it like a total badass, then when conservative parents complain that “a boy is playing on the girls team” everyone can tell them to shut the fuck up because this is the future they always wanted. One with no exceptions or grey areas to speak of.
If we were talking about an adult, I’d agree. To an 8th grader, the idea of playing on the girl’s team as a boy probably sounds like the world is ending
You say this like conssrvatives would even grasp the facts that they did this. You’re talking about the same group who claims to live their life based on the teachings of Jesus, who cared for all, even the misfortunate. Then they turn around and cheer the dismantling of snap and medicaid with zero irony that it’s what Jesus would want.
He should play on all the girls teams, crush it like a total badass, then when conservative parents complain that “a boy is playing on the girls team” everyone can tell them to shut the fuck up because this is the future they always wanted.
He would be killed for doing this.
It would be pure awesome if he got out there and kicked ass. Teenage me would have fucking run with this whole mess.
“Oh no! PLEASE don’t make me hang out with the cute athletic girls! PLEASE don’t make me share their locker room!”
Kid should waltz into the locker room, casually strip down and shower. Can you imagine the howls of outrage?! Preface the act by telling the girls his plan so none feel harassed. They can all be turned around on the other end of the room, waiting outside, whatever, the perception and headlines are all that counts.
If you get down to it, he only need walk out with wet hair and have the girls scream and point. God I would have had a blast fucking the administration over.
And just what would the school system do about it? “You told me I’m a girl so I’m acting accordingly. Suck it.”
Exactly 🤣 I’d love to watch the look on fascist transphobes’ faces when I strip in the girls locker rooms. I mean, they themselves said I’m a girl and forbidden to play male sports so, why not? 🤷♀️
Laker Jackson “has been enrolled in QCUSD since elementary school and has been registered as a biological female throughout their time in our district,” the district’s statement read in part. “The day before basketball tryouts, the parent submitted a new birth certificate and a doctor’s note indicating a gender change. Our schools rely on a student’s original birth certificate at birth to determine athletic eligibility […] We informed the parent that documentation such as a chromosome analysis could be considered to help support or verify eligibility in accordance with policy.”
Becky Jackson told KNXV that the cheapest option for genetic testing her family was able to find would cost them $1,500 — with no guarantee that her son would be granted eligibility. “So who’s going to pay for that?”
$1500 for that?!
All those ancestry dna places are only like $100-150 and they tell you a helluva lot more than just your biological sex.
Yeah that seemed pretty steep.
Yeah but those are privacy invasive and only for entertainment use. Those tests shouldn’t be used for anything medical
The medical labs probably don’t walk away from it with a perpetual license to monetize your DNA however they see fit
They could make an airbud type movie like this
Nowhere in the rules says a woman with a penis can’t play basketball, in fact the rule book is very light on the mention of genitals at all!
The NBA and NFL both allow women, it’s just at that level it is extremely hard to find anyone who can compete.
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Could always just not play.
Could always just get fucked
Well, playing sports is stupid.
You don’t have to play if that’s your preference (but please try to be physically active for your health). But what gives you the right to tell other people not to?
Professional sport is purely profit incentivised, while there are actually useful jobs with decent pay. Plus, there is no health benefit of steroids (unless you’re trans).
Could have just not commented
So after all the hysteria about “biological males” in women’s sports/changing rooms/bathrooms, they have succeeded in forcing a biological male into women’s sports/changing rooms/bathrooms.
Just to go full circle on their dumbfuckery, I’d bet that they’ll start advocating for the school to pay to have him transition against his will so his outward appearance will match his birth cert.
It’s basically eugenics the long way round so yeah, it’ll be an instant success with the base
“thems the rules” mother fuckers when it’s convenient.
They’ll be grooming him into a femboy soon enough, y’know, because masculine men should dominate inferior males. Not because they’re gay, or anything.
State sponsored thigh highs, mandatory white monster, and full ride scholarships into nuclear engineering and programming!
I think I smell a sequel:
I was thinking more
Yeah sometimes dogs get forced to play on the boys’ team. Where is the outrage about the golden retrievers?
I’m a single issue voter in regards to golden retrievers playing basketball, I assure you I’m outraged enough for everyone.
Thank you FartMaster69, I know I can count on you to support us
The worst part is he doesn’t even like sports!
I don’t know how American birth certificates work. Is he officially female for life, unless he wants it changed?
I imagine trans people would be quite happy in such a situation. Like winning the lottery.
From the article it sounds like the birth certificate was corrected but the school isn’t accepting the change without a chromosome test, which costs $1,500. There’s another test that they could do that’s free, slightly embarrassing, and takes just a moment, but would require an adult to look when the kid drops his pants. It’s such a stupid non-issue. I can’t believe this happened, that we know about it, and that it hasn’t been resolved yet.
This is what doctor’s notes are for. And they had one.
These laws were written to hurt trans people. They were written to make it very difficult for trans people to find loopholes to get around. That is the problem here.
Let’s say the errors on sex could be corrected with a doctor’s note. But what you’re really asking for is for a sex marker to be changed, simply citing an error in original sex assignment. You are going to plead that your real sex is unmatched to your documented marker. But what is sex? “Sex” is a very fuzzy thing. Is it genetics? Genitals? Chromosomes? Secondary sex characteristics? Conservatives like chromosomes because their inalterability serves the conservative worldview. But historically we used primary and secondary sex characteristics to define sex. We talked about “male” and “female” since the dawn of time, but we’ve known about chromosomes for less than a century. Historically, your sex was simply your observable physical form. If you alter that, in a very real sense you do change your biological sex. There are many interpretations of the word “sex” and the phrase “biological sex.” Some allow them to be changed, some not. And, wherever you fall on that question personally, you can find doctors who follow any of the possible definitions of the terms.
In fact, in states that allow you to change your sex on your birth certificate, traditionally this is how it was done. The state would require a letter from a physician saying your biological sex has been changed. Some states specifically required surgery. Some just left it up to the doctor’s interpretation. If you could convince a doctor that you had changed your sex, then your sex could be legally changed.
And this is the problem. You would think you could correct this error with a doctor’s note. But the Republicans already thought of that. This cis kid could use a doctor’s note to prove that he’s biologically male. A trans kid could use that exact same mechanism to get a doctor to say that their sex is now male. Just find a doctor that believes that sex is largely hormonal. A trans boy gets on T, and, in that doctor’s eyes, their sex has now literally been changed. And they could write a letter to that effect. And the doctor wouldn’t have to lie at all. It all comes down to your interpretation of “sex.”
These laws were written to hurt trans people. To do this, they needed sex to be legally defined in a very strict and unalterable way. They wanted to make the process so ironclad that no trans person could ever weasel their way past them. Thus, they only allow corrections of birth certificates in some very specific ways that no trans person could use. They don’t just leave it up to a licensed doctor. Licensed doctors are the ones providing medical care to trans people. The laws instead require things like chromosomal testing. Chromosomes are one thing that can’t be changed. If you require chromosomal testing to correct an error on an original birth certificate, then you can make it virtually impossible for a trans person to change theirs. But it does have the slight downside of making it very expensive to correct actual clerical errors.
And this will be true regardless of how you want to screen for original biological sex. The tall and strong gate will make it hard for your enemy to pass. But it will also make it difficult to let in a friend that gets accidentally trapped outside in the night.
That wouldn’t work. Conservatives needed to write iron-clad laws that no trans person could find a way around. If you base it on genitals, what happens when someone goes and gets sex reassignment surgery? That’s not done on minors, but conservatives don’t know that. How’s a school coach to know that he isn’t a trans guy that snuck off to Thailand one summer and got a dick installed? This is why these laws reference the original birth certificate. The entire point is to make it so sex is immutable and unchangeable.
In current US, he’s probably going to have to transition.
There is a process to amend birth certificates, presumably initially intended for errors like this. But then people who successfully transitioned used the process to amend their birth certificates to reflect their new gender, because there was no other way to do it. The transphobes seized on this, and started processes that refuse to honor any late changes to birth certificates.
It should have been a simple matter to resolve - his doctor wites a note saying “This kid has boy parts, and always has. The birth certificate was always an administrative error”. But then, that would force the transphobes to acknowledge a role for facts and science to contradict their feelings. So, we can’t have that either.
So, they go on claiming that they are just out for the best interests of kids, and that justifies why they are treating this kid so poorly. When in reality, they are just protecting their narrative, at his expense.
Normally people use common sense, it’s obviously a clerical error and you can get the paperwork fixed.
This is an example of right wing scare tactics against trans people in sports creating stupid laws that also don’t allow for the messiness of real life. I didn’t pay attention but it’ll be local to either the state or city
Girl changing room as well?
Critical question right here.
He seems to be in limbo regarding that… From the article:
An Arizona school district has barred a teenage boy from boys’ sports teams, gym classes, and facilities
She said that the district also removed Laker from an all-boys gym class and have mandated that he use a separate restroom.
Sounds to me like he gets to use neither.
It’s worth reading the entire article by the way. The fuckery in the details makes it worse.
Dumbest administration ever
So a case of hypocrisy. They manage to quite literally follow through with a clerical error in regards to his sex, even if it was quite literally stated that the written sex was invalid.
Now as a female (clerically) they are mandating (on what terms?) to use a different bathroom. Isn’t that against human rights? To be deprived of functional integration.
Looks like they’re just playing with him on the essence of incorrect sex. He is a victim of an authoritarian figure in which even basic rights of said female are not met.
