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[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 109 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Blind obedience to the papers. No thought required.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not even that since it says the parents got it corrected, he now has a birth certificate saying he's a male, but they are still clinging to the first one.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago

i'm becoming increasingly convinced that a lot of admin workers are just a bit evil, every decision seems to be guided by "what is the most egregious way i can misinterpret and mangle this paperwork?"

just recently there was a guy here in sweden who was fucking pronounced dead for absolutely no reason whatsoever, and courts ruled that it was an honest mistake???? like what the fuck, why are random admin workers seemingly a separate untouchable ruling class?? We're not even talking about rich people, it's just Mary in accounting who is arbitrarily allowed to redirect your wage to her bank account and go unpunished.

[–] BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world 337 points 5 days ago (7 children)

We informed the parent that documentation such as a chromosome analysis could be considered to help support or verify eligibility in accordance with policy.

I cannot imagine being the dumbass who said that with a straight face.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 208 points 5 days ago (8 children)

I don't understand why it's the school asking for this and not whoever updated the birth certificate? How did school administrators become the judges of who is a boy or girl?

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 92 points 5 days ago

republican laws often give the final say to the loudest karen and the cost onto the schools.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 65 points 5 days ago

Because their the ones who will be prosecuted under the law if they allow a kid to play on the wrong team.

[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

My (cis female) birth certificate erroneously was filled out with "male". Same error happened on the birth certificate of my mother (who is also cis female). It's never caused either of us any problems. Schools enrolled us as female, driver's licenses say female, etc.

When I was in college in the early 2000s, my dad's mother helped me get a copy of my birth certificate, and was horrified her beautiful granddaughter was listed as male. She called up the county clerk and raised Cain, and then informed me it had been corrected. I've never needed to get a fresh copy since then, so I don't know for sure, but it sounded like the word of an angry old lady was enough to get an update filed.

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 61 points 5 days ago

Did anyone inform the administration that documentation such as chromosome analysis could be considered to help support or verify eligibility in participating with the human race? Because it seems like they might be a slime mold, based on their integrity and decision-making ability.

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[–] hayvan@feddit.nl 45 points 4 days ago (3 children)

~~Your gender is what you declare~~
~~Your gender is what's in your pants~~
Your gender is what I declare

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i have changed your gender, pray i do not alter it further

[–] hayvan@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

🥹
👉👈

Pwease can you alter it a bit further good sir?

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Say the 5 middle-aged men on the school board that are probably thrilled at being able to do genital inspections of children. "Sorry, those are the rules that I wrote!"

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 235 points 5 days ago (13 children)
[–] fsociety@sopuli.xyz 83 points 5 days ago (13 children)

That’s beginning to feel like an understatement. We need a new type of hole to describe just how shit things are. A shit-Mariana Trench country, perhaps.

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[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 76 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So glad kids can experience political influence in their personal lives. They will learn what needs to burn down.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago

This is the kind of stupid bullshit republicans create because they don't solve problems they create contraversies in a lab and then when they actually get voted into office to "solve" them they literally do stupid shit like this.

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They could make an airbud type movie like this

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 95 points 4 days ago (7 children)

The principal really needs to read the law. This school is so fucked.

https://codes.findlaw.com/az/title-15-education/az-rev-st-sect-15-120-02/

The law in question only prohibits biological males from participating in female sports. It does not prohibit females from joining boys teams. Compare and contrast sections "B" and "C":

B. Athletic teams or sports designated for “females”, “women” or “girls” may not be open to students of the male sex.

C. This section does not restrict the eligibility of any student to participate in any interscholastic or intramural athletic team or sport designated as being for “males”, “men” or “boys” or designated as “coed” or “mixed”.

I also thought this was pretty interesting:

E. Any student who is deprived of an athletic opportunity or suffers any direct or indirect harm as a result of a school knowingly violating this section has a private cause of action for injunctive relief, damages and any other relief available under law against the school.

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[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Can we just separate kids by skill level rather than gender? My middle school cis son loves playing sports, but he's not very good. He gets discouraged when the better kids bully him because of it.

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Skill based matchmaking. Most competitive video games use it. Why not IRL?

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I don't see why bottom tier teams shouldn't be co-ed. PE we did co ed sports days all the time and its more about getting exercise than winning.

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[–] Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 52 points 4 days ago (25 children)

i think sport, exspecially in schools, should always be mixed. Also i think the competetivness of american school sport is kind of toxic, it should be about having fun

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Sex segregation in childrens sports is legitimately a powerful indoctrinating force for binary sexism and the enforcement of gender roles.

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[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 71 points 5 days ago (7 children)

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?

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[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

So does he have to use the girls' bathroom, also??

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 67 points 5 days ago (4 children)
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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 46 points 5 days ago (7 children)

What a USA thing to do. Holy shit.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 64 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

If that were me, I’d start wearing skirts and mascara. Let my nails grow out, tweeze my asshole, shave my treasure trail into a facsimile of a set of ovaries. Pitch my voice up, incorporate the words “bitch” and “tea” into my daily vernacular. Cry after sad movies and even harder after happy ones. Entirely unrelated to the article, btw

[–] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 52 points 5 days ago

Take your pills, Alice.

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[–] jojowakaki@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm genuinely curious what happens for example if this cis gender boy wants to get married with a cis gender girl. Would that be a gay marriage (I dunno what is the correct term). And if they are in a state where it's not allowed, how does it go?

(I am not from US. I assume union of same sex is not fully accepted and every state and/or community have different laws and practices)

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (9 children)

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.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago

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.

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