Comes before us today, the issue of whether democracy is really organized to deliver the greater good for the greatest number of people?
Fair question, dear reader. Let’s examine the case of the Minnesota Girls’ AAAA Softball Championship Tournament and the winning team’s transgender pitcher.
Here are the facts:
1. Champlin Park High School recently won the Minnesota Class AAAA Girls’ Softball State Championship, beating Bloomington Jefferson 6-0 in the final. It was a route as Champlin Park HS coasted on strong pitching that shut out the other team.
2. Champlin Park HS had a transgender pitcher — Charlie Dean/Marissa Rothenberger — who is a 6′, athletic pitcher with a wicked underhand fastball that propelled Champlin Park to victory.
3. Charlie/Marissa pitched all 21 innings of the three games required to win the championship. He pitched them to victory.
4. Charlie also wields a mean bat hitting two doubles in one game.
Here’s the beef — that wasn’t a fair competition. I’m not going to pick on a high school kid, but I am going to pick on the moronati who allowed such a thing to happen and who when confronted with the obvious unfair results did nothing.
1. If you’re an Olympic athlete, you cannot take testosterone — an anabolic androgenic steroid — as a supplement. You would run afoul of the Prohibited List of the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Olympic Committee.
2. So, if you’re a guy, you can’t take testosterone and compete.
3. If you’re a guy who wants to be a woman, you arrive at your transgender status with a natural supply of testosterone — an advantage not held by the women against who the transgender competes. Why? Goose – gander.
4. Minnesota — where Tim Walz is the Governor — passed a law called the Minnesota Human Rights Act that compels the Minnesota State High School League, the arbiter of all athletic competition rules, to allow a transgender boy to compete as a girl. On testosterone, they are silent.
5. In this instance, the results speak for themselves as the transgender pitcher — Charlie/Marissa — pitched every inning of the Champlin Park HS’s route to victory. Clearly, the Champlin Park victory came from the efforts of Charlie/Marissa.
It’s not fair.
The NCAA reports there are only 10 transgender men/women in 520,000 women collegiate athletes. Seems a very small minority. Honestly, I can’t believe it’s that few.
Why is Minnesota responsive to and sensitive to the one single boy who wants to play softball as a girl and ignores the thousands of Minnesota high school girls who want to play against other girls?
What happened to the “GREATER GOOD FOR THE GREATEST NUMBER?”
Sheesh, dear reader. It’s just not fair.
But, hey, what the Hell do I really know anyway? I’m just a Big Red Car with three darling, athletic granddaughters and a Perfect Daughter who won 11 varsity letters in high. FFS, let the girls compete against girls. The greater good.
