Good riddance to bad rubbish
I am seeing now that there's a reason Calkins has spent the last 11 years quietly enjoying a cushy columnist gig without becoming widely known as one of the dumber writers working in the English language, and the reason is that his editors were really looking out for him. Quitting in a huff over these columns being spiked? Brother, you should have been bringing your editors muffins every day for how well they were covering for you.
What a jackass, good riddance.
I'm surprised about the Times taking that stance, you never know what you're going to get from them. They can be great and supportive of everyone and then take the shittiest stance possible in the next article.
The first kid:
Does the right wing anti-trans media circles with specifically anti-trans media personalities
Goes to a WNBA game with tickets courtside provided by anti-trans media specifically to start shit on behalf of anti-trans orgs
Acting as The Face for getting trans kids out of sports, giving interviews about court cases
"Wilson emphasized to me at the rally was that she wasn’t anti-trans"
The second kid:
She said she looked over at the trans girl and said, “You are a man.”
how rotten does the column have to be for The Times to spike it? pretty fuckin rotten
Imagine you’re making a decision about a sports writer. Imagine you’re even willing to overlook his hostility towards trans athletes. Are you willing to saddle your sports editor with someone who’s defiantly proud of his decade of assholery, and possibly risk a future lawsuit, or will you just move along to the next resume on the pile?
This guy has done every potential employer a major service.
If sports are separated by gender there is probably a good reason, if not then remove that barrier. Wouldn't the logical solution be to create more barriers to better accommodate the gender spectrum rather then directly playing into the binary divide?
I mean what do we want? Gender spectrum to be normalised right? So why would you fight against that? It just doesn't make sense.
Girls not having to play against biological boys is not a big ask. Weird hill for a lot of lgbt supporters to die upon.
This stance alone weakens everything else they stand for, but their view is so constrained, they seem almost afraid to confront this logically.
This entire news story would not exist if we respected a females right to not compete against a male that identifies as female.
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