{"id":75544,"date":"2020-10-14T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75544"},"modified":"2020-10-10T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T14:15:22","slug":"swirling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75544","title":{"rendered":"Swirling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When Conservatives say American culture is swirling the bowl, this is<br>what they mean.<\/p><p>The statement of facts given by the Court of Appeals:<\/p><p>***<\/p><p>The Minnesota Vixens were a women&#8217;s tackle-football team.\u00a0 From 2012<br>through 2017, they were part of the Independent Women&#8217;s Football<br>League.\u00a0 Christina Ginther applied to play but was told she could not<br>join the team because league policy requires that all players be &#8220;born<br>female.&#8221;\u00a0 Ginther is a transgender woman.<\/p><p>***<\/p><p>The issue in the case is a technical point about whether the team<br>tendered a claim to the league to pay for the lawyers to defend it.\u00a0<br>Ignore that, doesn&#8217;t matter.\u00a0 The important part is the Minnesota Human<br>Rights Act protects the rights of a man dressed up as a woman to sue a<br>woman&#8217;s organization for refusing to allow him to play tackle football<br>against women.<\/p><p>Swirling.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Swirling notwitstanding, I can&#8217;t wait until a transgender female tries to break into roller derby &#8211; which is in my observation an activity packed to the gills with virtue-signaling enthusiastic progressives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court case would be more fun than the skating. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Conservatives say American culture is swirling the bowl, this iswhat they mean. The statement of facts given by the Court of Appeals: *** The Minnesota Vixens were a women&#8217;s tackle-football team.\u00a0 From 2012through 2017, they were part of the Independent Women&#8217;s FootballLeague.\u00a0 Christina Ginther applied to play but was told she could notjoin the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-men-and-women","category-the-sexual-cultural-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75549,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75544\/revisions\/75549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}