{"id":89625,"date":"2025-05-14T08:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89625"},"modified":"2025-05-14T08:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:19:15","slug":"obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89625","title":{"rendered":"Obsolete?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Democrats and WLs (Woke Lite Republicans) insist there is no valid justification for separating boys and girls, so long as the boys mouth the magic word &#8220;transgender.&#8221;\u00a0 Once the spell has been spoken, the laws of biology no longer apply.\u00a0 The former &#8220;boy&#8221; is now a &#8220;girl&#8221; for all purposes including tampons in the locker room and competition in sports.<br \/><br \/>So why do we still have Title IX?\u00a0 Why do we still have a 1972 federal law banning discrimination between the sexes if there is no difference between the sexes? We no longer have &#8220;separate but equal&#8221; facilities for Black and White (except then Blacks demand separate dorms and graduation ceremonies).\u00a0 So why not amend Title IX to say that all education, all sports, are co-educational?<br \/><br \/>Everybody who plays basketball, plays by the same rules on the same teams.\u00a0 The best players are Varsity, next best are Junior Varsity, then B-Squad, C-squad, and so on.\u00a0 Teams will be based solely on skill and ability.\u00a0 Yes, that might mean that Varsity is mostly Black boys, Junior Varsity is mostly White boys, the lesser ranks are mixed boys, girls and transgender students, but that doesn&#8217;t matter, right?\u00a0 No difference between the sexes.<br \/><br \/>Think how much money we&#8217;d save by eliminating girl&#8217;s sports which could then be put toward something important, like another train nobody will ride or higher welfare benefits for illegal aliens.<br \/><br \/>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prediction:\u00a0 high school sports will disappear in Blue areas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Democrats and WLs (Woke Lite Republicans) insist there is no valid justification for separating boys and girls, so long as the boys mouth the magic word &#8220;transgender.&#8221;\u00a0 Once the spell has been spoken, the laws of biology no longer apply.\u00a0 The former &#8220;boy&#8221; is now a &#8220;girl&#8221; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89625","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=89625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89626,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89625\/revisions\/89626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}