{"id":71165,"date":"2019-04-26T05:29:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T10:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71165"},"modified":"2019-04-26T05:29:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T10:29:05","slug":"question-authority-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71165","title":{"rendered":"Question Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The one question people never ask about transgender athletic competition is why.\u00a0 Why do we have separate Boys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 sports?\u00a0 If boys and girls are identical in every way that matters, with lifestyle differences simply a matter of personal choice that can be changed at whim, why don\u2019t we have one competition for all?<br>Minnesota State High School record holders:<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mshsl.org\/mshsl\/records.asp?actnum=422\" target=\"_blank\">Boys\u2019 100-yard dash: 9.6<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mshsl.org\/mshsl\/records.asp?actnum=429\" target=\"_blank\">Girls\u2019 100-yard dash: 10.8<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mshsl.org\/mshsl\/records.asp?actnum=422\" target=\"_blank\">Boy\u2019s Shot Put: 65 feet 6 inches<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mshsl.org\/mshsl\/records.asp?actnum=429\" target=\"_blank\">Girls\u2019 Shot Put: 54 feet 8.5 inches<\/a>.<br>It\u2019s not about personal choice, it\u2019s about biology.\u00a0 The fastest girl is slower than every one of the top 10 boys.\u00a0 The strongest girl\u2019s throw is 11 feet shorter.\u00a0 At the margin where champions are determined, girls cannot compete against boys.\u00a0 It sucks.\u00a0 It\u2019s unfair.\u00a0 But it\u2019s reality. <br>People who deny reality are delusional.\u00a0 We should not allow delusional people to make decisions affecting our children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you ask the the question, the subject gets changed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every.  Single.  Time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one question people never ask about transgender athletic competition is why.\u00a0 Why do we have separate Boys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 sports?\u00a0 If boys and girls are identical in every way that matters, with lifestyle differences simply a matter of personal choice that can be changed at whim, why don\u2019t we have one competition for all?Minnesota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-men-and-women","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71166,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71165\/revisions\/71166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}