Sauce for the Gender

By Glenn Fairman

Having an unquenchable thirst for irony and the justice it affords to clay-footed idols who are hoisted from their own petards, I was propelled into full “I told you so” mode last weekend when a boy won honors in two girls’ events at the Alaskan State Track and Field Championships. Indeed, hot on the heels of Barack Obama’s crowning human rights achievement: best characterized as “Tear Down this Stall,” transgender empowerment crashed headlong into feminism’s party bus, leaving the tender aspirations of young women strewn far and wide along the icy Alcan Highway.

From a June 6th Santa Monica Observer online piece, we learned that Nattaphon “Ice” Wangyot, an 18 year-old Thai émigré, placed third and fifth in the 200 and 100 meter dashes, respectively. Apparently Ice, who is a full-blown “xy” with masculine working parts, suffers from the heartbreak of “gender dysphoria:” an ailment that allows him to run faster than females, but not as quickly as males. To accommodate his predicament, Haines HS, and the school district it serves, allowed him to first play on the girls’ volleyball team before allowing him to individually make his mark as our nation’s first openly transgender HS athlete.......But we miss the point if we focus on Wangyot’s performances and dreams at the expense of the bigger picture. .......Where this will end.....However, the more jarring result may be a new transvaluation of sports altogether -- where athletic competition will be diluted and dumbed down just like everything and every institution that the unhinged vanguard of the chaotic Left touches in the pursuit of its Utopian City. The final judgment is yet to achieve utterance, but be of good cheer: The beast invariably devours its own..... Read more