bleacherreport.com/articles/2810857-andraya-yearwood-knows-she-has-the-right-to-compete
Article is full of the usual lies, tropes & telling omissions.
Some of the lies: 1. Males have no biological advantages over females that matter in athletics.
- For the athlete featured - "A Black transgender girl in a world that is intent on policing and erasing girls like her" - the threat of being physically harmed by others is constant, "close, always close" because "violence disproportionately affects transgender people of color—particularly women of color. The killing of transgender people is a national epidemic, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Of the at least 26 transgender people who were shot or killed by violent means in 2018, 21 of them—81 percent—were women of color. About 300 miles away, in Baltimore, a Black transgender woman named Tydi Dansbury was fatally shot, left to lay unconscious on the side of a street. Not to forget some of the other Black transgender women whose lives were cut short: Celine Walker. Tonya Harvey. Amia Tyrae Berryman. Antash'a English. Keanna Mattel..."
- Women are responsible for the violence against transgender women.
- "The fear that 'transgender women will be able to dominate women’s sports without effort due to the inherent advantages men have over women is a new iteration of the old stereotypes that kept women & girls out of sports prior to Title IX." (This is a nutty, totally inaccurate portrayal of Title IX, the 1972 US law that outlawed discrimination based on sex in education & school sports in institutions receiving federal funds. Title IX said girls & women's sports should be separate from & must be given parity with boys & mens athletics, not that women's sports should be considered an alternative arena for second-rate male athletes to compete in/colonize so they could feel good about themselves.)
The usual tropes: "As a first-grader, she had a pink, glittery Disney backpack that featured princesses Cinderella, Belle and Sleeping Beauty. She loved trying on her mom's heels and wearing pink and purple fuzzy boots with little puffy pompoms on the front.
"She started wearing wigs in seventh grade and skirts in eighth. Around that time, she told her parents she was gay. But later her therapist told her about transgender people, and that's when she realized who she was."
Some telling omissions: 1. parents are conservative Christians, a fact that raises the issue of whether their discomfort with their gay son might have led to his becoming a trans girl. Wonder who found that therapist?
- None of the girls forced to compete against Yearwood (& Terry Miller, another male now running in girls HS track in CT) is quoted in the article. In fact, the POV of female athletes is never given credence or mentioned at all. Same goes for all the coaches who think girls are being treated unfairly in order to accommodate the feelings of boys who want to be girls.
- The only reason Yearwood came in 2nd in the events mentioned is that Miller, another boy, came in first!