Comments on: Transgender guidelines stir controversy http://mainecampus.com/2010/02/25/transgender-guidelines-stir-controversy/ The University of Maine student newspaper since 1875 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jun http://mainecampus.com/2010/02/25/transgender-guidelines-stir-controversy/#comment-34825 Jun Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:52:00 +0000 http://mainecampus.com/?p=3727496#comment-34825 You're right. I feel so ashamed. Truth is, I always wanted to play tight end in a pair of panties. I'm just so embarrassed! sob' You’re right.
I feel so ashamed.
Truth is, I always wanted to play tight end in a pair of panties.

I’m just so embarrassed!

sob’

]]> By: Figmund Sreud http://mainecampus.com/2010/02/25/transgender-guidelines-stir-controversy/#comment-34687 Figmund Sreud Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:02:17 +0000 http://mainecampus.com/?p=3727496#comment-34687 Jun, You make some good points. Unfortunately you bury them in bad ones. You sacrifice your credibility on the altar of lame humor. If you could leave your personal derision (and perhaps panic) out of your comments, you might be better able to address the tricky situation of transgenders in gender-segregated sports. Try to imagine that one of the athletes in question is your beloved sibling. How would you wish a caring intelligent person to discuss the problem of sports participation with them. Would you want them to lead off with insulting jokes about who they are? The world is not black and white, and I suspect you know that better than you let on. Don't let inner conflicts cause you to erect a protective shell around who you really are. Jun,

You make some good points. Unfortunately you bury them in bad ones. You sacrifice your credibility on the altar of lame humor. If you could leave your personal derision (and perhaps panic) out of your comments, you might be better able to address the tricky situation of transgenders in gender-segregated sports.

Try to imagine that one of the athletes in question is your beloved sibling. How would you wish a caring intelligent person to discuss the problem of sports participation with them. Would you want them to lead off with insulting jokes about who they are? The world is not black and white, and I suspect you know that better than you let on. Don’t let inner conflicts cause you to erect a protective shell around who you really are.

]]> By: Jun http://mainecampus.com/2010/02/25/transgender-guidelines-stir-controversy/#comment-30555 Jun Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:45:00 +0000 http://mainecampus.com/?p=3727496#comment-30555 The guidelines are absurd. To suggest that Jack, who decides to cut off his Jimmy and join the Jills, ought to be able to play field hockey with Stacy is beyond imbecile. The only thing dumber is that the people who make the rules about where Jack-Jill should play have decided that the only fair policy is "universal inclusion." For one thing, Stacy doesn't want to play with Jack. (and she shouldn't have to.) For another thing, it is entirely unfair to expect a real woman to have to compete against the physicality of a male, hence segregated sports. It doesn't matter that Jack thinks he is a she. Jack is a man. Jack runs like a man, throws like a man, sweats like a man, and if he hasn't gone to see Dr. Willyoff then he still pees like one too. We must be the only species in existence that is so preoccupied with our inner selves that we have lost the ability to see each other for what we are. A transgender man, by any physical measure, is a man. And, if Jack still has Jimmy when he wants to be Jill then that just makes matters worse, because he is then 100% still a guy, albeit in cheerleaders clothing. The least of Jack's problems is that he/she might get her feelings hurt by not being allowed on the field with the other girls. Isn't it about time that people around here felt authoritative enough to at least say, without question, that while we aren't going to forbid you from screwing up your own life, we won't allow you to screw up the lives of those people who are happy to be what they are? Let's be honest, that a transgender athlete is coming to UMaine to cause this sort of controversy is, thank God, a very small possibility. Even still, it is nice to know that the people who are running these programs are willing to sacrifice the athletic lives and emotional health of all the other normal people for the sake of one very confused person. And yes, I said normal, because I'm not afraid to say that Jack isn't normal. Whether you like it or not there IS such a thing as normal. The idea of normal, as much as the politically correct gestapo wishes, has not disappeared. It is simply buried underneath a thousand and one pages of BS just like this. So, Jack. Regardless of how much you feel like Jill inside your own mind, we don't see you that way. Please keep your cleats out of field hockey and join a men's collegiate sport. You know, since you're a man? The situation would be harder for a transgender female because they simply wouldn't make the cut on a guys NCAA team, which speaks to the heart of the issue. Guys and girls ARE different in sports. The guidelines are absurd.
To suggest that Jack, who decides to cut off his Jimmy and join the Jills, ought to be able to play field hockey with Stacy is beyond imbecile. The only thing dumber is that the people who make the rules about where Jack-Jill should play have decided that the only fair policy is “universal inclusion.”

For one thing, Stacy doesn’t want to play with Jack.
(and she shouldn’t have to.)
For another thing, it is entirely unfair to expect a real woman to have to compete against the physicality of a male, hence segregated sports.

It doesn’t matter that Jack thinks he is a she.
Jack is a man. Jack runs like a man, throws like a man, sweats like a man, and if he hasn’t gone to see Dr. Willyoff then he still pees like one too.

We must be the only species in existence that is so preoccupied with our inner selves that we have lost the ability to see each other for what we are. A transgender man, by any physical measure, is a man.

And, if Jack still has Jimmy when he wants to be Jill then that just makes matters worse, because he is then 100% still a guy, albeit in cheerleaders clothing.

The least of Jack’s problems is that he/she might get her feelings hurt by not being allowed on the field with the other girls.

Isn’t it about time that people around here felt authoritative enough to at least say, without question, that while we aren’t going to forbid you from screwing up your own life, we won’t allow you to screw up the lives of those people who are happy to be what they are?

Let’s be honest, that a transgender athlete is coming to UMaine to cause this sort of controversy is, thank God, a very small possibility. Even still, it is nice to know that the people who are running these programs are willing to sacrifice the athletic lives and emotional health of all the other normal people for the sake of one very confused person.

And yes, I said normal, because I’m not afraid to say that Jack isn’t normal. Whether you like it or not there IS such a thing as normal. The idea of normal, as much as the politically correct gestapo wishes, has not disappeared. It is simply buried underneath a thousand and one pages of BS just like this.

So, Jack. Regardless of how much you feel like Jill inside your own mind, we don’t see you that way. Please keep your cleats out of field hockey and join a men’s collegiate sport.
You know, since you’re a man?

The situation would be harder for a transgender female because they simply wouldn’t make the cut on a guys NCAA team, which speaks to the heart of the issue. Guys and girls ARE different in sports.

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