It's Transphobia Day In the Senate

New Republican Sen. Roger Marshall (Kansas) also used his questioning time to push transphobia. Cardona quickly shut him down. pic.twitter.com/qMDKFaqBwC

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 3, 2021

This seems to have started with Rand Paul:

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 3, 2021

So, basically, Sen. Paul is saying discrimination based on gender is not "bizarre" where trans-gendered persons are concerned.

 I admit I can see the physical advantages of upper body strength (primarily a male attribute, although not one guaranteed by a "Y" chromosome) in the javelin/shot put/hammer throw competitions, but other track and field events?  I'm not so sure about that.  And it's surely something we as a society can figure out without resorting to discrimination against people we find "bizarre."  Because we got over that with homosexuality and even same-gendered marriage.  I don't think high school sports is a hill our society needs to die on, especially with the pandemic causing so many education disruptions the studies show some students may have lost as much as 9 months of educational opportunity; which, yes, means a full school year.  There are discussions in some regions of starting school in July, if vaccines are sufficiently distributed and case counts are low enough.  That strikes me as a greater and more immediate concern than whose running the 100 meter dash in a high school competition.