The recent supreme court ruling on trans atheletes is an example of how to kill a fly with a machine gun.
In most states, transgender atheletes are either non-existant or represent a tiny sliver (much smaller than the trans population of the state)
However this is red meat for right wingers because nothing enrages like the image of a transgender weight lifter dressed in a pink leotard sporting facial hair when the reality is more likely a lone spindly trans girl running high school track.
Meanwhile, Mac Beggs who is a trans man wrestler has been largely ignored because he is going in the opposite direction. If after taking testosterone he beats a weaker and less adept genetic male, that doesn't matter because it doesn't fuel enough outrage.
Needless to say that everyone wants fairness in sport but that's not what this is about. This is about finding an issue that inflames passion in the ignorant and the bigoted.
Since human stupidity is a gift that keeps on giving, it will forever remain a primary feature and not a bug.
Like they say, "you can't fix stupid".
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