Last year, the state of North Carolina decided that men should use the men’s bathroom, and women should use the women’s bathroom. “Radical” as that was, it got the state boycotted by sports associations, singers, and others. One year later, how has that boycott affected the state?
And speaking of accommodating the transgendered, how is that working out? I’ll discuss the weight lifter, born a man, who is tearing up the women’s competition. I’ll also talk about the boy who realized there was a girl in his locker room, and a rapist who is now in a women’s prison.
You’ll hear it here, because you probably won’t hear it anywhere else.
Mentioned links:
Weightlifting: Transgender lifter Laurel Hubbard wins first international outing
Outrage As Double Rapist Moves to Women’s Prison After Sex Change Treatment
Student sues Pennsylvania school district for sexual harassment, violation of personal privacy
School orders boy to “tolerate” undressing with girl and make it “natural”
Tourism thriving, economy expanding in North Carolina despite bathroom bill desertions
Video Calls Out NBA’s ‘Hypocrisy’ for Pulling All-Star Game From Charlotte

Show transcript
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has dominated her first major competition; the Australian International in Melbourne. She won her division, setting 4 unofficial national records, and her winning lift was 8% more than her nearest competitor.
OK, I lied, but in my defense, so did the news article in the show notes. See, all the cells in Hubbard’s body identify as male, so calling him a “her” is not a matter of biology. Instead, the definition, according to the International Olympic Committee, of a “woman” is merely someone whose “total testosterone level in serum has been below 10 [nanomoles per litre] for at least 12 months prior to her first competition”. So apparently chromosomes and physical traits are out, and nanomoles per liter are in.
I remember back in the day that some people, in trying to deal with the doping issue in athletics, suggested that we have 2 sets of competitions; ones with those who are not chemically enhanced, and ones for those that are. It appears that the Chemical Games (which was the fanciful name suggested for them) are here already. Of course, this is what you might call “un-doping” or “de-doping”. Either way, this is the altering of physiology (outside of things like simple vitamins) in order to compete in an athletic event.
I’m not here to disparage Laurel Hubbard. What I am noting is that the accommodations that are being made (accommodations that go against the observable, natural science) are getting to the point where (I hope) the general public takes notice and asks, “Huh?”
This was exhibit A. Today. Exhibit B is Martin Ponting, who was jailed for life in 1995 after raping 2 girls. He has started hormone treatment, is in line to get a $12,500 sex change, and he has already been moved to a women’s prison in Cambridgeshire, England. Right; nothing to see there. Exhibit C is a boy in Philadelphia who was changing into his gym clothes in the boy’s locker room when he realized that there was a girl in there doing the same thing.