Their self-inflicted foolishness based on the conscious choice not to learn facts would be comical if it didn’t have serious consequences to so many.

Rather than understand what “Transgender” actually means, many people stubbornly want to hold that it is merely a man wearing dress, and because of that, they do not want a man wearing a dress going into the ladies’ room looking for sexual prey.

They do not understand that a Transgender person doesn’t want that either.

There are states that have passed, or are attempting to pass, a “Bathroom bill”, an action whose name displays their lack of understanding and their desire to keep the decision as simple as possible because a toilet is easier to understand and takes no effort to, than it does to take the time to learn what Transgender is and that it has been around as long as there have been people.

Donald Trump, pandering to the bigotry based on chosen ignorance, has decided that the safety of Transgender students should be at the whim of the personal, religious, and political beliefs of the people in the legislatures of the individual states.

And, of course, he too has reduced it all down to where a high school kid pees.

Those who actively and openly oppose science, have decided that a person is what is on their birth certificate, and that a person must be identified as what is on there, and all their life’s actions must be based on that.

But recently, an example of how this simplistic approach can trip up even their own argument came up recently in Texas.

Mack Beggs, a 17 year old high school wrestler was designated “female” according to his birth certificate, but it became obvious as he was growing, that that was wrong.  To be truly himself, he began transitioning to male over the past two years.

If people took the time to learn, they would know this was not his getting up one morning because he “felt like a girl that day”, but it is a long and serious process.

To transition from who it appeared he was to who he truly is, part of his process is to take testosterone, he male hormone, to help with his transition.

A Texas rule says he must wrestle in the category that matches the gender on his birth certificate, and the rule was upheld by 95% of Texas superintendents.

Mr. Beggs, therefore, has to wrestle as a female wrestler.

Parents weren’t happy with this, a thing many Texans support, because they see his testosterone regimen as enhancements that are not allowed in sports.
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But to me, if they thought a little, this is like a person taking post-op pain killers. This is not done to make the person super pain free, but to keep them from feeling pain, to bring hm to a level of normalcy. If they have no pain, taking the pain pills is an “enhancement” commonly known as opioid abuse.

This kid is not taking testosterone to become a super man, but to transition to the man he is.

On Saturday, Mack Beggs won the girls 6A state wrestling title in the 110-pound weight class giving him a 56-0 record.

He was booed when he won his championship match.

Although they reject his reality, in this case people do not think a boy should wrestle girls, but they still think he should use the ladies’ room at school.

In a bit or uninformed irony, remember, Mack Beggs knows he is male and it was not his choice to be kept on the girls’ team, a parent complained,

 “She’s standing there holding her head high like she’s the winner. She’s not winning. She’s cheating. If you want to play the games, you have to play it fair. I don’t care what sex you are. Don’t go on the mat with enhancement if my kid can’t.”

But let’s redo that quote so, perhaps, even this parent  can see why knowledge is important.

“She’s He’s standing there holding her his head high like she’s he’s the winner. She’s he’s not winning. She’s he’s cheating.”

Actually ma’am the blame goes to those who refuse to accept he is a male.

Beggs prefers to wrestle boys, but hasn’t tried challenging the rules out of fear that he could end up being barred from wrestling, an easier decision to make than for those making the decision to take the time to learn

“I would rather have a chance to compete than not compete at all,” he said.

This controversy should get people thinking, and perhaps learning.

If not, you are simply reaping what your willful ignorance has sown.