She's Ohio's only trans female playing varsity sports; lawmakers want her out

[In It to Win It]

Cincinnati Enquirer via Yahoo News

Ember had only just made varsity when she learned about the state legislation that would block her from playing softball.

To say she made varsity is something of a stretch. Her northeast Ohio high school team is short on players. It has no junior varsity counterpart. There aren’t even enough athletes to keep up a summer team. Ember, 17, plays as an outfielder and catcher.

She said her team treats her just like any other player. The other teams probably have no idea she’s trans, she figures. She’s a reserve player who only picked up the sport as a sophomore.

Around the time she learned how to properly swing a bat, Republican state lawmakers in Ohio joined a national wave of introducing legislation banning transgender girls from playing girls’ sports. Eighteen states, all under Republican control, have signed them into law in just over two years.

“I had just started playing. It was scary. I just got onto a team,” Ember, who asked that her last name and hometown not be shared, said in an interview.

[Botany]

1. Fucking Christo Fascist assholes .... this state is fucking rigged as per the vote and elections ...

... the lowest of the low have taken over and although they are THE MINORITY in Ohio they push
their bible based bullshit onto everybody. Teachers will be expected to carry guns, laws are being
passed to stop 2nd graders from going to drag shows, and now they are making some 17 year old
trans girl and her teammates feel bad because of their own hang ups.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Well said, Botany.

I have a feeling the teachers carrying guns will be a huge fail. My husband is a retired teacher and he keeps up with other teachers and what’s going on in the schools. Literally ZERO teachers think this is a good idea and almost all think it’s just asking for trouble.

But now DeWine and his Buckeye Firearms buddies get to say they addressed school shootings.

I initially had hope for DeWine back in the days when Dr. Acton worked for him, but he has proved himself to be a typical spineless coward bending over backwards to the minority of right wing extremists.

[Botany]

8. When those bearded, beer gutted, mouth breathers w/guns showed up in Dr. Acton's yard ...

... Gov. DeWine could have stopped them then and there but chose not to do anything.

[Diamond_Dog]

9. So True.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Child abuse

Let her play. Good grief.

It’s all so stupid, and more than a little creepy.

[hlthe2b]

4. This should not come into play at all (if then) until they reach the pinnacle of competitive sports

I get that it is an unresolved issue for the Olympics and even the NCAA, but for heaven's sakes, high school is not the time for hard-knuckle politics when science (nor basic humanity) does not support it at all.

[crickets]

6. Well said. nt

[Norbert]

7. Another case of the party of 'small' government making more laws

I hope my state wakes up to this shit before it is too late.