For Kelsey Gellner, a Seattle-based pediatric nurse, a statewide proposal to bar trans girls from sports participation feels like a violation of her duty as a medical professional. The ballot initiative includes a requirement she calls “invasive and extreme”: all students who wish to compete on girls’ teams would have to undergo genital exams.
“I tell my kids and patients that my No 1 job is to keep them safe,” said Gellner, who is also a board member of the Washington State Nurses Association. “I can say with confidence that girls do not want to have an unnecessary exam that creates an unsafe barrier.”
Pedophiles gonna pedophile. Create rules “to protect women and girls” whilst endangering women and girls.
Yeah, so…
Read this shit and then remember that there are people here that won’t vote, and recommend that you don’t either. Then remember that they’re here to try and guarantee a MAGA victory.
Then vote your fucking ass off.
Sure vote, but also by a gun and be ready to use it when they announce republicans are staying in office or that votes are really just a suggestion and the results were rigged anyway.
Christ, conservatives are really weird people.
So you’re going to create a bunch of discomfort and probably trauma for tens of thousands of girls to bully 3 kids you don’t like? Oh yeah, these anti trans fuckheads have the moral high ground.
It’s really disgusting to see so many people on here excusing this vile invasion of girls’ privacy. These genital exams have absolutely nothing to do with health; they are only to confirm the sex of the child. They are transphobic, creepy, and discriminatory. Boys will not be subjected to the same type of genital exam.
Are we in the same thread? Who is excusing this here?
There are people here comparing this to a physical examinations and tailor fittings, saying there’s really no difference.
Pretty sure that is a joke from an old Friends episode.
Fair enough, I didn’t realize the inseam comment and the original one comparing these proposed genital exams to a hernia check were from a Friends episode. For a minute it seemed like people were equating physical health checks for sports to these genital exams.
Isn’t it interesting that the party supporting sweeping Epstein and other pedo crimes under the rug is also the party that wants laws which look at childrens’ genitals?
This has always been the inevitable outcome of going down this path. I hate to say it but these reactionaries won’t understand until it’s their own children being forced to choose between playing sports or not getting assaulted by school sports officials who want to “check their genitals”.
They don’t want girls doing sports. Or anything besides playing with dolls to prepare for when they get baby trapped by a chud around 16-24.
Idk there’s a large contingent of conservative sports dads and moms who just don’t want to pay taxes
I’m Washington? There’s no way that’s gonna pass.
There’s a lot of money behind these legislative pushes.
At first I was a little alarmed, but then I also realized, you have to get a physical before you can participate in sports in the first place
