Re: girls told they need to find somewhere else to get undressed if they don't want to do so in front of males -- girls' teams should take a page out of labor union work-to-rule protests and, one by one, take slow, laborious turns changing into their athletic gear in single-stall facilities -- so slowly as to delay the start of meets, games, practices, post-match travel, and so on. Let's say 10 girls, 5 minutes each to change, that's 50 minutes -- that would really eat into the time allotted for the event. And they should wait until they are all ready before leaving the locker room together.
They need to start reporting this as what it is -- CSA. Voyeurism and exhibitionism are sex offenses. These are gateway crimes.
In most states, teachers and coaches are mandatory reporters and must intervene. Retaliating against, failing to act, or intimidating victims or their parents is also illegal in most states. Start holding these people accountable.
TIM have about 5X the rate of SA as all males. Child endangerment is another thing teachers and coaches and officials can be charged with. Since we normally put all the males in the other locker room due to their risk of SAing, I don't see how they'd justify it.
Start ringing the DA's phone off the hook until they protect girls. Make sure every incident is reported to state child abuse hotlines -- they have to investigate.
What is the latest news on the development of rapid tests for sex identification? I’m surprised we don’t have cheap swab tests at this point in medical technology?
I don't know for sure, but from what I've heard the type of cheek swab and dry blood spot tests that have been around for a while are quite inexpensive. International level sports organizations will be using the latest technology, but my guess is that family physicians who conduct pre-sports physicals will be using cheek swabs/dry blood spot.
Yes, observation works in 99.9% of cases. Of course activists will holler about the .018% of the population, even smaller in the U.S. who have a Disorder of Sexual Development. In the U.S. most of these cases are identified at birth. All people with DSDs are either male or female
It's already on kids' prenatal records without an exam which the peds record already has or can easily get through electronic records. Routine prenatal care in the US includes chromosomes and ultrasounds of all the organ systems which identifies DSDs. (we haven't waited until birth to "assign sex" in over 30 years)
No doc does genital exams in routine pediatric care. Only lay people think the external genitals are key to sex determination. I guess that's all there was centuries ago. Sex is actually based on whether they have ovaries or testicles. Since the latter can sometimes be internal an exam of the external genitalia would not be definitive.
We need to start calling out these Stone Age mischaracterizations of medicine. Or maybe we can report them for practicing medicine without a license ; )
>LGW is not run on bake sales. It was established in 2022 by hedge fund manager Brian Heywood, though Littell says he is not the sole funder. Littell estimates LGW will be able to hit the 309,000 signature requirement for each initiative with an investment of about $3.5M
Excellent! The similar effort in California a couple of years ago, though very well intentioned and run by highly dedicated people, did not have enough organizational and fund-raising expertise to allow for success. I'm thrilled that the situation in Washington is better!
Brava to all the brave young women standing up for what's right. I'm so sorry the adults have failed you and you have to stand up for yourselves.
Re: girls told they need to find somewhere else to get undressed if they don't want to do so in front of males -- girls' teams should take a page out of labor union work-to-rule protests and, one by one, take slow, laborious turns changing into their athletic gear in single-stall facilities -- so slowly as to delay the start of meets, games, practices, post-match travel, and so on. Let's say 10 girls, 5 minutes each to change, that's 50 minutes -- that would really eat into the time allotted for the event. And they should wait until they are all ready before leaving the locker room together.
Trouble is that complicit/craven organizations will use that type of action to cause such teams to forfeit or face other sanctions.
That is, the girls lose either way.
What we need are *boys* teams taking such a stand, frankly, along with established female athletes (such as tennis’s #1 Aryna Sabalenka just did).
They need to start reporting this as what it is -- CSA. Voyeurism and exhibitionism are sex offenses. These are gateway crimes.
In most states, teachers and coaches are mandatory reporters and must intervene. Retaliating against, failing to act, or intimidating victims or their parents is also illegal in most states. Start holding these people accountable.
TIM have about 5X the rate of SA as all males. Child endangerment is another thing teachers and coaches and officials can be charged with. Since we normally put all the males in the other locker room due to their risk of SAing, I don't see how they'd justify it.
Start ringing the DA's phone off the hook until they protect girls. Make sure every incident is reported to state child abuse hotlines -- they have to investigate.
What is the latest news on the development of rapid tests for sex identification? I’m surprised we don’t have cheap swab tests at this point in medical technology?
I don't know for sure, but from what I've heard the type of cheek swab and dry blood spot tests that have been around for a while are quite inexpensive. International level sports organizations will be using the latest technology, but my guess is that family physicians who conduct pre-sports physicals will be using cheek swabs/dry blood spot.
Maybe I’m too naive, but can’t the family physician report sex based on the presence of fully developed male sexual organs?
Yes, observation works in 99.9% of cases. Of course activists will holler about the .018% of the population, even smaller in the U.S. who have a Disorder of Sexual Development. In the U.S. most of these cases are identified at birth. All people with DSDs are either male or female
It's already on kids' prenatal records without an exam which the peds record already has or can easily get through electronic records. Routine prenatal care in the US includes chromosomes and ultrasounds of all the organ systems which identifies DSDs. (we haven't waited until birth to "assign sex" in over 30 years)
No doc does genital exams in routine pediatric care. Only lay people think the external genitals are key to sex determination. I guess that's all there was centuries ago. Sex is actually based on whether they have ovaries or testicles. Since the latter can sometimes be internal an exam of the external genitalia would not be definitive.
We need to start calling out these Stone Age mischaracterizations of medicine. Or maybe we can report them for practicing medicine without a license ; )
We do.
It’s all BS from the TEAs.
>LGW is not run on bake sales. It was established in 2022 by hedge fund manager Brian Heywood, though Littell says he is not the sole funder. Littell estimates LGW will be able to hit the 309,000 signature requirement for each initiative with an investment of about $3.5M
Excellent! The similar effort in California a couple of years ago, though very well intentioned and run by highly dedicated people, did not have enough organizational and fund-raising expertise to allow for success. I'm thrilled that the situation in Washington is better!