DCG posted: "Be careful what kind of equality you wish for proggies. Via KTVA: Haines (Alaska) runner Nattaphon Wangyot qualified for the girls 1-2-3A 100-meter and 200-meter finals last Friday afternoon at the high school state track and field meet, but unlike her c" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on *Fellowship of the Minds* <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/dcgere/> Transgender Equality: Boy qualifies for girls state competition in high school track races <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2016/06/06/transgender-equality-boy-qualifies-for-girls-state-competition-in-high-school-track-races/> by DCG <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/dcgere/>
Be careful what kind of equality you wish for proggies. [image: Nattaphon Wangyot (right)/KTVA screenshot] <https://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/wangyot-ktva-screenshot-photo.jpg> Nattaphon Wangyot (right)/KTVA screenshot Via KTVA <http://www.ktva.com/high-school-runner-brings-spotlight-to-alaska-transgender-policy-432/>: Haines (Alaska) runner Nattaphon Wangyot qualified for the *girls* 1-2-3A 100-meter and 200-meter finals last Friday afternoon at the high school state track and field meet, but unlike her competitors, *she was born with male anatomy*. Transgender equality has become a hot topic of discussion around the country, and Alaska is no exception. *The Alaska Schools Activities Association recently implemented a policy to allow individual school districts to decide if a transgender athlete can compete in a sport as the gender they identify with.* “We didn’t want to necessarily create a situation where we were going to bring in a committee and those types of things just because it’s just not practical here,” said ASAA Executive Director Billy Strickland during Friday’s meet. Wangyot, who declined to comment on this story, qualified for state by running the 100-meter race in 13.14 seconds at the Region V 1-2-3A meet in Juneau on May 21. In all, 16 runners qualified for state. *Saskia Harrison, a runner for Fairbanks’ Hutchison High School, just missed the cut* with a time of 14.11 seconds, just behind fellow Hutchison runner Emma Daniels. *“‘I’m glad that this person is comfortable with who they are and they’re able to be happy in who they are, but I don’t think it’s competitively completely 100-percent fair,”* Harrison told KTVA. Alaska is not alone in dealing with transgender athletes. *Thirty <http://www.transathlete.com/#!k-12/c4w2>states have a policy <http://www.transathlete.com/#!k-12/c4w2> in place that, to at least to some capacity, allows transgender athletes to compete as the gender they identify with.* DCG *DCG <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/dcgere/>* | June 6, 2016 at 8:30 am | Tags: Alaska <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?tag=alaska>, Alaska Schools Activities Association <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?tag=alaska-schools-activities-association>, Haines <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?tag=haines> | Categories: Children <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=34928689>, Culture War <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=20812>, Education <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=15005908>, iY Generation <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=349529633>, Liberals/Democrats/Left <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=115894710>, Obama's America <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=12285619>, Taxes <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=7716108>, transgender <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=317684133>, United States <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/?cat=5850> | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-yxY Comment <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2016/06/06/transgender-equality-boy-qualifies-for-girls-state-competition-in-high-school-track-races/#respond> See all comments <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2016/06/06/transgender-equality-boy-qualifies-for-girls-state-competition-in-high-school-track-races/#comments> Unsubscribe <https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=1d26f3d2707c7345915d8b297361ecf7&email=bovinescatologists%40gmail.com&b=Ldz.D%7C%5DeAUq%26wiJ43Q7%5BttmE5E%7ENwXoi7PjUT_7AlDs%2BIyF%5B%25lW> to no longer receive posts from Fellowship of the Minds. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions <https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=1d26f3d2707c7345915d8b297361ecf7&email=bovinescatologists%40gmail.com>. *Trouble clicking?* Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2016/06/06/transgender-equality-boy-qualifies-for-girls-state-competition-in-high-school-track-races/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com <https://wordpress.com> -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
