Are you ready for your daily dose of Fox News eye-rolling? Well, just feast your eyes on Laura Ingraham, who can’t wait to make fun of vulnerable teens. Great job, lady, you’re a real winner.
The context is a Fox & Friends conversation about a female track athlete who once presented as male. She is described by one host in stupid detail: “born male, identifies now as female,” says Steve Doocy, to which Laura simply says, “no.”
“None of anyone’s goddamn business” is a more accurate way of describing this student’s gender, but apparently Laura thinks she has veto power over strangers she’s never met. Great.
Anyway, her main objection to this student seems to be that “I don’t think it’s really fair” for someone who once presented as male to compete against cis women. Boys are biologically stronger, she points out, and faster.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Okay, yeah, so what? Some people are faster than others. Some are stronger. What do you want, Laura, for everyone to have exactly the same skills and abilities and to be so perfectly matched that every single game ends in a draw? Sports are never fair, someone always has an advantage, that’s what makes it a competition.
And then we get to Laura’s real objection, since her “fairness” argument is obvious bullshit. “It’s just more gender bending,” she says. “This is just going to keep getting worse.”
She then mentions offhand that when she was a teenager, she competed on the girl’s field hockey team in Connecticut, and it all comes together. Of course she did. Of course this asshole was a Connecticut field hockey mean girl. Obviously.
She then concludes her rant by adding that teens shouldn’t even be allowed to be trans because “most people don’t develop their understanding of their own, you know, sexuality until frankly later in life.” Laura, for the umpteenth time — gender and sexuality are not the same thing. Get it together, please.
And regardless, when we were in high school, the girl’s field hockey team was so slutty its locker room practically had a Planned Parenthood, so maybe just calm down about other people’s sexuality.
Watch the exchange below:
Brian
You are born male or female. Learn to live with it. Stop denying your chromosomal reality. Your
trendy opinion is irrelevant. Your state of mind does not change the fact of your chromosomes.
And if you don’t like that, tough I’m mot here to join the “oh, I’ve grown my hair long and so I must be a woman” crowd. Long hair does not make you a woman and neither does make-up.
You were born male or female. Accept the fact that you were born that way. It is futile to pretend otherwise.
n900mixalot
@Brian: Wow I actually agree with something this bad o dicks is saying. I must be having a stroke …
High school is not the time for that bs. Should the kid be bullied, no. But bowing to their whims in something like this is ridiculous. Kids need to learn that entitlement is earned, not just freely given.
If anything, it’s more admirable for a lady boy on the men’s track team to beat the brakes off of the “masculine” participants, than to puss out and want to race the girls.
n900mixalot
@n900mixalot: “bag o dicks” y’all… this site has zero comment game.
passingthru
@Brian: Very narrow minded. Too bad – society is leaving you behind.
luvit00
I wonder who in this country this woman identifies as a “regular american”? Honestly, this is typical Fox talking fools trying to comment on a topic that is way beyond their limited republican scope.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
It’s sad to say but Fox News is right. If you don’t like Fox being right stop supporting the agenda of extremists.
DCguy
FOX News DESPERATELY trying to run these types of stories to keep their aging base angry and so that they can avoid talking about Trump’s tax returns, or Bribery of Attorney Generals by Trump or his multiple losses in lawsuits over wage theft.
passingthru
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: It isn’t “sad” to say at all. Rather, it’s extremely stupid to say. This is about a person with a life that you (and they) have no idea about. They are not even interested any details about the human being that they are making fun of. Let’s hope that there really is a hell for them to burn in.
LubbockGayMale
I’m sorry, lady, that your #1 field hockey team (girls) was beaten by a bunch of boys with no experience; but did you consider these possibilities: 1)maybe the guys played ice hockey as kids, or 2) your team just sucked!?!??! Either way, your story has no relevance to a trans-gender argument. Sorry to burst your bubble of indignation.
LubbockGayMale
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: You are right, you don’t have to agree with me. But you do have to allow other folks to say we think you’re full of it, and we do.
He BGB
All of a sudden all these people are coming forward with their opinions on transgender like they know all about it. What is wrong with letting someone you don’t even know live their authentic self?
GC1985
@Brian: This isn’t about being trendy, you Neanderthal. Time to come into the 21st century. It isn’t the 50s. Your lack of respect of people is sickening.
inbama
@LubbockGayMale:
When a woman says something transphobic, smack her down with some good ol’ misogyny.
Good work.
GC1985
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: Fox News right? Since when? Fox News are a bunch of extremists, you nut!
tony-e
This isn’t new for Fox News. Anything that goes against their conservative values they attack and/or make fun of. Like the author said, Laura Ingraham is an asshole. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times, if straight kids can know at pretty much any age that they’re, indeed, straight, how can anyone say that a kid can’t know at a young age that they’re gay, bi or trans? The argument I like to use is the difference between a well-known scene from the show The Wonder Years, where Kevin and Winnie share their first kiss at 12 years old and a similar scene on the show The Fosters, where Jude and Connor share their first kiss at 13 or 14 years old. Everyone said how cute and sweet it was for Kevin and Winnie, while the anti-gay conservatives said ABC Family should be ashamed to show Jude and Connor kissing because “impressionable kids don’t need to see that” on a family show, which, by the way, is about a diverse family of kids fostered and adopted by a married lesbian, bi-racial couple, along with the biological children of one of the moms (who is also a cop).