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Maelle Jacques? Really? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day,
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  and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, fourteenth
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  day of February. It's Valentine's Day. I'm wes, thanks for joining me.
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  I hope you took care of your significant other. I always kind of
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  reference it almost like it's just the men listening. I do have many ladies
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  that listen. I just hope you all took care of your significant other here
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  on this holiday of love to the point that it's necessary. As I've said
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  before, I'm very blessed my bride doesn't stress about it. Will have lunch
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  together today at a place that we really like to have a meal, and
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  that will be our Valentine treat for one another. That's the way it'll roll
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  for us today. But whatever is expected, you know, that's the thing.
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  It's about the expectation, but maybe going a little of the expectation sometime,
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  that extra little bit of consideration and showing that you're paying attention all those
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  sorts of things. You know, that's what you got to do. That's
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  what the expectation is, That's what the obligation is. Uh So I want
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  to we're midweek. This is a it's a kind of a going into a
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  holiday weekend, and I may or may not do a show Friday. I
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  haven't decided yet. I think I'll go ahead and do a show Friday.
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  But Friday, for us here in the Chattahoochee Valley area, there's a lot
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  of schools it'll be taking. It's like a four day weekend. It's uh,
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  I guess, I don't even know what they call it. It's a
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  it's a mid kind of a quarter break for school. Of the nine weeks.
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  It's a little past the midway point. But I don't know if they
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  do like a teacher planning or something on Friday. But then Monday is the
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  holiday, so the kids are out of school Monday and as well as Friday.
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  So I'm pretty sure i'll do a show Friday. My Friday shows are
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  you know, I do the strange and bizarre news story, so I'll probably
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  go ahead and get that done for Friday as normal. But here in this
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  midweek point, I got a story I want to talk about because it's I'm
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  gonna be honest. I haven't done a whole lot of research on this.
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  The amount of research I've done is enough for me to think I need to
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  talk about this just because of what it appears to be. I haven't watched
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  any news coverage of it. I haven't really I've done enough research that I'm
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  comfortable addressing it. But I hope I don't get a lot of this wrong.
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  But based on what I've been able to read about it, and it's
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  interesting because it has a note of it that reminds me of the way that
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  another much more significant news story was handled. But you remember, we had
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  the shooting at the Christian school. We had a trans person that was involved
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  in that, but for some reason, the trans aspect of the person was
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  downplayed. Okay, this was someone who was in the living as a different
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  gender, but that wasn't really addressed. They did the best they could to
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  avoid talking about it in the news. They wanted this person to be something
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  very different than what they were, just for the news aspect of all of
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  it. Now, this is, like I said, it's significantly less important
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  in the great scheme of things when we're talking about this isn't involved anyone dying.
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  It does involve something that I do think is important. We just in
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  the last week or so where there was a holiday. I didn't really talk
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  about it, but it was the day to honor women in sports, which
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  is kind of something that has been very overlooked and neglected, I think,
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  especially in the past few years, because once upon a time women had to
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  fight hard to be involved in sports, for girls to be involved in sports
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  in younger ages, they had to pass things so that they girls' sports would
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  get the same kind of treatment. You couldn't just go, ah, they're
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  cheerleaders, Let them be cheerleaders. Maybe the girl, if she tries hard
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  enough, she can make it on the boys team in soccer, football or
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  whatever, which sometimes that happens, and that's great, That is fantastic.
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  If you're able to do that, that is great. What I think those
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  people that fought hard for that could have never imagined is that we'd get to
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  a point where biological males are able to compete in sports with girls and in
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  some cases absolutely dominate to the point that they're pushing women and girls aside.
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  Now, you want to make a case at a very young age that you've
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  got a girl's soccer team and there's a boy on the team and he's not
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  really very good, and he's on the team. He's not even even the
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  best player on the team. That's one thing, Okay, I want to
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  be clear on that. That's one thing. But when we start getting into
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  highly competitive sports, high school, state competitions, anything involving potential Olympic trials,
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  college, all that stuff, that's when you start getting some serious stuff.
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  These are people that are trying to compete and you know, accomplish things
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  with all of the training, the lifelong of training in some cases that they've
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  gone through to get to this stage. And we've let those girls down.
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  We really have. And I'm not gonna sit here with you and say that
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  all of this is easy. It's not easy. The trans thing in a
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  lot of cases is not easy. Sometimes I think it is easy to look
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  at, and this is one of those areas in sports. I think you
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  have to look at it and you have to say, now, wait a
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  minute. If you were competing as a man not very well, and now
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  you're competing as a woman and dominating, I think that's a problem. If
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  we're talking talking about someone who from a very young age started living their life
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  as the other gender. In this case, relevance for this would be a
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  boy who decided to live as a girl. And this is one of those
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  things that pops up in school sometimes where they say, well, which bathroom
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  do you use? If everyone in the school knows this boy to be a
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  girl, it is complicated for that boy who's living as a girl to go
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  in the boy's bathroom. That part's not easy. It's not easy when you
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  take a male or female that's living as the other gender, and you know,
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  if you can't visibly tell the difference, and let's be honest, sometimes
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  you can, sometimes you can't. And if you can't tell the difference,
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  you know, without really getting in there and inspecting, without looking for an
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  Adam's apple or whatever, if you can't tell the difference and they walk into
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  the other bathroom, that's gonna be a little startling. It's a little off
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  putting. I mean, let's be honest. If you're in the men's room
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  at the urinal and a woman walks in, it's a little distracting. It's
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  especially distracting if you're in the women's bathroom and a man walks in to use
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  the bathroom, right, it just is it's not what you expect and it
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  could put you off a little bit. So that part of all of this
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  can be a little complicated. I know people like to say it's cut and
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  dry, and I know arguments for both sides of this. This is my
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  diplomatic stance on that part of it. When it comes to competition, No,
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  I can't see a scenario where at the college level or the Olympic level
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  having and people will say, well, sometimes think about the New Zealand trans
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  woman who was a weightlifter who you know didn't meddle or anything in the Olympics,
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  and you go, yeah, but this particular trans woman took a spot
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  on the team from someone who would have been able to participate in the Olympics,
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  presumably right, So that part of it is ridiculous. That part of
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  it is one of the sides of this that you just it's easy for me
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  to say this is absurd, and we know that there have been cases where
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  women have just been pushed aside. I've mentioned this before. I once had
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  the honor it was FUNNIAI National Championships for Swimming and Diving. I was able
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  to do the streaming broadcast. I was the voice of a national championship competition
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  for swimming and diving took place in my hometown in Columbus, and I was
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  able to do that. The guy who normally did the job, he did
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  some of the event and then I was called in to help out on two
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  of the days and it was a lot of fun. It was a new
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  experience for me, and I got the feel of how it all works and
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  the exactly the way the competitions work. And I understand now one person in
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  the mix throws all of it out of whack, throws all of it out
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  of whack, especially if that person is dominating in the pool. And we
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  know that that has certainly been the case. But that's not who I'm talking
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  about today. This is an even more bizarre story. This is in New
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  Hampshire, Keresarge Regional High School, North Sutton, New Hampshire. This is
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  in the state championship girls' high jump competition and a tenth grade male competed with
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  the girls. Now, as far as my research goes, and again I
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  do a lot of research, I have not found one place where they have
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  referenced that this kid is trans. He looks like a guy. He's got
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  a ponytail, he's got long hair, he doesn't look like he's in any
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  way trying to pass himself self off as a girl. Now, how he
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  would would do that, I don't know. I don't know if that's what
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  he wants to do. Everywhere, in every story, every article, every
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  tweet, anything I've seen about this references him as a male. Doesn't say
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  that he's a female, doesn't say that he's trans. There's no reference to
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  any of that. It simply says that he competed and absolutely dominated. His
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  name and it's a French name, Miles Jacques. Now the name, and
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  this is where I start to get suspicious the spelling of this. And again,
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  this is a French name. It's pronounced mile m a e l l
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  e j a c q u e s. All right, Miles Jacques.
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  Now I look at it in the English denunciation and I see male jock.
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  Okay, this is one of those things you just can't make up. It's
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  not like this is someone who's now going by a female name. The name
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  Miles Jacques is, you know, looks like male jock. I wish,
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  I wish that part was made up, but that's the kid's name. And
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  again, I'm not calling him a he because of any insensitivity. I'm doing
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  it because apparently that's how he refers to himself, at least from every article
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  that I've seen. So winning first place in four regular season meets and winning
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  various long distance jumping competitions, and not only had the jump that ended up
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  winning. And this is from the icons women X post. It says male
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  high jumper Miles Jacques won a girls' high school state title yesterday in New Hampshire
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  NHIAA LA is the handle for the I guess the school association. It says
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  his winning jump was almost ten inches lower than the boys winning height. His
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  ten point score helped Cursage High School girls track and field team jump to runner
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  up in the state. And that's where this cuts off among in the state,
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  among twenty five teams. Okay, that's the rest of the message.
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  The superintendent for the school district gave a written statement about the controversy spring twenty
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  twenty three. This was the statement about having says Cursarge Sports supports all students
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  and student athletes, regardless of their gender identity. Each student athlete has the
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  right to compete in the activity of their choice. The New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic
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  Association. I guess that's HIAA. Their stance on this issue is clear,
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  denying that opportunity is a violation of equal rights afforded under state and federal law.
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  Further, we believe that limiting access to any activity violates our core mission
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  and vision, which are grounded in supporting every student and student athletes right to
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  pursue their goals and interest. As a school community, parents and guardians,
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  faculty, staff, and peers, we celebrate student success and personal growth on
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  and off the field. We firmly believe in guiding each student to become caring,
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  compassionate people who contribute positively to the world in those around them. We
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  are thankful that our student athletes have been welcomed throughout the season by competing teams
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  and their coaches and the true spirit of athletic competition, and we remain grateful
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  to the Cursarge community for its steadfast commitment to equity and inclusion. As a
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  school community, parents and guardians, faculty, staff, and peers, we
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  celebrate student success and personal growth on and off field. I think that was
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  already in there once before, but anyway, so and I guess that maybe
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  was in reference to another situation that's come up. There was an eleventh grade
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  biological male who I guess was transitioning. Chloe Barnes was the name for that
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  student, and so this has come up, I guess once before. But
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  what's crazy to me about this is male jock apparently just signed up for the
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  girls team. Didn't even have to make the commitment, didn't even have to
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  say, hey I'm transitioning. Hey I'm changing my lifestyle. Hey I'm going
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  to be something else. It sounds to me like, from what I can
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  tell, just signed up for the girls team and was allowed to compete.
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  That's the easy way. And I mean, if you're going to allow that,
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  this is the way we make all the stop right. I mean this,
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  at one point you had to actually make some kind of declaration or commitment
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  to something I guess to do it. But now, if you know,
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  name any NBA player that doesn't see any time on the court, you know,
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  get five of those guys to just say, hey, we're going to
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  the WNBA. We're just going to sign up and go. If they don't
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  have to declare anything, that would make it easy. Now. I know
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  that that's different than this particular high school, but I mean, this kid's
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  onto something here. If everything that I'm reading about this is true, then
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  seems to me like this is the definite cheat code. Didn't even have to
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  make any declaration, not at all. I did an interview years ago with
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  a performer, a writer, and a fitness enthusiast rapper named Zubie. And
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  he's the guy who famously declared himself a woman just for like an hour so
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  that he could break a weightlifting record as a woman, and then declared himself
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  to be a man again. And he was doing it just to prove a
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  point. Yes, he's being a smartass about it, but he was doing
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  it to prove a point that if you just declare it, then you can
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  then claim at least the record never was acknowledged for some reason. But in
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  this case, Miles Jacques or male Jock, how can that even be real?
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  That's his name? Is that really his name? I mean, if
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  it wasn't for the French pronunciation of it, I would really be suspicious.
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  But Miles Jacques, congratulations, if this is all right, and you are
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  not even claiming to be a woman at this point or a girl or whatever.
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  In tenth grade, found the ultimate cheat code to all of this,
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  and uh, you know, I feel badly for the girls that you pushed
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  aside, the team that didn't get to be the runner up because your team
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  did, or you you know whatever award that you claimed, you just pushed
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  a girl out of the way, uh and wanted as a man. I
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  mean, this is Ron Swanson winning one Woman of the Year all over again,
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  isn't it? Anyway? But congratulations. I guess if the UH,
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  if the schools behind it, if the uh n h i AA Division two
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  when you're sick, and it does seem like a lot of people are sick
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  could take care of them when they're sick. The survey also found that women
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  were more likely to want to be left alone when they're sick versus men.
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  I think that's probably the case, and it's interesting. I went through,
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  you know, I had some hip surgeries, not replacements. In spite of
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  a lot of public a lot of my friends seem to think I've had my
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  hips replaced. I haven't. I've had surgeries on my hips to repair things
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  in there, but no replacements. And often my mom was around to help
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  out with the recovery process of that because at the time, at least in
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  was there to help out with them and with me, and she certainly got
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  me through those, no doubt about that. Also, because she was retired
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  and Jill was working, so you know, I sort of lived that in
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  that regard, but that you know, I've also had recovery times where my
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  mom wasn't here for that, And you know, part of my issue is
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