OCTOBER 22, 2022 / JACK MARSHALL
Who could have seen this coming? What a completely unexpected development! A complete freak accident! Of course, nobody’s at fault.
Yes, I am indulging in rueful sarcasm.
During a high school girl’s volleyball game in Cherokee County, North Carolina, a transgender player spiked a ball so forcefully that it caused “severe injuries” to a young girl’s head and neck. The girl is experiencing long-term concussion symptoms including vision problems, and has not been cleared to return to play either by a physician or a neurologist. And now, suddenly, because someone was seriously hurt as a result of the adults in charge ignoring an obvious, unnecessary and dangerous risk in order that they not be chastised as “transphobic,” the Cherokee County Board of Education voted to cancel all future games against the opposing school, Highlands High School, which allows a transfemale who has the advantage of the size and muscle mass conferred by going through puberty as a male to play on its girls volleyball team.
This is, of course, another nauseating example of the Barn Door Fallacy....READ more at