I wasn’t one of them, but I’ve known my share of sporty kids. Up early, lots of practice, time after school, and traveling to games or meets. It’s a considerable commitment wasted when a boy who isn’t even very good at the sport decides he’s a girl and beats them all handily.
There are a handful of high-profile examples, but this story is about a kid from Kearsarge High School who couldn’t compete in boys’ track and field. He calls himself Maelle Jacques, and he recently beat every Girl competing in the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA) indoor track and field championship.
Kearsarge Regional High School sophomore Maelle Jacques, a biological male, took first place in the Girl’s high jump competition on Sunday, beating every female in the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA) indoor track and field championship.
As expected, Jacques dominated and finished with a 5’1″‘” mark, an inch better than any other athlete in the girls Division II competition. In the boy’s Division II, the lowest high jump was 5’8″‘,” and the winning jumpers hit 6’2″.”
The problem is that Maelle Jacques is welcome to whatever fantasy about his sexual disposition he can convince others to embrace. Riley Gaines framed the matter thusly.
How could the parents of this boy allow their son to cheat deserving women out of opportunities? And why don’t the parents of the girls stand up and say “no” for their daughters?
This country is full of failing, gutless mothers and fathers. https://t.co/qc39ygtWPT
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) February 5, 2024
“Maelle” presents himself as a girl, but he has physical advantages no girl will ever have and uses them to defeat them in athletic competitions he could never win by competing with boys.
There is no honor in that. It is not an accomplishment deserving of acclaim or reward. You are taller, faster, stronger, have better heart and lung capacity, muscle mass, and bone density, and were born that way.
They…were not.
It is true that some young women, through hard work, long hours, good coaching, and attention to the finest details of a sport, can compete and win against boys or men who have little or no skill whatsoever, most of the time. Not all of the time. In the case of the Girl’s division of the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA) indoor track and field championship, Maelle wiped them out.
The girls, it seems, were born in the wrong body … to compete against boys. And they can’t even get testosterone treatments to try and bridge the gap … that would be cheating.