Stick with me here. This is complicated for those of us still based in some sort of reality. I got a screen shot text from a friend last week. It was a Facebook posting from a school in eastern Missouri. Basically, it was a girls wrestling update that indicated a young “lady” that goes by Isaac had become the first district champion in school history and was headed to the state girls wrestling tournament.
The picture of Isaac seemed to be a boy, or at least had boy-like features for those of us that still judge a book by its cover. Anyway, the Facebook comments were off the charts on this thing, and I couldn’t help but try to figure this out. As best I can tell, the Missouri law that is in place only allows you to compete in the gender of the sport of which you were born biologically. Spare me the gender fluid argument and just assume we are all born boy or girl.
This is where it gets dicey. As best I can tell, Isaac was born a girl and is possibly transitioning to a boy (hence the boy features), and “he” must compete as a “she” to comply with the law that was created to prevent boys from dominating girls’ sports. See the irony? Are you keeping up here?
So now “transitioning girls to boys” has resulted in a first time ever girls state qualifier at this school and the entire school district is gender confused and Republican lawmakers are likely awash in legalese trying to rewrite their law to preclude this.
Read this next sentence slowly. We have gone insane! I will type it one more time for everyone that didn’t understand. We have gone insane!
We should pack up our stuff and move to another planet, we’ve ruined this one.
If you are not keeping up on the Trump trial in Georgia, you are missing out. Watching Fani Willis and her lover on the witness stand has had me laughing for two weeks. The two people we trusted to save democracy have skidded off the tracks into a torrid love affair.
Willis and her lover, Nathan Wade, despite being lawyers, are two of the worst witnesses I have ever seen. They’d challenge Trump on any lie meter test and if that doesn’t work, they throw down race in the oddest of situations as some sort of “trump” card (pardon the pun). She even claimed that keeping cash around the house was a “black thing.” Huh? I know a lot of pasty white people that believe in a little “cash” in the dresser drawer, but I have digressed.
If you’re looking for entertainment, this is the trial to be watching. Lots of characters and it has a new twist every week. It’s not a Taylor and Travis level love story, but something to get us through the last few weeks of winter.
I think I’ve figured this whole thing out. I am pretty sure we are living the entertainment for some other world. We have a little situation comedy, tragedy, love stories and an entire slate of stupid human tricks that are entertaining some other species in some unknown region of space. We are simply the programming, proceed with your life accordingly.
(Guy Speckman can be reached watching Fani Willis and Nathan Wade save democracy or at gspeckman@me.com)