Florida House passes anti-transgender bill that would allow for genital examinations of high school athletes
This is where moral panics lead.
The humiliation is part of the point.
100% this.
And if that means letting adults look at the privates of underage kids, that's just the way it goes.
I assume that you and cybercoma are up in arms over the Florida bill (rather than the similar bills in other states) because it lets you attack the grossness of "genital examinations" rather than defending the obvious stupidity of letting male athletes compete in female sports in the first place.
You'd like to conjure up this image of highschool girls having to pull down their shorts before they're allowed to race, in hope that people who haven't read the article will take your word for it. Of course, that's not actually what's going to happen, as your own article explains. In cases of ambiguity a cheek swab or a medical examination might be used, but in the vast majority of cases there isn't any ambiguity. Caster Semanya type situations are actually incredibly rare; in the overwhelming majority of cases it's as Poonlight says: a simple glance at the student's birth certificate or medical records is all that's required. And even in the incredibly unlikely event that a medical examination is needed, it would be performed in private by the student's own doctor. So I view what you're selling here as absurd hyperbole (pretty much like when you were comparing the ICE border detainment camps to Nazi concentration camps.)
Also, why are you guys suddenly pretending you give a crap about girls' privacy?
When it comes to telling a girl that she has to change or shower in front of any male who identifies as female that day, it's "she will have to get over her discomfort." And yet at the remote chance of someone being asked to get a medical examination in the privacy of your own doctor's office is "OMG state-sanctioned sexual violation!" Or replacing women's washrooms with all-gender washrooms. It's a privacy nightmare for women and a wet dream for voyeurs, but progressives love them. "it's so inclusive." If progressives actually cared about women's privacy, they wouldn't be lobbying for universities and government offices to get rid of women's washrooms and replace them with all-gender washrooms.
You guys pretending like you give even the teensiest tiniest little
**** about women's privacy would be more convincing if it didn't come from the "women will have to get over their discomfort" crowd.
-k