This.... doesn't make sense. If they're not the fastest or best because of a young trans woman, then it would follow that the scholarship had been offered to the young trans woman. Do you have any examples of this?
Like... if your answer is that "well, they didn't recruit a young trans woman because she's trans, obviously", wouldn't that mean these experienced and obsessed recruiters would move on to the hypothetical second place cis woman?
Again: this is completely illogical.
I mean, really think this through for all of ten seconds. College recruiters know every competitor at the top level in high school. If the young woman is openly trans, they'd know that. If she beat a cis woman, they'd know that. Yet, somehow... no scholarships for anyone? C'mon.
So, either:
1. Show us all these supposed young trans women getting college athletic scholarships.
OR
2. Absent of that, explain why recruiters didn't move on to the supposed perennial second place cis woman.
This is a very straightforward request. And yet...
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