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Hernandez runs straight through american bigotry

anonymous

Let’s make this clear: A.B. Hernandez didn’t just win a track meet. They beat an entire machine of manufactured outrage. The California teenager’s state championship win is now a political circus, with the usual suspects—Trump, conservative media, and transphobic culture warriors—frothing at the mouth, eager to cast a high school athlete as a national threat.

It's not about sports. It never was.

Let’s be serious: this is not a sincere concern regarding fairness in athletics. This no no doubt about it fear. These people are afraid of change. They are afraid of identity. They are afraid of anyone who refuses to stay in the tiny gender boxes that conservatives cling to like a life raft on the sinking ship of 1950s America. A.B. exists—and excels—being themself. That’s terrifying for people whose power depends on keeping other people small, quiet, and ashamed.

What’s even more appalling is how quickly this has evolved into a coordinated attack on a child! A kid who trains hard, shows up, competes, and wins, just like everybody else in her sport. Instead of accolades, A.B. receives death threats, using her as an avatar in Trump’s grotesque attempt to leverage hatred and distraction to bring back his base. After all, when your policies have no merit, it is easy to punch down.

Here’s the reality: trans kids are not ruining sports—adults are. Adults who legislate their fear. Adults who use locker rooms and podiums as their personal political stage. And A.B. Hernandez is out there running fearlessly while America is tripping over its own ignorance.

If the fairness you preach actively excludes those who need fairness the most, then you are not fighting for justice, but control, and A.B.? They are not only finishing races with seconds to spare; they are shattering ceilings!