For Kelsey Gellner, a Seattle-based pediatric nurse, a statewide proposal to bar trans girls from sports participation feels like a violation of her duty as a medical professional. The ballot initiative includes a requirement she calls “invasive and extreme”: all students who wish to compete on girls’ teams would have to undergo genital exams.
“I tell my kids and patients that my No 1 job is to keep them safe,” said Gellner, who is also a board member of the Washington State Nurses Association. “I can say with confidence that girls do not want to have an unnecessary exam that creates an unsafe barrier.”
It’s really disgusting to see so many people on here excusing this vile invasion of girls’ privacy. These genital exams have absolutely nothing to do with health; they are only to confirm the sex of the child. They are transphobic, creepy, and discriminatory. Boys will not be subjected to the same type of genital exam.
Yeah, so…
Read this shit and then remember that there are people here that won’t vote, and recommend that you don’t either. Then remember that they’re here to try and guarantee a MAGA victory.
Then vote your fucking ass off.
It was weird to do it for pee wee football as a young boy too…
A hernia check was part of the physical, and that included a doctor holding your balls and having you cough.
We could just have universal healthcare though, and normal annual exams should be a thing regardless of athletic participation.
The only reason any sports physical is ever needed, is a shit ton of kids don’t normally see a doctor. Give them all access to medical care, and every kid would already be getting an annual exam, and there’s be no need for any child to get one just for sports.
Just a form from a doctor saying “____ is medically able to play ____ at _____” that you get whenever your annual is, good for a year.
Covers every base.
That’s really no different than what my tailor does when measuring my inseam.
and they have to know if you dress left or right.
That’s quite a tailor you have there. Do they charge extra for ‘inseam adjustments’ ?
Frankie always gets me a good deal. My family’s been going to him forever. He did my first suit when I was 15.
That’s, uh, not standard my guy.
https://scienceoxygen.com/do-you-have-to-check-for-hernia-for-sports-physical/
https://www.restonyc.com/do-they-check-your-private-parts-in-a-sports-physical-for-a-boy/
Now, state to state is bound to be some variation so definitely not saying you’re lying if you never got checked…
But did you personally ever do a sports physical for football?
It wasn’t a secret, we all talked about how fucking weird it was. Definitely a normal part of the exam. The entire team pretry much all went at the same time to the same clinic every year the day the forms were passed out.
Can confirm. Always hated this for pop warner football as a kid in the 90s.
“Turn your head and cough.”
There’s a bunch of people on here that never have any idea what they’re talking about, but constantly want to tell everyone what their uninformed opinion is.
It’s really fucking weird, and almost always comes from the fringe instances.
My physicals did not include getting groped by adults to “check for hernias.”
I’m sorry you guys lived in pedo states.
There’s also, btw, a difference between a sports physical and the physical a 40+ year old man gets to make sure he doesn’t have colon cancer, since you seem confused on the matter. Not to mention unironically saying “they did it to me 30 years ago!”
You know, because they’re cheaper and less invasive…
You are an idiot. It’s a standard medical test and you are the one making it weirdly sexual.
You think hernia check and colonoscopy are the same?
At first I was a little alarmed, but then I also realized, you have to get a physical before you can participate in sports in the first place
