Letter: Political correctness does not always think ahead – Amarillo.com

Regarding the recent Amarillo Globe-News editorial (Editorial: Bill is about fairness, not discrimination, May 10, amarillo.com), what the Senate Bill 2095 legislation should be about is whether or not parents and school administrators have their frontal lobe intact.

Why should a parent approve gratuitous steroid injections into a developing nervous system? The editorial cites a case in which a transgender adolescent athlete born female was competing against one of our local high school female athletes as being unfair due to testosterone and/or steroid involvement.

Steroids are gratuitous because such injections are not medically necessary.

Lets go down this road. What if we discover that we can level the playing field to parity make the sexes totally equal in a sport such as wrestling with injections?

What does the treatment do to the student athletes future brain development? I have cited before a study confirming that the suicide rate among adult transgender individuals is 41 percent. Why?

One of the critical problems I have with public education is that administrators and legislators do not think long term. This is a clear example of such myopia.

Bruce Johnson

Amarillo

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