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What do you get when you push anti-trans bills in scholastic sports? This vile situation in Utah

As sure as touching fire will lead to a burn, as sure as everything Beyoncé touches will turn gold, the story out of Utah this week was always going to have to be written.

When you fear-monger about transgender human beings and then adopt legislation to try to write them out of society, you will inevitably create scenarios where bad-faith bigots will weaponize those laws for any reason.

Via the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News, two sets of whiny parents, upset that their daughters were soundly defeated in a state-level competition last year by a third girl, complained to the Utah High School Activities Association that the winning girl might be transgender.