As of now, my comment on this @The New York Times article has 497 "recommends." Yesterday, it had 474, so it's clearly still getting attention. Can we get it over the 500 mark? More "recommends" means a comment is bumped up, sending a signal to readers and comment moderators.

How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart

Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy.

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The @nytimes has just approved the following comment by me on an article about a male athlete:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/magazine...

It's 2025 and the following exchange occurred in the United States Supreme Court about books being taught by @npub1ktpp...q8p9 to young school children: JUSTICE GORSUCH: Okay. And they're being used in -- in English language instruction at age 3, some of them? MR. SCHOENFELD: So Pride Puppy was the book that was used for the prekindergarten curriculum. That's no longer in the curriculum. JUSTICE GORSUCH: That's the one where they are supposed to look for the leather and things -- and bondage, things like that, right? MR. SCHOENFELD: It's not bondage. JUSTICE GORSUCH: A sex -- MR. SCHOENFELD: It's a woman in a leather -- JUSTICE GORSUCH: -- sex worker, right? MR. SCHOENFELD: No. No. JUSTICE GORSUCH: No? MR. SCHOENFELD: That's not correct. No. JUSTICE GORSUCH: I thought -- I thought -- gosh, I -- I read it. JUSTICE BARRETT: It's a drag queen in drag. JUSTICE GORSUCH: Drag -- drag queen in -- a drag queen. MR. SCHOENFELD: So -- correct. The leather that they're pointing to is a woman in a leather jacket, and one of the words is drag queen in this -- JUSTICE GORSUCH: And they're supposed to look for those? MR. SCHOENFELD: It is an option at the end of the book, correct. 📄.pdf

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