Inspect this

 Some days you just gotta wish on a star, child-like as that is. And so here is what I wish for the state of Kansas, which has lost its damn mind about gays and transgenders and OH MY GOD WHAT ABOUT GIRLS SPORTS??:

I wish every school system in the state would say "hell, no," to the Republican-controlled legislature that just voted to allow forced genital inspections of children if they want to play (girls) sports. 

I wish every female athlete in every school in the state that avails itself of this legislative permission would say "hell, no" and refuse to comply. And then see what sort of girls teams their school manages to scrape together.

I wish, I wish ...

Oh, but I'm not so naive.

I realize, this being Kansas, there will be the odd school system that will take the lege up on its offer. 

I also realize not every girl, or even most, will tell those school systems to sit on it and spin. They're high school kids. They've got futures, athletic and otherwise. It's a big ask for them to defy authority, no matter how abusive.

It's also a big ask for their parents, especially if their kid's got a full-boat scholarship riding on it. And besides, you know there'd be enough lunatics on the local school board who'd be more than willing to sacrifice a girls team or two as a matter of "principle."

Even though protecting girls sports from those sneaky evil transgenders is what this law is supposed to be about. Oh, irony.

Also ironic: A lot of the dirtbags who voted for this abomination likely don't give a tinker's damn about girls sports; this is all about hurting the Sneaky Evil Transgenders, even though the latter have never hurt them. In fact, I suspect several of the dirtbags believed back in the day it was perfectly OK for the boys to get the best of everything, and the girls to get what was left over in terms of equipment, facilities, practice times, scheduling. 

But now they care about girls sports?

Riiiight.

As always, of course, the hysteria that fuels this sort of extremism is grossly misplaced, because there are so few transgenders in women's sports as to be statistically insignificant. So it's a solution in search of a problem -- and the more vile the solution the better, apparently.

 Know something else?

If I close my eyes now, I can see a parent in some burg in Kansas pushing for the local school system to mandate genital inspection. And it won't be because they're a-feared transgenders will take over girls sports, but because they want the talented player who's stealing little Susie's playing time to prove she's a girl.

I wish that scenario were not so plausible. But of course it is.

One more wish: I wish every male legislator who voted for this trash because they were afraid of their base should also be forced to undergo a genital inspection.

Just to see if, you know, they’ve actually got a pair.