The Different Drummer

Gender Confusion

An Olympic athlete provides an example to conservatives as to why defining gender is not as black and white as they proclaim.

Carl J. Petersen
Age of Awareness
Published in
4 min readAug 4, 2024

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Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.

– from Kindergarten Cop

I hate to break it to him, but the President has no jurisdiction over the IOC

In an email to the Los Angeles City Council supporting last year’s violent protest in front of Saticoy Elementary School a member of the NoHo West Neighborhood Council wrote about her belief that “aggressive activists in the LGTBQ+ [SIC] community [had] hijacked our education system in the name of equity and inclusion.” In her view, schools should only be focused on “math, reading, science and history”. However, the ignorant hatred directed toward an Olympic boxer from Algeria shows why our education systems need to delve into these topics.

Imane Khelif has repeatedly been described as being a “biological male” and “transgender,” but this conflicts with the information on her birth certificate. Based “on the external genitalia observed at birth” she was assigned as female on this document.

Based on what I have been repeatedly told by conservatives, this is all the information that is needed. In their black and white world, “boys have a

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Carl J. Petersen
Age of Awareness

Parent, special education advocate and former LAUSD School Board candidate. Still fighting for the children. www.ChangeTheLAUSD.com