Grown Man Beats Girls At Skateboarding Because We Live In An Episode of 'South Park' Now
Making a mockery of women's sports
Shiloh Catori, a 13 year-old girl, was denied first prize in a women’s skateboarding competition recently when a 29 year-old man was allowed to compete.
Richard Batres, a “divorced, ex-Navy father-of-three who was rejected from the women's Olympic qualifiers last year because [his] testosterone levels were too high,” took the $500 top prize under his new name, “Ricci And Tres.”
Perhaps anticipating the ostracism and abuse that invariably come to female athletes standing up for themselves against “gender identity,” Shiloh did not complain.
In an interview last year, “Ricci And Tres” said that “I've decided that I like being pretty and cute. So everything that goes with that is female. I love female bodies. I think it's a work of art.”
‘I know I will never be a woman, because women are miraculous, they have babies and create life and do all that awesome stuff. I'll never have that ability but I feel like I am a woman.
‘I would have wished to be born one so I'll try to fill that image as muc…
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