{"id":1015,"date":"2023-06-18T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T18:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2025-04-30T12:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:06:38","slug":"cisterhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/06\/18\/cisterhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisterhood in Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is fair and what is not?                    <br>Who is to decide? <br>Here&#8217;s a question you may face,                     <br>with (no need to confide).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A trans female in a race                       <br>with females who aren&#8217;t so.&#8221;             <br>Is that fair to those not trans?                     <br>Only you will know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;And trans males in a race <br>with males who aren&#8217;t so.&#8221; <br>Is that fair to those not trans? <br>Only you will know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no complaint when trans males race,                 <br>and everyone knows why.     <br>Such races happen oh so seldom.                       <br>It&#8217;s safer to confide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With these opinions locked in silence, <br>who must pay the price? <br>It&#8217;s women athletes who aren&#8217;t trans; <br>&#8211; trans girls have it nice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:02112923                      <br>www.therandompoet.com) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is fair and what is not? Who is to decide? Here&#8217;s a question you may face, with (no need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/06\/18\/cisterhood\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cisterhood in Sports<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}