Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Tuesday warned of potential “genital examinations” and “sex testing” if proposals banning trans athletes from participating in women’s sports are enacted. …

“Not only trying to further marginalize trans women and girls, we are talking about opening up all women and girls to genital examinations when they are underage,” Ocasio-Cortez argued. “Potentially just because someone can point to someone and say, I don’t think you’re a girl.”

[I nearly wrote about this at length for the main blog today. Suffice to say that AOC must never have played sports in school. My first turn-your-head-and-cough medical exam experience came in a required physical to join the boys’ wrestling team in junior high, and I had to get another to join the high-school wrestling team. Physicals are required for school sports thanks to insurance and liability issues that have only become more potentially dangerous to school budgets. It’s very difficult to imagine that any kind of school sport does not require a full physical these days.

Furthermore, this argument is especially rich when deployed in defense of schools that engage in transition activities with students. AOC and others that demand respect for trans identification seem to consider genitalia accessible when it comes to cutting it off in either top or bottom surgery for minors, but don’t want genitals examined in any other context? Come on. — Ed]