Insight: Trans Activist Calls “South Park” Transphobic Following Recent Episode

Trans activist Rachel McKinnon isn’t immune to controversy herself. The outspoken trans activist who first arrived on that scene after winning the UCI Women’s Masters Track World Championship despite being born a man has received her fair share of shade as a result with mostly women athletes noting that Rachel competing as a woman is an unfair advantage against women who were born women. Noted women’s sports athletes like Martina Navrátilová has claimed that Rachel’s actions are “insane”, and Rachel has come under scrutiny for outspoken opponents that have since passed away and celebrating the fact.

Name South Park as a show that has taken this topic head-on. In the episode entitled “Board Girls“, Randy “Macho Man” Savage is somehow still alive and enters himself as a woman in competitions where he wins all of the trophies. In a “B”-plot, South Park focused on events that both women and men can compete in that require intellect and sound judgment, a contrast to the obvious reflection of the actual society that allows trans athletes to compete in sports not designated as their gender.

While Rachel claims South Park as “transphobic”, the show does make excellent points that have been brought up by other noted opponents of Rachel’s lone claim to fame which, really, is cheating. There’s no question, if Brock Lesnar today were to take part in women’s MMA, every woman on the roster could potentially be killed. In a LOT of states, MMA could still be seen as an easy conviction for assault and battery. Also, the idea of sport is the natural competition of skill between two parties, when you add trans athletes that are using any sort of chemically-induced measure in which to appear closer to their identified gender, it defeats the purpose of sport. While civil rights for anyone paying taxes in America should 100% be respected and protected, sports is supposed to be fair competition and should be just as respected.

The irony is that with Mckinnon’s claims of South Park (and even Futurama) being lazy in their writing, Rachel shines more light on her own shortcuts that had lead to her sole claim to any sort of notoriety.