At 9:33 AM -0700 7/21/05, Tyler Turner wrote:
If you let this boy into the Texas All-State Choir as a soprano,
you must also allow him to be a contender for soprano
solos. It's not fair to any other member of that choir
to have their performance tainted by a vocal quality
or gender role that doesn't fit the music.
I'm sorry, but the world is bigger than this boy. He
has found success and acceptance as a countertenor,
and he should go forward with that. But asking for new
rules to be made for the sake of one person, when
these rules can make a mess in who knows how many
other ways, is just selfish. It's not the nature of
the world to adapt to the needs of one person. I think
in many ways we give kids the impression too often in
our schools that the world works this way.
Yes. As soon as this boy learns that the world is filled with
unimaginative petty dictators with no common sense who pathetically
spout the impoverished line "if we change the rules for one person,
we have to change it for everybody" the better off he will be!
-Randolph Peters
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