Tranny Can Have More Than One Meaning in NASCAR

Newsweek editors are getting a little free and easy with their description of the writer of this article in their current issue. Here's what the description says:

A NASCAR champion gave up everything to become a woman. Can she reclaim her racing life?

A NASCAR champion? Who? I'm pretty familiar with the champions of the past 25 years or so and as far as I know, none have "shifted gears", if you know what I mean. But wait, there's more:

J.T. Hayes won over 500 regional and national championships in go-kart, midget and sprint racing and competed in NASCAR Winston Cup before undergoing sex-reassignment surgery in 1994 at age 30.

Number one, winning go-kart, midget and sprint races is all well and good, but they don't constitute a NASCAR championship. Number two, according to an 1-21-2001 item at Jayski, a driver named J.T. Hayes participated as a driver in only one race at Rockingham in 1990, starting 38th and finishing 38th after completing only 10 laps. That's hardly "NASCAR Champion" material.

Newsweek is clearly trying to make this person into something he/she/it is not in order to promote the story. As far as making a comeback to a career in Cup racing that never was, I wouldn't hold my breath. The only trannies you'll find in Cup racing are built by Jerico, not some doctor in Colorado.